Carolyn Gregoire, THE HUFFINGTON POST (The Huffington Post) — A growing body of research is finding that diabetes can take as devastating a toll on...
BOSTON (CBS) – Fifteen-percent of men and five-percent of women suffer from sleep apnea. Treatment at night with a special machine is crucial but can be...
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Frustrated by the slow pace of federal action, state attorneys general are waging their own campaigns against the sale and advertising of...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Caught between kids and aging parents, the sandwich generation worries more than most Americans their age about how...
(Dispatch Times) – Heart failure is one of the most common medical conditions in the United States, accounting for approximately 5.1 million cases of affected individuals...
(Healthy, Wild and Free) – Your lymphatic system plays a vital role in your health. It’s also referred to as ‘your second circulatory system’ because it...
(NPR) – Some antidepressants may increase the risk of birth defects if taken early in pregnancy, while others don’t seem to pose the same risks, a...
(Miami Herald) – Consumers with health insurance shouldered more of the expense for their medical care in 2014, but Florida and nearly every other state did little...
(Morning Ticker) – Recently we reported on the FDA’s decision to approve Entresto, a new drug from Novartis that has shown an astonishing 20 percent reduction...
(VOA News) – A panel of experts released its assessment Tuesday on the World Health Organization’s response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak. It said the...
(Forbes) – It used to be that the major hurdle in getting a new drug approved was successfully completing phase 3 trials – the long-term...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The number of U.S. heroin users has grown by nearly 300,000 over a decade, with the bulk...
(Hindustan Times) – A recent study released Monday said different rates of ageing can be detected as early as the mid-20s. Using a total of 18...
(International Business Times) – A new study has overturned fundamentally held assumptions about atherosclerotic plaques that can cause deadly heart attacks and strokes, changing medical science’s...
(The Washington Post) – When English poet John Milton wrote of “Time, the subtle thief of youth” in the 17th century, he probably wasn’t thinking of a...
TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Taxing cigarettes up to 75 percent of their retail price is among the most effective ways to reduce...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When she was five months pregnant, past the point where she could obtain a legal abortion, 23-year-old...
Honor Whiteman, MEDICAL NEWS TODAY (Medical News Today) — A new study suggests weight-loss surgery combined with low-level lifestyle interventions may be a more effective...
MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials have approved a new combination drug for the most common form of cystic fibrosis, the...
TOM MURPHY Aetna aims to spend about $35 billion to buy rival Humana and become the latest health insurer bulking up on government business as the...
(The Times-Gazette) – A recent study shows that an implantable artificial pancreas is able to help patients with diabetes control blood sugar. Constant monitoring of the...
LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — For nearly a century, insulin has been a life-saving diabetes treatment. Now scientists are testing a tantalizing question:...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare proposed Wednesday to ease a coverage policy on short hospital stays that has been criticized because it can...
(Fox News) – A growing body of evidence suggests that weight-loss surgery is more effective than diet and exercise at getting rid of Type 2...
(The Washington Post) – A study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that taking daily shots of liraglutide (marketed as Saxenda) can help overweight or obese patients lose weight...
