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| | Total expenses, including prescriptions, average more than $9,000 a year, U.S. study finds | WEDNESDAY, June 15 Medical advances have enabled roughly 12 million U.S. cancer patients to look beyond survival and plan for the future. But for many of these survivors, the future includes high medical costs, researchers say. In fact, researchers from Penn State fo... » Read the full article |
| | Inadequate cleansing results in high miss rate, researchers say | WEDNESDAY, June 15 Inadequate bowel-cleansing before a colonoscopy can result in high miss rates for precancerous polyps (adenomas) and a need for earlier repeat tests, a new study finds. "Our findings of a miss rate of 42 percent for all adenomas and 27 percent for ... » Read the full article |
| | Seniors who preferred the oil had 41% drop in the attacks vs. those who rarely ate it | WEDNESDAY, June 15 Adding olive oil to your diet may reduce your risk of stroke, a new study suggests. Researchers found that older people who used olive oil intensively -- meaning they regularly cooked with it and used it in salad dressing -- were 41 percent less li... » Read the full article |
| | Children thrived after results found they had a subtype of disease requiring different treatment | WEDNESDAY, June 15 Twins with a rare disorder that left one of them unable to walk are now playing soccer and running track, thanks in part to cutting-edge technology known as whole-genome sequencing that enabled physicians to better treat the disorder. Soon after Al... » Read the full article |
| | Polycystic ovarian syndrome affects up to 10 percent of women, many of them overweight or obese | WEDNESDAY, June 15 Weight-loss surgery may reverse a common cause of infertility in women, a small, new study suggests. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal imbalance that affects up to 10 percent of women of child-bearing age. An estimated one-third to o... » Read the full article |
| | More than half said they'd consider being a stay-at-home dad if financially feasible | WEDNESDAY, June 15 Most working fathers say they want to share child-raising duties equally with their spouse/partner, but a lot of them admit that they aren't actually doing so, a new survey shows. The findings suggest that many dads are conflicted about finding a w... » Read the full article |
| | Complications, deaths far more likely in patients sent home on same day as gastric bypass, study finds | WEDNESDAY, June 15 Weight loss surgery patients who are discharged from the hospital too soon after undergoing gastric bypass have an increased risk of complications and death, a new study has found. After analyzing data from nearly 52,000 gastric bypass patients, r... » Read the full article |
| | Depressed or not, patients who had the operation lost about 60% of excess weight, study finds | WEDNESDAY, June 15 Being depressed doesn't reduce the effectiveness of weight loss surgery, a new study finds. University of Michigan researchers analyzed data from more than 25,469 patients who had weight loss surgery and found that patie... » Read the full article |
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