Active patient involvement during treatment of chronic heart failure, coupled with partnership with healthcare team members to provide care consistent with evidence-based guidelines, dramatically improves quality of care for chronic heart failure patients.
West Virginia University and the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency have announced the results of their ground breaking West Virginia Games for Health research project.
Thousands of people are jetting off for a week of sun, snow and apr?s-ski. And while they may worry about breaking limbs, how many consider the dangers of skin cancer?
South Asian immigrants in America have a higher risk of heart disease than any other American population.
More than 18 million men in the United States over age 20 are affected by erectile dysfunction, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
According to a new study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, erectile dysfunction is highly prevalent across white, black and Hispanic populations in the United States. For the first time in an adequately-sized, nationally representative probability sample, the effect of health and lifestyle variables on the odds of having ED were determined in order to estimate prevalence by race and ethnicity.
A natural fibre already found in many food products could be an important new weapon in the war against obesity, according to University of Calgary researchers beginning the first human study of the product.
Television commercials for prescription drugs, TV drug ads are heavily loaded on the emotional side but offer scant information on the disease itself and do little to promote the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.
A recent study by a Saint Louis University researcher confirms findings that about half of the U.S. population has a version of a gene that causes them to metabolize food differently, putting them at greater risk of developing diabetes.
Lisa Chasan-Taber, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is launching a study of the effects of exercise programs on pregnant women with a history of gestational diabetes ? a condition triggered by pregnancy that puts them at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life.