Health

Tags:

Child's Chronic Illness Can Affect the Whole Family

Care demands can create more stress than severity of illness, researchers say.

walking_45146_0.jpg

Tags:

FDA Launches System to Label Medical Devices

Goal is to improve patient safety, identify items for recall and prevent counterfeiting.

knee_replacement.jpg

Tags:

Child's Chronic Illness Can Affect the Whole Family

Care demands can create more stress than severity of illness, researchers say.

walking_45146.jpg

Tags:

Bacterial 'Autopsy' Could Speed Antibiotic Discovery: Study

Scientists invent faster analysis of chemicals with bacteria-killing abilities; experts stress need for new generation of infection-fighting drugs.

29072_1.jpg

Tags:

Abnormal BMI Tips Scale Toward Pregnancy Complications, Study Says

Women too thin or too heavy had longer hospital stays, added costs

pregnancy782.jpg

Tags:

Deadly Respiratory Virus Has Passed Between Animals, Humans Before

Study still doesn't pinpoint from which animal the virus is coming.

respiratory5.jpg

Tags:

Weight-Loss Surgery Can Improve Long-Term Diabetes Control, Study Says

Some patients were benefiting up to nine years later.

Laparoscopic-Gastric-Banding.jpg

Tags:

NIH study establishes benefits of bracing in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis

Bracing in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis reduces the likelihood that the condition will progress to the point that surgery is needed, according to a study published online in the New England Journal of Medicine. The work was supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), part of the National Institutes of Health.

Tags:

General Assembly opens its 68th session with long-term development a prime goal

560994-ki-moon-ashe_0_0.jpg
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) and John Ashe, President of the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Tags:

NIH-funded study suggests brain is hard-wired for chronic pain

Brain’s white matter may determine susceptibility to chronic pain

ninds-17_l_0.jpg
A Map of Chronic Pain
Scientists used the structure of the brain’s white matter (green lines) to predict whether a subject would recover from low back pain. Red dots represent differences in white matter structure between subjects who recovered and who suffered chronic pain.