Health - Physicians latest news

Now anyone with a computer can compare hospitals to see how their death rates stack up.

More women, including Christina Applegate, are taking aggressive steps to avoid dying of breast cancer.

After announcing Aug. 2 that she had been diagnosed with "an early form" of breast cancer, Christina Applegate dropped a bombshell ...

According to recent research vitamin B or folic acid supplements do not prevent death in patients with heart disease.

British scientists say a simple bowel cancer test could save thousands of lives by spotting the deadliest tumours.

In England, a large portion of the population is not receiving adequate basic care from the National health Service and private healthcare systems, especially older and weaker people, according to a study released on August 15, 2008 in BMJ.

According to a report in the August issue of Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, patients who undergo a surgical procedure that removes excess tissue from the throat (uvulopalatopharyngoplasty or UPPP) along with a surgical tonsil-removing procedure (tonsillectomy) have an increased rate of hemorrhage (bleeding) if they are smokers.

In a major landmark for advanced interventional technology to treat aortic disease, the Zenith® Branch Iliac Endovascular Graft has been used to treat the world's 1,000th patient undergoing endovascular treatment for an aorto-iliac or iliac aneurysm.

The Oxford Clinic for Specialist Surgery has joined BMI Healthcare, the UK's largest private hospital group. The clinic will now be named BMI The Oxford Clinic and will provide the community of Oxford with easier access to BMI Healthcare's consistently high standards of patient care and advanced surgical expertise.

Chronic lead poisoning, caused in part by the ingestion of contaminated dirt, affects hundreds of thousands more children in the United States than the acute lead poisoning associated with imported toys or jewelry. Could treating contaminated soil with water prevent this public health scourge? In a study appearing in the August issue of the journal Applied Geochemistry, Gabriel M.