Medical News

Many children do not like to eat vegetables. A study involving elementary school students revealed how to get kids to make healthier food choices.

Eating high amounts of saturated fat and trans fats can increase the risk of dying, that's a given. But what's new is that people can lower the risks by eating more of the good fats.

Lowering antibiotic prescriptions for self-limiting respiratory infections did not increase the risk of complications. The findings could help general practitioners in educating their patients and helping them opt for no...

Prescriptions for antidepressants in England doubled in just 10 years. Experts say it could partly be due to the increased awareness of mental illnesses and more people seeking medical help.

Massive blooms of potentially toxic cyanobacteria are washing onto beaches in Florida, keeping beach goers at home and raising concerns about possible impacts on public health. The bacteria belong to the genus microcysti...

A dissolving medical stent already in use in Europe and Asia has finally received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The medical stent will be used to treat clogged arteries.

Alexandra Dalimonte, Outreach Coordinator for eSight, a company based in Toronto, Canada talks about a new device that is changing the lives of people who are legally blind

BALTIMORE, Md. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers are testing ways to restore natural hand movements to people with a devastating brain injury or amputation. They're finding ways to restore the broken link from the brain ...

(Boston University Medical Center) According to a recent study of Framingham Study participants, nearly 60 percent of people have prevalent preclinical heart failure (HF) stages A and B. Heart failure occurs when the hea...

(Florida Atlantic University) Driving is a very complex process. Today, almost half of all drivers on the roadways are over the age of 65. With the decline of cognitive processes in older adults such as Alzheimer's disea...

(Boston University Medical Center) Why do African-American women die at a higher rate and experience more aggressive breast tumors than white women? Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have rec...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) ESMO, the leading European professional organisation for medical oncology, has released new consensus guidelines for the management of metastatic colorectal cancer that reflect an ...

(University of California - Irvine) University of California, Irvine scientists led by Emiliana Borrelli and colleagues have discovered the key cellular mechanism that underlies the antipsychotic-induced parkinsonism -- ...

(Society for Experimental Biology) Canine hydrotherapy improves the mobility of Labradors suffering from elbow dysplasia. Not only this, it also positively affects the strides of healthy dogs, showing great potential as ...

(Duke University) Children with attention problems in early childhood were 40 percent less likely to graduate from high school, says a new study from Duke University that examines how early childhood characteristics affe...

(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) An international review team has published a Cochrane systematic review that assessed the effects of programs that use the World Health Organization's integrated management of chil...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Can an increased risk of chronic pain be transmitted from parents to children? Several factors may contribute, including genetics, effects on early development, social learning, and more according...

(Society for Experimental Biology) Many male insects, especially beetles, possess a penis sometimes several times longer than their entire body length, but how do they have sex with it? A recent study has found that male...

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) Since the first G-BA decision was time-limited, a new assessment was required -- under changed circumstances: Following severe complications, the therapeutic indicati...

(University Health Network) Costs of patients who develop chronic post-surgical pain could range from $2.5 million to $4.1 million a year, in one Ontario hospital alone, according to a study in Pain Management.

(Louisiana State University) 'Federal Subsidization and State Medicaid Provision,' a paper by LSU Economics and Policy Research Group Director Stephen Barnes, was recently accepted for publication by Review of Economic D...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Massachusetts General Hospital investigators have discovered the mechanism by which obesity increases inflammation and desmoplasia -- an accumulation of connective tissue -- in the most c...