A clinical trial involving 5,045 women in South Africa and Zimbabwe found no statistical difference in the rate of new HIV infections in the two study arms: those who received a diaphragm plus lubricant along with male condoms for their partners and those who only received male condoms.
Adaptive changes occur in the arm bone and soft tissue of the shoulders of young athletes participating in youth baseball and help protect them against injury, according to new research released today at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine at the Telus Convention Center.
Many parts of Kerala are reeling under the impact of viral fever, including chikungunya, with the problem spreading to new areas where patients are pouring into hospitals to seek treatment.
By bypassing a well-known gene implicated in almost one-third of all cancers and instead focusing on the protein activated by the gene, Duke University Medical Center researchers believe they may have found a new target for anti-cancer drugs.
Make it an even decade. National Jewish Medical and Research Center has been named the best respiratory hospital in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for the tenth year in a row. The ranking is part of the 2007 “America’s Best Hospitals” guide published by the weekly newsmagazine.
For the seventh consecutive year, UCSF Medical Center ranks among the nation?s top 10 premier hospitals, according to the new 2007 ?America?s Best Hospitals? survey by ?US News & World Report.? This year the survey ranked the Medical Center number 7.
Arthroscopic treatment of tennis elbow has shown to be successful at long-term follow-up, according to new research released today at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine at the Telus Convention Center.
The factors associated with poor short-term recovery from knee surgery appear to be different than those found to mar long-term outcome from the same surgery, according to new research released today at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine at the Telus Convention Center.
City of Hope has been named one of ?America?s Best Hospitals? in two specialties by U.S.News & World Report. City of Hope ranked 30th on this year?s list of top cancer hospitals and 29th on the list for urology.
About 3 of every 10 children and teens who are admitted to the hospital from the emergency room have asthma, pneumonia, acute bronchitis or another respiratory disorder, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.