Medical expansion has led people worldwide to feel less healthy
Across much of the Western world, 25 years of expansion of the medical system has actually led to people feeling less healthy over time, a new study has found.
Mar 19, 2015
Archive: 19/03/2015
High rate of strep bacteria bugging kiwi kids
More than half of healthy New Zealand pre-school children are carriers of Staphylococcus aureus, and one in six hosts Streptococcus pyogenes in their nostrils, throat or crook of the arm, according to new research from the ...
Mar 19, 2015
Pneumococcal vaccine success in New Zealand children
Infectious disease experts are this week calling New Zealand's pneumococcal vaccination schedule an unequivocal success.
Mar 19, 2015
Physician practices need help to adopt new payment models, study finds
Physician practices are engaging in new health care payment models intended to improve quality and reduce costs, but are finding that they need help with successfully managing increasing amounts of data and figuring out how ...
Mar 19, 2015
World-first cancer drugs could work in larger group of patients
A pioneering class of drugs that target cancers with mutations in the BRCA breast cancer genes could also work against tumours with another type of genetic fault, a new study suggests.
Mar 19, 2015
Ebola-hit Sierra Leone to lock down 2.5 million people (Update)
Sierra Leone said Thursday it will confine around 2.5 million people to their homes across the capital and in the north in a three-day shutdown aimed at stemming the Ebola epidemic.
Mar 19, 2015
Researchers tweak the immune system to target cells bearing tumor antigens
Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Berlin-Buch, have succeeded in generating cells of the immune system to specifically target ...
Mar 19, 2015
