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| 'Senior Moments' Don't Seem to Lead to Dementia for Most MONDAY, March 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Only about 20 percent of people who experience "senior moments" of forgetfulness, memory lapses and poor judgment will go on to development serious brain-related disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, ...
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Exclusive: Germany OKs Northwest Bio brain cancer drug, shares soar (Reuters) - Germany has granted Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc special permission to sell its experimental brain cancer drug in the country, the company said, and its stock jumped as much as 36 percent. The tiny U.S. biotech received a special "hospital ...
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Teens taunted by bullies are more likely to consider, attempt suicide Victims of bullying were more than twice as likely as other kids to contemplate suicide and about 2.5 times as likely to try to kill themselves, according to a new study that quantifies the emotional effects of being teased, harassed, beaten up or otherwise ...
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| US cancer doctors urge payment fix as cases set to rise WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. cancer doctors are worried about their ability to handle an expected surge in cancer cases in the coming years as they face cuts to government health plans and efforts to reduce payments to physicians. The influential American ...
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Nepal's miracle gel saves newborns from infection DHULIKHEL, Nepal, March 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sangita Shrestha desperately waits in a hospital bed to see the baby girl she has just delivered. In the next room, a nurse applies a gel to the stump of the newborn's umbilical cord, wraps her in ...
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| US top court case highlights unsettled science in contraception NEW YORK (Reuters) - - As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear a religious dispute over the Obamacare contraception mandate, advocates on both sides are trying to set the court straight on the science. The case, to be heard on March 25, is one of the ...
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Hearing-aid Apps Pump Up Volume, Double as Headphones TORONTO — New smartphone apps that link to hearing aids are helping people with impaired hearing to pump up the volume on their devices or to use them as headphones to stream phone calls, YouTube videos and music. About 36 million American ...
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Sen. Joe Manchin seeks to block new painkiller WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin is calling on the government's top health official to overturn the approval of a powerful painkiller, arguing that the pill Zohydro could add to the national epidemic of prescription drug abuse. The West Virginia Democrat ...
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Mother Of Three Loses 110 Pounds (CNN) -- Alanna Gerwitz-Stern hadn't worked out a day in her life. She never watched what she ate, either. But after having her first son, Jacob, in December 2009, she couldn't seem to shake the baby weight. Stern had gained more than 100 pounds during ...
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How Many Daily Heroin Users Are There In The US? Somewhere Between ... According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), about 620,000 Americans used heroin in 2010. But according to a new report commissioned by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, something like 1.5 million Americans were “chronic ...
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Heading to Colorado with hopes of an effective treatment Ryan and Kathy Reed of Baldwin City are hoping that a marijuana extract legally available in Colorado will help control their son Otis's epileptic seizures. The young boy has dozens of seizures daily and the Colorado treatment is an alternative they want to try ...
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Mums-to-be drinking too much, new study reveals Expectant mothers who drink during the first three months of pregnancy may increase the chances of having a premature or unexpectedly small baby, according to new research. A study, published online today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community ...
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Study: 2 Percent of Americans Have New Hips, Knees It's not just grandma with a new hip and your uncle with a new knee. More than 2 of every 100 Americans now have an artificial joint, doctors are reporting. Among those over 50, it's even more common: Five percent have replaced a knee and more than 2 ...
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CMS backs off major changes to Medicare Part D The CMS is rescinding major provisions to a proposed rule it introduced at the top of the year that the agency had hoped would help control costs, decrease fraud and level the playing field for plans in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program. Gone are ...
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More Body Fat Raises Ovarian Cancer Risk, Study Suggests The more a woman weighs, the greater her risk of ovarian cancer, a new report suggests. It adds to strong suspicions that weight is somehow linked to ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest cancers and one that kills 14,000 U.S. women every year. And it adds ...
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Women focus of Virginia AIDs campaign RICHMOND, Va. — Women are the focus of a new statewide AIDS public health campaign. The Virginia Department of Health says the Virginia Greater Than AIDS campaign will reach out to women through conversations and personal stories. It will include ...
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GWU to receive $80 million for public health; donors are Milken and Redstone George Washington University will receive $80 million to support public health scholarship through three gifts connected to philanthropists Michael Milken and Sumner M. Redstone, setting a donation record for the private university. The university plans to ...
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Federal inspector to audit Maryland health exchange A federal inspector general is launching a review into what went wrong with Maryland's health insurance exchange, the first examination focused specifically on how millions of dollars in federal money was spent by the state, according to the lawmaker who ...
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Diagnosing diseases with smartphones Smartphones are capable of giving us directions when we're lost, sending photos and videos to our friends in mere seconds, and even helping us find the best burger joint in a three-mile radius. But University of Houston researchers are using smartphones for ...
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Josh Hardy's story gains national attention A 5 p.m. prayer service is planned at Fairview Baptist Church, where Josh's family worships. The church is located at 900 Charlotte Street in Fredericksburg. Post tags: Fredericksburg | Josh Hardy. Permalink: ...
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Riken to respond to doubts about groundbreaking STAP cell research Officials of the Riken national research institute are expected to soon announce the results of their investigation into doubts raised about trailblazing research to engineer pluripotent stem cells conducted by a unit within the institute. The questions were raised ...
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Top Dem sees new train wreck for own party WASHINGTON – A former high-ranking Clinton administration official and law partner with Hillary Clinton sees potential political disaster for Democrats in 2014 over Obama administration health-care policies. But it's not just Obamacare that has Webb Hubbell ...
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Medical marijuana schools take root TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla. — It's a Tuesday around 5:30 p.m. and Florida's self-proclaimed “first professor of Cannabis,” Carlos Hermida, is discussing the most prevalent cannabinoids found in marijuana. That's soon followed by the difference between lab ...
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