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The long-term health of some lesbian and bisexual women is at risk because the NHS is not meeting their needs, say campaigners.
A third of the population have genes that could help them in the fight against heart disease, say scientists.
Seniors with osteoarthritis who undergo total hip replacement are twice as likely as those who do not to show improvements in physical functioning and increased ability to care for themselves, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center.The study, which is the largest of its kind conducted to date, found that there is no age limit on the benefits of hip replacement for patients.
Epigenomics Successfully Completes Larger Clinical Study in Early ...
Businesses, investors and community organisations interested in innovations which aim to improve health outcomes for older Australians can learn more at a special UQ presentation next Monday. UQ's Faculty of Health Sciences and main commercialisation company, UniQuest, will showcase UQ's expertise in this growing segment of the health care industry at a special presentation at Customs House on Monday, June 23 from 5pm.
A little girl forced to stay out of the sun because of a rare condition which could give her cancer is offered help.
Young people in Wales get drunk more often than those in anywhere else in the western world, a survey finds.
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Nurses are to be rated according to the levels of care and empathy they give to patients under government plans.
Breakfast really could be the most important meal of the day when it comes to losing weight, claims a researcher.
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Researchers from Venezuela and the US found that women who had a big breakfast packed with carbohydrates and protein, and then followed a low carbohydrate, low calorie diet for the rest of the day, were more successful at losing weight and keeping the weight off than women on strict low carbohydrate diets.
Mets Put A Band-Aid On Their Cancer Forbes, NY - 6 hours ago The firing of Randolph will do nothing to cure the cancer that is eating this organization to the bone.
The Schulich School of Business released the first study to assess the impact of an influenza pandemic on individual companies. Presented today at the World Conference on Disaster Management, the study - Making a case for investing in pandemic preparedness - focuses on how companies can justify investing in pandemic planning using standard business performance metrics.
In older men with low testosterone levels, testosterone replacement therapy improves their risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, according to two new studies. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.Testosterone deficiency becomes more common with age, occurring in 18 percent of 70-year-olds, said a coauthor of both studies, Farid Saad, PhD, of Berlin-headquartered Bayer Schering Pharma.
Obesity Surgery May Cut Cancer Risk ABC News - 5 hours ago But she had never imagined that the surgery might protect her from the disease that has affected her mother -- cancer .
A man who was born with a twisted leg has his limb stretched by 23cm during a lifetime of surgery.
Dr. Catherine Giess, founder and director of Harrison-based Mira Women's Imaging, recently addressed more than 120 women, including Sole Ryeders & Friends, at the Wainwright House in Rye about breast cancer. Sole Ryeders & Friends, which was established in Rye, NY, is a team of women who will participate in the 40-mile Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in October for the second consecutive year. (PRWeb Jun 18, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1029064.htm