As Americans continue to live longer with chronic disease, palliative care medicine is gaining a new appreciation. While advances in modern medicine have benefited countless people and added years to peoples? lives, a new focus includes enhancing the quality of life.
In partnership with the United States Air Force Medical Service, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has begun operating a diabetes outreach clinic at Wilford Hall Medical Center on Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio to provide primary care and comprehensive case management for people with diabetes.
Scientists have long thought that limiting the calories a person consumes can prevent, or at least slow the progression of certain cancers. But research at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) using mice suggests that body composition ? whether a person is lean or obese ? actually is key to reducing cancer risks.
The Health Protection Agency is continuing to provide expert advice on the public health issues surrounding the death of Mr. Alexander Litvinenko.
The legal age for buying tobacco and cigarettes is to be raised from 16 to 18, the British Government has announced.
According to a study published in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Sleep, sleep-disturbed children are more severely depressed and have more depressive symptoms and comorbid anxiety disorders compared with children without sleep disturbance.
A 67-year-old Spanish woman gave birth to twins according to hospital officials in Barcelona, becoming the world’s oldest mother. The woman became pregnant after fertility treatment in Latin America.
Women who exercise by doing housework can reduce their risk of breast cancer, according to a new study. The research is published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention.
Within hours of the first reports of devastating floods this week in the Indonesian province of Aceh, WFP moved rapidly to deliver emergency supplies by air and road to some 127,000 displaced people in the hardest hit districts of Aceh Tamiang and Gayo Lues.