The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) policy on disclosure of adverse medical events was praised as a "valuable resource for all health care institutions" in an article in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. "At VA we strive every day to deliver superior health care,"...
Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for the development of in-vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that has helped millions of infertile couples to have children. "His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical condition afflicting a...
U.S. scientists committed to finding answers to reducing and eliminating what are known as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that plague the world's poorest people in developing countries, urged the FDA to include in its orphan classification the neglected infections of poverty that also affect...
Patients who choose to spend their last days at home with specialized care and monitoring can safely be given opioids to control pain and other symptoms without reducing survival time, according to a study published in Journal of Palliative Medicine (JPM), a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann...
Daniel Patterson, Ph.D., Daniel Patterson, Ph.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, has been appointed to the National Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. One of 23 leaders appointed...
When I met the Chechen president in the capital's football stadium last summer, he told me: "Women are so much more interesting when they are covered up."Officials nearby smiled awkwardly as Kadyrov boasted that Chechen men can take "second, third and fourth wives" and that polygamy, illegal in...
Dr. Yeni H. Yucel, an ophthalmic pathologist at St. Michael's Hospital, has won the prestigious 2010 Lewis Rudin Glaucoma Prize from the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Yucel received the $50,000 award for discovering a form of circulation within the human eye that may lead to new treatments...
hey i was wondering what is really good to improve mental awarness and memory and what not. I know this stuff called aderal which is for people with adhd and i have tried that before i took my SAT's and it helped alot. kept me awake and wanting to do the woek and it made me smarter lol
so i was...
Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) and All Children's Hospital & Health System (ACH) of St. Petersburg, Fla., have signed a letter of intent to integrate. After appropriate due diligence is completed sometime later this year, ACH will join the Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS) as a fully integrated...
Personalized medicine is about to get a much-needed kick start: The FDA has agreed to produce draft guidance documents that clarify and revise the standards by which companion diagnostics and biomarker qualifications are tested and approved. In a speech to the Personalized Medicine Coalition...
Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President & CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai"), together with its U.S. subsidiary Eisai Inc. and Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that the results from the two-year BLOOM (Behavioral modification and Lorcaserin for Overweight and Obesity Management) trial...
The European Society of Cardiology Congress 2010, the world's biggest international meeting in Cardiology will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 28 August to 1 September 2010. The spotlight of ESC Congress 2010 will be coronary artery disease (CAD), 'from genes to outcome', which the...
Sup everyone. I have been sick for 2 days now with a fever. It started with a sore throat in the morning, not too bad, but then got worse. Also a rash appeared on my right arm and the next day I had a stuffy nose. Now, when I woke up, I have a slight cough (like I cough every 30-45 seconds) but...
I know a woman whom says, I have had blood tests and my meds are not showing up, meds being " pain killers and ativan" she is losing weight, very depressed.....depression has many symptoms but not absorbing meds is not one of them. I'm just looking for a place to start researching. Please help...