Errors in diagnosis place a heavy financial burden on an already costly health care system and can be devastating for affected patients. Strengthening certain aspects of a new and evolving model of comprehensive and coordinated primary care could potentially address Continue reading

New US research on mice suggests that bone plays a key role in insulin regulation and helps cells of the body take up glucose; as both these processes are impaired in people with type 2 diabetes the researchers suggest this discovery could lead to new diabetes drugs. Continue reading

A team of European researchers have found that reducing meat consumption may be a key factor in losing weight and maintaining an healthy body weight. The researchers wrote in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that meat intake, because of its high energy and fat content might be linked to weight gain. Continue reading

The first team of registered nurse volunteers from California, Michigan, and Washington State will depart for Haiti Wednesday morning with the Department of Defense’s Continuing Promise, National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest organization of Continue reading

“The private doctor’s practice – long considered a mainstay of American medicine – could be going the way of the independent bookstore and locally owned pharmacy,” The Detroit News reports. Continue reading

The number of women diagnosed with womb cancer is at its highest for over 30 years according to new figures published by Cancer Research UK which show more than 7,530 people now* develop the disease each year in the UK. Continue reading

A universal influenza vaccine – so-called because it could potentially provide protection from all flu strains for decades – may become a reality because of research led by scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Continue reading