A widely used test to detect blockages in the heart’s arteries often turns up little or no evidence of disease, a new study found, suggesting that patients are frequently exposed unnecessarily to the risks and costs of the invasive examination. The test is a called a coronary angiogram, in which cardiologists thread a catheter [...]
By Nick Triggle Health reporter, BBC News The watchdog is writing to all the hospitals in England and Wales Too many patients are not getting the medicines they need in hospital, a safety watchdog says.The National [...]
AP - A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.[Read more...]
Summary Care Records are central to the NHS computer upgrade in England Doctors’ leaders have called for a halt in the development of a medical records database for patients in England.The British Medical Association says the computer-based Summary Care Records are being set [...]
CLAREMONT, Calif.—Staff members at the Food and Drug Administration are doing something unusual. They are leaving Washington to help drug makers take a crucial step in developing drugs for rare diseases. View Full Image Hempel Family Twins Addison, left, and Cassidy Hempel, who have a fatal cholesterol metabolism disorder, get cyclodextrin infusions April [...]
Scream at the boss? Snap at a colleague? Throw your cell phone into your @#$%%&* computer monitor? If so, you may find yourself headed to anger-management classes, which have become an all-purpose antidote for fit-throwing celebrities, chair-throwing coaches, vandals, road ragers, delinquent teens, disruptive airline passengers, and obstreperous employees. Erin Wigger for [...]
AP - Eleven days after her son Benjamin’s birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot.[Read more...]
Scream at the boss? Snap at a colleague? Throw your cell phone into your @#$%%&* computer monitor? If so, you may find yourself headed to anger-management classes, which have become an all-purpose antidote for fit-throwing celebrities, chair-throwing coaches, vandals, road ragers, delinquent teens, disruptive airline passengers, and obstreperous employees. Erin Wigger for [...]
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Red wine drinkers gained least weight Women can enjoy a tipple and stay slim, according to a study that shows moderate drinkers gain less weight than teetotallers.Women who drank red wine gained the least, but the results held for other wines, beers and [...]
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