Archive: 12/12/2016

Costs of treating patients with psychosis change significantly as they age

Treating psychotic illnesses cost the province of Ontario, Canada just under $2.1 billion in 2012, which was about four per cent of the total provincial health budget, according to a new study from the Institute for Clinical ...

Dec 12, 2016

New heart imaging test identifies improved outcomes in patients with amyloidosis

Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) have reported that a new heart imaging test can determine whether cardiac amyloidosis patients are expected to survive after a stem cell transplant. They accomplished this by analyzing ...

Dec 12, 2016

Smoking down, number of lives saved up as more countries embrace tobacco control measures

Between 2008 and 2014, more than 53 million people in 88 countries stopped smoking due to tobacco control measures, which means that more than 22 million smoking-related deaths have been averted, say researchers at the Georgetown ...

Dec 12, 2016

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Availability of community-based fitness classes leads to increased activity levels

Physical inactivity is a global health problem that leads to approximately 3.2 million deaths each year, according to the World Health Organization. Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine have found ...

Dec 12, 2016

Famine alters metabolism for successive generations

The increased risk of hyperglycemia associated with prenatal exposure to famine is also passed down to the next generation, according to a new study of hundreds of families affected by widespread starvation in mid-20th Century ...

Dec 12, 2016

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AAOS Board approves treatment criteria for carpal tunnel syndrome and knee osteoarthritis

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Board of Directors has approved new Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for the management of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and the surgical management of osteoarthritis of the ...

Dec 12, 2016