Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems — birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism and obesity — are now considered medical conditions. For better or worse, medicine increasingly permeates daily life.
Physician assistants (Pas) addressed a broad range of issues ? including overcrowding in emergency departments, retail clinics, reparative therapy, retail-based clinics, deceptive health care advertising, and apologizing for adverse outcomes ? during the 35th annual conference of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), meeting in Philadelphia through May 31.
AMA Vice President, Dr Choong-Siew Yong, warned consumers could be seriously misled by proposed new food labelling regulations.
Demand for cosmetic genitoplasty or vaginoplasty is increasing. Lih Mei Liao, consultant clinical psychologist, and Sarah M Creighton, consultant gynaecologist, argue that surgery carries risks and that alternative solutions to women’s concerns about the appearance of their genitals should be developed.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest AIDS healthcare, prevention and education provider in the United States and operator of free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia unveiled a public awareness campaign targeting negative direct-to-consumer advertising of HIV/AIDS drugs by pharmaceutical companies.
Because of fermentations in the juice bottles, R.A.B. Food Group, LLC is recalling the following products –
A combination of increased excise taxes, nationwide indoor smoking bans, and other measures would significantly lower the U.S. smoking rate, which now hovers at around 21 percent of the adult population, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.
University of Nottingham experts have joined forces with Canadian biotech company GangaGen Life Sciences Inc to develop new weapons in the fight against food poisoning.
McCall Farms of Effingham, S.C., is voluntarily recalling more than 2,500 cases of Margaret Holmes Seasoned Turnip Greens after tests by the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services confirmed trace amounts of diesel fuel in product samples, Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler announced.
When is an herbal tea a safe and effective sleep aid, and when is that same tea a risky pharmaceutical choice? Health care professionals face such questions daily, and a University of Arkansas researcher cautions that they may need to acquire advanced clinical skills in order to assure patient safety.