Archive: 05/11/2015
Higher insulin is an independent prognostic factor in advanced breast cancer
Patients with breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body (metastasised) and who have higher insulin levels than normal, but are not diabetic, have a significantly worse prognosis compared with those with normal ...
Nov 5, 2015
Citing cost to taxpayers, cities and states tackle obesity
More than 35 percent of Arkansas adults are obese, making it the heaviest state in the nation. Gov. Asa Hutchinson looked at those numbers and saw two problems: an increased risk of all sorts of health challenges, and an ...
Nov 5, 2015
Botched cataract surgery blinds 14 in India
At least 14 people in western India have lost sight in one eye after botched cataract surgeries, doctors and officials said Thursday, the latest example of poor medical care in the country.
Nov 5, 2015
Sierra Leone emerges from Ebola nightmare
The Ebola epidemic is expected to be declared over in Sierra Leone on Saturday, when the west African nation will have gone 42 days without any new infections.
Nov 5, 2015