Screening speech may aid autism diagnosis - study The Star | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A device may be able to automatically screen young children for autism based on how they talk, U.S. researchers said on Monday. An autistic child looks out from behind a chair at a consulting centre for autism in Amman, in this March 30, 2010 file photo, one of the few place...
Kansas medical board files complaint over physician's referrals for late-term abortions Kansas City Star More News | WICHITA | A medical regulatory board has filed a disciplinary complaint against a Kansas doctor over referrals for late-term abortions to the now-deceased abortion provider George Tiller. | The State Board of Healing Arts' 11-count petiti...
Physician's Assistant Convicted of Conspiring to Defraud Medicaid Newsvine | McALLEN, TX—Local Physician Assistant Manuel Anthony Puig, 44, has pled guilty to conspiracy to defraud the Texas Medicaid program, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced today. Manuel Puig, doi...
Wichita physician to lead statewide pain specialists organization The Business Review Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | | | reCAPTCHA™ | A Wichita physician will lead a statewide org...
LifeLink transfers physician practice to Tampa General Hospital The Business Review Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | | | reCAPTCHA™ | , a physician practice focused on transplant ...
Disparities Remain A Challenge In Health Care Says American College Of Physicians redOrbit | Racial and ethnic disparities remain a challenge for patients in the U.S. health care system, the American College of Physicians (ACP) said in an updated paper released today. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Updated 2010, an update to...
OSU physicians helping doctors in Iraq through teleconferences The Oklahoman BY KIM ARCHER, Tulsa World Oklahoman Leave a comment | TULSA — Several doctors at Kadhamiyah Teaching Hospital in a dangerous section of Baghdad spoke last week by video with doctors at Oklahoma State University College of H...
Distant diagnosis Tulsa World The room full of doctors on the large TV screen spoke over one another, enthusiastically and in Arabic. | "We want to know your needs and how we can help you," Dr. Stanley Grogg, interim provost and dean of the Oklahoma State University College of He...
Snake venom may hold key for heart disease, cancer cure Zeenews Washington: Japanese scientists have claimed that a number of toxins found in snake venom could help develop new therapies for chronic diseases like heart attack, stroke and cancer...
Statins have proven benefits and aren't prescribed lightly Canada Dot Com | Re: Cholesterol drugs don't help the healthy, July 26 | The op-ed piece by pharmaceutical policy researcher Alan Cassels implies that elevated cholesterol levels are not a risk f...
Compton tops Greenbrier The Boston Globe | Erik Compton is a walking billboard for organ donation and sheer determination. | He's also at the top of the Greenbrier Classic leaderboard. | Playing on a late sponsor exemptio...
Eggs could cut heart defects The Times Of India Various studies have revealed that choline, which is present in eggs in abundance, is associated with decreased rate of heart defects during prenatal development. | Researchers exa...
Calcium linked to higher risk of heart attacks The Guardian | Many older people, especially women, take calcium supplements to help keep their bones strong. But a new review of studies suggests these supplements may also slightly increase t...
Do you have a predisposition for Alzheimer's Disease? The Examiner | Alzheimer's Disease health | Most people do not become interested in advocating a particular disease until it strikes their family or themselves personally. It's simply human...
Vitamin D deficiency linked to arterial stiffness in black teens PhysOrg | Vitamin D deficiency is associated with arterial stiffness, a risk factor for heart disease and stroke, in black teens according to a new study accepted for publication in The En...
Weight-Loss: The Real Secret Weapon ... The Examiner | It’s not a pill. It’s not a diet. It’s really quite simple. Keeping a daily exercise and nuttrition journal is the true secret weap...
Humble protein, nanoparticles tag-team to kill cancer cells PhysOrg | Transferrin-carrying nanoparticles that have targeted and permeated Ramos cancer cells. Areas of yellow represent the intracellular compartments of ... (photo: Creative Commons / Pulmonary Pathology)
Celeb lookalike surgery requests raise red flags CNN Plastic surgery Kim Kardashian clone? | (CNN) -- Nicole Kidman's nose. Angelina Jolie's lips. Plastic surgeons say they get these very specific reques... (photo: AP / Chris Pizzello)
Researchers identify risks of hypertension in young adults PhysOrg | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers reveal in a new, large-scale study that "normal" blood pressure at age 17 can still predict hyp... (photo: WN / Yolanda)
Fix your fat belly now! The Times Of India We share with you four easy ways to fix your belly fat. Mind you, they are not exercises... | Are you also worried about your ‘jelly’ belly like m... (photo: WN / Yolanda)
Eat Brown Rice, Lower Diabetes Risk KDVR White rice is essentially brown rice that has been processed to remove the outer bran and germ parts of the rice. This is why brown rice is considered... (photo: Creative Commons / YoAmes)
