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Findings from a new study reveal that sepsis is a common cause of deaths in hospitals.The study, which was published in JAMA Network Open, looked at more than 500 people with an average age of 70 years who had died...

On Monday, a federal court in the Eastern District of Virgina (Virginia v. Sebelius) found the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. The key constitutional question in this case is whether the individual mandate is...

In Oklahoma, things are heating up. On November 1, the state will put into effect a law that allows personal details about abortion patients to be published on an openly available website. House Bill 1595 would require medical personnel to...

Alzheimer's is a progressive neurological disease and is difficult to treat. The condition frequently manifests itself with limited symptoms at first but progresses towards deterioration. The decline happens at different rates for different people. That being said, here is a...

How important is your lifestyle in preventing breast cancer? More than you might think. Researchers are increasingly finding links between a woman’s diet, weight and level of physical activity and how likely she is to get breast cancer. Although there...

Introduction Among the many features characterizing the aging process is the progressive alteration in the hormonal environment. In women, this ovarian failure is known as menopause. It is predictable and clinically obvious and leads to a number of clinical and...

Many MD’s are charging annual fees of $2,000 to $25,000. Finding a doctor you can afford and trust. A friend on the Upper East Side who described her long-time primary care physician as “my example of a perfect doctor” recently...

The meaningful use program and its incentive payments have not had a statistically significant effect on providers' adoption of electronic health records, according to a study published in theJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association,FierceEMR reports (Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR, 8/7)....

Definition glucose in the blood cannotDiabetes mellitus is a condition in which the pancreas no longer produces enough insulin or when cells stop responding to the insulin that is produced, so that glucose in the blood cannot be absorbed into...

With 15 hospital closings in the past decade, and six more in Brooklyn on shaky ground, New York's healthcare system is caught between balancing the budget and providing the medicine people need. If you want to do Regina Green's job...