Cedars-Sinai investigators have for the first time identified a gas produced in gut that could improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with two common intestinal illnesses—small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Patients complaining of pain, bloating, diarrhea, constipation and other gastrointes...

As the Western Washington measles outbreak grows to 60 cases, the Department of Health reports that most of those are in young unvaccinated children. Two people who got the virus had received the MMR vaccine. More information can be found here. As this outbreak grows, a Spokane woman says its troubling her that people are opting out of the vaccine.

It’s nearly Bell Let’s Talk Day. You know, the one day of the year when social media is flooded with messages urging us to talk about mental health and to feel good about doing it. But as the father of a young adult who has experienced mental illness, campaigns like this make me want to scream. On its Let’s Talk website, Bell boasts about donating money to “mental health” – the words “mental illness” rarely appear – and uses inane slogans such as “Mental health affects us all."

workout routine when sick Now, I need to admit I am not terribly sick. Just some sinus pain that is going into my teeth. What makes it worse is the pain going into my teeth. I do not do well with tooth pain. So, now I am facing doing my workout routine when sick. When I hurt I just like to curl up and do

Kristi Haynes knew she had a problem when her eyes turned the color of traffic paint. Haynes had been feeling strangely tired, but she didn’t have many opportunities to look at herself in a mirror because she’d been homeless for a few months. Her fiance noticed her yellow eyes and freaked out. And that’s how Haynes knew she had caught the disease so many of her friends already had: hepatitis A.

As an emergency room physician, Richard Zane often considers how software can help him with patients. The problem is that engineers and doctors are from different worlds. Zane, who's also the chief innovation officer at UCHealth in Colorado, said that most technologists he's met have never seen the inner workings of a hospital and don't have a deep understanding of what doctors want and need.

The record-keeping aspects of healthcare technology have always underperformed, with patients getting the short end of the stick. Now, applied to electronic health records, open standards may finally give patients control of their data and care.

When fighting on behalf of the father you love, who do you become? By Beth Kephart.

Direct primary care is a new movement of doctors and healthcare providers who don't accept insurance — instead relying on a monthly membership fee.

There are more and more talks nowadays in the IT world about the mobile medical apps changing healthcare technology. That’s why we have made up our mind to find out what should a modern healthcare app contain.

Denver's proposed supervised injection site collided with federal law Tuesday, when the United States Attorney's Office in Colorado and the local Drug Enforcement Administration office released a joint statement slamming the idea of a supervised injection site.

Protecting an infant from pain may be a matter of instinct. In a new study, researchers show that gently stroking babies during medical procedures, as parents intuitively do, reduces infants’ feelings of pain about as well as applying a topical anesthetic. The discovery suggests touch and tactile stimulation are effective means to mollify pain in newborns and an alternative to using drugs.

Biologic drugs, often made with the help of living organisms, are especially lucrative because they have scant competition from biosimilars, drugs akin to generics. It's a different story in Europe.

Patients with Type 2 diabetes might be testing their blood sugar too often, potentially costing the healthcare system millions, according to a new study. Of the more than 370,000 patients, 23.4 percent filled three or more claims for test strips over the year, and more than half of those individuals were deemed to be using the supplies inappropriately, researchers found. A median of two strips were used a day, making the average claims cost for test strips $325.54 per person per year.

As the partial government shutdown drags on into its sixth day, President Donald Trump has remained steadfast in his demands that $5 billion for a wall along the US-Mexico border be included in any package to funding and reopening the government. "Have the Democrats finally realized that we desperately need Border Security and a Wall on the Southern Border," Trump tweeted Thursday. "Need to stop Drugs, Human Trafficking,Gang Members & Criminals from coming into our Country."

Being a better you needn't be as hard as you think. From more sleep, to snacking smarter and ditching the gym - we put 10 New Year's resolutions to the test

Needle therapy is a remarkable Chinese strategy that has been connected for quite a long time to treat different ailments, from a sleeping disorder to sickness and back torment. Be that as it may, today, we are endeavoring to find the advantages of needle therapy for male pattern baldness and how might it control male pattern baldness rapidly.

Treatment of skin break out at any age is concerned, yet in the event that you are delicate about your skin, that is inclined to redness, the treatment of skin inflammation will be increasingly troublesome.

The misinformation that has fueled the decline in vaccination rates, largely born from a debunked assertion that vaccines cause autism, seems to be as contagious as measles itself.

Sedentary Lifestyle Meaning Sedentary lifestyleA sedentary lifestyle is a type of lifestyle with no or irregular physical activity. A person who lives a sedentary lifestyle may colloquially be known as a couch potato. It is commonly found in both the developed and developing world. Sedentary activities include

How garlic increases overall health and helps the body deal with a variety of ailments.

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by Hazel Straub Concerned about enjoying excellent health? Don’t rely on yourself and your own wisdom. Instead trust, completely rely and reverence the LORD and turn from evil and pride. Then…

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When a dollar spent on health insurance can’t be spent on something else.

A growing number of patients are being readmitted to hospital as emergency cases within days of being discharged, raising fears that hospitals are so busy and understaffed that they are providing inadequate care. The number of patients who have to be taken back into hospital in England within 30 days rose 19.2% from 1.16 million in 2010-11 to 1.38 million in 2016-17, according to a report by the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation thinktanks.

Between 1999 and 2016, suicide rates increased across age, gender, race and ethnicity.

Why I had to wait two years to get Botox for my migraines

An ER patient can be charged thousands of dollars in "trauma fees" — even if they weren’t treated for trauma.

When my wife was struck by mysterious, debilitating symptoms, our trip to the ER revealed the sexism inherent in emergency treatment.

A reported 1 in 5 Americans have delinquent medical debt on their credit reports—and that doesn’t even account for other Americans who struggle with medical costs in other ways. It’s a large problem that is preventable in one of the richest countries...

Norway, which has one of the highest fatal drug overdose rates in Europe, is to trial prescribing free heroin to the most serious addicts to improve their living conditions, the government said. The Norwegian directorate for health and social affairs is behind an experimental project to identify patients likely to benefit from the programme, to examine the implementation method, and to calculate the costs.

People with signs of the disease are failing to act, with many worrying they will waste a doctor’s time, a new survey reveals. Despite discovering a potential symptom of cancer, half the UK population would not seek medical help with many too afraid that they may be wasting a doctor’s time by raising it. In addition, one in four people would not bother having a symptom examined for fear of what the doctor might find, according to a new survey by Populus.

Some doctors support single-payer health care — even if that means a lower salary. By Dylan Scot.

How Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago cronies are secretly shaping the Trump administration’s veterans policies. By Isaac Arnsdorf.