Doctors' mental health is at tipping point

Jan 22, 2019 • 2 comments

Patients rely on doctors to look after their mental health, but is enough being done to help the doctors when and if they are suffering with mental health issues? There are concerns that some medical...

Cancer

Telling patients to 'fight' cancer puts them under pressure

Jan 15, 2019 • 2 Likes • 13 comments

Cancer patients should not be told to “fight” their disease because doing so puts them under “exhausting pressure”, Macmillan Cancer Support has said. The charity warned that framing cancer in terms...

US Judge Says Obamacare Can Stand While Appeal Is Heard

Jan 8, 2019 • 3 comments

Washington, Dec 31, 2018 (AFP) A US judge who ruled earlier this month that Obamacare is unconstitutional has said the health care law can stand while his decision is appealed. In a stay order issued...

Air Pollution Linked To Health Problems

Dec 12, 2018 • 1 Like • 8 comments

Recent Short Story of Air Pollution Linked to a Health Issue In The Daily Universe at the Bringham Young University a story was told of how Matt Owens, a young studen and first-team All-American on...

Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's Disease May Start In the Gut, Appendix

Nov 14, 2018 • 3 comments

Parkinson's disease has long been considered a disease of the brain, but research out Wednesday found it may start in the gut, specifically in the appendix, a tiny organ near the large intestine. Usi...

Parkinson's disease

New Treatment? Stem Cells Transplanted Into Patient's Brain To Treat Parkinson's

Nov 14, 2018 • 4 comments

An innovative and possible treatment or cure for Parkinson's has hopefully evolved from recent medical research. Japanese researchers recently transplanted stem cells into the brain of a patient in...

Diabetes (Type 1)
Diabetes (Type 2)

Diabetes: Discrimination, Professional Life, Plan Ahead... What do patients say?

Nov 9, 2018 • 9 comments

What are the issues concerning Diabetes that should be addressed by governments and organizations? What do you want those without diabetes to understand? What should be changed in the United States?Fo...

Multiple sclerosis

Actress Selma Blair Reveals MS Diagnosis

Nov 1, 2018

Actress Selma Blair revealed she has multiple sclerosis Saturday, in an emotional Instagram post offering insight into her life with the illness. The "Legally Blonde" and "Cruel Intentions" star,...

Prostate cancer

Movember and Prostate Cancer

Nov 1, 2018 • 2 comments

Movember is Prostate Cancer Month! For almost 20 years, November has been dedicated to the fight against common health issues affecting men, such as prostate cancer. This disease is one of the most...

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Half Of Women At Risk Of Dementia, Parkinson's, Stroke: Study

Oct 25, 2018

Nearly half of women and one in three men are at risk of developing stroke or degenerative neurological diseases such as dementia and Parkinson's during their lifetime. Dutch researchers considered...

Recent Winners Of The Nobel Medicine Prize

Oct 25, 2018 • 2 comments

Here is a list of the winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize in the past 10 years, after James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan were awarded Monday for research that has revolutionized...

Doctors Charged Over Opioid Prescriptions

Oct 19, 2018 • 1 comment

Prosecutors unveiled charges on Thursday against five New York doctors, a pharmacist and associates for allegedly illegally distributing millions of oxycodone pills and fueling the nation's opioid...