According to the results of a new study, most people diagnosed with clinical depression in America probably shouldn't be. More »
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In the fight against cancer, knowing the enemy's exact identity is crucial for diagnosis and treatment, especially in metastatic cancers, those that spread between organs and tissues. Now chemists led by Vincent Rotello at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a rapid, sensitive...
Blood tests convey vital medical information, but the sight of a needle often causes anxiety and results take time. A new device developed by a team of researchers in Israel, however, can reveal much the same information as a traditional blood test in real-time, simply by shining a light through...
Recently, Forbes writer Susannah Breslin disclosed on her blog that she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In a post called "The Business About my Breasts," she describes the harrowing experience of getting a bad result from her mammogram, the follow-up ultrasound, the biopsy, and finally, the...
Ferrography, a practice used by the American and Israeli air forces to monitor the condition of machinery, extracts tiny iron particles from lubricants such as oil and grease to analyze wear in machines. Determining whether a system requires preventative maintenance can be the key to preventing...
We just bought a 2006 GMC Sierra. I bought it for my husband just before he returned home from Iraq a few days ago. It's a monster and beautiful. It has 12 inches of lift total and he's into lifted trucks so I figured this would be a wonderful surprise for him and it was, until...
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Between 1998 and 2007 there was a huge rise in medical imaging scan usage in emergency departments of hospitals in the USA, but without a comparable rise in diagnoses of life-threatening conditions or illnesses, experts report in an article published in the Journal of the American Medical...
HAART, or Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy has halved the annual number of new HIV diagnoses since 1996, when the therapy was first introduced, say Canadian researchers in a study published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet. Study findings are being presented at the forthcoming...
As overall cancer rates are declining in the United States, thyroid cancer counters the trend. It's being diagnosed more frequently, especially in women. Women are three times more likely than men to develop thyroid cancer. The April issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource provides an...
Figures from the agency's yearly report on Hepatitis C for 2009 show that laboratory reporting of newly diagnosed hepatitis C infections in England increased in 2008 by 6% compared to 2007, with 8,196 new cases reported in 2008. Hepatitis C is a viral infection which causes swelling or...
Figures from the agency's yearly report on Hepatitis C for 2009 show that laboratory reporting of newly diagnosed hepatitis C infections in England increased in 2008 by 6% compared to 2007, with 8,196 new cases reported in 2008. Hepatitis C is a viral infection which causes swelling or...
occurance concerning starter? I have not had any previous problems with the starter before now. I just got a new battery on my suv because it was bad and had died 3/4 times in one week. The battery man stripped and reconnected the wires into the clamps and was pushing the clamps onto the battery...
Hi. I have recently experienced symptoms. Things like:
1) Frequently thinking about killing myself (although not all the time)
2) My daily life is constantly being disturbed by my depressive thoughts
3) I am sometimes slow
4) I have recently Self-Harmed, and I felt better after that (I'm not...