Credit: (C) 2018, American Geriatrics Society In response to regulatory actions that took aim last week at essential health benefits for all Americans and support...
The first step after buildings collapse from an earthquake, bombing or other disaster is to rescue people who could be trapped in the rubble. But...
Researchers at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) are taking diabetes education to church. Through the Building a Healthy Temple (BHT) program, they're...
Philadelphia, 2017 - Boston Medical Center's (BMC) Project ASSERT has been awarded the American College of Physicians (ACP) Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the...
How aggressive is a tumor? To measure the tumor status without taking tissue samples, Italian researchers have developed a method based on magnetic resonance imaging...
CHICAGO - Maintaining a stocked cart, with a full supply of the life-saving drug dantrolene, to treat malignant hyperthermia, a rare but potentially fatal adverse...
Credit: Bruce Crippen for Standard Bariatrics (Cincinnati, OH-- April 18, 2018) Standard Bariatrics, Inc., an innovator of bariatric surgical devices, has raised a Series A...
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Among children in the United States, firearm-related fatalities are the second leading cause of death. Such preventable injuries...
Credit: University of Delaware/ Aaron Davis University of Delaware assistant professor Karin Gravare Silbernagel (Physical Therapy) received a five-year, $2.3 million Research Project Grant (R01)...
Credit: University of Missouri COLUMBIA, Mo. - In 2014, the United States saw fatal cases of Ebola for the first time. The disease had been...
Many European countries lack a comprehensive policy to eliminate viral hepatitis as a major public health threat, according to a patient group-based survey implemented in...
Credit: Elana Aikawa, Brigham and Women's Hospital Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) - a disease that leaves the aortic valve stiff and calcified, preventing blood...
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- For decades, transplant experts have observed that liver transplant recipients often need less anti-rejection medication, known as immunosuppressive drugs, than recipients of...
A new study in The Lancet Public Health shows the rapid expansion of British Columbia's Take Home Naloxone program significantly reduced the number of fentanyl-related...
Bottom Line: Frequent cannabis use by adolescents and young adults was associated with small reductions in cognitive function that appeared to diminish with abstinence over...
