More cases of venous thromboembolism are diagnosed in the three months following hospitalization than during hospitalization, but less than half of inpatients receive medications to prevent blood clots from occurring, according to a report in the July 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
A study of Medicare patients with osteoarthritis provides additional evidence that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin reduce the risk of colorectal cancer.
One route to a long and healthy life may be establishing the right balance in insulin signaling between the brain and the rest of the body, according to new research from Children’s Hospital Boston.
US HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced that the revised International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) enter into force for the United States. The updated rules are designed to prevent and protect against the international spread of diseases while minimizing interference with world travel and trade.
In his opening remarks at the Third Meeting of the Mission Steering Group (MSG) of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in New Delhi, the Indian Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss said the NRHM has now completed two years and during this time the health sector in the country has seen far reaching changes.
Pediatrics researchers at The Children?s Hospital of Philadelphia and McGill University in Montreal have identified a gene variant that raises a child?s risk for type 1 diabetes, formerly called juvenile diabetes.
Presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) on Wednesday at a town hall meeting in Las Vegas said that he would use the “bully pulpit” of the presidency to prompt reforms in the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries and address problems with the “dysfunctional health care system,” the Las Vegas Sun reports.
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has launched a new definition to identify children and adolescents at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in later life. The definition is published in The Lancet.
Dr. Philippe De Wals of Universit? Laval?s Department of Social and Preventive Medicine publishes a study clearly indicating that the addition of folic acid to flours has led to a 46% drop in the incidence of congenital neural tube deformation (mainly anencephaly and spina bifida) in Canada.
One-fourth of uninsured U.S. women between the ages of 18-64 reported not having had a Pap smear within the last three years when surveyed in 2005, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.