Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Infants with high levels of hemoglobin who were given iron fortified infant formula were found to have poorer long-term developmental outcomes ten years later, researchers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor reported in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The researchers explained as background information: "The high prevalence of ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
Patients with a family history of cancer who take daily aspirin for a number of years have a 63% lower chance of developing the disease, scientists from the Universities of Newcastle and Leeds, England, reported in the medical journal The Lancet. The researchers emphasized that it takes some years of ...
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Obama's administration has eliminated one of the Affordable Care Act's key new entitlement programs, saying that the Community Living Assistance Services (CLASS) Act which would have provided a basic lifetime benefit of a least $50 a day in the event of illness or disability, and was supposed to help ...
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Liver re-transplantation generally has an inferior outcome compared with a patient's first transplant, due to the technical demands of the surgery and because patients are often sicker than they were at the time of their first procedure. UCLA researchers, basing their work on 26 years worth of patient data from ...
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Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Chronic alcoholism is often associated with a disturbed gait and balance, likely caused by alcohol damage to neural systems. While some studies have suggested that abstinence can lead to partial recovery of gait and balance functions, questions remain about duration of abstinence and sample size. This study of both short- ...
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