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Former health minister, Lord Warner, backs calls for assisted death for terminally-ill patients to be legalised.
The number of children who needed to be admitted to hospital as an emergency with complications of diabetes has risen sharply.
One in three parents say their children know more about healthy eating campaigns than they do, according to a poll.
New insight into how pollution and cigarette smoke damage airways has been provided by Pierangelo Geppetti and colleagues, at the University of Florence, Italy, who studied the effects of such chemicals on guinea pig airways.
The House on Thursday approved a supplemental war funding package along with a domestic funding package that would delay implementation of six new Bush administration Medicaid regulations, the New York Times reports (Hulse, New York Times, 6/20).
Residents and staff at a care home for the elderly in Suffolk, UK are convinced that the improvements in residents' healthis because they are now drinking more water after a "water club" was introduced last summer.The residents at charity-run The Martins care home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, were encouraged to increase their water intake when the water club was introduced by care home staff last summer.
The Australian Medical Association urged the Government to address the policy inertia that continued to restrict medical services for the care of sick and frail residents of aged care homes. AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, warned that GP services to residents in aged care homes were under growing pressure. She said GPs were continually frustrated by the barriers that prevented constant medical care from being delivered to residents of aged care homes.
According to research presented recently, many older cancer patients can tolerate more aggressive treatment than they typically receive, and age, income, and education all can impact the physical health of cancer caregivers. More than 400 of the nation's leading experts in cancer survivorship have convened for Cancer Survivorship Research: Mapping the New Challenges, where these and other findings about living with and beyond cancer are being presented this week.
Most seniors - regardless of whether they are enrolled in traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage - oppose cutting the Medicare Advantage program to fund the Medicare physician payment fix and believe cuts to Medicare Advantage will have a negative effect on seniors, a new survey finds.
Experts criticise a UK-based online service which offers the contraceptive pill without the need to see a doctor.
Singer Amy Winehouse has "traces" of lung disease emphysema and is "responding brilliantly to treatment" her father says.
3-Time Olympian and type 1 diabetes sufferer Gary Hall, Jr. describes the exercises he does in order to stay fit. Gary was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 24.
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Physicians advertising hymenoplasties to Muslim women in an effort to prove virginity prior to marriage are not only "accomplices in private deceptions, they are accomplices of those who keep the reins of sexuality out of women's own hands," syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman writes in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette opinion piece.
Recent GP led text messaging campaigns have highlighted the effectiveness of iPLATO Patient Care Messaging for the identification of smokers in Barking & Dagenham PCT. Results from the first 10 surgeries to run the campaign have revealed average patient response rates of 46% - a major improvement when compared with alternative methods of collecting the same information.