Researchers looking at almost a thousand mummies from ancient Egypt and South America found only a handful suffered from cancer when now it accounts for nearly one in three deaths. The findings…
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Oxford children’s heart surgery service to close
A children’s heart surgery unit at a hospital where four babies died is set to close after a government review. Heart operations on children were suspended at the John Radcliffe hospital in…
Chest compression-only method of CPR better than standard CPR
Heart attack patients whose hearts have stopped beating and who receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from bystanders fare better if their resuscitators skip the rescue breaths and do only chest compression, according to…
RRMS patients anticipate availability of new oral therapies
Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS) patients have been anticipating the availability of new oral therapies being developed to treat their specific condition. Among the string of oral therapies entering the market is Novartis’…
Study highlights need to address overuse, underuse of colorectal cancer screening tests
Only one-fifth of primary care physicians in the US follow practice guidelines for colorectal cancer screening for all the tests they recommend, according to Dr. Robin Yabroff from the National Cancer Institute…
GE Healthcare Helps Clinicians Understand Disease From The Beginning At European Society Of Nuclear Medicine
GE Healthcare Invests in Sequential Imaging with Integrated Registration (PET+MR), Provides Grant to EANM and ESTRO Guidelines for Use of PET in Radiotherapy Planning Vienna, Austria — Combining the power of anatomical…
More genes discovered that contribute to obesity in children
Researchers found the gene variants although rare in society were common in extremely obese children. The findings suggest that some children are much more susceptible to being fat because either they have…
UCLA study sheds light on roots of schizophrenia, autism
UCLA scientists have discovered that exposing fetal neurons to higher than normal levels of a common immune protein leads to abnormal brain development in mice. Published Oct. 14 in the online Journal…
Medical Tour Israel – First-Class Medical Tourism Services Abroad to Patients From All Over the World
Israel is a major medical tourism destination primarily due to its worldwide reputation for high quality healthcare and world-renowned medical facilities. Complicated treatments and procedures that would be unavailable in other countries…
Child poverty: study shows fifth of UK youngsters severely affected
A fifth of British seven-year-olds live in “severe poverty” with both parents together earning less than half the average national income, a major report reveals. The government-sponsored Millennium Cohort Study has tracked…
Reckitt Benckiser fined £10.2m by OFT
Reckitt Benckiser has been fined £10.2m by the Office of Fair Trading after admitting it abused its dominant position to stop NHS doctors prescribing cheaper alternatives to its heartburn medicine Gaviscon. The…
Childhood obesity impacts musculoskeletal system
An epidemic of childhood obesity can have a devastating impact on a child’s musculoskeletal system, the U.S. Bone and Joint Decade says. Extra weight stresses growing bones, causing pain and interfering with…
Haj health screening for 76 countries
A Ministry of Health report has shown that 76 Arab, Asian and African countries which have pilgrims coming for Haj are infected with epidemic diseases. The authorities in the Kingdom have asked…
Primary school of maternity care
With the marriage of pre-teen and teenage girls to elderly men on the rise, we shouldn’t be taken aback if one day the Ministry of Education were to appoint a permanent midwife…
When marijuana is legal
What will happen if Californians votes this November to legalise marijuana use by any adult over the age of 21 years? Let’s ignore for the moment the vexed constitutional issues that will…