The FINANCIAL -- Microbiologists have identified how MRSA may be more effectively treated by modern-day antibiotics, if old-fashioned penicillin is also ...
The FINANCIAL -- While 46.1% of those aged 18 or over living in the European Union (EU) had a normal weight in 2014, slightly more than half of the adults (51.6%) were considered as over-weight ...
The FINANCIAL -- The smokeless tobacco product snus, which is used mainly in Sweden but also is sold in the U.S., may increase the risk that men with prostate cancer will die from their disease, and ...
The FINANCIAL -- In the first study of its kind researchers from the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Translational Medicine have examined the possible reasons for the rapid increase in ...
The FINANCIAL -- From prosthetics to anesthesia, war has been a catalyst for many medical advancements. Modern day plastic surgery traces its roots to World War I, where trench warfare made soldiers ...
The FINANCIAL -- Naivety is no defense for illegally sold contact lenses that put patients' health at risk. Just ask violators nationwide currently facing repercussions under patient safeguards that ...
The FINANCIAL -- Women may only need cervical cancer screening every 5-10 years—instead of every three years, as currently recommended—and may be able to start the screenings later in life, ...
The FINANCIAL -- About one in four low-income adults in three U.S. states have experienced changes in their health insurance coverage—known as “churning”—since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...
The FINANCIAL -- A new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll suggests a major gap between parents’ views and research experts’ assessments of the ...
The FINANCIAL -- There are clear economic and societal arguments for investing in mental health interventions for women during pregnancy and immediately after birth, a new report by the Personal ...
The FINANCIAL -- The costs of caring for a massive rise in people with diabetes could bankrupt the NHS, says Dr James Brown of Aston University on World Diabetes ...
The FINANCIAL -- On November 14, Novo Nordisk announced a four-year extension of its Changing Diabetes® in Children programme which provides access to diabetes care and free insulin to children with ...
The FINANCIAL -- Despite a 79% worldwide decrease in measles deaths between 2000 and 2015, nearly 400 children still die from the disease every day, leading health organizations said in a report ...
The FINANCIAL -- Blindness proves to be a far more concerning side effect of diabetes than kidney failure and heart troubles combined, a new survey finds, yet the benefits of routine diabetic eye ...
The FINANCIAL -- Internationally, the top five physical conditions that people worry most about having, either now or as they age, are eyesight getting poorer, not being as mentally alert, lacking ...
The FINANCIAL -- Over one million people in low- and middle-income countries have been treated with a revolutionary new cure for hepatitis C since its introduction two years ...
The FINANCIAL -- New research shows that childhood bullying has a strong link to mental health service use throughout a person’s life, putting additional strain on an “already overstretched” UK ...
The FINANCIAL -- Concerted hypertension management can significantly reduce patients' risk of cardiovascular events, effectively saving lives and underscoring its necessary inclusion in optometric ...
The FINANCIAL -- Elderly people who were uprooted from damaged or destroyed homes and who lost touch with their neighbors after the 2011 tsunami in Japan were more likely to experience increased ...
The FINANCIAL -- More than four in 10 U.S. workers diagnosed with heart problems have trouble concentrating at work due to physical challenges, a significantly higher rate than among workers without ...
The FINANCIAL -- New research led by the University of Liverpool aims to improve the administration and availability of drug therapies to HIV patients through the use of ...
The FINANCIAL -- Visits to hospital emergency departments (EDs) not only jumped by 40% in Oregon after Medicaid coverage was expanded there in 2008—but the increase persisted for at least two ...