Australian researchers have discovered that many critically ill patients in intensive care are deficient in vitamin D.
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30Apr
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30Apr
President Obama on Wednesday held a town hall meeting in Missouri and a news conference in Washington, D.C., to discuss progress on issues such as health care during the first 100 days of his presidency, the Washington Post reports.
Tags: Health, Health Care
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30Apr
The National Health Service in England wants to see Cerner Corp. and British software vendor iSoft quickly improve their ability to implement electronic health records software.
Tags: Electronic Health Record, Health
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30Apr
Only five of 213 nations are at low risk for the spread of the swine flu, according to Maplecroft, a London-based global risk analysis firm.
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30Apr
The CDC says a swine flu vaccine will take at least six months to make in large quantities.
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30Apr
The FDA announced today that it will require black box labeling on Botox and similar products warning of a rare, but potentially life threatening complication when the effects of the toxin spread far beyond the injection site.
Tags: Treatment
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30Apr
Tissue density tied to chances of disease in middle-age and beyond, study suggests.
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30Apr
23-month-old boy from Mexico had traveled to Houston for medical treatments, reports say.
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30Apr
As the current swine flu virus is present in several countries, trying to contain it is probably not feasible any more. Efforts should now focus mainly on mitigation, according to a public health expert in an Editorial published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) today.
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30Apr
A migraine is a severe, painful headache that is often preceded or accompanied by sensory warning signs such as flashes of light, blind spots, tingling in the arms and legs, nausea, vomiting, and increased sensitivity to light and sound. The excruciating pain that migraines bring can last for hours or even days.
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30Apr
In the first neuroimaging study to examine motor execution in children with autism, researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute have uncovered important new insight into the neurological basis of autism.
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30Apr
New biotechnologies that allow scientists to quickly and accurately distinguish species based on a simple DNA analysis are being creatively deployed for the first time in the war against a major global disease.
Tags: Africa
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30Apr
Relationships are difficult and most of us probably think at some point that communicating positively with our partner when discussing stressful issues, like home finances, is an impossible task.
Tags: Stress
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30Apr
No additional risk Safety of the blood supply is the number one priority of Canadian Blood Services. At the present time, there is no additional risk to the blood supply requiring extra donor screening measures. There have been no reported cases of transfusion-transmission of respiratory viruses such as influenza to date.
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30Apr
A little alcohol each day may be good for you, increasing your life span, and quaffing it down in a glass of wine — make that half a glass — may be the best way to get your daily dose, a new study suggests.
Tags: Alcohol
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30Apr
Areas in California remain some of the most polluted in the U.S., with air quality that is likely damaging the health of millions of people, according to a report by the American Lung Association.
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30Apr
Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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30Apr
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Tags: Health, Salmonella
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29Apr
The Mexican Football (soccer) Federation has offered Conmebol (South American Football Confederation) three options so that the Mexican team can play in the eighth finals of the Copa Libertadores, without raising the swine flu contagion risk which has so far left over 150 likely deaths in Mexico. “The first option is to play them in Mexico as usual.
Tags: Flu, South America
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29Apr
Below is a statement by World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan regarding the raising of the influenza pandemic alert from Phase 4 to Phase 5, as a result of the current swine flu outbreak that originated in Mexico City.
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