The American Heart Association and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, announce the launch of a new consumer magazine, Heart Insight, for heart patients, their families and caregivers.
A draft of proposals which together add up to the loss of professionally-led medical regulation have the potential to muzzle doctors in their role of speaking out for their patients, warns the British Medical Association (BMA).
The latest NHS quarterly financial performance report shows that almost a third of England?s hospital trusts, and almost half its Primary Care Trusts, are forecast to be in deficit at the end of this financial year.
The BMA welcomed the publication of a new action plan to tackle alcohol problems in Scotland.
New research at the University of Maryland looks at why kids decide to include — and exclude — other kids from their group of friends. It turns out the decision making process is much more complex than previously believed, and could even provide insights into how to intervene when children are rejected by their peers.
Employers do not expect a decline in the rate of health benefit cost increases any time soon. Meanwhile, they continue to invest in on-site medical clinics, call-in medical help lines and employee health appraisals in efforts to control those costs.
Mayo Clinic has collaborated with Digital Cyclone, Inc., a Minnesota-based subsidiary of Garmin, Ltd., to launch a software application that delivers an array of health information and tools directly to cellular phones.
Through a grant from the Ohio Board of Regents, three universities will collaborate to provide a unique learning experience to talented high school students and science teachers.
Even when diagnosed with a condition that is a strong genetic predictor of colorectal cancer, many patients do not seek out genetic counseling or cancer screening.
Researchers from the Center for Brain Research and Learning Disabilities at the University of Haifa have developed a standardized diagnostic test for learning disabilities for administration in the classroom to all students. The test has been adapted to Hebrew and Arabic.