Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been traditionally viewed as a childhood disorder, while ADHD in adults has been underdiagnosed and undertreated. A recent study shows that treatment rates have been increasing in all age groups, and improved identification has contributed to rapidly growing treatment rates for adults. Female patients show the greatest increase of all.
India’s largest life insurance services provider Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) is set enter the health insurance space in about two months as it is awaiting a nod from the IRDA.
Smoking during pregnancy is commonly linked to an increased chance of stillbirths as it restricts the growth of the fetus and results in placental complications.
Andrew Speaker learned Monday evening that his third consecutive sputum smear test had come back negative. This confirmed results from several smear tests previously performed at other institutions.
Mutations in the cell adhesion molecule known as integrin alpha 7 (integrin ?7) lead to unchecked tumor cell proliferation and a significantly higher incidence in cancer spread, or metastasis, in several cancer cell lines, report researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in a study being published today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Talcum powder has been used for generations to soothe babies? diaper rash and freshen women?s faces. But University of Florida researchers report the household product has an additional healing power: The ability to stunt cancer growth by cutting the flow of blood to metastatic lung tumors.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) researchers led by Lin He, Xingyue He, and Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator (HHMI) Greg Hannon have identified a family of micro RNAs (miRNAs) that enable a critical tumor suppressor network, called the p53 pathway, to fight cancer growth.
The American College of Physicians today gave its strong support to the bipartisan High-Need Physician Workforce Incentives Act of 2007. The six-part bill introduced today by Reps. Michael C. Burgess, MD, and Henry Cuellar of Texas focuses on workforce issues of physicians.
Laundry workers, commercial fishermen and environmental and public health groups petitioned the EPA urging the agency to provide health and safety protections from the endocrine-disrupting chemicals, nonyplphenol and nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs).
New research on the effects and the detection of growth hormone doping at the Garvan Institute in Sydney takes the international sporting community one step closer to stamping out drug cheats.