Today, representatives from the US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator (EPA) and Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) came together to raise awareness of the importance of air quality for people’s health. ...
Tags: Air Quality, certirfication
15% of parents of children with disabilities suffer from depression A University of Limerick study has found that parents of children with learning or developmental disabilities have an increased risk of depression and are more likely to ...
The risk of death from hip- or knee-replacement surgery has dropped substantially in recent years, a large new study finds. Dutch researchers found that since the early 1990s, death rates have fallen by almost two-thirds among Danish ...
Tags: Death Rate, Knee Replacements
The widely held belief that mentally ill substance abusers are the most frequent users of hospital emergency departments is an "urban legend," a new study claims. Researchers examined emergency room visits by more than 212,000 Medicaid ...
Tags: mentally ill substance abusers, Medicaid patients, substance abuse
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have begun enrolling volunteers for clinical trials to find effective treatments for influenza. One of the studies will assess if treatment with the influenza drug oseltamivir reduces ...