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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Antipsychotic medications and lifestyle factors cannot fully explain the elevated risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) observed in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women seem to be more susceptible to the harmful effects of smoking than their male counterparts, according to findings from a case-control study…
Stuart Fischer, MD, discusses how physicians can help patients by adopting lifestyle adjustments. Recommending a diet is not enough. It requires a comprehensive lifestyle approach. Diets alone just…
David Kloth, MD, is the Founder, President and Medical Director of Connecticut Pain Care, P.C., a pain management center for the treatment of acute and chronic pain. He…
David Kloth, MD, is the Founder, President and Medical Director of Connecticut Pain Care, P.C., a pain management center for the treatment of acute and chronic pain. He…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with type 2 diabetes have an almost three-fold higher risk of acute pancreatitis and two-fold greater risk of biliary disease compared with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The “ABCD” rule for predicting stroke following a first transient ischemic attack (TIA) can be used by emergency physicians to decide which patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Women with long-standing hypothyroidism are at increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma, the results of a case-control study suggest. By contrast, hypothyroidism is not significantly…
260 people die each day from dirty hands and dirty instruments! The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and the health care industry’s own monitoring agencies,…
260 people die each day from dirty hands and dirty instruments! The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and the health care industry’s own monitoring agencies,…
