There are now 26 million Americans suffering from diabetes and an additional 79 million in the “prediabetes” stage, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. The National Diabetes Fact Sheet for 2011 figures show a rising trend of diabetes in the U.S. In 2008, the agency reported that there were 23.6 million […]
The United States still lags behind many countries in life expectancy even as health care costs rise to extend lives of U.S. residents. Smoking and obesity among Americans are partly to blame according to a new report released by the National Research Council on Friday. Obesity is common in the rest of the world and […]
External defibrillators will be subject to stricter testing pending approval by the Food and Drug Administration under a proposal revealed online Friday by health officials. The move comes amid several reports over the last few years that the medical devices which are designed to revert life-threatening heart rhythms have been failing at an unacceptable rate. […]
A new study indicates that debilitating migraines do not cause brain damage and the encouraging findings may provide some form of reassurance for sufferers of this type of headaches. The migraine study appeared this week in the online version of the British Medical Journal. “It is almost always the first question that migraine patients ask,” […]
Mental health screening for soldiers about to be deployed to Iraq cut the overall incidence of psychiatric issues such as suicidal thoughts, combat stress, or mental health breakdowns by 78 percent, a new study shows. The report, published online Tuesday in the American Journal of Psychiatry, also said the screening halved the rate for suicidal […]
Some reports of liver damage caused by Sanofi-Aventis SA’s new heart drug Multaq have been received by the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration, officials said today. The extent of the damage was severe enough in two female, elderly patients that their livers needed to be removed. One patient was taking Multaq for 4.5 months while […]
A new study says that surgeons are more prone to suicidal thoughts than the average person due to burnout, medical errors and depression. The study, published in this month’s issue of Archives of Surgery, showed that 6 percent of 8,000 surgeons surveyed said they contemplated suicide recently. The rate jumped to 16 percent among those […]
Elderly Americans may soon lose their free home health services provided by Medicare if a Congressional panel approves changes to current rules. Home health visits to seniors are currently free of charge but a co-payment scheme might be implemented to prevent the system from being abused, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). The […]
Cell damage can occur within just a few minutes of smoking, a study by American researchers showed on Saturday. The findings, published by the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Research in Toxicology journal, revealed that the toxic “effect is so fast that it’s equivalent to injecting the substance directly into the bloodstream.” Cell damage by smoking […]
Painkillers linked to liver damage must be made with less acetaminophen according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The health agency said Thursday that it will set limits of the key ingredient at 325 milligrams per capsule of such brands as Percocet and Vicodin because hundreds of cases of liver damage have been reported […]
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