Rates of diabetes vary widely across developing countries worldwide, according to a new analysis led by Dr. Longjian Liu of Drexel University's School of Public Health. Worldwide, four in five people with diabetes now live in developing countries. Liu's study found that access to healthcare support for diabetes varied widely ...

After 100 days in hospital and undergoing a complicated 6-organ transplant, 9-year-old Alannah Shevenell, from Maine, leaves Boston Children's Hospital today and goes home. Alannah has been treated for a rare form of cancer; an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor continued to grow after all possible treatments failed, and was compromising her ...

The American Psychological Association, the largest psychological society in the world, will grant its 2012 "Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology" to Dr Friederike Range of the Messerli Research Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (Vetmeduni Vienna). The award is recognition of Range's ground-breaking research ...

(University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna) The American Psychological Association has recognized Friederike Range of the Messerli Research Institute at the Vetmeduni Vienna with its 2012 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology.

THURSDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Millions of Americans have an undiagnosed artery disorder that can lead to high blood pressure, stroke and aneurysms, a new study reveals. The disorder is fibromuscular dysplasia, an accumulation of fibrous tissues in the arteries that causes them to narrow. The condition can ...

When it launches in 2014, NASA's new Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will give scientists unprecedented insights into a little-understood physical process at the heart all space weather. This process, known as magnetic reconnection, sparks solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other phenomena that can imperil Earth-orbiting spacecraft and even power ...

Even though memantine is licensed to treat patients with moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease (AD), a study published Online First in The Lancet reports that the drug is not effective for AD patients with Down's syndrome who are aged 40 years and older. All individuals with Down's syndromes develop clinical important ...

In a moving scene, the President of The Disabled Veterans National Foundation (www.dvnf.org ) and Michael McNaughton - a combat soldier who lost his leg on a mission in Afghanistan- delivered Gift Cards to veterans who are patients in the amputee wing at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in ...

While the Wall Street Journal takes a look at how the individual mandate could be viewed by specific justices, news services report on the chief justice's view of the health care recusal issue.

GE Healthcare's MIND campaign is going online to give those affected by neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia and parkinsonian syndromes a platform to share their stories.

Life-threatening viruses such as HIV, SARS, hepatitis and influenza, could soon be combatted in an unusual manner as researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of plasma for inactivating and preventing the replication of adenoviruses. When exposed to plasma - the fourth state of matter in addition to solids, liquids and gases ...

Sunday's move from the now former U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, the Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital and the Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Unit to the new facility began at 7:02 a.m. Sunday with a tiny patient - a baby moving from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.