Adolescent and young adult cancer patients rank support from family, friends and other cancer survivors as high priority healthcare needs, according to a new University of Southern California study.
Researchers from the New Orleans’ Tulane University reveal that stem cells can cure diabetes. Researchers have used stem cells from human bone marrow to successfully treat diabetic mice.
In the West, demand for traditional Chinese medicine just goes on growing, however it’s the Chinese who are taking a great big acupuncture needle and trying to prick this bubble.
Cholesterol lowering ‘statin’ drugs are cost effective in far more people than current guidelines recommend and should be considered for a wider range of people, say researchers in a study published online by the BMJ today.
The Government has launched a hard-hitting safe sex campaign aimed at 18 to 24-year-olds. The 4-million-pound (1 pound is about 1.9 U.S. dollars) campaign will feature a series of TV, online, print and radio advertisements showing teenagers wearing pants with slogans such as “I’ve got gonorrhea” and “I’ll give you one,” with reference to sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Genetic factors are poised to take a leading role in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Heart Insight will give readers practical advice, new treatment recommendations … and encouragement. The American Heart Association announces the launch of a new patient magazine, Heart Insight, for heart patients, their families and caregivers.
Researchers are taking cardiac devices already in the operating room and using them in radically different applications as extracorporeal life support systems in cardiac arrest or traumatic hemorrhage.
A patient?s chance of survival falls 7 percent to 10 percent per minute when CPR is delayed after cardiac arrest, and post-arrest survival for out-of-hospital events is as low as 2 percent in one large Chicago hospital.
Dancing improves ability to function and quality of life among chronic heart failure patients and may be a good alternative to other aerobic exercises, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2006.