health - "medicine"

Many academic health centers offer programs that include traditional Chinese treatments or Ayurvedic medicine from India. The ...

There's been much in the news this past year or so about black box warnings for asthma medicines .

A longstanding tradition in medicine rewards people by naming diseases, procedures, and other noteworthy discoveries after them.

Fruit juices may not be as healthy as thought - they could reduce the effectiveness of some medicines, it is claimed.

A new report suggests that measuring how much an individual’s performance varies across several neuropsychological tests enhances the accuracy of predicting whether older adults will develop dementia. The study is published by researchers at Albert Einstein College of medicine of Yeshiva University in the August 20 issue of JAMA.Developing strategies to improve the prediction [...]

To protect the public, inspectors from the Maryland Department of health and Mental Hygiene's (DHMH) Division of Drug Control impounded expired drugs from two medicine Shoppe locations, one at 8035A Liberty Road and the other at 5900 Reisterstown Road. The expired drugs were seized July 14 and August 6, respectively.read more

Trauma patients over age 65 are less likely than younger patients to be taken to Maryland trauma centers, according to a report published Tuesday in the Archives of Surgery, the Baltimore Sun reports. For the study, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of medicine and

Pediatric cardiology experts from around the world will gather at the Indiana University School of medicine for the inaugural Riley Heart Center Symposium on Cardiac Development Sept. 8-9 at Riley Hospital for Children. The symposium, organized by the Riley Heart Research Center, is targeted to basic scientists, clinical cardiologists and heart surgeons, and will focus on issues pertaining to the onset and treatment of heart failure in infants and children.

A report published by researchers at Albert Einstein College of medicine of Yeshiva University in the August 20 issue of JAMA suggests that measuring how much an individual's performance varies across several neuropsychological tests enhances the accuracy of predicting whether older adults will develop dementia. Developing strategies to improve the prediction and diagnosis of dementia has critical therapeutic and public health implications.

People have long prized silver as a precious metal. Now, silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. In a study published in the Aug. 20, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St.