May 24, 2011
When physicians at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center started adopting smartphones a few years ago, they almost immediately looked for ways to use them in their clinical lives. (American Medical News)
May 24, 2011
With sales of its Lap-Band weight-loss device declining, Allergan Inc. has its eyes on a new set of potential customers — overweight teenagers. (Los Angeles Times)
May 24, 2011
It sounds like something out of science fiction — doctors using a cache of prisoner health records to produce medical breakthroughs for the betterment of society. (ABC News)
May 24, 2011
The abortion rate in the United States dropped 8 percent between 2000 and 2008, while rising nearly 18 percent among the country’s poorest women — a trend that researchers believe might reflect tough economic times. Of the more than 1.2 … Read More
May 24, 2011
In a development that could improve AIDS treatment worldwide, modern antiretroviral drugs will be sold at lower prices in 70 of the world’s poorest countries. (New York Times)
May 24, 2011
Lee Min kyong stretches on the ballet bar in the dance studio. The 12-year old is a little awkward and nervous in front of strangers, until the music begins. (CNN)
May 24, 2011
India’s 2011 census shows a serious decline in the number of girls under the age of seven – activists fear eight million female foetuses may have been aborted in the past decade. (BBC News)
May 24, 2011
A decision on when to destroy the last known stocks of live smallpox virus has been put off for another three years. (BBC News)
May 23, 2011
Roger Abdelmassih is on the run from police after being convicted of sexually assaulting or raping 39 female patients at his clinic. New evidence gathered by police and public prosecutors suggests that many of the 8,000 babies born after IVF … Read More
May 23, 2011
The word “biotechnology” conjures up white coats and elaborate glassware, big sterile labs and expensive equipment. But there’s a group of amateur scientists that believes it shouldn’t be that way — that anyone with the ability and a few spare … Read More
May 23, 2011
Some guy in his pajamas, home sick with bronchitis and complaining online about it, could soon be contributing to a digital collection of medical information designed to help speed diagnoses and treatments. (AP)
May 23, 2011
The B.C. Supreme Court has struck down provincial legislation that protected the identity of sperm donors. The court also prohibited the future destruction of any records and ordered the province to draw up new legislation in line with the Charter … Read More
May 23, 2011
Texas Governor Rick Perry on Thursday signed into law a measure requiring women seeking an abortion in the state to first get a sonogram. (Reuters)
May 20, 2011
Hundreds of thousands of Americans without health insurance have racked up tens of billions of dollars annually in hospital bills that they cannot pay, according to a Dept. of Health and Human Services report. (American Medical News)
May 20, 2011
To the list of hot-button ideas for reducing the federal government’s budget deficit, add one more: stopping unwanted pregnancies. (Wall Street Journal)
May 20, 2011
Home births rose 20 percent over four years, government figures show, reflecting what experts say is a small subculture among white women toward natural birth. (MSNBC)
May 20, 2011
Controlling infectious diseases like AIDS and tuberculosis, doing a better job of fighting tobacco use, improving motor vehicle safety, and reducing heart disease and death have been named by the CDC as being among the 10 top public health achievements … Read More
May 20, 2011
The patient, called “Milo”, aged 26, lost the use of his right hand in a motorcycle accident a decade ago. After his stump heals in several weeks’ time, he will be fitted with a bionic hand which will be controlled … Read More
May 20, 2011
End-of-life hospice care is being dominated by investor-owned chains that cherry-pick patients and cut labor costs to maximize profits, U.S. researchers say. (UPI)
May 20, 2011
Hassan Rasouli’s wife and two children see something in him that doctors do not. Lying unconscious at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre with tough odds of recovery, he can nevertheless communicate silently with them, hear and understand their voices and somehow … Read More
May 20, 2011
The U.S. government issued a rule Thursday requiring state or federal review of substantial health insurance rate increases for individual and small-group plans, prompting criticism from the managed-care industry. (Wall Street Journal)
May 19, 2011
Efforts to improve access to HIV drugs in China have cut deaths by more than 60% in seven years, researchers say. (BBC News)
May 19, 2011
The anti-government uprising in Bahrain is taking a particularly dark toll on doctors and nurses, many of whom are being persecuted and illegally detained by authorities. Sharmila Devi reports. (Lancet)
May 19, 2011
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a big, serious government agency with a big, serious job: protecting public health from threats ranging from hurricanes to bird flu. So when the good doctors of Atlanta warned people this week … Read More
May 19, 2011
Many studies (along with casual observation in any home with a teenager) have associated nighttime media use — video gaming, Internet surfing and TV time — with sleep deficits in teens. But the latest research fine tunes those findings, suggesting … Read More
