Portable finger-probe device can successfully measure liver function in potential organ donors
A portable, finger-probe device successfully measured liver function in brain dead adult organ donors, a finding that could change the...
Month: May 2015
Headwinds for Health Insurers as Obamacare Stumbles
(A version of this Health Alert was published by Forbes). You might think this headline is a gag, given how...
Judge Considers House GOP’s Case Against Obama’s Health Law – Wall Street Journal
U.S. News & World ReportJudge Considers House GOP's Case Against Obama's Health LawWall Street JournalHouse Republicans filed a lawsuit in...
How To Avoid Being Fooled By The Latest Shocking Diet Study
Every day we are bombarded by information about diets. Most of that information has some kind of an agenda lurking...
What’s Going on With Spending on Health Insurance Overhead?
Even as federal regulators take steps to constrain administrative spending by private health insurers, government overhead on health coverage has...
Buying chicken at a Somerset supermarket? Three quarters of them are…
Nearly three-quarters of supermarket chickens are contaminated with a potentially deadly bug, making it the biggest food safety concern in...
HIV Co-Infection: Hepatitis C
(MedPage Today) -- 10 days, 10 questions: Day 8 -- "How should patients with HIV be treated, especially in the...
Component in green tea may help reduce prostate cancer in men at high risk
Prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer in men and is predicted to result in an estimated...
Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia: JAK2 inhibitor ruxolitinib has promising efficacy
Scientists are reporting on the first phase 1 study of the JAK2 inhibitor ruxolitinib in CMML patients. SOURCE: Top Health...
10 Things All Brides Do But Would Never Admit To
Like, you know, turning your bridesmaids into your servants You’re knee-deep in the months of budgeting, working out like a...
Scripting Scripps
Gary Schwitzer and his buddies at Health News Review are the experts in critiquing medical stories, noting:The mission of HealthNewsReview.org...
