| 4.7 Million Uninsured But Eligible Children Not In Medicaid Or CHIP
There are still about 4.7 million uninsured American children who are eligible for CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) or Medicaid and are not enrolled, says a new report published in...
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| Half Of Severe Asthma Cases In Children Are Not Untreatable; Just Follow The Basics
Many youths appear resistant to treatment from the onset of a severe asthmatic condition. Why? Simply put, many have been wrongly diagnosed or caretakers have not followed asthma treatment guidelines...
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| Prescription Drug Use Rises 10%, Spending More Than Doubles In One Decade
The number of people in the USA who took one prescription medication in a one month period rose 10% during the decade up to the end of 2008. Americans spent...
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| Important Breakthrough In Origins Of Aggressive Breast Cancer
Researchers have made a major breakthrough in finding out how aggressive cancers originate, raising hope of novel targeted therapies for future breast cancer patients, according to a study published in...
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| Every Rose Has Its Thorn; Legionnaire's Disease In The Garden
Quite an unusual case of Legionnaire's disease arose in 2010 and is now being thoroughly investigated. Why so strange? A healthy 67 year old man contracted Legionnaire's through a cut...
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| New Antimalarial Compound Shows Promise For Drug Resistant Malaria
Scientists are developing a new antimalarial drug with a novel mechanism of action which shows promise for clearing a Plasmodium (malaria parasite) infection after a single dose, according to an...
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| Common Osteoporosis Drug Linked To Higher Risk Of Oesophageal Cancer
A new UK study that followed a large number of people found that those who took 10 or more prescriptions for oral bisphosphonates, a group of drugs commonly used to...
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| Pivotal Study Finds Link Between PTSD And Dementia
Results of a study reported in the September issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggest that Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a greater risk for...
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| MIT Researcher Finds That Social Networks Influence Health Behaviors
Scientists have long thought that social networks, which features many distant connections, or "long ties," produces large-scale changes most quickly...
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| Novel Nanotechnology Collaboration Leads To Breakthrough In Cancer Research
One of the most difficult aspects of working at the nanoscale is actually seeing the object being worked on. Biological structures like viruses, which are smaller than the wavelength of...
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