News articles tagged with 'medical'
Doctors could learn from Shakespeare's deep understanding of mind-body connection
— 24 Nov 2011 18:58 | HealthShakespeare was a master at portraying profound emotional upset in the physical symptoms of his characters, and many modern day doctors would do well to study the Bard to better understand…
Device drops blood pressure in patients with difficult-to-treat hypertension
— 6 Apr 2011 18:31 | HealthA device designed to treat people with resistant hypertension helped lower blood pressure by 33 points, a substantial drop that would otherwise require patients to take an additional…
Overseas doctors more likely to face serious GMC action
— 6 Apr 2011 18:28 | HealthGeneral Medical Council (GMC) decisions about doctors who qualified outside the UK are more likely to have far reaching consequences (high impact decisions), finds research published…
Climate change threatens global security, warn medical and military leaders
— 6 Apr 2011 18:25 | EnvironmentMedical and military leaders have come together today to warn that climate change not only spells a global health catastrophe, but also threatens global stability and security…
Pneumonia death rate lower among people who take statins
— 6 Apr 2011 16:52 | HealthTaking statins could help prevent people dying from pneumonia, according to a study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine…
Emergency department CT exams of children have increased substantially
— 6 Apr 2011 15:37 | HealthComputed tomography examinations of children in hospital emergency departments increased substantially from 1995 to 2008, according to a new study published online and in the June print…
Researchers mimic body's own healing potential to create personalised therapies for inflammation
— 4 Apr 2011 18:21 | HealthScientists at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and Harvard Medical School, Boston have found a way of mimicking the body's natural mechanism of fighting inflammation.…
More women medical students select general surgery and continue to close the gender gap
— 4 Apr 2011 18:15 | HealthThe gender gap among United States Medical Graduates (USMG) in the traditionally male-dominated speciality of general surgery is shrinking, according to study results published in the…
Heart drug cuts prostate cancer risk; holds potential for therapeutic use
— 3 Apr 2011 11:56 | HealthJohns Hopkins scientists and their colleagues paired laboratory and epidemiologic data to find that men using the cardiac drug, digoxin, had a 24 percent lower risk for prostate cancer.…
Health care IT providers need to do more to solicit user feedback
— 30 Mar 2011 17:31 | HealthInformation technology (IT) companies need to bring in doctors and other health care stakeholders in order to ensure that new technologies and applications are actually useful to the…