Mobile app helps doctors diagnose strokes
When a patient suffers an acute stroke, the outcome often rests on how quickly they receive expert care. Now, by using a medical application for the iPhone or And...
What Your Hands Reveal About Your Health
Our bodies are pretty good at sending out red flags when something’s wrong with our health—such as a fever due to infection or itchy hives from an allergic reaction....
Home births at highest level since 1990
The number of women having babies at home increased 20% between 2004 to 2008 according to a new study in the journal Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care. The change is ...
Doctors: Electrical implants a big step in paralysis treatment
(CNN) -- Electrical stimulation from a spinal cord implant, mimicking the signals the brain would normally transmit to move the body, has allowed a paralyzed patient...
Small steps for paralyzed man, giant leaps for treating spinal cord injurie...
A device helps a man paralyzed from the waist down make an 'unprecedented' recovery, taking steps on a treadmill and regaining other key functions. The treatment cou...
Coffee ‘cuts prostate cancer risk’ US study suggests
Those who drank six or more cups a day were found to be 20% less likely to develop any form of the disease - which is the most common cancer in men. They were also ...
Study: Third of hospital ERs have closed over past 20 years
From 1990 to 2009, the number of hospital emergency departments in non-rural areas in the USA declined by 27%, according to a study in today's Journal of the America...
Chewing Tobacco Is Not Good For Health
More than 80% of chewing tobacco products sold in England do not comply with legislation, according to a report seen by BBC News. Many chewing tobacco products do no...
Pfizer sets aside $772m for drug illness claims
The drugs giant Pfizer has put aside $772m (£476m) to resolve the claims patients entered for its hormone replacement drugs that causes serious illness to many peopl...
Anti-retroviral drugs ‘help reduce’ HIV transmission
Latest study about HIV said that if a person will take anti-retroviral drugs after the detection of HIV, its risks of spreading the virus to uninfected partners will...
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