MEDICINE

Every year, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America ranks 100 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. from worst to best. This is based on how challenging it is for persons with asthma to live there. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America thinks of wide range of factors like the asthma rate, pollen counts, air quality and the number of asthma specialists found in the area.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is asking metal hip manufacturing companies for a safety data regarding the products they have. There have been concerns of cobalt and chromium ions released into the bloodstream.

The oldest medical school in the U.S. named the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine received a remarkable donation of $225 million from Raymond Perelman and his wife. By far, it is the largest single donation to the institution for the past 246 years.

A recent study from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health finds a link between frequent business travel and obesity.

Dallas Wiens, 26, of Texas, who had previously come to terms with a vastly deformative injury which virtually erased his face, expressed gratitude to the family of his new face's donor and doctors remarked on his transformation as he made his first public appearance after becoming the first recipient of a full facial transplant in the United States.

A new app is able to diagnose a stroke with the same accuracy as a medical computer workstation.

A new portable tool allows medical professionals to make a stroke diagnosis on a patient wherever they are with almost as much accuracy as being in the hospital.

Wedbush Securities said that among the companies it covered in Life Sciences this week Chelsea Therapeutics International Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHTP) and Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: PCRX) are reporting earnings.

The Global Marijuana March (GMM) is a yearly rally taking place at different locations across the world.

Excess body is one of the most annoying problems of most overweight and obese individuals. One must consider that body weight composes of the muscle, bone and fat. Twelve percent of a woman's body is bones. The 35% belongs to the muscles and the 27% percent of the entire body weight is body fat.

Salt is used in almost all dishes. It's a vital ingredient not to mention, a good seasoning and preservative. The table salt comprises of sodium chloride mixed with iodine sources, iodine stabilizers and anti-caking compounds. Salt is important for the body because it helps balance the fluid content in the body.

If you enjoy munching on burgers, pizzas, junk food and other unhealthy dishes, you are likely to die of a massive stroke. If you don't change your eating habit, you will die at a young age. It's ok to indulge in such junk however; constant intake of it isn't healthy. You have to decide now that you will devour on foods that is good for your heart.

If a man under 60 has an early prostate cancer, he must have the surgery for a higher chance of survival. Before digging deeper about prostate cancer surgery, you first need to know about the prostate. It is an organ placed right at the base of a man's urinary bladder. It encloses the first portion of the urethra. Its key function is to create the nutrients that semen should have like the minerals and sugar. Without the prostate, a man is unable to reproduce.

An electronic health record or otherwise known as the electronic patient record has changed the whole concept of gathering health records of patients. As a matter of fact,

Diabetes is brought about by the high levels of glucose in the blood. The most common type would be the Type 2 diabetes. Put it this way, there is something wrong with how your body makes use of insulin. Insulin is a component capable of moving blood sugar into the cells throughout the body. Not only that, insulin is where the sugar is stored and used up for energy.

To prevent osteoporosis from happening, some people resort to the use of bone-building drugs like bisphosphonates. They are the kind of drugs that can help reduce the possibility of losing bone mass. They are coined as such because it contains two phosphonate groups.

Are you one of those individuals who have hard time sleeping? If you are, you need to know something about the relationship between your glucose levels and sleeping pattern.

Kelsey was a recent graduate from a speech and hearing sciences program and was seeking to enter the field in an administrative or customer service capacity while she figured out what the next step in her education/career would be. Kelsey explained that she wanted to keep her résumé fairly broad in nature and hadn't focused on her background in speech and hearing sciences as she wanted to keep as many of her options open as possible.

According to a new research, many babies from the United States are fed with teas or herbal supplements.

Current European research poses a challenge to the well known fact that an increase in salt intake results to cardiovascular diseases.

According to a study which focused on twins from Sweden, dementia and carrying extra pounds are linked together. This study focused on twins for a span of 30 years. It has been claimed that having those extra pounds while on the middle age years has become riskier to develop dementia.