As Olympians push their bodies to the extreme during the upcoming Winter Games in Vancouver, professional and amateur sports enthusiasts alike will be watching their favorite televised sports…
Campaigners throughout the United Kingdom are to take part in a protest by taking a mass overdose of homeopathic medicine as part of a national bid to prove that the medicines are worthless…
The past decade has seen a significant reduction in the number and severity of spinal cord injuries in Canadian ice hockey, reports a study in the Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine…
UroToday.com - As we reviewed the best level of evidence concerning the use of Chinese medicine in urinary stone disease in the English language Literature to accomplish this paper, we also faced the barrier imposed by the lack of knowledge of other languages such as Mandarim or Japanese…
Clean Water Needs To Be Priority For Haiti “Long before the earthquake, Haiti was mired in a crisis that only a few experts noticed - a severe lack of clean drinking water,” writes Joseph Treaster, editor of the University of Miami’s Internet magazine on global water issues and the environment, in a Miami Herald opinion piece that examines the interconnectedness…
U.S. To Support Agricultural Technology Projects In Pakistan Bryan Hunt, the U.S. consulate general in Lahore, Pakistan, said Wednesday that the U.S. would help Pakistan with the development of agriculture technology aimed at boosting farmers’ productivity, the Nation reports. Hunt said agriculture technology is vital for increasing food security. “He said that the U.S…
The Sports Medicine Clinic at the University of Virginia Health System is using a cutting-edge therapy called platelet rich plasma (PRP) to help heal injured ligaments, tendons and muscles. PRP therapy has gained some national media attention because of its use in high-profile, professional athletes…
A new study by researchers at UCLA and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston suggests that improvements in air quality over the past decade have resulted in fewer cases of ear infections in children. Ear infections are one of the most common illnesses among children, with annual direct and indirect costs of $3 billion to $5 billion in the United States…
For many pregnant women, it’s inevitable. As their pregnancy progresses, tasks that involve the low back often get more difficult. It is harder to bend over, lift, sit or walk for long periods of time, and back pain increases…
Asthmatics with higher blood levels of vitamin D have better lung function than those with lower levels, according to new research from National Jewish Health, in Denver. The findings have been published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. E. Rand Sutherland, M.D., M.P…