15-08-07 Y gastric bypass surgery reached certain blood alcohol concentrations in half the number of drinks compared to women who didn't have the surgery, and reported a greater feeling of drunkenness, according to a study published online by JAMA Surgery. R...

15-07-06 I'm sorry, Madam, but I shall have to charge you twenty dollars for pulling your boy's tooth. Twenty dollars! Why, I understand you to say that you charged only four dollars for such work! Yes, but this youngster yelled so terribly that he scared fo...

15-06-26 Two more deaths connected to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome are being reported in South Korea. 据报道，韩国又有两例中东呼吸综合症患者已经死亡。 Jeong Eun-kyeong with the South Korean Disease Prevention Center updated the figures earlier today. As...

15-05-27 Cognitive impairment predicts worse outcome in elderly heart failure patients, reveals research presented today at Heart Failure 2015 by Hiroshi Saito, a physiotherapist at Kameda Medical Centre in Kamogawa, Japan. Patients with cognitive impairment...

15-05-25 Results from a new nationwide survey announced today indicate a steady increase in the number of pediatric patients who are being treated with proton radiation therapy for cancerous and non-cancerous tumors. The research, led by Andrew L. Chang, M.D...

15-05-12 Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is a common treatment option for patients with advanced stage prostate cancer. But nearly 80 percent of patients who receive ADT report experiencing hot flashes during and after treatment. Moffitt Cancer Center res...

15-05-06 Among patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) who recovered following standard treatment with the antibiotics metronidazole or vancomycin, oral administration of spores of a strain of C difficile that does not produce toxins colonized th...

15-03-25 A study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that patients who go home after knee replacement and receive physical therapy at home do as well as those who go to an in-patient rehabilitation facility. There's a common belief tha...

15-03-25 France is one step closer to legalizing euthanasia after approving a bill that allows doctors to sedate terminally ill patients until they die. 法国下议院日前通过了一项提案，允许医生给身患绝症、无法治愈的病人注射镇静剂直至其死亡。这意味着法国离安乐...

15-03-19 Researchers have defined a new bodily process in mice that may explain why blood oxygen levels are lower for patients with cystic fibrosis when they get a lung infection. Infected areas of the lung are not as capable as healthy tissue at adding oxyg...