A brave woman traversed a path that most paralyzed people were not able to do, walk again. One of her goals after being paralyzed following a horrible accident in 2011 has come true, she walked down the aisle in her own two feet.
West Africa has been shaken by a major outbreak of Ebola beginning December of last year. As a result, the attention for all medical resources and workforce were shifted to Ebola, abandoning another chronic epidemic in the region that has been killing thousand…
A father in United Kingdom who is battling an aggressive type of cancer himself has raised $1 million for the treatment of his stepdaughter who is also suffering from cancer.
After nearly one year into the world’s worst Ebola outbreak, doctors and the World Health Organization have reported that the survival rate of Ebola patients has increased from 36% to 70%.
Nothing is ever more painful than the death of a loved one, but that of a pregnant woman may eventually change one of the staunchest abortion laws in the world.
Children who have chronic, complicated medical issues receive more effective and less expensive care when they are treated at what is called a patient-centered medical home. They are more likely to become seriously ill and need hospitalization or emergency roo…
A team of scientists at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia are giving their all to the study of bedbugs. One member has even been letting the little critters bite her to help find ways to fight the pesky pests.
Breast self-examinations and clinical breast examinations by a physician appear to do equally well at detecting breast cancer tumors at about the same size, according to a new study. However, a clinical examination seems to be better for discovering tumors in …
The new guidelines issued by the American Diabetes Association call for people of Asian ancestry to be checked for type 2 diabetes at a lower body mass index. Being obese or overweight is a risk factor for diabetes, but Asian-Americans appear to develop diabet…
The American Diabetes Association has come out with new guidelines that strongly urge that all people with diabetes take one of the cholesterol lowering drugs called statins. The drugs can help prevent cardiovascular disease such as heart attack and stroke.
