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New drug helps patients with rare inflammatory diseases 12 Nov 2012 | 06:36 pm
Novartis' Ilaris helps reduce patients' symptoms and the frequency of attacks in two rare inflammatory diseases, mid-stage studies showed, as the Swiss drugmaker looks to expand the use of the medicin...
Study: Testing pain drugs on humans could produce better painkillers 12 Nov 2012 | 04:50 pm
In a new twist on animal testing, two pain researchers would like to inflict pain on an unlikely subject: humans. Deliberately inflicting carefully controlled pain on humans — volunteers — and registe...
Global deal reached to fight tobacco smuggling 12 Nov 2012 | 03:49 pm
Global health officials agreed a deal on Monday, Nov. 12, to fight smuggling of tobacco products, a trade which robs governments of more than $40 billion in revenue each year and undercuts efforts to ...
Protective eye gear cuts field hockey injuries 12 Nov 2012 | 03:48 pm
Fewer high school field hockey players get head and face injuries when they're required to don protective eyewear, according to a new comparison of states with and without those policies in effect. Co...
Study tentatively links flu in pregnancy and autism 12 Nov 2012 | 03:44 pm
Kids whose mothers had the flu while pregnant were slightly more likely to be diagnosed with "infantile autism" before age three in a new Danish study. But the children's overall risk for the developm...
Veterans Day lets us recognize sacrifices of military children 10 Nov 2012 | 11:12 pm
There also are 500,000 kids between the ages of 6 and 13 whose parents serve in the military. For those kids, Veterans Day is a day to remember not just the sacrifices their moms and dads have made fo...
Health system touted by Obama not yet endorsing Medicaid expansion 10 Nov 2012 | 11:09 pm
Intermountain Healthcare, the Salt Lake City-based hospital system praised by President Barack Obama as being a model for low-cost, high quality care, says it is not convinced Utah should expand Medic...
Just for moms: How to meet other ‘mom friends’ 10 Nov 2012 | 11:08 pm
Many people I know compare finding mom friends to the dating game. Moms are looking for company, but they are also yearning to meet a like-minded person who is experiencing the same things. Continue r...
Smokers may fare worse after colorectal surgery 10 Nov 2012 | 11:06 pm
Smoking has long been linked with slower recovery in general from injuries and surgeries, and now a new study finds that smokers face more complications and higher chances of death following major sur...
Hospitals gamble on urgent care clinics to keep patients healthy 10 Nov 2012 | 10:55 pm
Most of the 9,000 urgent care clinics nationwide are owned by corporation or physicians, but hospital systems are increasingly aiming to get a cut of the booming industry. Hospitals already own about ...
