New push for most in US to get at least one HIV test
There's a new push to make testing for the AIDS virus as common as cholesterol checks.
Nov 19, 2012
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Archive: 19/11/2012
Senate questions pharmacy boards after outbreak
(AP)—A Senate committee investigating a deadly outbreak of meningitis wants to know how regulators in all 50 states oversee specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered the illness.
Nov 19, 2012
Medications are being discontinued—and the pharmacist may not know
More than 85,000 medications are discontinued each year by physicians, yet while physicians share this information with their patients, it is too often not shared with the pharmacists. This communication gap, identified by ...
Nov 19, 2012
New clinical recommendations for diagnosing and treating stable ischemic heart disease
Six organizations representing physicians, other health care professionals, and patients today issued two new clinical practice guidelines for diagnosing and treating stable ischemic heart disease (IHD), which affects an ...
Nov 19, 2012
Researchers predict hidden epidemic of neurological disability for India
The 'Global Perspectives' published in the Nov. 20, 2012 issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, features "Neurologic Disability: A Hidden Epidemic for India". The authors, a team of ...
Nov 19, 2012
Multiple sclerosis 'immune exchange' between brain and blood is uncovered
DNA sequences obtained from a handful of patients with multiple sclerosis at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center have revealed the existence of an "immune exchange" that allows the disease-causing ...
Nov 19, 2012
Faulty development of immature brain cells causes hydrocephalus
Researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered a new cause of hydrocephalus, a devastating neurological disorder that affects between one and three of every 1,000 babies born. Working in mice, the researchers identified ...
Nov 19, 2012
