Category: Healthcare IT

Facial pain. Nasal congestion. Postnasal drip. Fatigue. These are hallmark signs of chronic sinusitis, a swelling of tissue in the nasal and sinus cavity. The illness strikes millions of Americans each year…

A team of researchers has discovered new evidence that Parkinson’s disease may have an infectious or autoimmune origin. “Common genetic variation in the HLA region is associated with late-onset sporadic Parkinson’s disease”…

Using a new, rapid and less expensive DNA sequencing strategy, scientists have discovered genetic alterations that account for most cases of Kabuki syndrome, a rare disorder that causes multiple birth defects and…

A link between the level of active DNA repair genes in melanoma tumours and the effectiveness of chemotherapy for skin cancer patients has been established for the first time by a team…

For the first time in more than three decades, obesity rates for white and Asian children are falling in California, and they seem to have leveled off for Hispanic kids – all…

Federal regulators are considering taking the highly unusual step of rescinding approval of a drug that patients with advanced breast cancer turn to as a last-ditch hope. The debate over Avastin, prescribed…

The easy accessibility of the eye and the established link between specific genetic defects and ocular disorders offer hope for using gene therapy to provide long-term therapeutic benefit. Two reports in the…

Isolating cells from a patient’s blood or bone marrow that nourish blood vessels may be a safer and less arduous route to treatment of cardiovascular disease than obtaining rare stem cells, according…

Eating fish, especially those containing one polyunsaturated fatty acid, appears to be associated with a lower prevalence of depressive symptoms in adolescent boys — but not in girls — Japanese researchers reported….

Sugary drinks, taken in small quantities, do not promote weight gain, carbohydrate craving or adverse mood effects in overweight women. The study, conducted by Marie Reid and colleagues at the Queen Margaret…

All health care workers employed at emergency sections in Sharjah hospitals are now required to complete life support training in order to reduce death and disability from heart disease and stroke. The…

The Canadian MOREOB patient safety program has a measurable, positive impact on the health of mothers and babies. This is the conclusion of a study featured in the August edition of the…

China’s health ministry announced Sunday that it had found no clinical evidence that milk powder had been responsible for apparent breast development in three infant girls in south-central China. The ministry said…

The panic is over. We can all get back to living our lives. Last week the World Health Organisation officially declared that the swine flu pandemic is over. Yes, remember swine flu?…