IN SPITE OF scientific and medical advances in recent years, the AIDS pandemic remains the greatest public health crisis of our time. Each day 6,000 people die of AIDS and there are 7,000 new infections. These statistics are difficult to comprehend until you see the faces of those most often affected - young women, between [...]
If you didn’t get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award in school, the government is giving you another chance to prove you’re in shape.
An adult fitness test is being introduced Wednesday by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. It will incorporate several of the exercises that millions of students undertake each year as they [...]
ATLANTA - About 1 in 50 infants in the U.S. have been neglected or abused, according to the first national study of the problem in that age group. Nearly a third of the victims were one week old or younger when the maltreatment was reported, government researchers said Thursday. The study focused on children younger [...]
They suggest that breast-fed infants with this condition may need vitamin D supplements.
Soft skull bones, also known as craniotabes, in normal newborns is usually regarded as no cause for alarm, but Dr Tohru Yorifuji at Kyoto University Hospital and colleagues dispute this in their report in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. They point [...]
Mexico has long attracted American travelers looking for cut-rate cosmetic surgery or dental work, and countries like Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines continue to lure medical tourists as well.
But India%26#8212;15 hours away from the U.S. by plane%26#8212;is fast becoming the destination of choice for patients seeking complicated high-end procedures they can’t afford or can’t [...]
A growing body of recent research points to the answer: Babies born in the 34th through 36th week of a woman’s pregnancy are at a much higher risk of medical complications than infants delivered at full term, or after 37 weeks. Although most of [...]
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been raging along the Wasatch Front. But there are signs the common respiratory illness, which can be dangerous for very young children, may have peaked for the season.
RSV cases confirmed by the Intermountain Healthcare Central Lab reached 230 a week [...]
BOSTON - Investigators probing the source of a listeria outbreak said Thursday the strain that killed three people was found at a dairy processing plant in central Massachusetts. But officials have not yet determined exactly where the milk was contaminated.
“We know that there’s a problem in that plant and we have connected the patients to [...]
