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X-ray results of a 4-year-old boy who had been complaining of abdominal pain revealed a hair pin piercing through his kidney. The child said he swallowed the foreign object one month before his signs and symptoms develop...

President's Choice Ginger Cookie Chips were recalled from the market after posing risks for peanut allergy sufferers. Some packages could have peanuts in them but the warning was not included in the label.

The FDA has just called for stronger warning labels on antibiotic drugs called fluoroquinolones as severe side effects have been worsening patients' conditions. Fluoroquinolones are used in treating urinary tract infecti...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Although frequent laboratory monitoring of patients with heart failure following initiation of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists is supported by the results of large clinical trials and r...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Chronic kidney disease (CKD), which afflicts more than 26 million Americans, is a condition in which individuals experience a slow loss of kidney function over time. At the...

(Intermountain Medical Center) People with heart disease face an increased risk of a serious heart attack during poor air quality days, according to a major new study presented today at the American Heart Association Sci...

(University of East Anglia) High job demands, stress and job insecurity are among the main reasons why people go to work when they are ill, according to new research by an academic at the University of East Anglia.

(The JAMA Network Journals) Among patients with peripheral artery disease and intermittent claudication (cramping pain in the legs due to poor circulation in the arteries, aggravated by walking), a combination therapy of...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Providing financial incentives to both primary care physicians and patients leads to a greater reduction in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in patients than payin...

(The JAMA Network Journals) In a multiethnic, middle-aged and older study population, the prevalence of myocardial scars (evidence of a heart attack) was nearly 8 percent, of which nearly 80 percent were unrecognized by ...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Using a video to train family members of patients at risk for cardiac arrest in CPR may be just as effective as using the traditional hands-on method with a manikin, accord...

(Intermountain Medical Center) Researchers have found that the recurrence of atrial fibrillation increases in patients who are overweight and decreases when patients are able to lose weight, and keep it off, following a ...

(The JAMA Network Journals) In a study examining the effect of financial incentives to improve lipid levels among patients in primary care practices, shared financial incentives for physicians and patients, but not incen...

(Intermountain Medical Center) People with heart problems often have diabetes, which puts them at greater risk for heart attacks, heart failure and stroke. Now, a new study has found that ensuring heart attack patients a...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Mihai Gheorghiade, M.D., of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, and colleagues randomly assigned 456 patients with worsening chronic HF and reduced left ventricul...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Anna Svatikova, M.D., Ph.D., of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and colleagues randomly assigned 25 healthy volunteers to consume a can of a commercially available energy drink and placebo ...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Despite improvements in blood sugar control, the therapy did not improve the clinical stability or pumping action of the heart in patients with advanced heart failure. Kenn...