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(Wolters Kluwer Health) A specialty medical home -- providing expert medical care coordinated with attention to social support and mental health -- is a promising new approach to patient-centered, cost-effective care for...

T he over-the-counter anti-diarrhea medication Imodium®, or its key ingredient loperamide, is increasingly being abused by people attempting to self-treat their opioid addiction, with sometime fatal results. Two case st...

A new report by WHO, UNICEF, and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) reveals the status of national laws to protect and promote breastfeeding.

Parents of children with ADHD are urged to try behavior therapy first before medication. What makes behavior therapy better than drugs?

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said that there is not enough evidence available to support widespread screening for celiac disease. This involves testing individuals who do not show any of the symptoms of the di...

Promoting abstinence and fidelity is ineffective in preventing HIV transmission, a new study has found. Experts think the government should allot these PEPFAR programs to other more effective strategies against HIV/AIDS.

Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S. Their figure, published May 3 ...

Do we humans have the capability to bring back the dead? A U.S. company aims to do that through its groundbreaking project on 20 brain-dead patients.

More than 250,000 patients in the United States die and will die annually due to medical errors, a new report revealed. Researchers say medical errors are the third top cause of death in the country.

Good news: people in England and Wales are living longer. Bad news: there's a widening life expectancy gap between the rich and poor, but it is not due to income.

Gene editing startup Homology Medicine raises $43.5 million in its Series A funding. The company hopes to use naturally occurring genetic mechanisms to cure rare diseases.

Johnson & Johnson is facing about 1,200 lawsuits accusing it of ignoring studies that link its baby powder to ovarian cancer. The cases highlight the talc and ovarian cancer link - and how the company allegedly failed to...

NEW YORK CITY. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans have back surgery and for a growing number of patients, the operations require fusing bone, or bone grafts, and a large amount of hardwa...

(Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation) A pair of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientists have discovered that an enzyme previously thought only to be beneficial could, in fact, pose significant danger to developi...

(Loyola University Health System) The Chicago Radiological Society has given Loyola Medicine pediatric radiologist Aruna Vade, M.D., F.A.C.R., its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Vade was honored for ...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Online information on pancreatic cancer overestimates the reading ability of the overall population and lacks accurate information about alternative therapy, according to a study published onl...

(University of Kansas) Study results show that verbal disclosure of gay identity increased subjective well-being for gay white men but didn't influence subjective well-being for gay Latino men.

(Scripps Research Institute) Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes ...

(American College of Surgeons) A simple arm test that employs a novel wearable technology can rapidly and accurately identify physiological frailty in older adults, according to study results published online in the Jour...

(University at Buffalo) Health care providers and human service agencies often manage postpartum depression with formal mental health treatments and antidepressant therapies, but for new, low-income mothers of color thes...

(University of Florida) When older relatives complain about their pains, show a little empathy, because new research suggests that as we age, we may all become more sensitive to pain. A small, preliminary University of F...

(University of Iowa Health Care) A new study suggests there may be an overlap between rare genetic variations linked to bipolar disorder (BD) and those implicated in schizophrenia and autism.