A family-based weight management program developed by researchers at Yale School of Medicine was more effective at reducing weight, body fat, body mass index (BMI) and insulin sensitivity than traditional clinic-based weight counseling.
Fibromyalgia, a chronic, widespread pain in muscles and soft tissues accompanied by fatigue, is a fairly common condition that does not manifest any structural damage in an organ. Twenty-five years ago, Muhammad B. Yunus, MD, and colleagues published the first controlled study of the clinical characteristics of fibromyalgia syndrome.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new project expanding its efforts to encourage Medicare beneficiaries to take advantage of Internet-based tools to track their health care services and provide them with other resources to better communicate with their providers.
The Healthy Home ? a model residence created to help property owners and residents improve the environmental health of their homes ? is celebrating its first year in operation.
Consultation seeks to stimulate debate on New Deal for Carers. Details of a huge national debate on how to improve the future of the nation’s six million carers were released today by Care Services Minister, Ivan Lewis.
Statement on the Ovarian Cancer Symptoms Consensus issued from the Ovarian & Gynecologic Cancer Coalition/Rhonda’s Club and In My Sister’s Care:
Complications after bariatric surgery appear similar between patients younger and older than age 60 and also between Medicare recipients and nonrecipients, according to a study in the June issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
A simple video-based awareness programme significantly improved hand washing among family members visiting sick children in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, according to research in the June issue of the UK-based Journal of Clinical Nursing.
As the government continues deliberations with NGOs over the HIV/AIDS bill, the legislation aimed at preventing discrimination of those infected with the dreaded disease at workplace, education and healthcare sectors, has been delayed.
Prominent Medicare health plans strengthen consumer protections and voluntarily pledge to temporarily suspend non-group PFFS marketing. Statement of AHIP President and CEO Karen Ignagni on landmark industry pledge: