Health Care Law Battle Moves to Appeals Courts
A hearing Tuesday marks the start of a five-week stretch of federal appellate hearings on the constitutionality of the new U.S. health care law.
Tuesday’s hearing involves the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit considering two contradictory rulings made by lower courts, The New York Times reported.
In […]

A team from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm tracked more than 12,000 patients who underwent primary bariatric surgery between 1980 and 2006. The patients were matched against a control group of nearly 123,000 patients from the general population.
The study found there was greater risk of hospitalization for depression, attempted suicide, substance abuse and alcoholism […]

A pulmonary embolism (PE) is a potentially life-threatening blood clot in the lungs. CTPA was introduced in 1998 to improve detection of PE and its use has grown rapidly, according to background information in the study by Boston University School of Medicine researchers.
The investigators compared data about PE in U.S. adults before (1993-1998) and after […]

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Popular Football Helmets Might Not Protect Against Concussion
Two models of football helmets popular with teen players might not provide sufficient protection against concussion, according to researchers.
Using a new test designed to estimate concussion risk, the Virginia Tech group assessed […]

Among the anesthetics in short supply were:

Neostigmine (57 percent)
Thiopental (55 percent)
Succinylcholine (48 percent)
Propofol (40 percent)
Glycopyrrolate (17 percent)

In most cases, the drug shortages forced anesthesiologists to change the way they cared for their patients. In fact, more than 91 percent of respondents used substitute medications. Meanwhile, roughly 10 percent of […]

Once production ends, later this year, the companies will sell just one formula for all children under the age of 12. Companies such as Johnson

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Among the parents or primary caregivers of those children, about 97 percent were proficient in English and the rest had limited English proficiency. The parents/caregivers with poorer English were more likely to be Hispanic and either uninsured or covered by Medicaid.
The median length of hospital stay for all patients was about four days, but was […]

However, the study authors did find that living within 5 miles of fast food restaurants was associated with higher calorie intake among women and men younger than age 55, even after adjustments were made for individual socioeconomic status. Specifically, men consumed 138 more calories and women consumed 58 more calories.
“Our results suggested that, especially among […]

Uncomplicated appendicitis may be treated with antibiotics alone, but complicated appendicitis, where the appendix is perforated, requires surgery, and it is difficult to discern between the two, the researchers say.
“With the current technology, it is not possible to distinguish between uncomplicated and complicated appendicitis,” stated lead researcher Dr. Corinne Vons, of the Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de […]