Archive: 07/03/2016
Retail clinics may increase health spending, study finds
Retail clinics, seen as a convenient and cost-saving alternative to physician offices and hospital emergency departments, may actually drive up medical spending by creating demand for new medical services, according to a ...
Mar 7, 2016
Quality of life not notably better for women choosing double mastectomy
Although having a double mastectomy has shown little impact on reducing deaths among women with cancer in only one breast, increasing numbers of women are electing to undergo the procedure.
Mar 7, 2016
Variation in medical marijuana program regulations impacts enrollment
A study published today in Health Affairs found that while 14 of the nation's 24 medical marijuana programs were essentially nonmedical in practice, they enrolled more than 99 percent of overall participants. Fewer than one ...
Mar 7, 2016
Foster mom of 3 received first US uterus transplant
A 26-year-old woman who is the foster mother of three boys was revealed on Monday to be the recipient of the first uterine transplant in the United States.
Mar 7, 2016
A toxic byproduct of hemoglobin could provide treatments for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified a novel mechanism that could be used to protect the brain from damage due to stroke and a variety of neurodegenerative conditions, including ...
Mar 7, 2016
Penn professor urges physicians to help victims of torture seeking asylum
Refugees seeking asylum in the United States are twice as likely to be granted protection if their application is supported by medical documentation of torture, writes Jules Lipoff, MD, an assistant professor of Clinical ...
Mar 7, 2016