Day June 12, 2016

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s 88-year-old king, the world’s longest reigning monarch, has shown signs of improvement following surgery for narrowing of the arteries, the palace said in a statement on Sunday. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, has been…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he will meet with his rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday to press her to embrace his progressive agenda, saying he wants to know what she will stand for if she…

A woman from West Africa who survived the Ebola virus has met the Winnipeg researchers who developed the drug that saved her life. Junietta Macauley got a tour of the National Microbiology Lab Friday afternoon. “Thank you, thank you, thank you, that’s all I could…

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“As with humans, there are individual differences in mice; for example, in cholesterol metabolism or susceptibility to metabolic disorders such as fatty liver,” says Evan Williams, one of the two lead authors of the study, which has been published in…

Florida health officials were calling Sunday for blood donations following a shooting massacre in Orlando, where at least 50 people were killed and dozens more injured. “Dozens of people have been injured and taken to area hospitals. The need for…

Image copyrightGoogle Image caption The CQC said the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth was failing to ensure the safety of emergency patients Health inspectors have condemned a “chaotic” hospital emergency department which they said was failing to keep patients safe.…

A new study finds that the majority of mental health professionals believe firearm safety issues are greater among mentally ill people, yet they do not screen their clients for firearms or provide firearm safety counseling. The public and politicians have…

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Pennsylvania and China, report that not only are there distinct differences in key cellular processes and molecular signatures between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA) but,…

European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2016) confirmed a clear association between depression symptom severity and the level of disease activity and disability in adolescent patients with juvenile inflammatory arthritis (JIA). These findings highlight the importance of psychological health…

RELATED: 7 Reasons to Switch Your Birth Control Melissa F., 20, Louisiana Melissa was on the Pill for three years, but ultimately had to go off it because her insurance wouldn’t cover it. “I started noticing more acne all over…

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A video posted by LiveGlam (@liveglam.co) on Apr 27, 2016 at 5:12pm PDT 2. Butt What’s that saying? Don’t put a bumper sticker on a Ferrari? Well, don’t put a bumper sticker on your bumper, either. We watched the most…

By Eleanor McDermid The addition of the glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist liraglutide improves short-term outcomes and treatment satisfaction in patients who have uncontrolled Type 2 diabetes despite high doses of insulin, shows a randomised trial. The 35 patients assigned…

By Shreeya Nanda Research presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual conference suggests that consolidation therapy with tandem compared with single myeloablative autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) can improve outcomes in paediatric patients with high-risk neuroblastoma. However, Julie…

By Eleanor McDermid The benefits of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) outweigh the risks in acute stroke patients treated within 4.5 hours of symptom onset, reports the Stroke Thrombolysis Trialists’ Collaboration. The meta-analysis of individual patient data involved 6756 participants…

By Eleanor McDermid Patients hospitalised with acute heart failure (HF) who achieve good haemoconcentration in addition to a robust diuretic response are unlikely to be rehospitalised within the following 2 months, research suggests. Adriaan Voors (University Medical Center Groningen, the…

Once, during the Winter Olympics, I watched the women’s ice skating competition on television and observed where the skaters placed their focus. Whether consciously or unconsciously, when a skater was focused in the third eye (the center of focus and…

Travel costs that could dissuade potential kidney donors from volunteering for life-saving transplants will be reimbursed by the nation’s biggest insurer starting next year in a move designed to encourage more donations. UnitedHealth Group says that it will pay back…

Kirk Smith poses for a photograph on June 8, 2016, in Lufkin, Texas. Smith’s insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, is the only insurer in his county and it is requesting average premium increases of nearly 60 percent…

IMAGE: Hagop Kantarjian, M.D. view more Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center In a randomized Phase III study of the drug inotuzumab ozogamicin, a statistically significant percentage of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) whose disease had relapsed following standard therapies, qualified…

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Crohn’s is an inflammatory disease of the digestive tract. No one knows for sure what triggers the lifelong condition, but it typically begins in younger people between ages 15 and 45. The intestinal inflammation leaves sufferers with pain, abdominal cramps,…

Special Skills: Knows everyone’s comings and goings, and can cover your ass when you’re running lateYour Best Move: Offer to grab her a coffee if you’re going out for one. Learn about her family because she probably knows about yours…

The U.S. healthcare system, the most expensive in the world, uses vast amounts of energy in the form of heating, electricity, and energy-intensive goods and services. It has been estimated that the healthcare sector contributes 8% of the nation’s greenhouse…

When she was in her early 30s, Karen “Duff” Duffy, best known as an MTV VJ in the ‘90s, went from enjoying awards shows to suddenly realizing she’d taken a whole bottle of painkillers. The actress and former Revlon model’s…

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By Astrid Zweynert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Britain must stick to its international aid spending target despite criticism about transparency and efficiency to ensure it can lift millions of people out of poverty, a group of 20 British aid…

One doctor delivered test results to Prince’s home. Another sent his son, who wasn’t a physician, on a cross-country flight to bring medication to the music star. It’s not clear if any doctor could have averted the fentanyl overdose that…