Globes, Israel's business newspaper, is reporting that Flight Medical has received FDA marketing approval for the Flight 60 portable ventilator.
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden successfully used magnets to guide fibrinolytics (clot dissolving drugs) directly to the site of a
They may have barely mastered sitting up by themselves. But six-month-old babies become stressed out when they don't get the attention they feel
Here's an idea for parents: try giving your toddler a generous helping of pureed salmon for dinner tonight. Here's another idea: make it a point
British Prime Minister David Cameron's wife Samantha has given birth to a baby girl. "Both the baby - who was born weighing 6lbs 1oz (2.7 kg) -
In order to minimize the risk of infection in mothers, women giving birth to babies by cesarean section should routinely receive antibiotics an
Donna is four months pregnant - and she started drinking one month ago. She's totally unapologetic about this. "My therapist recommended wine
Taking certain antiviral medications for herpes infections during the first three months of pregnancy does not increase a child's risk of major
An Australian mother has told how her touch brought her 'dead' baby back to life. Doctors gave tiny Jamie Ogg no chance of survival when he was
Branding is an identification of a subject by applying a marker on that subject which can remain for the time it will be useful. Cattle are
This Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece I think is fitting to the introduction of a bit of a twist I would like to introduce in the "I Hate Doctors"
It has finally come. Yesterday U.S. President Barack Obama wrote a Memorandum requesting that the Secretary of Health and Human Services create a
Oprah's participation in the weight loss debate is an Orwellian nightmare - the pig is in charge.Well, the pig is clever like a fox.Just in time
At my post Are computers in medicine narcotic? "Why did the National Programme for IT fail?" I observed that the healthcare IT mania/bubble is
Two words - Anabolic Clinic.The beta-amyloid protein fragments that form the characteristic plaques in brains of patients with Alzheimer's
Even considering the source (see below), the statement is true.New research from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, shows that sugary drinks,
"I am romantic about the NHS; I love it. All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at health care in my own country." Donald Berwick,
Still not better than the BMI.If your pants are feeling a bit tight around the waistline, take note: Belly bulge can be deadly for older adults,
The current issue of the journal Bioethics focuses on the problem of ghostwriting in the medical literature and is well worth a read. At this
The call came on my day off, asking me to go see a client who was not feeling well but was refusing to go the emergency room. So, I delayed my
Since coming out West, it seems that I can barely do anything at all pertaining to medicine or nursing without having to get my fingerprints
My mother suffered from transient ischemic storke (TIA). She was able to cover it up from her family and her GP for years. She lived alone and we
After multiple failures on its own and in combination with other drugs, expanding into breast cancer doesn't seem likely. There may be some hope
Patients taking Avandia or Actos were 4 percent more likely to experience heart attacks, heart failure or die, according to the study published
Question: But Pfizer has paid billions in fines for illegal, off-label marketing [prodding doctors to prescribe drugs for uses that were not
Individuals with Type 2 diabetes or insulin resistance have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease because they are more likely to