Friday, 20 July 2012
Giving children and adolescents with egg allergy small but increasing daily doses of egg white powder holds the possibility of developing into a way to enable some of them to eat egg-containing foods without having allergic reactions, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health. The study results will appear online in the July 19th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Friday, 20 July 2012
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Qsymia (phentermine and topiramate extended-release) as an addition to a reduced-calorie diet and exercise for chronic weight management.
Friday, 20 July 2012
Ultra-marathoner Tom McGrath, 61, will begin his run from Manhattan to Annapolis today to honor the memory of a naval pioneer.
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Nehal N. Mehta, M.D., has been named the inaugural Lasker Clinical Research Scholar, through a joint initiative of The National Institutes of Health and the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Mehta, who was an instructor of cardiovascular medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has joined the intramural program in the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
In today's competitive workplace environment where 60-year-old men vie with those half their age, rapidly escalating numbers of men want the younger, more streamlined look that comes with a chiseled neckline.
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
The Supreme Court's recent ruling on federal health care reform may have settled legal concerns, but the heads of Maryland's top insurer and...
Sunday, 08 July 2012
To allay community concerns that religious rules would trump patients' rights, Abington Health on Friday issued a statement promising that it would continue all reproductive health services except abortion after partnering with Holy Redeemer Health System.
Sunday, 08 July 2012
Ask patients in some area hospitals which caregivers they most look forward to seeing, and they'll say the ones with hairy faces and bad...
Friday, 06 July 2012
Measuring creatinine and cystatin C — two markers for chronic kidney disease (CKD) — more precisely estimates kidney function than either marker alone, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Results appear in the July 5 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Friday, 06 July 2012
Swiss researchers found that taking more than 800 international units (IU) of vitamin D daily could reduce the risk of hip fractures in older women by 30 percent.