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Study: Weight loss surgery linked to suicide, self-harm Researchers suggest better guidelines on therapy and more rigorous follow-up with patients could help reduce the risk of self-harm.
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Weight loss surgery linked to the suicide & self-harm says Study People who undergo surgery for weight loss are 50% more likely to attempt suicide after the operation than before it, according to a large Canadian study published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Surgery.
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Should therapy be mandatory for patients after weight loss surgery? (CNN) Surgery is meant to improve a person's health and quality of life, but there are some cases where it may have the opposite effect.
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State testing for strain of E. coli that sickened 2 toddlers in Maine As samples are gathered in the field and lab work is done, one boy is in fair condition but another child has died. Both had visited a fair's petting zoo.
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How The Times Covered the Ebola Epidemic The Times recently passed one million digital-only subscribers. To highlight this milestone, Times Insider this week is checking in with the reporters and editors behind some of our biggest stories and core coverage areas of the past four years ...
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Officials Investigate Petting Zoo at County Fair After 2 Children Sickened ... An undated family photo shows Colton Guay who died of complications after contracting an E. coli infection, according to his family.
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Weight-loss surgery may raise suicide risk for some Troubled people who have weight-loss surgery are more likely to attempt suicide following the procedure, a new study suggests. These patients were about 50 percent more likely to try to take their own lives after they lost a lot of weight, while more ...
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Freezing Ovaries Before Cancer Treatment May Preserve Fertility Women with cancer often lose their fertility after chemotherapy and radiation. But fertility can be restored in some women by removing all or part the ovary, freezing the tissue before cancer treatment and then transplanting it back afterward.
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BREAKING: CMS Releases Final Meaningful Use Program Rules After weeks of speculation about when the meaningful use Stage 2 modifications and Stage 3 final rules would be published, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released both rules together in a 752-page document late in the afternoon on ...
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The real reason you experience a runner's high may not be what you think runner at sunrise Ryan Pierse/Getty Images. Any runner knows the feeling of elation and calm they feel after an intense workout. You've probably heard that the feeling can be chalked up to something called endorphins, the so-called "happy" chemicals.
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Scientists are growing mini-kidneys from skin cells Image of a mini-kidney formed in a dish from human induced pluripotent stem cells. The three colours show the presence of distinct cell types within the developing kidney.
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Brittany Maynard's Family Looks Back After Year-Long Fight to Pass 'Death-With ... The family of Brittany Maynard is speaking out one day after California Governor Jerry Brown approved controversial "right-to-die" legislation.
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More U.S. Hospitals Are Encouraging Breastfeeding Health officials are reporting that more hospitals are encouraging new mothers to breastfeed their babies. This is good news because hospital practices that promote breastfeeding make the difference in whether and how long babies are breastfed ...
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Brittany Maynard's Legacy One Year On Reminds Us Of The Importance Of Death ... Shortly following the passage of California's "death with dignity" bill, right-to-die advocate Brittany Maynard has appeared in new footage previously unreleased to the public.
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US cancer doctors drop pricey drugs with little or no effect LOS ANGELES U.S. oncologists, aware that patients are paying more of the costs of expensive cancer drugs, are increasingly declining to prescribe medicines that have scant or no effect, even as a last resort.
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Flu drug given out "indiscriminately" The antiviral drug Tamiflu was handed out "indiscriminately" during the last swine flu outbreak, a leading panel of UK scientists has said.
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Now, 'sensitive' blood test that can rule out heart attacks A team of researchers has come up with a new heart attack test that can identify two-thirds of patients at very low risk of heart attack in the emergency department.
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CDC: Cucumber Salmonella Outbreak Hits Maryland BALTIMORE (WJZ)–Hospitals around the country and here in Maryland are on the lookout for cases of salmonella poisoning after federal health workers report an outbreak of the disease linked to cucumbers.
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New Diagnostic Test Predicts Teens' Risks for Developing Heart Disease University of Virginia Children's Hospital researchers developed a diagnostic test that evaluates a teenager's risks for heart disease based on metabolic severity score.
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Test Assessing Metabolic Syndrome Can Predict Teenagers' Risk of Developing ... Whether a teenager has the risk of developing cardiovascular disease can now be predicted with the help of a new diagnostic test developed by a University of Virginia Children's Hospital pediatrician and his collaborators.
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Mixed Reviews for CMS's Final Meaningful Use Rules savesaved. author name. by Joyce Frieden News Editor, MedPage Today. WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released final rules for Stage 3 of its Meaningful Use program for electronic health records, frustrating ...
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CMS Issues Meaningful Use Final Rule: Key Facts to Know After facing severe criticism from members of Congress, professional medical organizations and providers pushing to delay the final rules for Meaningful Use Stage 3. On Tuesday, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the ...
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11 Things to Know about the Meaningful Use Final Rule The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released a massive final rule making modifications to Stages 1 and 2 of the Electronic Health Records Meaningful Use program, covering 2015 through 2017.
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Scientists call for urgent trials to judge flu drugs for pandemics LONDON,Scientists still don't know if two commonly-used flu drugs -- Roche's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza -- really work in seasonal or pandemic flu outbreaks and say robust clinical trials are urgently needed to find out.
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More Sex May Help Fertility, And Not For The Reason You Think Timing is everything, right? Not so fast. Two new studies suggest that having sex at any time may boost a woman's chances for getting pregnant, even if it's outside of the ovulation cycle.
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Australian toddler's head reattached to neck in 'miracle' surgery after he's ... An Australian toddler who was internally decapitated in a car wreck underwent a "miracle" surgery to reattach his head to his neck.
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UPDATE 1-Express Scripts sees $750 mln in spending on new cholesterol drugs (Adds comment from Amgen, Sanofi/Regeneron). By Deena Beasley. Oct 6 (Reuters) - Express Scripts Holding Co, the largest manager of prescription drug plans for U.S.
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Well | Weight Gain Possibly Tied to Later Bedtimes Researchers studied 3,342 adolescents starting in 1996, following them through 2009. At three points over the years, all reported their normal bedtimes, as well as information on fast food consumption, exercise and television time.
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The FDA is trying to keep 'hip-hop' teens from smoking. 'Fresh Empire' ads to ... Can the federal government do hip-hop? That's the goal of a new ad campaign from the Food and Drug Administration, which aims to embrace the attitude and style of "hip-hop culture" in an effort to dissuade young African Americans, Hispanics and other ...
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Opposing Medicaid without good reason Virginian-Pilot editorials represent the consensus of the editorial board, which is independent of the newsroom. Board members are Pat Richardson, publisher; Donald Luzzatto, editorial page editor; and Candy Hatcher and Shawn Day, editorial writers.
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Hospitals Still Don't Give Moms Enough Support For Breast-Feeding Most hospitals around the country aren't doing a good job of helping new moms who want to breast-feed, researchers report Tuesday in the journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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Lead levels in Mich. city have moms avoiding tap water FLINT, Mich. - Outside a taco shop on Fifth Street, Estella Walker balances a gallon jug of water on top of the stroller that holds her 3-month-old son, DeWayne.
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New study says 30 minutes of exercise a day is not enough. You should double ... If you're among of the millions of Americans who dutifully carve out 30 minutes a day for the moderate-intensity exercise recommended by experts based on the idea that you're doing all you can for your heart, you're in for some disappointing news.
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Could This Exercise Pill Actually Offer The Same Benefits Of Real Exercise? (Photo : Spencer Platt | Getty Images News) Can exercise pills have the same effect of real, physical exercise? Exercising is one of the tried and tested methods for weight loss, but recently, scientists are reportedly developing an exercise pill that ...
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FDA Expands Approval Of The Merck's Keytruda To Lung Cancer The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved the drug Keytruda to treat the most common form of lung cancer. The FDA cleared this immunotherapy drug to treat patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumours ...
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Merced County resident hospitalized with West Nile Virus The Merced County Department of Public Health reported on Monday the county's first confirmed human case of West Nile Virus. According to the public health department, the person who tested positive for WNV was hospitalized but has since been released ...
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4 dead. 732 sickened in cucumber salmonella outbreak. Toll keeps going up, CDC ... Four people have died and at least 732 sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers imported from Mexico, federal officials announced Tuesday.
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Teen undergoing chemo gets sweet surprise from homecoming date Allie Allen was diagnosed with anaplastic ependymoma when she was 14 years old. After a recent relapse, Allie had to undergo chemotherapy and consequently shave her head.
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Placebo response growing over time - but only in America A new study finds that rising placebo responses may play a part in the increasingly high failure rate for clinical trials of drugs, but the authors of the study say that the increase in placebo responses occurred only in trials conducted in the United ...
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Dengue Epidemics Linked to High Temperatures During Strong El Nino Season An international research team led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health has shown that epidemics of dengue, which is caused by a mosquito-borne virus, across southeast Asia appear to be linked to the abnormally high ...
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Making Strides fundraiser supports breast cancer patients, survivors The American Cancer Society is hosting two fundraising campaigns during October for breast cancer awareness month. Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is back this year with a 3.1-mile walk starting at Ellis Square on Oct. 10 to honor all those in the ...
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Survivor reflects on year-long cancer journey MANSFIELD - Around this time year ago, the world became a sea of pink for Marcia Robbins. It was October - annual breast cancer awareness month - and the 38-year-old Mansfield resident had never been so aware.
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Breastfeeding support at hospitals is growing for new moms More hospitals are supporting new moms who want to breastfeed, and the shift could make for healthier little ones, but officials said today more progress is needed.
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E-cigarettes banned in public places in Durham come Jan. 1 A woman smokes an e-cigarette at Vapexpo, an international exhibition to promote e-cigarette, in Bordeaux, western France, on March 13, 2014.
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