Warnings to at-risk drivers reduce vehicle crashes
Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:04 PM PDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A system where doctors routinely reported drivers who might be impaired by chronic illness cut the risk of car crashes by 45 percent in a new study from Ontario, Canada. That includes people with alcoholism, epilepsy or uncontrolled high blood pressure, researchers said. But one downside, the study found, is that people were less likely to go back to doctors who had ... |
Another 400 West Nile cases reported in U.S. in past week: CDC
Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:36 PM PDT
(Reuters) - More than 400 new U.S. cases of West Nile virus emerged in the last week, in an outbreak that remains the second worst on record but has begun to show signs of slowing. So far this year, 3,545 cases have been reported to federal health officials as of September 25, up from 3,142 reported the week before, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in its weekly update ... |
More Americans getting pacemakers
Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:08 PM PDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of Americans getting pacemakers implanted has risen in the past two decades - and the recipients are increasingly older and sicker, a new study finds. In 1993, there were about 121,300 pacemaker implantations in the U.S. By 2009, that number was 188,700 - a 56-percent increase. Most of the increase happened in the 1990s, researchers report in the Journal of ... |
Doctors don't always address high blood pressure
Reuters via Yahoo! News Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:07 PM PDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors sometimes miss the opportunity to better control their patients' high blood pressure, according to a new study. Researchers found that of 7,153 people with uncontrolled high blood pressure participating in a U.S. survey, only about 20 percent were prescribed new medications during doctors' visits. High blood pressure is a reading of 140/90 and above ... |
Yosemite hantavirus outbreak may offer clues to rare disease
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:16 AM PDT
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California researchers and public health officials have launched what they describe as a groundbreaking series of studies of a rare mouse-borne virus that has infected at least nine Yosemite National Park visitors, killing three of them, since June. By using the 1,200-square-mile (3,100-square-km) park and its rodent and human populations as a giant natural laboratory ... |
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