Are you making the same mistake every single year?
Many Americans do not realize how much a yearly doctor visit can improve health and …
Tag: patients
What does that cramp in your leg mean?
Feeling some pain in your legs after a long day may not seem alarming. But …
USC public symposium illustrates how to move stem cells from Petri dish to patient
The story of this stem cell-based approach, now in clinical trials, began with the voters …
Half of the people who have this dangerous disease don’t know it
The disease, which can take up to 30 years to advance to a life-threatening stage, …
Half of the people who have this dangerous disease don’t know it
The disease, which can take up to 30 years to advance to a life-threatening stage, …
Keck School receives $4.5 million grant to support patient diversity in cardiac surgery research
Clinical trials provide researchers with insight into how people are likely to respond to medical …
Improved treatment options for colorectal cancer could be on the horizon
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., expected to …
New study seeks to improve medication adherence among Latinos with diabetes
Simple measures such as giving patients pillboxes for their medications, helping patients’ family members understand …
Women are getting vampire facials, for their vaginas in a worrying new cosmetic trend
Just when we thought we’d heard about the most extreme vaginal procedure on the block, …
Thousands of heart flutter patients at risk because wrongly taken off blood-thinning drugs
Atrial fibrillation is the most common form of heart rhythm disturbance in the UK, which …
Asthma deaths shoot up by a quarter in just five years
Experts blame complacency among both medical staff and patients in the routine care of the …
Two patients contracted hepatitis C from nurse at Washington hospital
But it has since emerged that between August 2017 and March 2018, the nurse was …
IBD sufferers are 30% more likely to develop Parkinson’s
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai further confirmed the link, finding …
Controversial epilepsy drug that causes birth defects is banned
This comes after two consultant neurologists said just last week that sodium valproate may be …
Leukaemia patients may be given new hope with treatment on NHS
Health chiefs today announced CAR-T therapy, branded a ‘game changer’, could be rolled out across …