 | ||||||||
| health | ||||||||
| NEWS | ||||||||
SCOTUS To Hear Case Challenging Texas Antiabortion Rules "If these laws are upheld, countless women not just in Texas but in MS, Wisconsin, Tennessee and other states will have to travel hundreds of miles or cross state lines to access abortion services".
| ||||||||
Antibiotic defences against serious diseases under threat, experts warn A pig farm on the outskirts of Beijing. The antibiotic-resistant gene is found in bacteria present in both pigs and people in south China.
| ||||||||
PSA Screening Rates Decline After USPSTF Says 'No' savesaved. register today. Earn Free CME Credits by reading the latest medical news in your specialty. sign up. author name. by Charles Bankhead Staff Writer, MedPage Today.
| ||||||||
Scientists Grew a Vocal Cord Scientists at the University of Wisconsin successfully grew a vocal cord using cadaver tissue. Shop ▾. Scientists have made promising breakthroughs in the world of bioengineering, successfully growing human kidneys, a mini-brain, and a limb.
| ||||||||
McDonald's operator sued after diners exposed to hepatitis A LOS ANGELES A customer sued the operator of a McDonald's restaurant in Waterloo, New York, on Wednesday after diners were exposed to food and drinks prepared by a worker with hepatitis A, the virus that causes contagious liver infections.
| ||||||||
Fresh Voices: Researchers Grow New Vocal Cords From Cells Researchers say they've grown new sets of vocal cords from just a few cells, and think they might be able to create custom-grown replacements for people who have lost their own voices.
| ||||||||
Lab-grown vocal cords offer hope of treating voice disorders WASHINGTON - From mom's comforting croon to a shout of warning, our voices are the main way we communicate and one we take for granted unless something goes wrong.
| ||||||||
How hospitals are prepping for Medicare's mandatory bundled-pay test Hospitals in dozens of U.S. markets are now cramming for a compulsory test of Medicare payment reform. The hardest part may be that their success relies on the work of partners they aren't used to collaborating with.
| ||||||||
'GMA 40 for 40': Extreme Sleep Deprivation Experiment "I've learned it's good to sleep at night," ABC News' Dan Childs says after having spent nearly 40 hours awake.
| ||||||||
Light Box Might Help Nonseasonal Depression, Too WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Light therapy, a treatment for a kind of depression known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD), may also benefit nonseasonal depression, a new study indicates.
| ||||||||
US says supplements billed as natural can be toxic (CBS Moneywatch) - Federal officials on Tuesday announced fraud charges against dietary supplement companies, saying products billed as natural were oftentimes synthetic and toxic.
| ||||||||
Extreme Sleep Deprivation: How Navy SEALs Handle No Sleep Navy SEALs may be some of the toughest people on the planet, but even an elite soldier doesn't do well without sleep. Stew Smith, a former Navy SEAL, said he survived for three days on no sleep before the hallucinations started to set in.
| ||||||||
New CDC report shows alarming rise in some STDs The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise at an alarming rate. A new CDC report shows sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis increased dramatically in 2014.
| ||||||||
Sexually Transmitted Diseases On The Rise: CDC Reports Spike In Syphilis ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention releases its 2014 Fact Sheet on sexually transmitted diseases reported to the agency.
| ||||||||
CDC: Syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia rates on the rise Sharp increases among men drove higher rates of infection, as have budget cuts to government health programs, researchers said. By Stephen Feller | Nov. 18, 2015 at 5:58 PM.
| ||||||||
Alarming new 'superbug' gene found in animals and people in China LONDON A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China - including in samples of bacteria with epidemic potential, researchers said on Wednesday.
| ||||||||
CDC: 'Alarming' increase in STDs last year nationally, locally It's not something people usually like to talk about, but the number of sexually transmitted diseases increased dramatically last year, both nationally and locally.
| ||||||||
FDA moves quickly to approve easy-to-use nasal spray to treat opioid overdose Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Narcan nasal spray, the first FDA-approved nasal spray version of naloxone hydrochloride, a life-saving medication that can stop or reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
| ||||||||
Alarming Antibiotic Resistance Discovery in China Polymyxins remain the last line of defense against antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Now, researchers report that a gene that confers resistance to these drugs is found in a growing number of bacteria from meat samples in China - and from ...
| ||||||||
Experts press for wider scope, evidence in drug resistance battle Focused attention on antimicrobial resistance, underscored by coordinated global and national awareness campaigns this week, is welcome, but discussions overlook broader questions such as how to preserve access for populations who need them and ...
| ||||||||
CMS: New Model for Hip, Knee Replacement Payments Hospitals will have to risk financial losses for poor outcomes as Medicare changes how it pays providers. DENVER, CO - DECEMBER 2, 2013: Surrounded by his surgical team, Dr.
| ||||||||
New brain institute takes aim at dementia SAN FRANCISCO >> With dementia cases rising rapidly around the world, UC San Francisco and the University of Dublin announced the launch of an institute aimed at helping developing countries learn more about the disease and cope with the burden it ...
| ||||||||
NIH ends era of US medical research on chimpanzees The National Institutes of Health has quietly ended the federal government's long and controversial history of using chimpanzees for biomedical research.
| ||||||||
New England Patriots' Nate Solder Announces Infant Son Has Kidney Cancer New England Patriots offensive lineman Nate Solder has announced that his infant son is battling a rare form of kidney cancer. Solder made the announcement at a charity event this week for the Joe Andruzzi Foundation, according to ESPN.
| ||||||||
CMS Releases Final Rule on Joint Replacement savesaved. by Shannon Firth Contributing Writer. WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule governing payment for hip and knee replacements for Medicare patients this week that includes several concessions ...
| ||||||||
CMS Finalizes Mandatory Hip and Knee Bundled Payment Program The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized its rule for the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Program (CCJR).
| ||||||||
Haven't got your flu shot? Uber is offering one-day, on-demand vaccinations to ... Haven't gotten your flu shot yet? On Thursday, you can order one up using Uber. Customers who normally use the Uber smartphone app to call for a ride will be able to request a flu shot -- and a nurse in an Uber car will show up at their home or office ...
| ||||||||
Teens With Tons Of Facebook Friends More Likely To Be Stressed As it turns out, having more friends isn't always better. In a study published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, researchers found that once teens exceeded 300 friends, their levels of the stress hormone cortisol tended to be higher than teens ...
| ||||||||
Straight Men May 'Show Off' In Front Of Women By Eating A Lot Academic studies can be fascinating... and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you.
| ||||||||
US doctor group calls for ban on drug advertising to consumers Nov 17 The American Medical Association on Tuesday called for a ban on advertising prescription drugs and medical devices directly to consumers, saying the ads drive patients to demand expensive treatments over less costly ones that are also effective.
| ||||||||
How the people we dine with affect our eating habits When it comes to how much we eat, the gender of our dining partners may play a bigger role than appetite, especially for men. A new study from Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab looked at behaviors around food among men and women when they ...
| ||||||||
Many children with cancer were born at risk: US study CHICAGO Gene sequencing of more than 1,000 children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer found that as many as 8.5 percent were born with genes that increase their risk of developing cancer, U.S.
| ||||||||
Transplant gives new face, scalp to burned firefighter NEW YORK (AP) -- A volunteer firefighter badly burned in a 2001 blaze has received the most extensive face transplant ever, covering his skull and much of his neck, a New York hospital announced Monday.
| ||||||||
Planned Parenthood spending $20 million to fight GOP in 2016 Planned Parenthood is set to spend at least $20-million fighting Republicans at the ballot box next year. This comes as the group punches back against GOP efforts to end its federal funding.
| ||||||||
Global drug spending to hit $1.4 trillion in 2020 - IMS Nov 18 Global spending on medicines will reach $1.4 trillion in 2020, driven by increased healthcare access in emerging markets and high-priced new drugs for cancer and other diseases, according to a forecast by IMS Health released on Wednesday.
| ||||||||
Disturbing Trends in Prostate Cancer in Recent Years Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer as well as the incidence of early-stage prostate cancer have declined substantially since the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against such screening, ...
| ||||||||
Genmab Darzalex Gets FDA Approval In a press release today, Genmab (OTCMKTS:GNMSF) announced that it has received FDA approval for Darzalex, an injection for intravenous infusion, to treat patients that have multiple myeloma.
| ||||||||
Some facts about HIV in the United States Some facts about HIV, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: —About 1.2 million people in the United States, and 35 million people globally, are estimated to be living with HIV.
| ||||||||
Guinea Begins Countdown to End of Ebola After Nearly 2 Years Authorities have started the countdown to the end of Ebola in Guinea, the last country still reporting cases after nearly two years and more than 11,000 deaths worldwide, health officials said Tuesday.
| ||||||||
AstraZeneca's Tagrisso to cost $12750 for a month's supply LONDON Nov 17 AstraZeneca's new lung cancer pill Tagrisso, which won early U.S. approval on Friday, will cost $12,750 for a month's supply.
| ||||||||
Coffee: Moderate Consumption May Reduce Death Risk From Heart Disease The three most common forms are fatty liver disease, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.It still remains unclear how coffee actually helps reduce the affects of liver disease.
| ||||||||
| You have received this email because you have subscribed to Google Alerts. |
 Receive this alert as RSS feed |
| Send Feedback |
No comments:
Post a Comment