בכתבה המתפרסמת בידיעות אחרונות בסוף שבוע זה, מעלה העיתון שורה של עיסקאות והתקשרויות אשר לכאורה קושרות את סמנכ”ל שרותי בריאות כללית, מוטי שטאובר במחדלים, אי

Patients are often the last to know that a drug has been recalled or that the products may have dangerous side effects, especially when taken

Drug firms have become the largest sponsors of medical research, generating vast amounts of valuable information through their efforts — but the companies’ enormous control

Excessive bleeding, a troublesome side-effect that causes many women to stop taking hormone replacement therapies (HRT), is less likely with progesterone than with more commonly

Drug firms have become the largest sponsors of medical research, generating vast amounts of valuable information through their efforts — but the companies’ enormous control

Dietary milk powder supplements can prevent bone loss in postmenopausal Chinese women for at least three years.  A previously published study showed that dietary supplements

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) receive about the same amount of care as those not in HMOs, but they are

Healthcare interest groups on Monday praised the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, highlighting his advocacy for the mentally ill, poor veterans, and other disenfranchised persons.

A strategy to quickly identify upper respiratory tract infections due to influenza may help reduce transmission of the virus, according to study findings presented here

Schering-Plough Corp. and Merck and Co. Inc. late on Friday announced that the US Food and Drug Administration had approved Zetia as a stand-alone cholesterol-lowering

Family physicians can learn to identify patients with obvious retinopathy with the right equipment, but they still need to refer patients with diabetes to eye

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending the use of alcohol-based hand rubs by healthcare workers and caretakers, according to new guidelines. The

Elderly women who use central nervous system (CNS)-active medications are at increased risk for falling compared with women not using such drugs.  Furthermore, investigators report

Giving atorvastatin every other day was as effective in lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels as giving it daily, according to a pilot study reported

Large percentages of doctors who likely have a high level of knowledge of gastrointestinal disease are making medical decisions unsupported by a strong basis in

כזכור, קיבלה הממשלה החלטה לחסן כ-15000 אנשי כוחות הצלה וביטחון, במטרה ליצור רזרבה חיסונית, ונוגדנים לטיפול במקרים של תופעות לואי, בעת שתחוסן כלל האוכלוסיה. אולם,

A combination of nebulized albuterol and magnesium is more effective than albuterol alone for children with mild to moderate asthma, according to a study presented

A brief self-management program aimed at patients hospitalized for acute asthma has helped to reduce morbidity and subsequent readmissions, Scottish researchers report in the October

New study data confirm the inverse association between heart disease risk and exercise–both aerobic and resistive–and go on to show that the risk steadily decreases

טענות אלה הושמעו אמש על ידי ח”כ נחום לנגנטל ואושרו ע”י סמנכ”ל משרד התחבורה. כ-300 תאונות דרכים בשנה נגרמות על ידי מצב של שכרות או