Don Smith remembers the moment he awoke in an intensive care unit after 13 days in a medically induced coma. His wife and daughter were at his bedside, and he thought it had been only a day since he arrived…

Most people usually rely on a weight scale to determine their success in weight loss. We rely on the numbers displayed on the weight scale and often get frustrated when we see the pointer didn’t budge. We feel as if…

Melanoma now no longer the leading cause of skin cancer deaths – these are the signs you need to watch out for Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the US with 1 in 5 to get it in…

Reviewed Lin Yee Chen, MD, MS, a professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and director of the Lillehei Heart Institute, has been awarded a $4.39 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study atrial myopathy-;a heart…

Global fears of overpopulation in the '60s and '70s helped fuel India's campaign to slow population growth. Health workers tasked to encourage family planning were dispatched throughout the country and millions of people were sterilized — some voluntarily, some for…

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declined to approve the RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutic agent patisiran (Onpattro, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals) for treatment of transthyretin-mediated (ATTR) amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy, the company has announced. ATTR amyloidosis is an underdiagnosed, rapidly progressive,…

For men with Peyronie’s disease (PD), nonsurgical treatment including injections of collagenase clostridium histolyticum (CCH) produces high satisfaction with sexual outcomes—with fewer adverse events compared to surgery. These are the results of a clinical trial reported in the October issue…

Research led by the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Illinois, found that home-based walking exercise regimens outperformed supervised treadmill physical therapy in patients with lower extremity peripheral artery disease. In a paper, “Home-Based Walking Exercise and Supervised Treadmill Exercise…

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Loose Women: Dr Hilary discusses how to live longer If you could know the future, the answer to how long you’ll live would probably rank high on the list of questions.  While fortune telling isn’t usually very accurate, your body…