For Substance Abusers, Recovery-Oriented Care May Show The Way To A Productive Life
(By Taylor Sisk for Kaiser Health News) WAYNESVILLE, N.C. — Every movement needs a champion, and in the largely rural
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Health Care – General
A Tender Steak Could Be A Little Dangerous
(By Lydia Zuraw for Kaiser Health News) new label on some of the steaks in your grocery store highlights a
Read MoreCheck out “Independence at Home”–A CMS Test Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is testing a program that “will work with medical practices to test
Read MoreWho Has Your Gene Data?
Myriad Genetics held patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA 2 genes until 2013 and tested more than 1 million patients
Read MoreWhat To Do About Antibiotic Resistance
Seven hundred thousand people are killed each year by drug-resistant infections. Many people mistakenly believe that human beings, not bacteria, develop
Read MoreAre Your Bad Habits Killing You?
A team at Harvard Medical School calculated that 20 to 40 percent of cancer cases and half of cancer deaths
Read MoreStudy Of Birth Defects, Folic Acid In Foods Finds More Questions Than Answers
(By Barbara Feder Ostrov for Kaiser Health News) Adding folic acid to foods like cereal and bread — long considered
Read MorePeople With HIV Are Less Likely To Get Cancer Treatment
(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) We’ve made great progress treating people who are infected with HIV, but if
Read MorePrecision Medicine What Is It and How Is It Helping In The Fight Against Cancer
Precision medicine is the practice of targeting biological markers on a patient’s tumors, and is proving to be more effective
Read MoreBreathalyzer Test is Not Just for Alcohol Anymore
Joseph Azzarelli, MIT student and Ph.D. candidate, won the MIT Entrepreneurship Competition with a simple breathalyzer test that could diagnose
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