1. Thou shalt not eat canned soup Commercial canned soup is mostly salt and fat and pretty much nutrition-free. Some soups with the words “chunky,” “hearty” or “healthy” in the name have less sodium and a few more over-cooked vegetables, but they are terribly expensive...

According to a pooled analysis of 18 prior studies, sex hormones in the bloodstream seem not to be linked to prostate cancer risk. The researchers found no organization amidst circulating levels of different forms of testosterone or estrogen and prostate cancer risk. Original post by Dentistry News...

Cadmium exposure is a known risk factor for prostate cancer, and a new University of Rochester study suggests that zinc may offer protection against cadmium.In an commentary published in the February 2008 journal, The Prostate, epidemiologist Edwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., reports that PSA levels were...

According to research, only eight percent of Americans successfully achieve their New Year’s resolution.1 Here’s one resolution that’s easy to achieve and will keep working for you expanded after the year is by – taking the instance to give your insurance coverage a check up as...

LivHOME, the nation’s largest provider of professionally led at-home care for seniors, has released a new episode of The Senior Care Podcast by LivHOME that discusses caring for seniors with dementia. In Episode 4, LivHOME Chief Professional Officer Steve Barlam describes common caregiving mistakes...

Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA announced that the Portuguese Ministry of Health and Anadial, the national organization of privately run dialysis centers, agreed on a new reimbursement model for ambulatory care to hemodialysis patients. The new model “Comprehensive Price Payment”...

Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB:AEMD), a pioneer in developing therapeutic devices for infectious disease, disclosed that it has filed a provisional patent submission entitled, “Method and Apparatus for Increasing Contaminant Clearance Rates during Extracorporeal Fluid Treatment,” with the U.S....

What: Beta-thalassemia is a serious, potentially life-threatening disease that affects red blood cells, cells that carry oxygen via hemoglobin all through the body. As part of the SardiNIA Study of Aging, supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a component of the National Institutes of Health,...

Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced the FDA approval of a new physician-use continual glucose monitoring (CGM) system, the CGMS® iPro™ Recorder. Physicians send patients domestic with the CGMS iPro Recorder to uncover patterns and potential problems that often go undetected with today’s standard...

Mobile Aspects announced that the Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Disease (CCSHD) at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, has agreed to install iRISupply™, a clinical resource management system that manages medical devices and supplies through radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Original...

A protein has been found that influences the response of the heart to a lack of oxygen and blood flow, such as occurs during a heart attack, a team of Yale School of Medicine researchers report in Nature.that finding may present a new therapeutic approach to treating loss of blood flow and oxygen to...