Category: Health News

(HealthDay)—Vertical level mergers, which incorporate not just health care providers, but also insurers, retailers, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), could pose challenges in primary care, according to an article published in Medical Economics. In order to compete with other players in health care and new entrants in the industry, the biggest players are merging to

We are proud to celebrate 15 years of the Global Health Fellows (GHF) program, Pfizer’s signature international corporate volunteer initiative. The 2018 class of Fellows will be placed on short-term assignments with seven leading international development organizations to help improve healthcare systems and build local healthcare capacity in underserved communities. Each volunteer assignment helps to

Baby food in the firing line over obesity: Officials will examine if infant purees are too sugary, report reveals To tackle childhood obesity, Government will review products aimed at infants Similar report released in 2016 led to the sugary drinks tax in April this year The UK Government aims to halve children obesity rates by

Man’s throat started to ROT after he accidentally swallowed a bleach tablet instead of painkillers: 65-year-old spent 2 weeks in intensive care breathing and eating through tubes A 65-year-old man went to hospital in Geneva complaining of throat pain  He had swallowed a tablet of bleach at home, thinking it was paracetamol The harsh chemicals

Tubes of a pain relief cream, countless packs of cigarettes and tangled power cables sit atop a table in a dimly-lit room of a residence in the upscale locality of Sushant Lok-1 in Gurugram. It’s 1pm on a Saturday and 10 young men, aged between 23 and 26, wearing half pants, loose T-shirts and headphones,

As World Cup fever sets in, increased hooliganism and football related violence are legitimate international concerns. Previous research has linked sports-related hooliganism to ‘social maladjustment’ e.g. previous episodes of violence or dysfunctional behaviour at home, work or school etc. However, social bonding and a desire to protect and defend other fans may be one of

How much fibre do you eat? The answer is: probably not enough. We’re now advised to get 30g a day, yet the average Brit only manages 18g. "Fibre is the forgotten food," says This Morning medic Dr Ranj Singh. "Unlike carbs, protein and fats, it’s not seen as important. Fibre has the image of being

Scientists have found up to two times higher level of human herpes virus among people with Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting the potential role of the viruses in the development of the progressive brain disorder. Herpes virus causes contagious sores, most often around the mouth or on the genitals. The study found unusually increased level of human

I’ve been inhaling potent “skunk” cannabis every day for months and it’s making me sick. I should explain, it’s not me who’s got a drug habit, but a neighbour. He gets home from work at 5am, skins-up a spliff and the sickly aroma seeps down the corridor and under the door into my joint. Ironically

(HealthDay)—There is a significant long-term risk of anastomotic ulceration (AU) after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), which increases over time and with history of tobacco use, according to a research letter published online June 20 in JAMA Surgery. Konstantinos Spaniolas, M.D., from Stony Brook University in New York, and colleagues describe the epidemiology of AU after

It’s a disease the slowly over time robs a person of their memories and eventually their life but as yet, researchers haven’t been able to figure out what causes Alzheimer’s disease, never mind how to stop it or even better, reverse the damage and cure it. Yet in a landmark study that was published in

A new microscope system can image living tissue in real time and in molecular detail, without any chemicals or dyes, report researchers at the University of Illinois. The system uses precisely tailored pulses of light to simultaneously image with multiple wavelengths. This enables the researchers to study concurrent processes within cells and tissue, and could

Our eye hosts a powerful biological computer, the retina. Understanding how the retina transforms images from the outside world into signals that the brain can interpret would not only result in insights into brain computations, but could also be useful for medicine. As machine learning and artificial intelligence develop, eye diseases will soon be described

HIV is scary as sh*t—which means that its symptoms are equally terrifying…right? Not exactly. “Most people who get infected don’t even know. It’s only in hindsight they recognize the symptoms,” says Michael Horberg, M.D., director of HIV/AIDS for Kaiser Permanente. That’s because HIV symptoms are, well, probably things you would totally brush off if you

Physical therapists help people walk again after a stroke and recover after injury or surgery, but did you know they also prevent exposure to opioids? This is timely, given we are in a public health emergency related to an opioid crisis. Many people addicted to opioids are first exposed through a medical prescription for pain.

Over the last five years, Zika virus has emerged as a significant global human health threat following outbreaks in South and Central America. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have shown that invasive mosquitoes in California — where cases of Zika in travelers have been a regular occurrence in recent years — are

For a thousand years, people have reported feeling better by meditating but there has never been a systematic study that quantified stress and how much stress changes as a direct result of meditation until now. U.S. Army Research Laboratory researchers spent a year collaborating with a team of scientists from the University of North Texas

How are chromosomes arranged in the cell nucleus? Is it possible that they communicate with one another by “touching” each other? To answer this question and to shed more light on the fundamental properties of the communication between different chromosomes, Philipp Maass from Friedrich Luft’s lab at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in

Is YOUR country prepared for a disease epidemic? Interactive map reveals only 14 per cent could cope, with Australia and South Korea at the top of the list Global health experts’ interactive map ranks countries’ ability to cope with an outbreak on a scale of 1 to 100 Of the 65 countries which have been

A visit to the supermarket these days can feel more like walking through a pharmacy, with an ever-expanding range of milks, yoghurts, pills, powders and speciality foods promoting their “probiotic” prowess. Advocates of probiotics have hailed them as the answer to all sorts of health issues and conditions. But what exactly are probiotics? And, more