A NYC based anesthesiologist seemed to have passed on the hepatitis C infection to his patients. US Health Department is investigating a cluster of 3 new hepatitis C infections in people who received intravenous (IV) anesthesia from the same NYC-based anesthesiologist in August 2006.
Faced with an acute shortage of doctors, the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is now discouraging medicos from seeking political careers.
Although childhood lead poisoning remains a serious problem, the number of new cases identified in 2006 marks the lowest level in more than a decade. The number of new cases identified in 2006 ? 2,310 among children ages 6 months to 6 years ? marks a 13% decline from 2005 and an 88% decline since 1995, when nearly 20,000 children were newly identified with lead poisoning.
Add foot problems to the long list of conditions that being overweight can cause or exacerbate, says Foot Care Basics: Preventing and treating common foot conditions, a newly updated report from Harvard Medical School.
An international study led by a McMaster researcher aims to determine if a manual procedure to turn breech babies in the uterus can result in fewer births by caesarean section.
The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition (NOCC) joins the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation and other national organizations in announcing the first national agreement on ovarian cancer symptoms. Often referred to as the ?silent killer? due to the common belief that there are no warning signs or symptoms, ovarian cancer is the most deadly reproductive cancer.
Irrational use of medicines is a major problem all over the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) and many other bodies are concentrating on improving the use of medicines. Problem-based teaching of Pharmacology and Therapeutics to undergraduate medical students has been recognized as a key intervention to improve the use of medicines.
As medical, economic, and policy trends converge to alter the way dialysis care is organized and financed, protecting the unique relationship between dialysis patients and the kidney specialists who direct their care is a top priority, according to a special feature in the July Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
According to a new GfK Roper Public Affairs survey sponsored by CancerCare, a national nonprofit cancer support organization, while the majority (76 percent) of women surveyed said they know at least a fair amount about breast cancer, many remain unaware of the important recent progress made in treatment.
An internationally known expert on what is perhaps the most amazing structure in the universe ? the human brain ? has been recognized by his peers for his contributions to our knowledge about the brain and the diseases that affect it.