Skin Cancer & You

One out of every two women struggling to conceive may suffer from endometriosis - the leading cause of infertility - according to researchi from Camran Nezhat, M.D., gynecologist at El Camino Hospital, the hospital of the Silicon Valley. Almost 5.5 millionii women in the U.S. suffer from the often painful symptoms of the condition, a disease characterized by endometrium, or tissue, which normally lines the uterus, growing in other places. Yet, Dr...

AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that the Government's proposed voluntary enrolment plan for people with diabetes is policy on the run that will make it more difficult for patients to access vital GP services. Dr Pesce said the AMA appreciates that the Government wants to address the special care needs of people with complex and chronic conditions, but today's rushed policy is an announcement for Premiers, not patients...

The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) has warned that a proposed plan for voluntary enrolment for diabetic patients in general practices significantly undervalues the comprehensive care that general practices already provide to patients with diabetes and is unlikely to improve their health outcomes...

Dr Chris Mitchell, RACGP President, said that patient enrolment with a general practice provides the opportunity for practices to coordinate the care and services that can be delivered through general practice. "Evidence has shown that continuity of care improves patient satisfaction, improves health outcomes and reduces costs. This is why the RACGP supports the exploration of voluntary enrolment for our patients who suffer from chronic illness. "The college encourages the exploration of additional blended payments for GPs to help close the gap between GPs' and other specialists' rebates...

The Ethisphere Institute, a New York-based think tank established to advance best practices in business ethics and corporate social responsibility, has named The Johns Hopkins Hospital to its 2010 list of the world's most ethical companies and institutions. The Johns Hopkins Hospital was one of 100 organizations selected from among hundreds of nominees representing 33 industries...

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found new clues that might help explain why some people are more susceptible to stress than others. In a study of mice, the researchers determined that weeks after experiencing a stressful event, animals that were more susceptible to stress exhibited enhanced neurogenesis - the birth of new nerve cells in the brain. Specifically, the cells that these animals produced after a stressful event survived longer than new brain cells produced by mice that were more resilient...

The Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, together with the Department of Family Health (Division of Child and Adolescent Health), unveiled a renewed set of national policy guidelines to redouble diarrhoeal disease management and control efforts by putting proven interventions to work within the country's health system. This announcement comes at a time when global progress against diarrhoea has stalled. Contrary to what many Kenyans believe, diarrhoea is dangerous and not a normal part of childhood development...

Hemophilia, a disease linked with legends of European monarchs, frail heirs and one flamboyant charlatan called Rasputin, still afflicts many people today. And the very treatments that can help can also put patients' lives at risk. The standard treatment is infusion with an expensively produced protein that helps the blood to clot. But in some patients the immune system fights the therapy, and in a subset of those, it sets off an allergic reaction that can result in death...

Misunderstandings about proper use of antibiotics have the potential to spread widely through social networks such as Twitter, according to a report in the April issue of AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC). Researchers from Columbia University and MixedInk (New York, NY) studied the health information content of Twitter updates mentioning antibiotics to determine how people are sharing information and assess the proliferation of misinformation...

Eating foods containing flavonoids -- orange juice, in this case -- along with a high-fat, high-carbohydrate fast-food meal neutralizes the oxidative and inflammatory stress generated by the unhealthy food and helps prevent blood vessel damage, a new study by University at Buffalo endocrinologists shows. Free radicals, or reactive oxygen species, are known to induce inflammation in blood vessel linings and contribute to the risk of heart attack and stroke...