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(Reuters) - Patent expirations on big-name drugs such as Lipitor and Plavix has resulted in modestly less spending on medicines in the United States for the first time in at least 55 years, according to... 
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General Electric is trying to streamline surgical tool care in hospitals by taking humans out of the equation and letting a robot do the dirty work.
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Does offering workers financial incentives to exercise increase levels of physical activity? Has restricting advertising of unhealthy foods to children been a success? Should health practitioners be paying more attention to YouTube?
All these questions - and more - are addressed in this collection of abstracts and posters to coincide with a new conference for 2012 dedicated to the latest research in public health, in partnership with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, National Heart Forum, and The Lancet.
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Alzheimer's may strike 100 million people by 2050. Gregory Petsko, Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at Brandeis University, asks: We know our populati...
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Analysis suggests stents aren't as beneficial as previously thought.
The analysis included results on more than 7,200 patients enrolled in eight studies between 1997 and 2005 comparing stents with medical therapy in stable heart patients with narrowed sections in their heart arteries.
It was time to look at updated data, according to the researchers on this case. Acting on these results could save the health care system over $9,000 per patient and cause fewer complications with the less invasive methods.
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Ray Kurzweil plans to live forever. All power to him. Mr. Kurzweil’s contributions to mankind arguably have been so extraordinary that perhaps we owe it to him to provide him medical care in perpetuity. ... Ultimately, the question is this: are Americans entitled to unlimited life expectancy?
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Recent new research has the potential to reshape medicine and health care through new scientific knowledge, novel treatments and products, better management of medical data, and improvements in health-care delivery.
At the end of 2012, the National Public Radio show “Fresh Air” featured a segment in which its linguistics commentator argued that “big data” should be the word of the year.
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A pioneering surgical blood salvage technology developed at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, is set to transform the way major surgery is carried out by reducing blood loss in patients.
This device recovers and recycles the blood that is spilled during surgery. It then processes and returns the blood to the patient through autotransfusion. By using the patient's own blood, there is a lower need for donor blood, and a lesser risk of reaction from the transfusion.
HemoSep, as the new device is called, has succeeded in clinical trials and has been approved for use in Europe and Canada.
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The greatest mysteries have a shadowy figure at the center—someone who sets things in motion and holds the key to how the story unfolds. In epidemiology, this central character is known as Patient Zero—the case at the heart of an outbreak.
In this Radiolab episode, follow the extensive and entertaining hunt for Patient Zeroes from all over the map.
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You are your best advocate. And, really, you are the one who should care the most about the health care that you receive. No one else can know every intricacy of your system.
If you take an active interest, you will not only protect yourself better, but you will make it easier for your doctor to treat you right!
"Patient engagement is the holy grail of health care.
Health care professionals need to start looking at things like the definition of health, compliance, and outcomes from the patient’s perspective."
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