health - "medicine"

A study published on http://www.bmj.com highlights the need for people to be aware of the possible health risks associated with body piercing. The study, carried out by experts at the Health Protection Agency and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, looked at the prevalence of cosmetic body piercing, excluding pierced earlobes.

Thanks to modern medicine, more people in the U.S. are living longer after a cancer diagnosis. For this increasing number of cancer survivors, living a better quality of life is just as important as living through the disease. Improving communication and acknowledging stress can enhance the quality of life of cancer survivors and those [...]

New imaging software that will allow physicians to more accurately diagnose and treat heart failure patients has been licensed by Emory University to Syntermed, an Atlanta-based nuclear medicine imaging and informatics software company. The software uses multiharmonic phase analysis (MHPA), a technology developed by Emory medical scientists Ernest Garcia, PhD, and Jing Chen, PhD.

A University of Alberta researcher in collaboration with researchers from Duke University has proven that wisdom really does come with age, at least when it comes to your emotions.A study conducted by Dr. Florin Dolcos, assistant professor of psychiatry and neuroscience in the Faculty of medicine & Dentistry, identified brain patterns that help healthy older people regulate and control emotion better than their younger counterparts.

SonoSite, Inc., (Nasdaq:SONO), the world leader and specialist in hand-carried ultrasound for the point-of-care, announced the first expansion of capabilities for the powerful M-TurboT system. The expanded platform includes four new transducers addressing anesthesia, surgery, venous access, musculoskeletal and adult and pediatric cardiology applications, plus further enhancements to emergency medicine documentation worksheets.

Patients who have recently developed rheumatoid arthritis respond better to treatment with biological medicine in combination with conventional pharmacological medicine. This according to results of the Swefot national clinical study, which is to be presented at an international rheumatology congress in Paris by scientists from Swedish Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, who conducted the study in association with another 15 rheumatology units in Sweden.