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• India paves way for remote medicine
BANGALORE, India - On a computer monitor in his office in the high-tech hub of Bangalore, Indian radiologist Arjun Kalyanpur examines a scan of the skull of a six-year-old boy who fell off his bicycle. A few minutes later, thousands of miles away ...
• Newer vaccine may be better for polio hot spots
Food and Drug Administration officials Ellie Ehrenfeld and Konstantin Chumakov wrote in a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine, where two studies on the three-year-old vaccine appear. "One can get much more immunity from the monovalent ...
• Financial crisis' victim No. 1: the world's poor
GENEVA - The world's poorest people will be hungrier, sicker and have fewer jobs as a result of the global financial crisis, and cash-strapped aid agencies will be less able to help, aid groups are warning. The charities that provide food, medicine ...
• Depression hikes death rate after heart attack
NEW YORK - In people who have suffered a heart attack, depression and a high heart rate at night, while often coexistent, are independent predictors of death, according to research published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. Dr. Robert M. Carney ...
• B vitamins fail to slow Alzheimer's decline
Lon Schneider of the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, another of the researchers, said the study did not look at whether lowering homocysteine much earlier in life would prevent or delay Alzheimer's. Amyloid beta ...