Archive: 10/12/2014
US taxpayers bear financial burden of smoking-related disease
Cigarette smoking generates as much as $170 billion in annual health care spending in the United States, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at Georgia State University's School of Public Health, the Centers ...
Dec 10, 2014
Lifestyle the key to gap in cardiac patient outcomes
Patients suffering from the world's most common heart rhythm disorder can have their long-term outcomes significantly improved with an aggressive management of their underlying cardiac risk factors, according to University ...
Dec 10, 2014
'We were slow': WHO admits mistakes in Ebola response
The head of the World Health Organization conceded on Wednesday that the UN body was slow to respond to the outbreak of Ebola that has now killed more than 6,300 people in west Africa.
Dec 10, 2014
Revolutionary new procedure for epilepsy diagnosis unlocked by research
Pioneering new research by the University of Exeter could revolutionise global diagnostic procedures for one of the most common forms of epilepsy.
Dec 10, 2014
A new study to show why young people with diabetes develop heart damage
A new study led by a research team at Leicester's Hospitals hope to reveal, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), why young people with Type-2 diabetes develop heart damage.
Dec 10, 2014