by Research Team | Dec 20, 2015 | Health News
UCSF Medical Center has voluntarily suspended its living donor program for kidney transplants after a living donor died last month. The donor had provided a kidney to a recipient at UCSF Medical center in October.
by Research Team | Dec 20, 2015 | Health News
Viewers of the BBC One soap have watched Phil struggle to control his alcohol addiction over the last few weeks. The downward spiral will lead to his life-threatening diagnosis.
by Research Team | Dec 20, 2015 | Health News
From 2000 to 2014 nearly half a million Americans died from drug overdoses. Opioid overdose deaths, including both opioid pain relievers and heroin, hit record levels in 2014, with an alarming 14 percent increase in just one year, according to new data published today...
by Research Team | Dec 19, 2015 | Health News
Federal health officials want to ban the use of tanning beds by anyone under the age of 18, part of an ongoing government effort to reduce skin cancers linked to the devices. The Food and Drug Administration proposal would also require tanning bed users to sign...
by Research Team | Dec 19, 2015 | Health News
The U.S. Justice Department says 32 hospitals in 15 states have agreed to pay $28 million to settle allegations they admitted patients for certain procedures that could have been done on an outpatient basis, resulting in higher Medicare bills. The settlement announced...
