Tag: Health & Medicine

Master Sgt. Lyle Babcock. Photograph by Sgt. 1st Class Mark Hanson/Kansas National Guard Visual Information. Although post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ...

World wakesurf champion Drew Danielo, BoardCo.com, and Texas Ski Ranch (TSR) teamed up on Saturday, April 18, to host Central ...

More than 100 drugs have been approved to treat cancer, but predicting which ones will help a particular patient is ...

Sorto uses the robotic arm to make a smoothie. Photograph by Spencer Kellis, courtesy of Caltech. Erik Sorto, who is ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics & Prosthetics (NAAOP) announced that responding to pressure from individuals with amputations, ...

Kevin Carroll, MS, CP, FAAOP, vice president of prosthetics, Hanger Clinic, Austin, Texas, delivered the undergraduate commencement address to students ...

Older people may become depressed as they face the many challenges aging brings, but spotting the signs and being proactive ...

Medical experts widely recommend a combined program of diet and fitness to fight obesity. But when it comes to the ...

AARP Senior Vice President Joyce Rogers released the following statement on the GOP budget agreement: "AARP disagrees with portions of ...

With fewer primary care physicians in the nation's countryside, rural healthcare in America is beginning to look a lot less ...

Imagine a hand-held electronic device-accessible, portable, and nearly universal-that could reduce pain and discomfort for patients and allow doctors the ...

Your rehabilitation after an amputation will require a lot of effort and the assistance of your healthcare team. As the ...

Yoga has gained traction in the past two decades. It’s everywhere. And perhaps nowhere is it more relevant, or needed, than ...

Country music artist Tim McGraw is traveling the country to urge people with type 2 diabetes to get their blood ...

A new clinical trial is being conducted by Emory University's Saint Joseph's Hospital interventional radiologist J. David Prologo, MD, to ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often thought of as a symptom of warfare, major catastrophes, and assault. It's rarely considered ...

Researchers from the Yale Cancer Center and the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System have devised a way to ...

Losing as little as 30 minutes of sleep per day on weekdays can have long-term consequences for body weight and ...

From left: Shawn and Dan Winer spearheaded lab work that could redefine diabetes as an autoimmune illness rather than a ...

New Study Finds that High-Cocoa Chocolate Accelerates Weight Loss Can you indulge your sweet tooth and lose weight at the ...

A comprehensive study examining clinical trials of more than 95,000 patients has found that some glucose- or sugar-lowering medications prescribed ...

For all their lethality, cancer cells don't look much different from healthy cells, a simple fact that causes endless pain ...

A six-hour PBS documentary series, Ken Burns Presents Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, will premiere nationwide March 30, March ...

Having a high sense of purpose in life may lower your risk of heart disease and stroke, according to a ...

Even though an estimated 3 million Americans are living with type 1 diabetes and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Charles Schumer (D-NY) have authored the "Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act." The bill will ...

Amplitude Media Group (AMG)-a leading information source for amputees, their family members, and their caregivers-is proud to announce the launch ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of three of the nation's most important programs for seniors-Medicare, Medicaid, and the Older ...

The Amputee Coalition is accepting applications for the Kathy Spozio Bridge to Ability Scholarship. The scholarship provides full conference registration ...

Physicians often blame patient demands for contributing to high medical costs. A new study involving more than 5,000 patient-clinician visits ...

Researchers at Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, have received a grant, OR120021, from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Congressionally ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that it has awarded prime contracts for Phase 1 of its Hand ...

Blood pressure (BP)-lowering treatment among patients with type 2 diabetes is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) ...

The recommendation that adults should get 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week may be too ambitious for many middle-aged ...

Doctors who treat cancer are vigilant when it comes to the physical side effects of the therapies they prescribe, but ...

If you haven't already experienced telemedicine, you may soon have the option. Technology is helping people connect with their physicians ...

The February 2015 issue of Prosthetics and Orthotics International (POI) is devoted to the prevention and management of foot complications ...

Sylvia M. Burwell, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced that Medicare payments to doctors, ...

While smokers are likely to hear dozens of reasons why they should quit - ranging from wrinkles to cancer - ...

New Print Publication Will Help Close Information Gap for Amputees Amplitude Media Group (AMG) is proud to announce the publication ...

New Print Publication Will Help Close Information Gap for Amputees Amplitude Media Group (AMG) is proud to announce the publication ...

On December 19, 2014, President Barack Obama signed into law the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act. This law ...

The U.S. Department of Defense identifies mild traumatic brain injury, or mTBI, as one of the signature injuries impacting veterans ...

Photograph courtesy of UNTHSC After diabetes took part of her left leg, Jackie Smith, 66, worried whether she would ever ...

In another demonstration of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, a woman with quadriplegia used just her thoughts to shape the hand ...

The promise of a new year sparks the desire to get healthy-a goal Karin Richards, chair of the kinesiology program ...

As part of the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) ongoing effort to improve veterans' access to healthcare, VA is announcing ...

In results characterized as "very surprising," University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers found for the first time that higher-earning ...

Saint Louis University (SLU) researcher Daniela Salvemini, PhD, and colleagues within SLU, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other ...

People diagnosed with diabetes in midlife are more likely to experience significant memory and cognitive problems during the next 20 ...