Health literacy is a prerequisite for well being in the developed world with five out of five ailments being treatable by patients themselves given access to appropriate information. However, when symptoms appear,…

Continuing its leadership in cervical spine medical device therapies, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced the U.S. launch of the ATLANTIS VISION(R) ELITE Anterior Cervical Plate System. The ATLANTIS VISION® ELITE Anterior Cervical…

South Africa’s AIDS deaths have fallen by nearly 25 per cent due to scaled up access to life-saving drugs, which the government for years had refused to provide, new research has shown….

The Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO) presented the Health Sciences Association of Saskatchewan (HSAS) on Friday with the employers’ “best offer.” However, the union says SAHO must improve its best offer….

The University of York is launching a £1 million collaborative programme aimed at encouraging improved nutrition for mothers and infants. A key element of the programme led by the Mother and Infant…

Sildenafil, a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension, has another possible use-helping children and young adults with congenital heart disease to better tolerate exercise. Sildenafil significantly improved measures of…

The number of patients who needed home health care after being discharged from hospitals surged by about 70 percent (2.3 million to 4 million) from 1997 to 2008, according to the latest…

Scientists are untangling how the tiniest pollution particles – which we take in with every breath we breathe – affect our health, making people more vulnerable to cardiovascular and respiratory problems. While…

WM SleepCare, an affiliate of Watermark Medical, Inc., (“Watermark Medical”) is launching its comprehensive sleep benefits management program that offers insurance providers and self-insured employer groups an end-to-end Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)…

Our brains process many more stimuli than we become aware of. Often images enter our brain without being noticed: visual information is being processed, but does not reach consciousness, that is, we…

A top medical researcher at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, has launched a clinical trial to pinpoint brain activity in depressed people by using scientifically designed sad…

NICE is currently appraising the use of erlotinib (Tarceva, Roche Products) as a maintenance treatment for people with non-small-cell lung cancer who have had first line treatment with chemotherapy and their disease…

The reduced risk of colorectal cancer associated with taking aspirin or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may be confined to individuals already at risk because of elevations in a particular inflammatory factor…

As he struggled for decades with a depression that often left him despondent, Eric Wilson never thought to get a second opinion. “This might be true of many of us,” he said….

Lumps in breasts are quite common in many women. Many of the lumps or nodules that women find in their breasts are areas of normal breast tissue which can become more prominent…