Stroke deaths in the United States have been dropping for more than 100 years and have declined 30 percent in the past 11 years, a new report reveals. Sometimes called a brain attack, stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability. ...
In a study published November 20, 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers looked at the association of nut consumption with total and cause-specific mortality among 76,464 women in the Nurses' Health Study and 42,498 men in ...
How can the tiny marmoset – a New World monkey – regularly successfully bear twins and sometimes triplets and quadruplets when much larger humans often face a difficult pregnancy and delivery? The answer, said researchers led ...
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San Diego–based CareFusion announced this week that it has finalized much of its planned $500 million purchase of Vital Signs from GE Healthcare. The acquisition of the $250-million-a-year Vital Signs doubles the size of ...
A new technology for artificial muscles could be a boon to medical device manufacturers, according to a recently published paper in the Journal of Advanced Materials. The paper, dubbed Powerful, Multifunctional Torsional Micro Muscles ...
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Tripling cigarette taxes worldwide would cut the number of smokers by one-third and prevent 200 million premature deaths this century, Canadian researchers say. Dr. Prabhat Jha, director of the Center for Global Health Research of St. ...
By the time they're two, most children have had respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and suffered symptoms no worse than a bad cold. But for some children, especially premature babies and those with underlying health conditions, RSV can lead ...
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The United States no longer leads the world in biomedical research; it fell from 51 percent in 2007 to 45 percent in 2012, but Asia spent more, researchers say. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found U.S. ...
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Bristol-Myers Squibb has announced a series of related changes within its senior management team. To support its ongoing success as a BioPharma leader, the company is evolving its business model, creating a global integrated commercial ...
The Cultured Kitchen of West Sacramento, Calif., is recalling all flavors of its non-dairy cashew cheese product due to a risk of Salmonella contamination. The non-dairy cashew cheese was distributed in Northern California and Nevada at ...
For 10 percent of the time U.S. drivers are behind the wheel their eyes are off the road due to eating, reaching for the phone or texting, researchers say. Study co-author Bruce Simons-Morton of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National ...
It may not be too late for those who have canceled health insurance and had trouble accessing the federal health insurance online marketplace, officials say. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...
The federal online marketplace provides guidance for those who have newly purchased health insurance and are asking, "Now what?" U.S. officials say. Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said healthcare.gov can ...
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For patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's, vitamin E was effective in slowing brain decline and in reducing caregiver assistance, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Maurice W. Dysken of the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and colleagues ...
U.S. researchers say they dissected what compassionate speech sounds like to create a behavioral taxonomy -- classification -- to guide medical training. Dr. Ronald Epstein, a professor and director of the University of Rochester's Center ...