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Air quality improving in many U.S. cities: report

(HealthDay) -- Air quality in America's most polluted cities has improved significantly over the past decade, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Fears for safety at Fukushima one year on

To some of the men who earn as little as $100 a day to work inside Japan's Fukushima Daiichi, the plant at the centre of a year-old nuclear disaster is far from safe -- despite the official line.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 7

Smoke from Va.'s Lateral West Fire

Today, the GOES-13 satellite captured a visible image of the thick brown smoke streaming from the Lateral West Fire burning in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (GDSBWR) in southeastern Virginia.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Premature aging seen as issue for AIDS survivors

(AP) -- Having survived the first and worst years of the AIDS epidemic, when he was losing three friends to the disease in a day and undergoing every primitive, toxic treatment that then existed, Peter Greene ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

EU approves kids' use of Pfizer lung medicine

(AP) -- Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. said Thursday that the European commission has approved treating children with its medicine for a rare, deadly lung condition - a drug better known as Viagra.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

In pilot study, screening detects potentially serious heart conditions in healthy children

A pilot study in healthy children and adolescents shows that it is feasible to screen for undiagnosed heart conditions that increase the risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Adding a 10-minute electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New device holds promise of making blood glucose testing easier for patients with diabetes

People with diabetes could be helped by a new type of self-monitoring blood glucose sensor being developed by Arizona State University engineers and clinicians at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Americans have higher rates of most chronic diseases than same-age counterparts in England

Researchers announced today in the American Journal of Epidemiology that despite the high level of spending on healthcare in the United States compared to England, Americans experience higher rates of chronic disease and ma ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

High-spending hospitals may save more lives

Studies have shown that regions spending more on medical care, such as Miami, do not have better health outcomes than regions that spend relatively less, such as Minneapolis. However, less is known about how medical spending ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Heart-attack risk increases rapidly after rheumatoid arthritis is diagnosed

The risk of having a heart attack is 60 per cent higher just a year after a patient has been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, according to research published in the December issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People with mental illness receive inadequate mass screening for prevention of medical conditions

Dr Alex Mitchell, of the Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine at the University of Leicester, led the study which has been published in the journal General Hospital Psychiatry.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Attitudes must change if we are to achieve a good death for all, say experts

Society's attitudes towards dying, death and bereavement need to change if we are to achieve a good death for all, say experts in a special series of articles published in the British Medical Journal today in the first BMJ "S ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study sheds light on deadly GI disease in infants born with complex congenital heart disease

Infants born with complex congenital heart disease are not only at risk for serious heart-related complications, but also for developing a deadly bowel disease, regardless of the type of surgical intervention they receive ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

India studies yogic power for life without food

A team of military doctors backed by India's national defence research centre is studying an 83-year-old holy man who claims to have spent seven decades surviving without food or water.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (14) | comments 11

Blood test for inflammation may be sign of colon cancer

A blood test used to determine the level of inflammation in the body may offer some help in assessing colon cancer risk, according to results of a study to be presented by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center's Gong Yang, M.D., ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0