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  • Soaring temperatures can affect quality of pills Doctors

    Extreme heat can affect medicines and these can become life threatening for those using them, doctors said Thursday. "Quality of medicines can deteriorate during summers because of high temperatures. As most medicines are designed to be stored at normal room temperatures, no drug should be exposed to temperatures higher than 86 degrees fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius)," the Delhi Medical ...

  • Russian nurses pose with seriously ill patients

    A nurse poses with a seriously ill patient.(Photo:Agencies) Work in a hospital is never easy. To withstand difficult days at work, nurses have to treat it differently, to pose around people so bad ill that can't move and then post it online. This is how these medical workers from the Perm region of Russia explained these photos which had appeared in social networks. ...

  • Coalition govt would review Medicare Local

    THE coalition will conduct a formal review of Medicare Local if it's elected in this year's federal election. Speaking at the Australian Medical Association (AMA) conference in Sydney on Friday, opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton said questions remained over the role of Medicare locals, the 61 organisations set up by Labor to co-ordinate primary care. "Some Medicare locals ...

  • Hickenlooper shifts funds to cover health exchange

    On Wednesday, Colorado's health benefit exchange got a substantial number of participants. And on Thursday, it officially got its funding source. Gov. John Hickenlooper signed House Bill 1245, sponsored by Rep. Beth McCann, D-Denver, which gives to the exchange $23.5 million over the next two years that had been used to fund the soon-to-be-defunct Cover Colorado health insurance program. The ...

  • Denver federal appeals court hears Hobby Lobbys religious objection to Obamacare contraception provision

    The Byron White U.S. Courthouse in Denver. A Denver-based court's decision on whether Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. may refuse to provide contraceptive coverage to employees under the federal health care reform law may hinge on whether for-profit companies have the same rights as nonprofits and sole proprietors to say that a federal law places a substantial burden on owners' ability to follow ...

Movie Review

Little Nicky

At this point in his movie career, Adam Sandler has mostly played either one of two roles: obnoxious, irresponsible loudmouths (Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy) or shy, inept losers (The Waterboy). In his most recent film, Little Nicky, Sandler conforms to the latter of these two types: Yes, even when Sandler plays the spawn of Satan, he still plays him as an infantile ... ...

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  • Mother in labor during tornado reunited with nurses

    Thanks to the quick work of Moore, Okla., nurses, Shayla Taylor was able to safely deliver her son Braeden Immanuel - who is now nicknamed 'Twister.' NBC's Ron Mott ...

  • Doctors save baby’s life with 3D-printed tracheal implant

    today, two doctors from the University of Michigan described how they saved an infant with a life-threatening respiratory disorder using a custom-designed 3D-printed device. Printed with bio-absorbable plastic, the device is holding the child's airway open and allowing him to breathe normally. The child, Kaiba Gionfriddo, suffered from tracheobrochomalacia--a collapse of the airway to one ...

  • Doctors save Ohio boy by ‘printing’ an airway tube

    In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby who used to stop breathing nearly every day. It’s the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine, making body parts in the lab. In the case of Kaiba Gionfriddo, doctors didn’t have a moment to spare. Because of a birth defect, the Ohio ...

  • Medicare Advantage cost U.S. taxpayer $283 billion extra

    Medicare recipients attend at a news conference celebrating the 46th anniversary of Medicare in Washington on July 27, 2011. A study found private insurers cherry-pick healthier beneficiaries who cost less to care for, guaranteeing large profits -- although private plans must accept all seniors who choose to enroll, they cherry-pick by selectively recruiting the healthiest seniors through ...

  • Texas Medical Association launches physician services group

    Dr. Russell Kridel, president of Harris County Medical Society, said the new physician group will provide doctors with tools to provide better and more efficient care. The Texas Medical Association has teamed up with some of the states largest medical societies to create the Physician Services Organization for Patient Care. The organization aims to deliver tools to help physicians perform better ...

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