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

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 ...

The prosthetic skin attached to a prosthetic hand. Photograph courtesy of Jaemin Kim, Seoul National University, Korea. Researchers in South ...

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

A University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) professor applied robot control theory to enable powered lower-limb prostheses to dynamically ...

Photograph courtesy of NC State University. Powered lower-limb prosthetic devices hold promise for improving the mobility of amputees, but errors ...

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

From Thanksgiving through New Year's Day, the holidays can be fun and heartwarming. They can also be exhausting and stressful. ...

A special type of fat found in some people could be used to manage type 2 diabetes. Scientists from Monash ...

A team of researchers led by Conor L. Evans, PhD, assistant professor at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine of Massachusetts ...

Doctors at three leading research institutions and the American Diabetes Association report that treating patients with prediabetes as if they ...

Ortiz Catalan (left) and Brånemark (right) with the first patient treated with the osseointegrated implant system for neural control. Photographs ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The Amputee Coalition announced that Ashby (AJ) Henningsen, 20, of Baltimore, Maryland, is the recipient of the $1,000 Christina Skoski, ...

A new report from the National Disability Institute (NDI) shows that 24 years after the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act ...

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 ...

Whether you are a new amputee or have been one for a long time, participating in an amputee support group ...

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

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

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

Posted June 4, 2014 The nonprofit Amputee Golf Charities is currently accepting applications for the Henry Brown Memorial Educational Scholarship ...