health - "medicine"

Dr. McKusick was a cardiologist who went on to become a founder of medical genetics and helped make the discipline a central part of medicine.

Is this the Best Cure for Depression? There are various ways in which depression can manifest.

AUB professor Ghazi Zaatari, who chairs the pathology and laboratory medicine department, has been appointed at the chair of the World health Organization (WHO) Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulati...

A Seattle medical doctor's license has been immediately suspended in response to charges that he failed to treat or appropriately treat four patients in the Pend Oreille County hospital emergency room where he was working.The immediate action, called a summary suspension, means George Mathew (MD00033873) cannot practice medicine pending the outcome of a hearing. The Medical Quality Assurance Commission and the Washington State Department of health issued the suspension.read more

Embolization is found to be a simple and successful treatment for male infertility, which is caused by varicoceles.A team of researchers from Tufts University School of medicine in Boston examined 223 infertile men who had at least one varicose veins. All the men together had 228 varicose veins and all of them had healthy partners. Researchers successfully treated 226 varicose veins and found that 206 patients (92.4%) have varicoceles completely cured.read more

The sound of a noisy Chicago restaurant during the breakfast rush -- the clang of plates and silverware and the clamor of many voices -- was the crucial test of new hearing aid technology in a study conducted by researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis.The study showed that the hearing aids worked well in a noisy environment -- the most challenging test for a hearing aid. But the patients wearing the devices didn't need to fly from St. Louis to Chicago to participate in the test. Instead, the restaurant came to the clinic of Michael Valente, Ph.D., director of the Division of Adult Audiology in the Department of Otolaryngology at the School of medicine. Or at least its sounds did.

NORCROSS, Ga. (AP) -- After three surgeries, Judy Sherer still had chronic pain in her left shoulder. She'd lost faith in her doctors, and in despair tried a new health benefit offered by her employer....

New England Journal of Medicine

Men who eat an average of half a serving of soy food a day have lower concentrations of sperm than men who do not eat soy foods, according to research published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal, Human Reproduction, today (Thursday 24 July). The association was particularly marked in men who were overweight or obese, the study found.

Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but endurance exercise seems to make it younger. According to a study conducted at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis, older people who did endurance exercise training for about a year ended up with metabolically much younger hearts. the researchers also showed that by one metabolic measure, women benefited more than men from the training.