In a latest study, experts have revealed that a diet high in fatty fish coupled with thirty minutes of exposure to sun twice a week was the key to a healthy life…
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Sitting too long can be deadly
Article By Jack Rutherford for https://www.richmondregister.com Health experts have issued a new warning: Sitting is deadly. Researchers now have evidence that sitting for prolonged periods can be harmful to your health, even…
Evidence Based Medicine
Article By Dr. Ranjeeta For Biomedme.com The term evidence based medicine is widely credited to have been coined by Dr. David Eddy of Kaiser Permanente. It is believed that its philosophical base…
Yale University researchers have developed kinamycin based anti-cancer compounds
Cancer is a fatal disease and is the leading cause of death worldwide. Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth, invasion and sometimes metastasis….
Veterans Affairs Department asks its employees for Healthcare IT ideas
The Veterans Affairs Department has launched a competition among its employees to see who can come up with the best ideas for how to use health IT to improve the agency’s healthcare…
Meaningful use criteria is too high and too many in number
Catholic Healthcare West (CHCW), Intermountain Healthcare and Kaiser Permanente, known as leaders in information technology, have implemented EHRs, but all have gaps and face challenges trying to meet meaningful use criteria. Executives…
Bill expands EHR incentives to hospital outpatient doctors
The Senate Finance Committee today released the draft of a jobs bill that that removes a ban against physicians in hospital-based outpatient clinics from participating in the health IT incentives in the…
‘Valium’ As Addictive As ‘Heroin’: Study
A recent research has suggested that anxiety drugs or tranquilizers work by triggering the same neural circuit in the brain as heroin and cannabis, making them capable of causing addiction similar to…
‘Low I.Q’- The Newest Predictor Of Heart Disease
After smoking, an individual’s performance on standardized intelligence tests, or I.Q, may be the newest predictor for heart disease, says a recent study published in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and…
fMRIs Reveal Brain’s Handling of Low-Priority Ideas
Article by ScienceDaily When we put an idea on the back burner, it goes into a processing area of the brain called the default-mode network. This network enables us to hold the…
British Firm Given Green Signal For Stem Cell Trial
British researchers have been given a final approval nod to undertake clinical trials that will assess the potential of stem cell therapy to treat patients disabled by stroke. The research being conducted…
Mild Gallstone Pancreatitis Patients Can Undergo Surgery Sooner, Shortening Hospital Stays
Patients with mild gallstone pancreatitis usually stay in the hospital for several days, waiting for the symptoms to subside, before undergoing surgery to remedy the condition. A new study from researchers at…
New Initiative In Respiratory Health: Better Care Offered To Asthmatics’ In UAE
A new initiative launched by the Authority and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in collaboration, will help set up a Dubai Respiratory Centre of Excellence to improve diagnosis and thereby provide early intervention and establish…
Cellular-Based Tele-Health Suite(TM) developed by Medical Care Technologies
Medical Care Technologies Inc. has begun to develop a secure Cellular-Based Tele-Health Suite™ that enables users to easily transmit vital signs data via the cellular network, to healthcare professionals utilizing the Medsuite™…
Microsoft focuses on Xbox applications
Microsoft hopes to vamp up its HealthVault and other health services by making it easier for users to do everything from tracking their caloric intake to counting their steps using their cell…