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Germ-Laden Stethoscopes May Spread Nasty Bacteria THURSDAY, Feb. 27, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Stethoscopes help diagnose and heal, but this primary tool of physicians also has significant potential to spread germs from patient to patient, a new study reports. The diaphragm of a stethoscope -- the round ...
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Chronically ill facing high drugs costs under US health law WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's ban on discriminatory health insurance practices against the sick has not stopped insurers from increasing up-front charges for the expensive drugs needed to control chronic illnesses from leukemia to ...
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| Spine surgery patients mostly unaware of costs, compensation NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Orthopedic surgery patients go in and out of the operating room "blind" to the cost of their procedures, researchers say, but the patients often assume doctors are making much more than they really do. The misperceptions ...
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Older dads' kids more vulnerable to mental disorders A child born to a father 45 or older is three and a half times more likely to be diagnosed with autism, more than 13 times more likely to have attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and almost 25 times more likely to suffer from bipolar disorder than ...
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| US expands healthy food assistance to women, infants and children WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Some 9 million poor women and young children who receive federal food assistance under the. U.S. government's so-called WIC program will have greater access to fruits, vegetables and whole grains under an overhaul of ...
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Hope Beyond Heroin It is estimated that a staggering 150,000 people become addicted to heroin each year. Numbers these large require serious attention. More sobering is the fact that every day in the U.S., around 100 people die because of this addiction that is equal to 36,500 ...
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Researchers examine autism differences in boys versus girls A group of geneticists may have found an explanation as to why autism is more likely to strike boys than girls. For a long time it has been clear that autism strikes boys more frequently than girls. When girls have autism, they tend to be more severely affected ...
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Birth Control Pills and Obesity Increases Risk Of Multiple Sclerosis People who are obese and those who take birth control pills are at a higher risk of multiple sclerosis, a new study finds. Researchers from Raúl Carrera Institute for Neurological Research conducted two separate studies to examine the role of the "obesity ...
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Early Signs That High-Calorie Diet May Help With Lou Gehrig's Disease THURSDAY, Feb. 27, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- There's early evidence from a small study that people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease -- who are fed a high-calorie, high-carb diet, may see the progression of ...
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Spike in ADHD Meds, Antidepressants in Kids An increase in prescription drug use among US children and teens, particularly psychostimulants and antidepressants, as well as growing teen admission rates for mental health issues and substance abuse are among the top findings in a new report from the ...
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| FDA raises concerns about three-parent embryo procedure In two days of hearings ending Wednesday, a federal committee proved quite skeptical about research that might help some patients birth healthy children — but might also open the door to human gene manipulation. The procedure being considered, called ...
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One in five veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have turned to drink to ... Thousands of British servicemen and women who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan are abusing alcohol to block out the horrors of war. An authoritative study has found that as many as 33,000 members of the Armed Forces - around one in five - are drinking ...
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| ACGME, osteopathic groups creating one accreditation system for training ... The ACGME currently accredits some 9,300 residency programs training some 117,000 doctors—including almost 9,000 with Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, or D.O., degrees. The AOA also accredits about 1,000 programs in which around 6,900 D.O.s train.
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| Pulling problem teeth before heart surgery to prevent infection may be catch-22 To pull or not to pull? That is a common question when patients have the potentially dangerous combination of abscessed or infected teeth and the need for heart surgery. In such cases, problem teeth often are removed before surgery, to reduce the risk of ...
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HIMSS14: CMS Holding Firm On ICD-10 Compliance Date There are 216 days left until the ICD-10 compliance deadline--October 1--and that date is not flexible, officials from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services stated to an audience at HIMSS14. "The message that we want you to take back with you is that ...
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