by Ilene MacDonald | FierceHealth Apr 26, 2017 10:44am It’s good to be an orthopedic surgeon. The profession leads the list of the highest paid healthcare jobs in 2017, according to new salary data from a leading professional network site. Although [...]
Senate bill to allow OTC hearing aids has bipartisan support by MedPage Today Staff April 24, 2017 Bipartisan legislation to allow manufacturers of so-called "personal sound amplification products" to market them as over-the-counter hearing aids for people with mild to moderate [...]
Warnings for children with medical conditions, breastfeeding moms by Molly Walker Staff Writer, MedPage Today April 20, 2017 Use of both codeine to treat pain and coughs and tramadol to treat pain are now both contraindicated in young children under the [...]
Researchers look to the past for new antibiotics MedpageToday by MedPage Today Staff April 19, 2017 A group of researchers known as the "ancientbiotics team" are turning to the Middle Ages to find new leads for treating infections as more and [...]
Altered gut bacteria may be culprit in middle-age adults • by Jeff Minerd Contributing Writer, MedPage Today April 06, 2017 Long-term antibiotic use in early-to-middle adulthood was linked with increased risk for colorectal adenomas after age 60 in a dose-dependent manner, in [...]
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HEART ATTACK WARNING SIGNS CHEST DISCOMFORT Most heart attacks involve discomfort in the center of the chest that lasts more than a few minutes, or that goes away and comes back. It can feel like uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain. [...]
Multiple synched headsets allow whole families to participate • by Brian Chau MD March 23, 2017 An MIT startup, Rendever, is providing the opportunity for elderly patients with restricted mobility to experience the outside world through virtual reality. Rendever's concept combines the [...]
Skin, blood testing not very useful for identifying 'co-allergy,' study suggests by Salynn Boyles Contributing Writer March 27, 2017 More than 50% of people with documented allergies to peanuts or a single tree nut passed an oral food challenge to other [...]
by Ryan Basen Staff Writer, MedPage Today March 12, 2017 On a Saturday afternoon in February, Renee Dua, MD, visited with a 40-something man in Los Angeles. The nephrologist diagnosed a sprained ankle, fitted the patient with a brace and left. [...]