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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Doctors are reporting a severe form of swine flu that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

If LeRoy Carhart's abortion clinic had a terror alert scale, it would be at Code Red this weekend.

Imagine you are a doctor treating a patient who has been in nearly constant pain for four years, ever since the day he sprained his ankle stepping off a curb. Physical therapy only briefly dulled the agony. Painkillers were not much better, and the most effective drugs made your patient exhausted and constipated. He is now depressed, sleeping poorly and having difficulty concentrating. As you talk with him, you realize that his thinking also seems impaired. Your exam confirms that the original injury has healed. Only pain and its consequences remain--and your options for helping this man are running out.This scenario plays out every day in doctors’ offices around the world. Fifteen to 20 percent of adults worldwide suffer from persistent, or chronic, pain. Half the primary care patients who develop a chronic pain condition fail to recover within a year, according to surveys conducted by the World Health Organization. Common causes of such unrelenting discomfort include physical t

Your doctor has an arsenal of potential medications to treat your asthma. You need to understand which medications you should be on, how and when to take your asthma medication, and the potential side effects.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 1.5 to 2 million Americans are infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Prior studies have shown there to be significant racial differences in access to and outcomes of liver transplantation. Recently, doctors from across the U.S. conducted a multicenter retrospective-prospective study of the waitlist status and outcomes of liver transplant patients with HBV infection.

The Washington, D.C., Examiner reports that the 'already severe shortage of primary care physicians' will likely become critical within ten years. 'Depending upon whose estimates are accepted, the doctor shortfall will be between 40,000 and 300,000 physicians.

In the UK there is a shortage of donor livers for transplant. There are currently 380 patients waiting for a liver transplant, of whom 38 are aged 25 years or less. In July 2009 alone, 12 patients who were listed for liver transplant died before a liver could be found for them or because they became too ill to undergo the operation. Deciding who should get the precious donated liver is a dilemma that UK doctors face every day.

Thirty million people suffer with the often debilitating pain of migraine headaches. And for many of them, the treatments that are currently available don't work. But now there's a possible breakthrough being tested at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital across the state in Philadelphia.

US researchers found that repeated exposure to ionizing radiation from medical imaging such as x-rays, fluoroscopy, computed tomography (CT) and nuclear medicine scans can accumulate over time to substantial cancer-causing doses, and recommend that doctors and patients always weigh up the benefits of imaging against the risks.

Share + Aug 27, 2009 5:45 pm US/Eastern LINK: Jefferson Headache Center PHILADELPHIA Thirty million people suffer with the often debilitating pain of migraine headaches.