The Lancet
Saving women during childbirth: Maternal health advocates push for new global goals
Throughout history, more women have died in childbirth than men have died in battle, Mahmoud Fathalla, founder of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, told attendees at the recent Global Maternal Health Conference ...
Health
Mar 08, 2013 |
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Deep Brain Stimulation shows promise for patients with chronic, treatment resistant anorexia nervosa
In a world first, a team of researchers at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre and the University Health Network have shown that Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in patients with chronic, severe and treatment-resistant Anorexia Nervosa ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 06, 2013 |
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New data show countries around the world grappling with changing health challenges
Alzheimer's disease is the fastest growing threat to health in the US. HIV/AIDS and alcohol are severely eroding the health of Russians. Violence is claiming the lives of young men in large swaths of Latin America, constituting ...
Health
Mar 04, 2013 |
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Study reveals UK's declining health performance compared to other high income countries over past 20 years
Six decades of universal free health care, the introduction of widespread public health initiatives (e.g., tobacco control, cancer screening, and immunization), and substantial increases in health expenditure have failed ...
Health
Mar 04, 2013 |
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Another day, another anti-obesity campaign, but will this one work?
Merely two months into the new year and we have already seen a plethora of local and international efforts aimed at curbing what appears to be the inexorable rise of obesity. Some of these initiatives are ...
Overweight and Obesity
Mar 01, 2013 |
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Largest study reveals five major psychiatric disorders share common genetic risk factors
For the first time, scientists have discovered that five major psychiatric disorders—autism, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and schizophrenia—share several common ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 27, 2013 |
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New FDA-approved clot removal devices show promise for treating stroke patients
Specialists at Stony Brook Medicine's Cerebrovascular and Stroke Center (CVC) are treating patients with a new generation of blood clot removal devices that show promise in successfully revascularizing stroke ...
Cardiology
Feb 26, 2013 |
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Study raises questions over effectiveness of recommended genetic testing strategy for inherited high cholesterol
Research published Online First in The Lancet provides new evidence that a substantial proportion of individuals with a clinical diagnosis of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH) inherit a combination of small-effect change ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 21, 2013 |
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Research stresses the importance of 'test and treat' HIV strategy
A new study involving a McMaster researcher calls for an aggressive "test and treat" approach to HIV-positive individuals in Africa. The study measures the importance of different routes of transmission in 18 African countries ...
HIV & AIDS
Feb 18, 2013 |
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Cost-effective interventions to help reduce early deaths from chronic NCDs
Three top priority cost-effective interventions to counter non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are recommended as essential for health policy by an Auckland researcher in a recent paper published in the medical journal, the ...
Health
Feb 15, 2013 |
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Scientists improve arthritis treatments: Rheumatism patients can hope for a new therapy
Together with colleagues from the international rheumatic diseases research community, scientists of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have presented a new therapy approach for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis ...
Arthritis & Rheumatism
Feb 14, 2013 |
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CT scans are the best alternative to colonoscopy to investigate bowel cancer symptoms
A scan that offers patients a less invasive test, sometimes called a 'virtual colonoscopy', is more effective than the traditional X-ray test of barium enema and should now be considered alongside the 'gold ...
Cancer
Feb 14, 2013 |
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World leaders must 'take tobacco much more seriously' to achieve development goals
In order to cut premature death rates, the world's politicians need to focus on "simple measures" like anti-tobacco policies, cutting salt levels in food, and improving access to affordable heart disease ...
Addiction
Feb 13, 2013 |
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Extra-couple HIV transmission a major driver of Africa's HIV epidemic
New research suggests that heterosexual couples in long-term relationships who have sexual encounters outside their established partnership (extra-couple relationships) are one of the main drivers of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan ...
HIV & AIDS
Feb 04, 2013 |
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New tuberculosis vaccine doesn't protect infants, study finds
The world's most advanced tuberculosis vaccine failed to protect babies against the infectious disease, according to a new study in South Africa.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 04, 2013 |
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