Ellis Parker, MSN, RN, from Level Up RN, discusses the different levels of health prevention—primary, secondary, and tertiary—and the significant role of health determinants. She uses the community…
Most vaccines help the immune system learn to identify and fight off harmful viruses or bacteria before someone gets sick. But, scientists are also creating vaccines to treat…
Alison M. Grimes, Head, Audiology Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor, Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses newborn hearing screening, and the consequences of delayed diagnosis…
Alison M. Grimes, Head, Audiology Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor, Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses new hearing aids, which use digital signaling to differentiate…
Michael Swiernik, MD, Director, Medical Informatics, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses electronic medical records (EMR) at UCLA, including data access for doctors, web portals, inpatient nursing electronic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Lipid assessment of vascular disease risk can be simplified by measuring either cholesterol levels or apolipoproteins, without fasting and without looking at triglyceride…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The bone anabolic drug teriparatide is more effective than alendronate at increasing bone mineral density (BMD) and preventing vertebral fractures in patients with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Exercise-induced ST-segment elevation in patients who never had a myocardial infarction (MI) is a highly specific marker of coronary artery disease and a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – MRI of the breast has the greatest potential, compared with digital mammography or whole-breast ultrasound, for detecting cancers missed by film screen mammogram,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contrary to previous assertions, low total cholesterol is not a cause of cancer, two separate studies show. Furthermore, a lower total cholesterol level…
Stuart Fischer, MD, discusses the correlation between obesity and poor academic performance. Although there is no causal relationship between these entities, he explores the impact that obesity can…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Individuals with minimal or no coronary calcification face a low risk of cardiovascular events, according to results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis…
