The FINANCIAL -- The way certain hospital labor and delivery units are managed may put healthy women at greater risk for cesarean deliveries and hemorrhage, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers and ...
The FINANCIAL -- A large-scale effort to reduce childhood obesity in two low-income Massachusetts communities resulted in some modest improvements among schoolchildren over a relatively short period ...
The FINANCIAL -- The University of Liverpool is part of a new $3.6 million international project to put into action a strategic plan to create a preventative vaccine for River Blindness, with the ...
The FINANCIAL -- A new University of Liverpool study has identified innovative mental healthcare models being used in India, which have the potential to create profound positive change if implemented ...
The FINANCIAL -- There is strong evidence that expanding health insurance increases access to care, improves health in a variety of ways, and reduces mortality, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School ...
The FINANCIAL -- An independent study on the impact of Liverpool’s Healthy Lung Programme, conducted by the University of Liverpool and Queen Mary University London, has found that it’s improving ...
The FINANCIAL -- Around 1 in 6 older people experience some form of abuse, a figure higher than previously estimated and predicted to rise as populations age ...
The FINANCIAL -- Uncertainty and confusion over medicine use is affecting thousands of patients and their carers and, potentially, putting lives at risk, warn ...
The FINANCIAL -- Rich in firebrands, online vision tests can't match the high bar that AOA adamantly upholds for Americans' comprehensive eye health and vision care, putting these companies under ...
The FINANCIAL -- Pfizer Inc., in partnership with Parents magazine, announced on June 13 the results of a national survey of more than 2,000 new and expectant parents assessing their knowledge of ...
The FINANCIAL -- According to the AOA Standards of Professional Conduct, "Optometrists have the responsibility to identify signs of abuse and neglect in children, dependent adults and elders and to ...
The FINANCIAL -- Some 3 in 10 people worldwide, or 2.1 billion, lack access to safe, readily available water at home, and 6 in 10, or 4.5 billion, lack safely managed sanitation, according to a new ...
The FINANCIAL -- With an alphabet soup of dietary crazes and concerns, from gluten-free to paleo to vegan, it's not always easy for doctors of optometry to advise patients on how what they eat can ...
The FINANCIAL -- Optometry has long embraced the newest technologies that enhance and promote quality patient care, and continues to do so to this day. However, some of today's advances aren't ...
The FINANCIAL -- A new study conducted by an international team of lung cancer researchers, including Professor John Field from the University’s Institute of Translational Medicine, have identified ...
The FINANCIAL -- Enrollees in Medicaid reported in a nationwide survey that they’re largely satisfied with the health care they receive under the program, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. ...
The FINANCIAL -- Data from 77 countries show that antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhoea – a common sexually-transmitted infection – much harder, and sometimes impossible, to ...
The FINANCIAL -- New research from the University, published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood journal, shows a strong link between childhood obesity and hip diseases in ...
The FINANCIAL -- When applying sunscreen people miss on average 10 per cent of their face, the most common site for skin cancer, according to University of Liverpool research presented at the British ...
The FINANCIAL -- A new study conducted by an international team of researchers, based at the University of Liverpool and University College London, has revealed that by 2040 there will be over 1.2 ...
The FINANCIAL -- Sub-Saharan Africa is in the midst of a rapidly expanding diabetes epidemic that could have devastating health and economic consequences for the region unless quick and decisive ...
The FINANCIAL -- Royal Philips and the Singapore Institute of Advanced Medicine Holdings (SAM) on July 6 announced a collaboration with Varian Medical Systems and IBA Worldwide to build the new ...
The FINANCIAL -- With any type of medical condition, a loss of independence can lead to growing feelings of depression. People living with age-related macular degeneration experience a gradual ...
The FINANCIAL -- A new study, conducted by a team of UK based researchers involving the University of Liverpool, Bangor University and the University of Manchester, known as the ENIGMA Project, has ...