Tag: Health & Medicine

Research into Better and Less-Toxic Treatments More Important than Ever Stuart Siegel, MD. Photograph courtesy of CHLA. Fifty years ago, ...

As they approached their golden years, one problem Philip and Ruth Barash didn't foresee was having to struggle through their ...

Study Finds Little Difference in Effectiveness between Branded Diets Amputees who have an increased risk for weight gain because of ...

Exclusive live coverage from Amplitude. Winter the dolphin made an appearance at the blue carpet event. Photographs by Laura Fonda ...

Several nationally recognized organizations are coming together to sponsor a full-day conference that will highlight and mainstream the work of ...

Healthcare providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers in 2012-many more in some states than in others-according to a ...

The preview issue of Amplitude has been printed and will be sent the first week of September with the current ...

A new study suggests that uric acid may play a role in causing metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors ...

On August 23, Kim De Roy, CPO, PT, set a world record by an athlete with a transtibial amputation at ...

Working-age adults with disabilities who do not get any aerobic physical activity are 50 percent more likely than their active ...

Running May Reduce Risk of Death for Amputees Regardless of Duration, Speed Running for only a few minutes a day ...

A new study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which was published in The Lancet ...

Most Amputations Are Preventable with Earlier Medical Care, Researchers Say It's no secret that poverty is bad for your health. ...

The Amputee Coalition has named three new members to its Scientific & Medical Advisory Committee (SciMAC). Deb Velez, BSN, MN, ...

Dudley S. Childress, PhD, passed away on August 6, after a long illness. He was 79. Childress was born on ...

The preview issue of Amplitude, magazine will be published this month and will be mailed with the September issue of ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics & Prosthetics (NAAOP) has issued the following legislative alert: Congress is poised ...

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have pinpointed a mechanism in part of the brain that is key to sensing ...

Obesity expert Mohammad Emran, MD, has seen people try everything under the sun to lose weight. In his new book, ...

Adults with a disability are more likely to be obese or extremely obese than those without a disability, according to ...

"A good doctor-patient relationship is essential to achieving the best possible care, but the reality is, most doctors have less ...

According to the Caregiver Action Network, there are approximately 90 million family caregivers in the U.S. today, and two out ...

A new study shows that people with limb loss who were treated in inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and units had better ...

As Independence Day nears, emergency departments and trauma centers nationwide are already beginning to treat patients injured by fireworks. According ...

Posted June 27, 2014 If you want good health, a long life, and to feel your best well into old ...

Studies Show More Sprawl Associated with Higher Incidence of Poor Health Outcomes Posted June 24, 2014 People who live in ...

Posted June 24, 2014 People who increased the amount of coffee they drank each day by more than one cup ...

Posted June 20, 2014 Camps for children with disabilities or life-threatening illnesses can provide fantastic social and self-affirming opportunities for ...

New Study Shows that People with Type 2 Diabetes Might Be Misdiagnosed for Depression Posted June 18, 2014 Researchers have ...

Prevention efforts crucial to combat serious health risks. Posted June 16, 2014 More than 29 million people in the United ...

Posted June 13, 2014 In May, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the marketing of the DEKA Arm ...

Posted June 5, 2014 The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) released a new video webcast ...

Posted April 1, 2014 Nearly two million Americans currently live with limb loss, according to the Amputee Coalition, and that ...

Posted November 19, 2014 The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has initiated the Prosthetics Patch 101 Program with the ...

Posted November18, 2013 A researcher at Nova Southeastern University (NSU), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been awarded a three-year, nearly $1 ...