by Research Team | Dec 29, 2015 | Health News
Ultrasound and mammography appear equally likely to detect breast cancer, a new study says. The finding is good news, particularly for women who live in developing countries that typically have more access to ultrasound than to mammography, the researchers said.
by Research Team | Dec 29, 2015 | Health News
Heather Brenan is shown in an undated family handout photo. A judge says the death of a senior hours after she was sent home from a Winnipeg hospital in a cab was not preventable.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dana Brenan Heather Brenan is shown in an undated family handout...
by Research Team | Dec 29, 2015 | Health News
On Monday, the Mexican restaurant chain reopened a store in Boston that it was forced to close after 141 college students were infected with norovirus earlier this month. The reopening comes after last week’s second E. coli outbreak, which affected five people...
by Research Team | Dec 28, 2015 | Health News
The latest on a ruling allowing Utah to cut funds to a Planned Parenthood chapter while the organization continues its lawsuit : A lawyer for the national Planned Parenthood association says a judge’s ruling Tuesday allowing Utah to block funds to the...
by Research Team | Dec 28, 2015 | Health News
The Scottish Government promise, to help carry out more planned joint and cataract operations for the growing elderly population, has sparked questions in hospital corridors and at Holyrood. Surgeons, who say the news took them by surprise, have queried how the units...
by Research Team | Dec 28, 2015 | Health News
Scientists, and many consumers, know that when taxes raise the price of cigarettes, smoking typically goes down. That’s why the nation’s leading health organizations advocate higher taxes as a way to discourage tobacco use by teenagers.
