Including much older women in a national breast cancer screening program does not prompt a sharp fall in new cases of advanced disease in this age group—as would be expected for a successful initiative—reveals a study ...
Sep 14, 2014
University of Leeds research has revealed that heart attack patients have a 46% increased chance of death within a month of discharge if they miss any one of nine types of care.
Sep 14, 2014
Health policies which favour using ranibizumab for treating eye disease in older people over safety concerns for a cheaper alternative should take account of a new Cochrane Review published today. The researchers looked at ...
Sep 14, 2014
Lowering the drug threshold for high blood pressure has exposed millions of low-risk people around the world to drug treatment of uncertain benefit at huge cost to health systems, warn US experts in BMJ today.
Sep 14, 2014
Public health officials are warning that people may have been exposed to measles at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Sep 14, 2014
A potential way to treat muscular dystrophy directly targets muscle repair instead of the underlying genetic defect that usually leads to the disease.
Sep 14, 2014
