Article Archive for May 2009
Philippe Padieu, 53, was convicted on Wednesday of six counts of aggravated assault after knowingly infecting six women with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. The Collin County, Texas, jury is currently in …
Empty American pockets don’t contain the money needed to buy prescription drugs as lavishly as in recent years, a cold and hard fact that meant prescription drug sales slowed to a crawl in 2008. The …
Dr. Dana E. King, professor of family medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, would give the general US population a C-minus if there were a report card for healthy lifestyles. King says Americans …
The Institute of Medicine has just released updated national recommendations for the number of pounds a woman should gain during pregnancy for optimum health to herself and her baby. This set of revised recommendations is …
The current issue of the Annals of Oncology carries the story of a cancer patient from Singapore who met with detention as a suspected security risk when he arrived at an airport in the United …
We’ve long known that breastfeeding benefits a baby in many more ways than just filling his little tummy. The latest issue of Obstetrics and Gynaecology carries details of a study that says breastfeeding is good …
The US Preventive Services Task Force says the rate of depression in children between 12 and 18 years old is high enough to warrant routine screening by their primary care physicians. The recommendation, announced in …
Researchers at Laval University, Quebec, Canada, have published the findings of their study comparing the benefits of talk therapy versus some of the most commonly prescribed drugs for insomnia. It seems that, for the best …
President Barack Obama has issued the call for the medical insurance industry to produce significant reform so millions of Americans still uncovered or underinsured by the healthcare insurance industry can obtain affordable medical care and …
The American Cancer Society says more than one million Americans are diagnosed with skin cancer each year. Although the chance of developing skin cancer has been directly linked to sun exposure in repeated studies and …
