(New Orleans) A call for an improved public health infrastructure that works collaboratively with physicians in order to ensure the public's safety and health was made today by the American College of Physicians (ACP). The action was highlighted by the release of a new policy paper, Strengthening the ...

Patients with rheumatic heart disease (RHD) are being admitted to hospital too late to prevent the need for heart surgery, according to a new study carried out by doctors in Yemen and presented at the World Congress of Cardiology. RHD is a devastating consequence of repeated episodes of rheumatic fever. ...

(American College of Physicians) A call for an improved public health infrastructure that works collaboratively with physicians in order to ensure the public's safety and health was made today by the American College of Physicians (ACP). The action was highlighted by the release of a new policy paper, Strengthening ...

WEDNESDAY, April 18 (HealthDay News) -- Voice problems affect one in four call center workers, a new study finds. Researchers surveyed nearly 600 workers at 14 call centers in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and found that 25 percent had problems such as voice loss, sore throats and breathlessness. ...

Research by University of Ulster experts has found that one in four call-centre workers suffer from voice problems.

In November 2011, a National Academy of Sciences committee issued a report calling for the creation of a "Google Maps"-like data network intended to revolutionize medical discovery, diagnosis and treatment. Today, the co-chair of that committee, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is issuing a call-to-arms to patient advocates to ...

(American Institute of Biological Sciences) Research on oil spills has concentrated mostly on effects at the sea surface and nearby coasts. The Deepwater Horizon event of 2010 showed the importance of research that would address oil and gas movement at depth as well as deep-sea ecology and microbial degradation of ...

In November 2011, a National Academy of Sciences committee issued a report calling for the creation of a "Google Maps"-like data network intended to revolutionize medical discovery, diagnosis and treatment. Today, the co-chair of that committee, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is issuing a call-to-arms to patient advocates to ...

Inadequate knowledge about the effects of deepwater oil well blowouts such as the Deepwater Horizon event of 2010 threatens scientists' ability to help manage and assess comparable events in future, according to an article that a multi-author group of specialists will publish in the May issue of BioScience . ...

(University of California - San Francisco) In November 2011, a National Academy of Sciences committee issued a report calling for the creation of a "Google Maps"-like data network intended to revolutionize medical discovery, diagnosis and treatment. Today, the co-chair of that committee, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is issuing ...

WEDNESDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) -- Nine physician specialty groups have created lists of common tests or procedures that they believe are often overused or unnecessary, to help doctors and patients make wiser decisions about care. Each group came up with a list with five tests or procedures in ...

PHILADELPHIA Patients with end-stage liver disease complicated by the most common type of liver cancer hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are less likely to die or become too sick for a transplant while waiting for a new liver than those with other complications of end-stage liver disease, according to ...