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A new Senate mental health bill (S 1945) would relax a federal law that regulates the sharing of paper and electronic health records for patients with substance misuse issues, Modern Healthcare reports. Bill Details Earlier this month, Sens. Bill Cassidy...

Insulin is everybody's potential nemesis. It's impossible to hold on to your youth if excesses of insulin are raging through your bloodstream. Luckily, however, you can keep a lid on insulin, for its misbehavior is largely another sign of needless...

The general approach for treatment of obesity is to suggest a low calorie diet and increased physical activity. There are many weight loss programmes available on the market but an Ayurvedic approach for the obesity (or to loss weight) is...

Prevacid – what kind of a medication is it? Prevacid is a prescription drug from the group of medications known as proton-pump inhibitors. These drugs are used in treating different medical conditions that are caused by overproduction of stomach acid....

Reglan is both an anti emetic and a gastroprokinetic agent. What this means is that it is used because of two different properties. The first one, antiemetic, means that Reglan is used when it is needed to prevent vomiting and...

Approximately 7.8 million or 8.3% of all men in the United States have diabetes. However, more than one third of these men do not know it. The most life-threatening consequences of diabetes are heart disease and stroke, which strike people...

The movement to integrate acupuncture into the current Health Care System was initiated by former President Bill Clinton who established the White House Commission on Complimentary and Alternative Medicine Policy (CAM). The recommendation of this committee was that the federal...

Zovirax –When is this medication prescribed? Human race has only one true enemy and those are viruses. They say that the viruses are the only thing that is capable of destroying the entire human race with a single swoop. Sure,...

What is the Prostate? The prostate is a walnut sized gland that sits just below the bladder in men and is an integral part of the male reproductive system. Made up of two lobes and enclosed by a layer of...

Turns out that those with type 1 diabetes are as likely to develop insulin resistance as those who have type 2 THE MYSTERY:  Having type 1 diabetes automatically raises your risk of heart disease, just as type 2 does. But...