States that decriminalized marijuana saw dramatic increases in children requiring medical intervention, although the overall number of unintentional marijuana exposures among children remained low. The Annals of Emergency ...
Feb 5, 2014
New research is lighting up yet another reason for women to quit smoking. In a study published online in the journal Menopause, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report the ...
Feb 5, 2014
Since the 1970s, the frequency and use of pain relief during childbirth – and most especially the use of epidural analgesia during labor – has increased dramatically. Reports on epidural rates range from 47 percent to ...
Feb 5, 2014
(Medical Xpress)—Cancer experts from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College are working side by side to unravel the mysterious link between obesity and cancer. Most recently, their collaborative ...
Feb 5, 2014
The 'baby boom' generation – nearly 40,000,000 strong – is aging and many are living with a variety of chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. The Affordable Care Act, the national health care plan ...
Feb 5, 2014
Loyola University Medical Center is one of a handful of centers nationwide conducting a National Cancer Institute-funded research study that offers nutrition counseling and free membership to a weight-loss facility to help ...
Feb 5, 2014
