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Study finds sharp increase in teen use of human growth hormone This photo shows an injector filled with human growth hormone, available with a prescription. (AP). NEW YORK – Experimentation with human growth hormones by America's teens more than doubled in the past year, as more young people looked to drugs to ...
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| Fourth bacterial infection death reported at South Carolina hospital CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) - A patient who contracted a rare bacterial infection during surgery at a South Carolina hospital died last week, bringing the total deaths to four since the outbreak was first suspected in May, a hospital spokeswoman said on ...
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Seniors use roommate-finding agencies to cut costs NEW YORK (AP) — It's not exactly "The Golden Girls," but for Marcia Rosenfeld, it'll do. Rosenfeld is among thousands of aging Americans taking part in home-sharing programs around the country that allow seniors to stay in their homes and save money ...
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China: Plague Isolates Parts of City China has sealed off parts of its northwestern city of Yumen after a resident died of bubonic plague last week, the state news media reported on Tuesday. A victim, 38, was infected by a marmot, a wild rodent, and died on July 16. Several districts of the city of ...
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| Puma Biotechnology Soars on Breast Cancer Drug Results Puma Biotechnology Inc. (PBYI) almost tripled in extended trading after the company said a clinical trial of its experimental drug blocked the return of breast cancer in women with a type of early-stage disease. The drug, neratinib, improved disease-free ...
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Killing Obamacare With a Typo Tuesday's heartless Halbig decision, in which two judges decided that a typo strikes down a key piece of the ACA, ignores both common sense and the millions of Americans who depend on affordable health care. It's truly extraordinary, the lengths modern ...
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Parent death linked to greater mortality in children WASHINGTON, July 22 (Xinhua) -- People who lost either a mother or a father during childhood have a greater risk of mortality in the years following the parent's death, according to a study published Tuesday in the U.S. journal PLOS Medicine. The study ...
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Vitamin D Deficiency Leads to Two-Fold Increased Risk of Schizophrenia Scientists have revealed that vitamin D deficiency leads to a two-fold increased risk of schizophrenia. Like Us on Facebook. Schizophrenia is a long term mental disorder that triggers a wide range of various psychological symptoms. This challenging mental ...
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Hospitals, Insurers Say Subsidies Rulings Further Confuse the Issue Consumers get counseling about signing up for health-care insurance at Parkland Hospital in Dallas earlier this year. Associated Press. Health-industry officials said Tuesday's dueling court rulings over federal health-law subsidies set the stage for another ...
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Schizophrenia's roots tied to complex web of genetic switches A decade-long effort by hundreds of scientists worldwide has uncovered 128 genes involved in the brain disorder schizophrenia, findings that point to new research avenues while suggesting a cure may not be achievable with a single treatment. The roots of ...
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Many kids don't have a realistic take on their weight Nearly one-third of U.S. children and adolescents are obese or overweight, but many don't realize that they fall into that category. According to new government statistics, approximately 30% of children and adolescents ages 8-15 years (32% of boys and 28% ...
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Despite Advances in AIDS Treatment, Stigma Lingers MELBOURNE —. Stigma has stuck to AIDS from the very start. When the virus first began to emerge in the 1980s, it cut a wide swath through two groups that have historically faced their own stigma: gay men and intravenous drug users. More than 30 years ...
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Life expectancy gains threatened as more older Americans suffer from multiple ... With nearly four in five older Americans living with multiple chronic medical conditions, a new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds that the more ailments you have after retirement age, the shorter your life ...
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Rockville, Md., couple charged with abusing twin 22-year-old autistic sons A Rockville couple was charged with abusing their twin 22-year-old autistic sons by keeping them locked at night in a basement room with no furniture, no working lights and a single comforter on a bare tile floor, according to Montgomery County arrest ...
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Blood centers see summertime drop in donations American Red Cross spokesman said his organization is seeing fewer donors but isn't experiencing a shortage at this time. Loading… Post to Facebook. Blood centers see summertime drop in donations American Red Cross spokesman said his organization ...
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| Some doctors, patients call for ban of morcellator Last year Martha Montalvo-Ariri underwent a routine hysterectomy to help treat painful uterine fibroids. During surgery, her doctor used a morcellator, a device that cuts the tissue into pieces so it can be removed through small incisions. Ten days after the ...
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| Study compares deep vein thrombosis therapies (Update) Patients who have a clot in their legs and are considering whether to be treated with traditional blood-thinning medication or undergo a minimally-invasive catheter-based clot removal procedure should feel comfortable that there is no difference in death rates ...
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