This Week in Biotech
Source: The Motley Fool
Alexandria :: VA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 10:49:01 -0700 | health-news
S&P Biotech Index up 38% over the trailing-12-month period, it's evident that investment dollars are willingly flowing into the biotech sector. Keeping that in mind, let's have a look at some of the rulings, studies, and companies that made waves...
Medical mistakes occurred at all levels of my care
Source: Kevin M.D. Medical Blog
Nashua :: NH :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 10:00:35 -0700 | health-news
They increase malpractice lawsuits, the cost of medical care, patients' hospital stays, and morbidity and mortality. As an infectious diseases specialist for over forty years, I was not aware how common these errors are until I became a patient myself...
Update: Photos released of Fort Bliss soldiers killed in Afghanistan attack
Source: El Paso Times
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-18 09:59:48 -0700 | health-news
The soldiers were killed when an homemade bomb detonated in the town of Senjaray, Fort Bliss officials said in a news release...Both soldiers were assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division...The name...
Peak Body Transformation Announces Summer Enrollment Specials
Posted by: sulaman1
Plano :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 09:36:13 -0700 | health-news
Plano, TX - Premiere fitness trainers Peak Body Transformation are announcing new summer enrollment specials to help consumers get into the best shape of their lives! For one low rate, consumers can take advantage of scheduled classes at their leisure...
Consuming Coffee Linked to Lower Risk of Detrimental Liver Disease
Source: Newswise
Charlottesville :: VA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 09:26:27 -0700 | health-news
Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Description Regular consumption of coffee is associated with a reduced risk of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), an autoimmune liver disease, Mayo Clinic research shows.
Dangers of tanning beds
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 09:25:44 -0700 | health-news
Seattle Times letters to the editor State should consider regulations Beverly Fauvelle, owner of Sun Times tanning salon in West Seattle, says she rarely lets teens use her tanning beds and supports a bill to impose an age limit of...
In Chicago, the boys got pregnant!
Posted by: mashfaq90
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 04:56:26 -0700 | health-news
Chicago agents have birthed a controversy with a new campaign that detractors state unfairly goals the city's young young men. The billboard series titled "Unexpected" shows teenage males with their bellies protruding as if they're with child. A similar crusade...
DSM-5 Released: The Big Changes
Source: World of Psychology & Mental Health
Apa :: Romania | updated 2013-05-18 09:13:30 -0700 | health-news
We will be covering it in the weeks to come here on the blog and over at Psych Central Professional in a series of upcoming articles detailing the major changes...We sat in on a conference call that the American Psychiatric...
Medical chief in measles warning
Source: BBC
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-18 08:45:24 -0700 | health-news
Sir Harry Burns made the call ahead of the launch of a nationwide campaign next week to boost take up. There are fears that a generation of children have low levels of protection after the MMR scare a decade ago....
Psychiatrist retires commuted to Ketchikan
Source: SF Gate
Ketchikan :: AK :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 08:42:41 -0700 | health-news
Alaska (AP) After 34 years of working at Ketchikan's Gateway Center for Human Services , including 10 years as medical director, Wandal William Winn is calling it a day. "I'm at a phase of practice where I need to cut...
Pick Your Poison: Overweight or High Cholesterol
Source: The Motley Fool
Kansas City :: MO :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 08:34:36 -0700 | health-news
You may have to pick one to work on at a time, according to data from the lab of John Thyfault, an associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology at University of Missouri. Statins work really well at lowering bad LDL...
It's DSM 5 day
Source: Left Brain Right Brain
Oxford :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-18 08:33:08 -0700 | health-news
Yes, the day has arrived that the DSM 5 (the Diagnostic and Statistical manual) is released by the American Psychiatric Association. The DSM codifies the traits which make up, among many other things, an autism diagnosis. There was a great...
Girl accused in father's death struggled with mental health
Source: Baltimore Sun
Ellicott City :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 08:29:25 -0700 | health-news
Her preferred environment, often accented by a Japanese anime soundtrack streaming through snug earplugs, featured a mix of fairies, mermaids and vampires, according to her mother. They were the protagonists of a digital realm where she said she was "practicing...
Water main break reported by Clifton Water
Source: The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 08:27:28 -0700 | health-news
We ask that our customers voluntarily limit their outdoor watering use today to help maintain our water supplies during the repair activities, Clifton water said in a release this morning. The release also noted Ute Water contains chloramines, a different...
Obesity bias needs to end
Source: Kevin M.D. Medical Blog
Nashua :: NH :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 08:15:06 -0700 | health-news
But it's not the focus of my career, as it is for some of my colleagues . I have long thought those colleagues who do devote themselves to the topic may tend to overlook a very fundamental question, namely: Why...
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