Medicine NewsHHS Secretary nominee Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) recently made corrections to three years of tax returns, paying about $7,000 in back taxes after “unintentional errors” were discovered, the AP/Google.com reports. Sebelius, who issued a
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The “controversy” surrounding the University of Notre Dame’s invitation for President Obama to speak at its spring commencement “highlights growing strains in an important political relationship” between the president and Roman Catholic voters,
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Currently in Illinois, “many women who seek — or at the very least expect to be informed of — the full range of legal medical options in religiously affiliated hospitals are kept in the dark about abortion, contraceptives, tubal ligation and other reproductive services,” according to a Chicago Sun-Times editorial.
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A key step toward the successful development of an artificial pancreas for patients with diabetes has been achieved, according to new research published in this month’s issue of Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics.
Lower weight at birth may increase inflammatory processes – leading causes of chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes – in adulthood. The study, to be published in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), was carried out by researchers at The University of Manchester, Imperial College London and University of [...]
AP – One in five Medicare patients ends up back in the hospital within a month of discharge, a large study found, and that practice costs billions of dollars a year.
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AP – In a drastic proposal for limiting drug company influence on doctors and patient care, a group of prominent physicians says medical associations and their leaders should reject almost all industry funding.
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AP – GlaxoSmithKline PLC on Wednesday applied for approval in the U.S. and Europe to sell an existing breast-cancer drug as a first-line treatment.
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