… of course, there are also substantial non-cash benefits available to people legally living in the U.S., especially health-care services like Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program or Obamacare subsidies. Barring individuals who might …
Day: January 30, 2017
Novartis Signals Growing Ambitions for CAR-T Cancer Treatments
Novartis AG is pushing ahead with one of its most ambitious cancer therapies, a treatment that the Swiss drugmaker says has blockbuster potential as it extends that technology to a wider pool of tumor-ridden patients. Europe’s second-biggest drugmaker is planning to test its CAR-T treatments — which involve extracting immune cells and genetically engineering them to hunt and kill cancer cells before returning them into the patient’s body — on lethal cancers of the brain, pancreas, colon, ovary and lung.
Combination therapy with cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine for…
To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. We performed an updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of combination therapy with cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Hugo Chavez returns to life in TV show criticized by allies
In this Jan. 25, 2017 photo, Colombia’s actor Andres Parra plays the role of Venezuela’s former President Hugo Chavez during the filming of “El Comandante” in Bogota, Colombia. The life of Chavez, who mesmerized Venezuela’s impoverished masses before dying of cancer in 2013, is being dramatized in a Spanish-language TV series that is generating a backlash even before it airs.
Diabetes may be an early warning sign for pancreatic cancer
London, Jan 30 – The onset of diabetes, or a rapid deterioration in existing diabetes that requires more aggressive treatment, could be a sign of early, hidden pancreatic cancer, warns a new study. The findings are based on an analysis linking nearly a million patients with Type-2 diabetes in Italy and Belgium with recorded cases of pancreatic cancer.
Health groups want to increase access to naloxone
Naloxone is used to treat opioid overdoses. Eastern Maine Medical Center, St. Joseph Healthcare, Acadia Hospital and Penobscot Community Health Care are providing 500 survival kits to people who don’t have the ability to pay for them.
Rex Huppke: Freelance workers need clarity on ACA replacement
The Affordable Care Act and working people are linked in ways that are often overlooked. But with the health care law likely to be repealed by a Republican-controlled Congress under President Donald “Obamacare is a Disaster” Trump, it’s worth looking …
Pets get therapy at Hooksett rehab center
… (Melissa Proulx/Union Leader Correspondent) A new veterinary rehabilitation practice is looking to further expand health-care offerings for animals in the state. Dr. Donna Chase specializes in physical therapy for companion pets at her new practice …
Tough workouts hurt hips
… she said. And with little downtime between routines or adherence to proper form, they were putting the long-term health of their hips at risk. “A lot of millennials are doing all of these high-intensity exercises that are great for the mental and …
PM: Hospital investments to be covered from excise tax
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka want a part of the revenue from the excise tax on alcohol and tobacco to go to a fund, from which investments of public hospitals would be covered, he said on Friday. Health Minister Miloslav Ludvik said the health insurance payments that the hospitals receive can cover their operation costs but not their investments.
Survey: Many Americans want changes to ACA but few support immediate repeal
… replacement legislation that might be passed.” * Fifty-three percent disagree with the new administration and say the health care law should remain. But only 12 percent of Americans support keeping the law as it is now; 40 percent would like to see …
Greater land runoff could boost bioaccumulation of highly toxic mercy in zooplankton, study shows
… exposure to the chemical in the food web, the study says. Mercury is one of the top 10 chemicals of major public health concern, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says mercury is the …
Researchers predict melanoma death rates will decrease from current levels by 2050
… not only were the dangerous effects of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight largely unknown, but also health professionals believed that sunshine was positively beneficial. “These beliefs were boosted by observations that exposure to …
New immunotherapy active against mucosal melanoma and improves survival for bladder cancer patients
Clinical trials of a new immunotherapy, pembrolizumab, have shown that it prolongs life significantly for patients with bladder cancer and is active against a rare sub-type of melanoma, called mucosal melanoma. The findings were presented in two presentations at the European Cancer Congress 2017 today .
PAHO head: Tobacco epidemic in Americas, Ca bean
The director of the Pan American Health Organisation , Dr Carissa Etienne, has warned about what she described as the tobacco epidemic in the Americas, including the Caribbean, saying that though the devastating health effects of tobacco use are well known, tobacco’s negative repercussions extend well beyond the obvious health outcomes. “Tobacco consumption creates a significant economic burden on societies because of both the high costs of health care and the associated lost productivity,” said the Dominican-born Etienne, writing in the Pan American Journal of Public Health.
Understanding the HPV Vaccine
Join our expert panel of physicians in discussing the Human Papillomavirus vaccine and the questions, misconceptions and myths that surround it. Listen to them discuss the dangers of HPV, the different strands, why the HPV vaccine is so important and how it helps.
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By the age of five, most children have already experienced at least one ear infection . It is a common medical issue that can be easily treated with antibiotics if it doesn’t go away on its own.
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Smoke ’em if ya got ’em, as legalized marijuana takes hold
The first tangible results of state voters’ decision to legalize marijuana are being felt as possession and home growth of marijuana becomes legal. Voters narrowly passed the ballot question in November, and the waiting period between the vote and legalization has expired.
Internet Show Health Inn Interviews Dr Aadil Chimthalawala on Tuberculosis Case
Host Debby Bruck interviews Dr Aadil, cardiologist about The Heart, Pericarditis and Infection due to TB. How can homeopathy help? CARY, N.C. – Jan. 30, 2017 – PRLog — Dr Aadil will be our guest on Health Inn, Cary, NC at 10:30AM ET USA via India to talk about Tuberculosis, an antibiotic drug resistence epidemic with an illustration of an acute case of pericarditis and PowerPoint.