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Physicians urge households to add 'clean my medicine cabinet' to Spring cleaning chores list

After marijuana and alcohol, the most commonly abused drugs by those over the age of 14 are prescription and over-the-counter medications.

28 Feb 2015

Early intervention with GLP-1 analogues may delay onset of type 2 diabetes

GLP-1 is a hormone that regulates glucose levels in the body by stimulating the secretion of insulin, and GLP-1 also inhibits appetite. "We have found that GLP-1 is reduced by up to 25% among people with pre-diabetes and up to 20% among obese people compared to normal weight people.

28 Feb 2015

Study: Competition among physicians, retail medical clinics increases antibiotic prescriptions

Competition among doctors' offices, urgent care centers and retail medical clinics in wealthy areas of the U.S. often leads to an increase in the number of antibiotic prescriptions written per person, a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has found.

28 Feb 2015

Aggressive campaign to cut unnecessary use of antibiotics helps reduce drug-resistant bacteria

An aggressive campaign to reduce the unnecessary use of antibiotics has helped cut the rate of infection with a dangerous drug-resistant bacteria at The Valley Hospital by nearly 40 percent.

28 Feb 2015

NYU Langone reminds people about importance of screening and preventing colorectal cancer

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. However, according to Mark Pochapin, MD, the Sholtz/Leeds professor of Gastroenterology and director of the Division of Gastroenterology at NYU Langone Medical Center : "With early screening and prevention, this is one cancer that is highly curable and often preventable."

28 Feb 2015

FAA to issue new obstructive sleep apnea guidance for aviation medical examiners

The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that it will issue new guidance for aviation medical examiners (AMEs) regarding the screening and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in commercial pilots. The new guidance, which hopes to treat pilots fairly while at the same time increasing aviation safety, was created and approved with input from the industry, Congress, and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

28 Feb 2015

ChartSpan Medical Technologies raises $1.7 million in capital round

ChartSpan Medical Technologies announced it has successfully raised a capital round of $1.7 million dollars. Since becoming the most downloaded iPhone and iPad medical app in the U.S. in December, ChartSpan continues to disrupt healthcare with innovative technology empowering patients to manage their own healthcare records and information.

27 Feb 2015

LGTmedical issued U.S. patent for Kenek Core audio waveform technology

LionsGate Technologies, Inc., a privately-held medical device company, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent for its pulse oximetry technology based on the Kenek Core proprietary audio waveform platform.

27 Feb 2015

Scientists confirm relation between levels of certain pollutants in the body and levels of obesity

A team of Spanish scientists, which includes several researchers from the University of Granada, has confirmed that there is a relation between the levels of certain environmental pollutants that a person accumulates in his or her body and their level of obesity. Subjects with more pollutants in their organisms present besides higher levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, which are important risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

27 Feb 2015

Loyola physician reveals top five health concerns for men, offers tips to prevent them

Men lead women in the likelihood to die from nearly all the most common causes of death. Still, men are less likely to go to the doctor than women and often try to ignore symptoms of health problems.

27 Feb 2015

Deadly C. difficile affected almost half a million in the U.S over one year

The deadly bug Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infected more than 450,000 people in the U.S in a single year, according to new research funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

26 Feb 2015

Psoriasis management: an interview with Dr Sandy McBride

A major challenge around treating psoriasis is communication - psoriasis can flare and resolve in between appointments so it can be difficult to express and describe the life impact of these flares and recall possible triggers and response to treatments. People with psoriasis can also find it very difficult to talk about their emotions – something known as alexithymia – again making it difficult for clinicians to fully appreciate the impact of psoriasis.

25 Feb 2015

Body hang-ups prevent UK women to have health checkup, finds new HeartAge research

New research revealed today by HeartAge has found that almost four million British women are putting their own health at risk, as they are too embarrassed to have a health check.

24 Feb 2015

Local woman with breast cancer endorses University of Leicester's plans to transform medical education

A 41-year-old woman from Leicester has spoken of the transformative influence of well-trained doctors as she backed the University of Leicester's Centre for Medicine Appeal, encouraging everyone to play a part in the development of a new generation of healthcare and medical education for the region.

23 Feb 2015

MedSpring Urgent Care plans to expand operations into Washington D.C.

MedSpring Urgent Care today announced its plans to expand operations into the Washington D.C. area in late 2015. MedSpring currently operates nineteen centers in Austin, Chicago, Dallas, and Houston with additional locations under construction.

23 Feb 2015

Smartphones, tablets can do damage to overall health in unexpected ways

Despite the many benefits of having information at your fingertips, smartphones and tablets can do damage to your body and overall health in unexpected ways.

21 Feb 2015

Prescription painkiller abuse: A worst drug overdose epidemic in history

The Centers for Disease Control calls prescription painkiller abuse "one of the worst drug overdose epidemics in history."

19 Feb 2015

Geriatric consultation could improve care for elderly patients admitted for traumatic injuries

Elderly patients who are admitted to the hospital for monitoring and surgical treatment of traumatic injuries could have better geriatric care if medical teams took one extra step—offering geriatric consultation, according to new research findings from surgical and geriatric medicine teams at the Ronald Reagan University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center.

19 Feb 2015

HealthMine integrates Doctor On Demand into its Personal Clinical Engagement platform

HealthMine, Inc., the consumer health engagement company that developed the industry's first and only Personal Clinical Engagement (PCE) platform, announced today that it is integrating Doctor On Demand, a healthcare service that provides Video Visits with board-certified physicians via smartphones, tablets or desktop computers, into its platform.

19 Feb 2015

Dutch doctors share views on euthanasia

Around one in three Dutch doctors would be prepared to help someone with early dementia, mental illness, or who is 'tired of living' to die, reveals a small survey published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

18 Feb 2015

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Physicians urge households to add 'clean my medicine cabinet' to Spring cleaning chores list

Early intervention with GLP-1 analogues may delay onset of type 2 diabetes

Study: Competition among physicians, retail medical clinics increases antibiotic prescriptions

Aggressive campaign to cut unnecessary use of antibiotics helps reduce drug-resistant bacteria

NYU Langone reminds people about importance of screening and preventing colorectal cancer

FAA to issue new obstructive sleep apnea guidance for aviation medical examiners

ChartSpan Medical Technologies raises $1.7 million in capital round

LGTmedical issued U.S. patent for Kenek Core audio waveform technology

Scientists confirm relation between levels of certain pollutants in the body and levels of obesity

Loyola physician reveals top five health concerns for men, offers tips to prevent them

Deadly C. difficile affected almost half a million in the U.S over one year

Psoriasis management: an interview with Dr Sandy McBride

Body hang-ups prevent UK women to have health checkup, finds new HeartAge research

Local woman with breast cancer endorses University of Leicester's plans to transform medical education

MedSpring Urgent Care plans to expand operations into Washington D.C.

Smartphones, tablets can do damage to overall health in unexpected ways

Prescription painkiller abuse: A worst drug overdose epidemic in history

Geriatric consultation could improve care for elderly patients admitted for traumatic injuries

HealthMine integrates Doctor On Demand into its Personal Clinical Engagement platform

Dutch doctors share views on euthanasia

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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