 | ||||||||
| health | ||||||||
| NEWS | ||||||||
Jimmy Carter says latest brain scan shows no cancer What if faulty genes in your DNA could be easily corrected, avoiding the ravages of diseases like cystic fibrosis or certain cancers?
| ||||||||
Penis Transplants Being Planned to Help Wounded Troops Within a year, maybe in just a few months, a young soldier with a horrific injury from a bomb blast in Afghanistan will have an operation that has never been performed in the United States: a penis transplant.
| ||||||||
Penis transplants in works to heal troops' hidden combat wounds Missing limbs have become a well-known symbol of recent wars, but the genital damage is a hidden wound - and, to many, a far worse one - cloaked in shame, stigma and embarrassment.
| ||||||||
Wounded soldier to get a penis transplant NEW YORK - Within a year, maybe in just a few months, a young soldier with a horrific injury from a bomb blast in Afghanistan will have an operation that has never been performed in the United States: a penis transplant.
| ||||||||
Novartis: Lymphoma study shows CART on track for 2017 US submission ZURICH Swiss drugmaker Novartis said the latest findings from a study on its newest therapy for two kinds of blood cancer track earlier results, bolstering its confidence in a 2017 U.S.
| ||||||||
AG Kamala Harris approves Daughters of Charity hospital deal with stipulations Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has given conditional consent for a transaction permitting a change of authority of the Daughters of Charity Health System, a troubled network of non-profit hospitals.
| ||||||||
Gene Therapy rebuilds immunity in youngsters having SCID-X1: Study Gene therapy has been found effective in rebuilding the immune systems of older children, adolescents and young adults having a rare form of immunodeficiency disorder, unveiled scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ...
| ||||||||
| Threshold Pharmaceuticals Announces Its Two Phase 3 Studies Evaluating ... Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: THLD) today announced the outcomes of two Phase 3 cancer studies (MAESTRO and TH-CR-406/SARC021) of evofosfamide (previously known as TH-302), an investigational hypoxia-activated prodrug, which is ...
| ||||||||
Non-EU patients 'should be charged for GP services' Overseas visitors should be forced to pay for using some GP services as well as ambulances and A&E care, the government says. It would save £500m a year and ensure such patients made a fair contribution, the health secretary said.
| ||||||||
Doctors rationing antibiotics 'less popular with patients' GP surgeries which try to help prevent the spread of super-resistant bacteria by prescribing fewer antibiotics are likely to experience a drop in their satisfaction ratings with patients, according to a new study.
| ||||||||
AbbVie, J&J leukemia drug cuts death risk vs chemo in new patients: study Johnson & Johnson's and AbbVie's cancer drug Imbruvica significantly reduced the risk of death and disease progression compared with chemotherapy in previously untreated patients with a type of leukemia in a late stage study, paving the way for an ...
| ||||||||
Patients less satisfied by GPs who refuse antibiotics GPs who prescribe fewer antibiotics have less satisfied patients, according to a new study by researchers at King's College London.
| ||||||||
Doctors ask the public: How much money are you willing to spend on Scottish NHS? DOCTORS are calling for a more honest debate with the public about the tough choices facing the NHS - including whether they would be willing to spend more money on healthcare.
| ||||||||
Former President Jimmy Carter says he is cancer free Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivered an unexpected message on Sunday to the several hundred people gathered at a Baptist church in Georgia for his Bible lesson - his latest brain scan showed no sign of cancer.
| ||||||||
Woman feels pain for the first time aged 39 after being born with rare condition A 39-year-old woman has felt pain for the first time in her life following an experiment that could lead to new ways of treating people with chronic pain, scientists said.
| ||||||||
Scientists finds secret to 'feeling no pain' in life Scientists at University College London (UCL) have found the recipe for painlessness in a study that used genetically modified mice to show a channel responsible for allowing pain signals to pass along nerve cell membranes is vital to feel agony.
| ||||||||
HIV-positive doctor says his dog saved his life CHICAGO • Dr. Rob Garofalo was devastated. He'd built his medical and research career on helping young AIDS patients. Then he learned that he, too, was HIV-positive.
| ||||||||
Recipe for Painlessness in Humans Discovered London: Scientists have discovered a potential recipe for painlessness in humans, by using mice genetically modified to lack a nerve channel that enables people and animals to feel pain.
| ||||||||
New HIV infections in gay black men may be leveling off NEW YORK (AP) -- New HIV infections in gay black men may finally be leveling off, health officials reported Sunday. Overall, new cases of HIV have been falling in the United States, while the number has been growing in gay and bisexual black men.
| ||||||||
CLL Drug Cuts Mortality in Older Patients savesaved. register today. Earn Free CME Credits by reading the latest medical news in your specialty. sign up. author name. by Michael Smith North American Correspondent, MedPage Today.
| ||||||||
Teen whose last wish was to see her parents again has died Qirat Chapra, the teen who suffered from an auto-immune disease and whose dying wish was to see her parents again, has died. Her family confirmed to Eyewitness News that the 18-year-old died around 2pm Saturday.
| ||||||||
Speakers combat HIV stigma with monologues Elizabeth James, program assistant for the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, speaks during the HIV Monologues at the Museum of Art on Friday.
| ||||||||
Woman Who Can't Feel Pain May End the Suffering of Many They say that you are not living if you cannot feel pain, but a 39-year-old woman is. In fact, she's one of the few people around the world who have a rare genetic mutation that blocks pain.
| ||||||||
Records likely set during Jingle Bell Run Montgomery's annual Jingle Bell Run drew another large crowd Saturday with organizers hopeful that it will set a new record in attendance and contributions.
| ||||||||
Price Bomb of Gilead The liberals demanding pharmaceutical price controls, and the Republicans warming to the idea, have moved on from their outrage over the Hepatitis C cure that debuted two years ago.
| ||||||||
Weight Watchers' Plan: Don't Call It a 'Diet' Weight Watchers no longer wants to sell diets. Instead, the 52-year-old company is betting that it can reverse its long decline—and win back some of its 20 million lapsed members—by changing how it helps people lose weight.
| ||||||||
Diabetes Linked to Tooth Loss Rates of diabetes and obesity remain high among African Americans, and the connections among diabetes, poor diet, and tooth loss was evident in the study published Thursday.
| ||||||||
HIV infections fall over last decade, progress uneven (Reuters Health) - The rate of new HIV infections in the U.S. fell over the last decade, but progress wasn't equal for all groups, according to a new government report.
| ||||||||
What Green Shoppers Must Know Before Venturing Into Recreational Marijuana Shops green barn farms washington marijuana Legal recreational marijuana is now on sale in a handful of states. And consumers are just starting to look beyond their (or their budtenders) fascination with THC levels and attractive buds.
| ||||||||
Overdose drug helps woman feel pain for first time (NEWSER) - A woman who was born without the ability to feel pain was hurt for the first time in 39 years when researchers burned her with a laser, New Scientist reports.
| ||||||||
Breast cancer surgery happening less often Over the past few decades, as breast cancer has increasingly been treated as a systemic disease, the number of surgeries performed on the most serious cases has plummeted.
| ||||||||
Tooth loss greater for US adults with diabetes U.S. adults with diabetes lose twice as many teeth as adults without diabetes, with a greater risk for tooth loss observed among black adults, according to research in Preventing Chronic Disease.
| ||||||||
CWD: a moving target Published in 1949, Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac ended with a chapter on what he called the "land ethic," which he said "enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals.
| ||||||||
For women's emotional health, living together is as good as marriage Women's emotional health improves from living with a partner—with or without a ring. (Reuters/ Whitney Curtis). Share. Written by.
| ||||||||
Fundraisers: Jingle Bell Run raises money to cure arthritis The all-ages 2015 Bellingham Jingle Bell Run/Walk for Arthritis begins at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12, at Bellingham High School. PHILIP A. DWYER pdwyer@bhamherald.
| ||||||||
Texas Teen Whose Last Wish Was to See Parents Has Died Qirat Chapra hopes to see her parents soon, although they do not yet have a visa to travel from Pakistan. Share. Email. An ill Texas teenager whose last wish was to see her parents whom she hadn't seen in 13 years has died, according to a hospital ...
| ||||||||
Norovirus outbreak suspected at downtown Seattle tower Health officials are looking into a possible large outbreak of norovirus at Russell Investments Center in downtown Seattle that may involve hundreds of people.
| ||||||||
| 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