Just ahead of Africa Malaria Day, marked each year on 25 April, the United Nations-backed Roll Back Malaria Partnership today announced that it has set ambitious new targets to attain funding to fight the disease in Africa.
Some say age 90 is the new age 70. If so, there’s never been a better time for elderly patients to discuss with family and physicians just how aggressive medical care should be in case of a threatened or definite heart attack.
Vi-Jon, Inc. issued a voluntary nationwide consumer product recall of a single lot of 28 fluid ounce bottles of Alpine Xtreme Evergreen Forest Body Wash after determining the presence of a bacteria, Enterobacter gergoviae, in some of the product samples tested.
Philip Greenland, M.D., an internationally known epidemiologist who is a 1974 graduate of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, will speak at the ninth annual Marvin J. Hoffman Day award ceremonies Friday, April 27, at the Medical Center.
Cigarette smoking is linked to misuse of alcohol, revealed by researchers at Yale School of Medicine. The study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
In the February 2007 issue of Urology, Dr. Ellis from the Urology Associates of North Texas reports on a large series of patients treated with primary cryotherapy for prostate cancer (CaP).
iVillage Total Health, the consumer health destination for women from iVillage, a division of NBC Universal, announced a partnership with Revolution Health, a leading consumer-centric health company, to offer innovative tools that will enable women to manage their health and the health of their families more effectively by assessing their risk for diseases including diabetes, stroke and heart disease.
Decisions about building casinos in the UK have not given enough weight to the potential health effects, argue two doctors in this week?s BMJ.
Where there is cigarette smoking there is probably misuse of alcohol too, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
For sufferers of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), sleep disturbances are among the most treatment-resistant symptoms and can lead to drug and alcohol abuse and even suicide.