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
That’s what the authors of a new study in the journal Nature argue. External factors such as exposure to toxins and radiation are a major risk factor in developing cancer, the new study says.
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...
by Research Team | Dec 19, 2015 | Health News
There’s not much flu going around so far – unlike the last three seasons when doctors’ offices were filled with patients before Christmas and illnesses peaked by late December. “It really is off to sort of a slow start” compared to that...
by Research Team | Dec 19, 2015 | Health News
A plan by a San Francisco Bay Area principal to donate her kidney to a former student has been put on hold after a hospital announced it has suspended a donor program. KTVU reports that on Thursday UCSF Medical Center announced it was voluntarily suspending its living...
