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Can sex help improve the health of a Parkinson's patient? It might -- at least for some.

July 16 (Reuters) - Novartis: * FDA ACCEPTS FILE AND ACCELERATES REVIEW OF NOVARTIS SICKLE CELL DISEASE MEDICINE CRIZANLIZUMAB ...

An 80-hour limit on physician residency training work weeks makes no difference in patient mortality, admissions, readmissions or cost, a recent study revealed.

Temple University, NIH, and the University of Pittsburgh will partner to open an All of Us enrollment site, which will help advance precision medicine research.

BATESVILLE (KATV) — It's not necessarily news that it's hard to recruit doctors to the more rural parts of Arkansas. UAMS has been slowly trying to solve the ...

The editors of PLOS Medicine together with Guest Editors Paul Spiegel, Kolitha Wickramage, and Terry McGovern, announce a forthcoming special issue ...

As tensions between the U.S. and China escalate, Washington is waking up to the threat posed by Beijing's longstanding espionage and cyber hacking.

Siemens Healthineers is ponying up $133 million in medical imaging equipment andhealth IT infrastructure to the University of Missouri System's new NextGen ...

A new research report published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine examines the significance of portraits displayed in the medical school.

Residents gain access to Freedom Mobile's fast LTE network and an abundance of data with no overage fees.

The smell of herbs greets patients once they step through the door of Dr. Carol Ragle's oriental medicine office in Mitchell. Ragle, who has practiced oriental ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri is working to settle a lawsuit alleging that the state overmedicated foster children with psychotropic drugs.

Dr. Brian Goldman looks back at the medications Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took with them to the moon and what future astronauts may take when they ...

We are hopeful that the restrictions — and the knowledge that they will not impact patient care — reflect a needed and welcome shift in the culture of medicine.

In the past few years, dedicated scientists have spent countless hours sticking tiny adhesive discs containing cannabidiol (CBD) and THC onto the skin of small ...

People of color have historically had good reason to distrust medicine and healthcare providers, wrote Armen Henderson, MD, a resident physician in south ...

FDA grants crizanlizumab Priority Review based on Phase II data showing prevention of vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs) in patients with sickle cell disease, ...

SEATTLE, Washington – One doctor says it's becoming the "Wild West" of medicine. Private clinics are opening nationwide claiming stem cells will cure ...

In an ideal future, humans will be able to regrow lost organs and limbs, cure in an instant diseases that cause years of pain today, and move away from intrusive ...

How and why is the age demographic of physicians changing? Does this affect their ability to practice and treat patients? What can be done about it?

Almost one-third of injuries suffered in childhood are sports-related.

Imagine working for an oil company and tasked with finding a drilling site with the most dramatic ecological and cultural impacts possible. The presence of ...

Ontario's health minister says it may take longer than the year promised by Premier Doug Ford to end overcrowding within the province's hospitals.

Renee Fosberg, senior director and CIO at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass. , has worked in the healthcare information systems industry for nearly 20 years.

PHILADELPHIA, July 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Aevi Genomic Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNMX, "Aevi") today announced it has entered into an exclusive license ...

MORGANTOWN — Thanks to the expertise and technology to be found at WVU Medicine, some major life decisions for some of the Mountain State's men don't ...

Here are three sports medicine physicians who recently joined new practices or took on new positions in the past month.

The Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine is working with Michigan Medicine through a new research program aimed at preventing brain ...

Bethany White, who taught at Hixson High School in Tennessee, was arrested Friday on charges of aggravated statutory rape.

Hannah Carey, a University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher who studies hibernating mammals, became the new president of the Federation of American ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyundai Hope On Wheels® (HHOW), a 501c3 non-profit organization supported by Hyundai and its U.S. ...

The cryonics debate explained, plus new issues in waking the dead. Would cryonics customers even be welcomed in the future?

AMA member David T. Tayloe Jr., MD, is a fifth-generation physician who has worked with his community for more than 40 years to ensure the best care for ...

WEST TOPSHAM, Vt. — The apothecary at Sage Mountain — where Emily Ruff strains tinctures, weighs herbs, and chops roots and flowers — looks like it ...

For years I have ranted about the flaws of medicine, especially when it comes to mental illness and cancer. But my complaints are mild compared to those of ...

The partnership between Siemens and the University of Missouri will support the UM System's new NextGen Precision Health Institute. (University of Missouri).

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Robert “Bob” Ardesia, MD, assistant professor of clinical medicine.

Diagnose and tailor treatment strategies for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, and hypercholesterolemia; Review the diagnostic criteria and therapeutic ...

Patients increasingly look to modern medicine to combat the toll of aging.

Countries in Europe are beginning to exchange e-prescriptions and medical records of patients. But what about data safety?

WHO's Essential Medicines List and List of Essential Diagnostics are core guidance documents that help countries prioritize critical health products that should ...

Chocolate has not always been the common confectionary we experience today. When it first arrived from the Americas into Europe in the 17th century, it was a ...

Andre Shih and a group of natural health professionals want an end to additional regulations proposed by Health Canada in their industry that they say could ...

The Air Force's best paralegal can't leave behind her medical dreams.,

Randomized trials demonstrate no benefit from antibiotic treatment exceeding the shortest effective duration. Objective: To examine predictors and outcomes ...

Educating healthcare professionals is a vital part of Memorial Sloan Kettering's mission. The Integrative Medicine *Service* offers doctors, acupuncturists, nurses, ...

This year's ASCO Annual Meeting included several major successes that should translate to new molecular targets in advanced non-small cell lung cancer, but ...

Unless you are a cinder block or some other inanimate object, you have implicit bias. Just like body odor or flatulence, it is part of being human and can be a ...

I'm an emergency room physician, a cancer survivor, the father of a cancer survivor, and founder of a health care company. I've held a scalpel, been under the ...

Most popular, competitive games will have some degree of cheating, and if the title in question is a free-to-play one, the problem can become rampant. That's.

First-year UBC emergency medicine residents Daniel Ting and Jared Baylis were on call at Kelowna General Hospital in 2014 when a tour bus carrying 56 ...

Traditional herbal and modern medical practitioners are combining forces in the cultural melting pot of Hong Kong to boost the effectiveness of a range of ...

The Department of Health and Social Care plans to spend £3m on no-deal Brexit measures to transport medication. It wants to hire an "express freight *service*" to ...

July 08, 2019 02:15 pm Sheri Porter Lakin, Kan. – It's 7 p.m. on a warm June evening in this town of 2,200 people near the Colorado border, and family ...

As we drive along the shore of the Bay of Chaleur to the Aboriginal Heritage Garden in Ugpi'Ganjig, Rebecca Labillois is picturing her grandmother walking ...

Enrollees—mainly engineers and health workers—pretend to live on Mars, wear spacesuits, and ride in ATVs as medical disasters crop up around them.

The supply of all medicines cannot be guaranteed in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Scotland's Constitutional Relations Secretary has said. Mike Russell said ...

With long wait times the norm for new behavioral health patients — three months isn't unusual, according to one doctor — Nebraska Medicine and the University ...

Navigating the complex network of hallways at Moore Regional Hospital, the transporter team will tell you about 25 percent of their job is simply helping other ...

The Georgia Institute of Technology and Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) today announced the launch of a new initiative that will support MSM's ...

Official in PFLP terror group says Egyptian mediators conveyed message during talks, with Jerusalem also offering more work permits, other benefits.

The Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University announced Friday it welcomed its second class of 91 students. The students were ...

Here's what research suggests about a class of drugs called anticholinergics, which treat a wide range of ailments, from depression to bladder issues.

An analysis of new drugs shows that most novel medicines have little advantage over current treatments and waste money that healthcare systems can't afford.

CAMP LEJEUNE, NC - The latest group of Camp Lejeune Family Medicine Residency (CLFMR) graduates took major steps toward their futures as family ...

Cigna joined biotech giants Amgen and Celgene in backing GNS Healthcare, a technology firm applying machine learning to healthcare through precision ...

To reduce the long hours patients endure to get their medication at clinics, Neo Hutiri has invented the Pelebox – a simple medication-dispensing solution.

A RECENT inspection of the Punjab Medical Store Depot stocks in Lahore has revealed that an expensive drug purchased in 2016/2017 to treat 5,000 patients ...

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Mike Braun (R-IN) are still trying to address the fentanyl and heroin overdose crisis—soon to be joined by a ...

Joseph J. Doncsecz, associate vice president for finance and corporate controller for Penn State, has been named the College of Medicine's interim associate ...

Scholars examine intersection of comics and medicine in new course on graphic medicine.

It wasn't all that long ago that CRISPR gene editing generated a huge buzz in investing circles. The technology, which uses bacterial enzymes to cut DNA ...

Management of anticoagulants for patients undergoing polypectomy is still controversial. Cold snare polypectomy (CSP) is reported to cause less bleeding than ...

The GOP is fighting the most middle-of-the-road ways of getting people coverage.

Good. There's no reason to reward people for buying homeopathic pills.

Using in-game win probability techniques, Stanford researchers devised a way to predict a cancer patient's outcome at any point during treatment. The approach ...

Two Postcommodity members, along with composer Guillermo Galindo, are partnering with members of a fast-gentrifying Santa Monica neighborhood to ...

An inventor applies for his first patent at 65—an update to a standard machinist's tool.

Deans Bonita Stanton, M.D. and David Kountz, M.D. have received the Edward J. Ill Excellence in Medicine Awards.

Christian Angermayer, a German financier, is one of the driving forces behind the movement to turn psychoactive substances into drugs for mental illness.

Is it time to rethink the way physicians talk to -- and about -- patients?

A weakness in one common open source software for genomic analysis left DNA-based medical diagnostics vulnerable to cyberattacks. Researchers identified ...

The number of Australians over the age of 70 taking five medicines or more a day has risen to nearly one million people and is increasing, according to a new ...

A newly released report on the economic impact of Stony Brook University sets forth compelling numbers reflecting the University's role as a catalyst for ...

Keeping medications in easy-to-reach places and easy-to-open containers can raise the risk of accidental poisoning or intentional misuse. Whether it's a rare ...

Rachael Lee, M.D.Rachael Lee, M.D., assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Division of Infectious Diseases, has been named UAB ...

BMJ 2019; 366 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l4589 (Published 11 July 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;366:l4589. Article; Related *content*; Metrics; Responses ...

HHS Secretary Alex Azar put countries with socialized medicine on notice: Americans will no longer be subsidizing their cheap prescription drugs.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Dr. David R. Smith, the former president of SUNY Upstate Medical University, can never practice medicine again in New York state.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to upend the practice of medicine, boosting the efficiency and accuracy of diagnosis in specialties that rely on images, such as ...

Medicine Hat's Becky Martin doubled up last week as winner of both the Sun Life Financial Alberta Women's Amateur Championship and the provincial ...

Coming from Pioneer Junior College and with a grade "C" marring his otherwise perfect A-level results, Mr Tan Ying Li did not think he would make it to the ...

If there is one thing that Deutsche Bank executives agree on, it is the efficacy of medieval medicine. Bloodletting, to be precise. Successive Chief Executives ...

Stories of urgent health challenges, life-changing procedures, and pioneering advances in science are told by the finalists for the Wellcome Photography Prize ...

“This is a labor of love, but we continue to do it because it is something we really believe in,” Wren Arrington says about White Bird Clinic's Rock Medicine ...

Five UCLA medical students flew to Peru shortly before graduation to complete a clinical rotation at a hospital in Iquitos. Surrounded by the Amazon jungle, ...

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is showing some conflicting signals right now, as the company expects an earnings hit in its July 17 report, within ...

An innovative system to dispense medicine to patients with chronic illnesses is taking off in South Africa. The award-winning “Pelebox,” created by South African ...

Anne H. Cross, MD, the Manny and Rosalyn Rosenthal and Dr. John L. Trotter MS Center Chair in Neuroimmunology at Washington University School of ...

Penn has purchased the most expensive per-square-foot office building in Philadelphia for a total of $99.25 million. Penn Medicine acquired the 12-story, ...