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huffingtonpost.com - By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, March 6 (Reuters) - Increased salt consumption may be a key culprit behind rising rates of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, researchers reported on Wedn...

online.wsj.com - Startup companies are coming up with new technologies aimed at getting people to take medicine only as directed. Taking medication haphazardly—skipping doses, lapsing between refills or taking pill...

blogs.scientificamerican.com - This weekend, the proverbial s**t hit the fan over the FDA’s decision to require an IND for stool transplants—formally known as “fecal microbiota transplants (FMT)”—for the treatment of C. difficil...

health.usnews.com - Depending on your taste preferences for food, and food for thought alike, you either welcomed the recent Institute of Medicine report on salt indicating the lack of evidence for intake levels below...

nytimes.com - The question for policy makers, he said, is whether the emergency room is the appropriate place to determine whether someone goes home or is admitted for treatment. Patients may benefit from the sp...

magazine.jhsph.edu - The 2-year-old girl arrived at Phebe Hospital in rural Liberia barely alive. Her abdomen had been ripped open, and her intestines spilled out of the gaping wound. She had been attacked while playin...

medicine.buffalo.edu - Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the groundbreaking $1.7 million Grocer-E study is designed to help inform food-related public policy. Through this randomized, controlled study, an expe...

everydayhealth.com - Rheumatoid arthritis patients live with chronic pain and swelling in their joints, especially their knees and hips, making it difficult to move around, walk, or even get out of bed in the morning. ...

kevinmd.com - With the announcement that the FDA granted 510(k) approval for the AliveCor EKG case for the iPhone 4/4S, the device became available to “licensed U.S. medical professionals and prescribed patients...

online.wsj.com - During a four-week hospital stay, 29-year-old Josh Page had so many CT scans that he lost track, kidding with his doctor about how much radiation he was exposed to—though he admits he had "no clue....

nytimes.com - I clicked open a file called Taxa Tables, and a colorful bar chart popped up on my screen. Each bar represented a sample taken (with a swab) from my skin, mouth and feces. For purposes of compariso...

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thesundaytimes.co.uk - Doctors decided to operate when the man’s prostate showed microscopic malignant changes (Christopher Furlong) A 53-YEAR-OLD Londoner has become the first man in the world to have his prostate remov...

lifehacker.com - Weight loss is tricky business. Obviously what you eat has a huge impact on your health and body weight. But anyone who has ever tried to modify their diet for the sake of losing weight knows it is...

nytimes.com - A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. And while their Ame...

medicalnewstoday.com - Please note: If no author information is provided, the source is cited instead. Please note that we publish your name, but we do not publish your email address. It is only used to let you know when...

davidleescher.com - Physicians have traditionally been individual thinkers and doers.  Healthcare in general has been generally slow to adopt proven successful methods of processes and technologies employed with succe...

medicalnewstoday.com - Please note: If no author information is provided, the source is cited instead. Please note that we publish your name, but we do not publish your email address. It is only used to let you know when...

huffingtonpost.com - By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kenne...

foxnews.com - Britain launched a research program on Monday that should eventually allow all cancer patients to have access to the kind of genetic analysis that led Hollywood star Angelina Jolie to decide to und...

cdc.gov - Declines in cognitive function vary among persons and can include changes in attention, memory, learning, executive function, and language capabilities that negatively affect quality of life, perso...

prnewswire.co.uk - The "Weight Loss/Obesity Management Market - [Meal Replacements, Slimming Centers, Nutrition & Psychological Consultancy, Treadmill, Ellipticals, Strength Training, Gastric Bypass, Intragastric Bal...

online.wsj.com - An uncle starts believing all your sarcastic comments. Or a kindhearted friend never understands anymore how you feel. These people may not just be momentarily off. Recent research indicates they m...

blog.jayparkinsonmd.com - Natural selection favored people who needed people. Humans are vastly more social than most other mammals, even most primates, and to develop what neuroscientists call our social brain, we had to b...

kevinmd.com - Recently, over 520 of our doctors began sharing their office visit notes with patients. All primary care doctors and general pediatricians, and selected physicians within pediatric subspecialties, ...

foxnews.com - When Wes Schlauch, of Breinigsville, PA, was 16 years old, he suffered a stroke that paralyzed the entire right side of his body. Miraculously, three years later, Wes is not only walking and talkin...

kevinmd.com - “J.T.” is 92 and clearly a soul who lives to the beat of a different drummer. She has no children and her closest relative is a niece who she despises. Despite this the niece oversees her care, sen...

idahostatesman.com - Padma Lakshmi ("Top Chef"), Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg and another 100 million women worldwide contend with endometriosis, a condition in which endometrial cells (that line the uterus) grow ou...

microbeworld.org - Be part of the studio audience for the American Society for Microbiology 2013 General Meeting's live internet talk show, ASM Live. Host Stanley Maloy, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology and Dean of t...

medpagetoday.com - When a disease-related charity becomes a venture capitalist, count the pharmaceutical industry among the winners. To illustrate, consider the 'breakthrough' cystic fibrosis drug Kalydeco (ivacaftor...

nejm.org - Most studies suggest that intensivist physicians improve patient outcomes in intensive care units (ICUs).1-3 It is thus tempting to conclude that a “dose–response effect” might exist, such that gre...

jama.jamanetwork.com - Conflict of Interest Disclosures: The authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Dr Chlan reported receiving payment for editorial contri...

nytimes.com - Only one in about 400 women carry mutations to BRCA1 or to a related gene BRCA2, though such hereditary defects are implicated in between 5 percent and 10 percent of all breast cancers. The majorit...

kevinmd.com - 1. Medical Home Transition Long but Worth It. The path to becoming a patient-centered medical home is long, rough, and varies for each practice, but getting there is essential to providing high-qua...

health2con.com - The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) describes Chronic Condition Management as “The public health challenge of the 21st century”. Examples of chronic conditions include hypertension, asthma/COPD, ...

retractionwatch.wordpress.com - Chinese researchers have had a 2012 paper in Plant Molecular Biology Reporter on genetically modified wheat retracted, in a notice that cites fraud. The article, “Isolation and Functional Character...

online.wsj.com - Getting eight hours of shut-eye each night is generally recommended, but many people don't. As the week rolls from Monday to Friday, they accumulate a sleep debt. Spending a few extra hours in bed ...

news.nationalgeographic.com - In April, National Geographic News published a story about the letter in which scientist Francis Crick described DNA to his 12-year-old son. In 1962, Crick was awarded a Nobel Prize for discovering...

qxmd.com - BACKGROUND: Colonoscopy is the gold-standard test for investigation of symptoms suggestive of colorectal cancer; computed tomographic colonography (CTC) is an alternative, less invasive test. Howev...

newscientist.com - Those at risk of developing Alzheimer's may be able to slow its onset through daily B vitamins. We already know that a high level of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood is a risk factor for Al...

theatlantic.com - The latest "virtual therapist" -- charged with helping diagnose depression -- comes from psychologist Albert Rizzo and computer scientist Louis-Philippe Morency at the University of Southern Califo...

foxnews.com - Saudi Arabia has reported another case of infection in a concentrated outbreak of a new strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year and spread into Europe, the World Health Organiza...

healthcareitnews.com - Healthcare organizations will need to be more effective, cost efficient and productive in the future to not only survive, but also to maintain positive cash flows, according to Brian Fugere, COO of...

blog.psiimpact.com - This Gates Foundation video shows how mobile technology deployed by the Grameen Foundation in Ghana is improving maternal and child health. The MOTECH mobile midwife program lets pregnant women reg...

foxnews.com - A newer version of the whooping cough vaccine doesn't protect kids as well as the original, which was phased out in the 1990s because of safety concerns, according to a new study. During a 2010-201...

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - To characterise occupational wheat allergic phenotypes (rhino-conjunctivitis, asthma and dermatitis) and immunoglobulin (IgE) sensitisation to particular wheat allergens in bakers. We conducted cli...

yourguidetonourishment.com - You’re busy, pressed for time, and require real nourishment. There you have it. A tasty, protein packed, omega fatty acid infused, probiotic and antioxidant rich meal, that will keep your blood sug...

hopkinsmedicine.org - The choice to have genetic counseling and proceed with genetic testing is one to be taken seriously and with some caution. Though it can sound simple to be tested, there are many things to consider...

mobihealthnews.com - A recent survey by Deloitte found that 43 percent of doctors use smartphones or tablets for clinical purposes, which the firm suggested included EHR access, e-prescribing, and physician-to-physicia...

sciencedaily.com - The study appears in the May 20 online edition of Pediatrics. "Few studies have focused on long-term outcomes for patients diagnosed with ADHD in childhood. In this study, we wanted to assess the h...