A research team led by Research Director Dr. Will Garrett-Petts of Thompson Rivers University is now ready to share preliminary descriptive results from a five-community Arts and Quality of Life Survey.
Type II bipolar disorder is an underdiagnosed disease which can be easily confused with depression.
Many physicians feel no obligation to tell patients about legal but morally controversial medical treatments or to refer patients to doctors who do not object to those treatments, report researchers from the University of Chicago in the Feb. 8, 2007, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
FDA is issuing this advisory to alert you to the potential hazards of using skin numbing products, also known as topical anesthetics, for cosmetic procedures.
A new computer-based technique could eliminate hours of manual adjustment associated with a popular cancer treatment.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today cleared for marketing a test that determines the likelihood of breast cancer returning within five to 10 years after a woman’s initial cancer.
Increasing the ability to identify sentinel nodes?the very first lymph nodes that trap cancer cells draining away from a breast lesion site?has a major impact in the treatment and outcome of breast cancer patients, possibly eliminating the need for unnecessary and painful surgery.
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will discuss the issue to consider making the pill available over-the-counter without a doctor’s prescription at a meeting today.
Demetrios Spanos was shocked when his doctor discovered a potentially life-threatening weakening affecting his body?s largest blood vessel, the aorta, during a routine physical examination.
New Jersey doctor Ahmed Rashed pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of third-degree theft for stealing a severed cadaver hand, which he gave to a stripper who displayed it in her New Jersey apartment.