by Research Team | Apr 1, 2015 | Health News
The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked domestic bird owners to step up their biosecurity efforts and work to protect their birds from avian influenza. Over the past several months, the department says the U.S. has seen an increase in...
by Research Team | Apr 1, 2015 | Health News
This year, more than 200,000 women will be diagnosed with it, and it will prove fatal for more than 40,000 women in the United States alone. In fact, breast cancer, according to the National Breast Cancer foundation, is the second leading cause of death among women in...
by Research Team | Apr 1, 2015 | Health News
Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University said 16% of these had never otherwise smoked, while they also found e-cigarettes were “strongly related” to drinking amongst teenagers. One of the study’s authors, Professor Mark Bellis, warned that...
by Research Team | Apr 1, 2015 | Health News
Private health care providers cannot sue to force states to raise their Medicaid reimbursement rates to keep up with rising medical costs, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. In a 5-4 decision the broke across ideological lines, the justices said medical companies have...
by Research Team | Apr 1, 2015 | Health News
When you’re under the weather the last thing you want is to eat something that makes you feel worse. But what if the last thing you want is chicken soup or crackers, and you’re craving ice cream or a glass of wine? It depends on what’s wrong with...
by Research Team | Apr 1, 2015 | Health News
The over-the-counter painkiller was also found to have “small but not clinically important benefits” for people with osteoarthritis, the research published in the British Medical Journal found. Back pain and osteoarthritis, the most common form of...