by Research Team | Oct 30, 2014 | Health News
A 4-year-old West Jordan boy lost his battle to leukemia Tuesday, but not before his family and community gave him the week of a lifetime. Last week, Ethan Van Leuven’s family learned that Ethan’s battle with acute lympho-blastic leukemia was coming to an...
by Research Team | Oct 30, 2014 | Health News
The condition was the underlying cause of one in eight of all the female deaths recorded in 2013, according to Office for National Statistics data. The share of deaths from dementia and Alzheimer’s jumped by 7.5 percentage points for women over the decade from...
by Research Team | Oct 30, 2014 | Health News
A former executive with a private company managing part of the Kansas Medicaid program has alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was wrongly fired for protesting potentially improper cost-saving measures. Jacqueline Leary filed the suit this week.
by Research Team | Oct 30, 2014 | Health News
According to People, Hugh Jackman has undergone a third skin cancer treatment. The actor recently had another basal cell carcinoma removed.
by Research Team | Oct 30, 2014 | Health News
Longer than recommended waits for colonoscopies are a significant problem for B.C. health authorities since the rollout of a province-wide cancer screening program, Health Minister Terry Lake admitted Tuesday. But Fraser Health officials say colonoscopy waits in this...
by Research Team | Oct 29, 2014 | Health News
Vice President Joe Biden delivered a wonky, populist speech on Monday in Davenport where he endorsed Bruce Braley for Senate and lambasted Republicans for forgetting about the middle class. Biden, who is known for being folksy and prides himself on relating to working...