Posted by: admin on: July 7, 2011
If you woke up one day with an earache, you could call your doctor’s office for help. Or you could do what the majority of patients do today and Google what to do first. Type “earache” into your Web browser and the results can vary wildly. Search engines can return results saying that an earache can […]
Posted by: admin on: July 7, 2011
Ultrasound scans should only be used for patients at high risk of stroke, advisory says There isn’t sufficient evidence to recommend widespread screening or routine ultrasound tests to check for blocked neck arteries that could cause a stroke. That’s one key finding from new guidelines on the care of the clogged arteries, released Jan. 31 […]
Posted by: admin on: July 7, 2011
One commonly heard propositions to combat the obesity epidemic is to tax soft drinks. No doubt, sugary soft drinks are a common and important source of “empty” calories, but will taxing soft drinks really reduce obesity rates? This assumption was now examined by Yale University’s Jason Fletcher and colleagues, in a paper just published in […]