Day: February 15, 2010

  © 2010 iStockphoto.com/Janusz Kwasny Cigarette smoking is a well-known risk factor for type 2 diabetes, but new research from Johns Hopkins suggests that quitting the habit may raise diabetes risk in the short term. The researchers suspect the elevated…

Whether the result of injury, illness or a chronic condition, 70 million Americans experience pain annually. The individual pain sufferer may experience a diminished quality of life, lack of mobility and added stress. For the country as a whole, pain…

A gene commonly studied by cancer researchers has been linked to the metabolic inflammation that leads to type 1 diabetes. Understanding how the gene works means scientists may be closer to finding ways to prevent or cure diabetes, according to…

  Jeffrey Janis According to a landmark case review by Jeffrey E. Janis, MD, associate professor and program director in the department of plastic surgery at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and several of his colleagues, hemicorporectomy, or translumbar…

The Amputee Coalition of America (ACA) is now accepting applications for the second annual Christina Skoski, MD Scholarship until March 15. The fund will once again award a one-time, $1,000 scholarship to a student with limb loss who has a…

  Jose R. Ramos Iraq war veteran and legislative research specialist Jose R. Ramos has joined The Board of Directors of The Board of Certification/Accreditation, International (BOC). Ramos will serve as their public member, responsible for representing both the direct…

Union Army surgeon, Major John H. Brinton exhumed a soldier and ran a still to improve military medicine.

  Source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Osteoarthritis (OA) raised aggregate annual medical care expenditures in the United States by $185.5 billion according to researchers from Stony Brook University. Results of the cost analysis study are published in the December issue…

International Diabetes Federation (IDF) reinforces its support to translational research in diabetes with the second round of its funding program, Bringing Research in Diabetes to Global Environments and Systems (BRIDGES). Nine new diabetes research projects will be funded for a…

  According to CMS, spending slowed on nearly all fronts including hospital spending. Source: National Health Expenditure Accounts. Nominal health spending in the United States grew 4.4% in 2008, to $2.3 trillion or $7,681 per person. This was the slowest…