Arthritis: Doctor gives advice on best foods to help ease pain We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Arthritis affects people of […]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Most oral anticancer drugs require prior authorization and this often leads to delays in obtaining the medication, a new study indicates. “New health policies are needed to minimize barriers for cancer patients, with the goal of reducing time to receipt of oral anticancer drugs,” Dr. Morgan Lichtenstein of Columbia NewYork-Presbyterian, […]
(Reuters Health) – Many patients in the U.S. are receiving care that is low-value, whether it’s unnecessary testing or unneeded prescriptions, but measuring these practices at the level of individual healthcare systems could help in efforts to curtail them, according to a new study. An analysis of data on 11,637,763 Medicare beneficiaries treated at 556 […]
I drink a lot of unsweetened sparkling. Does that have the same health benefits as drinking regular water? There’s still water, and then there’s what my 4-year-old calls “spicy water,” better known as sparkling water. Crisp, bubbly and effervescent, carbonated water has become a daily ritual for many and a growing segment of the beverage […]
Sepsis, the body's life-threatening response to infection affecting about 1.7 million adults in the United States each year, can lead to multisystem organ failure with a high mortality rate. No targeted therapeutics against this condition have been developed in the last decades. Now, however, a team led by biomedical scientists at the University of California, […]
Third-year medical student Liz Groesbeck was like other excited Las Vegas Raiders fans last month headed to the first full-capacity game in the new Allegiant Stadium since the team moved to “Sin City.” She was in an Uber on a first date just blocks from the game that would pit her Raiders against the Seattle […]
It’s a new age for heart failure (HF) management, with growing appreciation for its “four pillars” of drug therapy, but also, it appears, the waning status of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) as the foremost guide to which patients should be treated with them. The metric, usually obtained by echocardiography, is viewed by some as […]
Algeria on Wednesday started producing the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese firm Sinovac, with production expected to be eight million doses a month. Prime Minister Aimene Benabderrahmane, who attended the launch of the production process at a factory in the eastern city of Constantine, called it a “big achievement”. Production could be doubled in the […]
Fox News Flash top headlines for September 29 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Diet soda and drinks that contain the artificial sweetener sucralose may increase food cravings and appetite in women and people who are obese, researchers say. In a new study led by the University of […]
The APOE gene—coding for a protein involved in lipid transport and implicated in the clearance of amyloid-beta, one of the proteins that builds up in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease—exists in three allelic forms: E4, E3, and E2. Researchers have strong evidence that the presence of E4 constitutes a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. The […]
