Day: August 22, 2011

Something in our diets may be contributing to type-2 diabetes and it is not sugar. A new study suggests pesticide residues. This is not the first time “persistent organic pollutants” have been linked to diabetes. In fact, many of these…

A quality improvement program that saves lives by dramatically reducing potentially lethal bloodstream infections in hospital intensive-care units across the state of Michigan also saves those hospitals an average of $1.1 million a year, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. As…

Women with 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels greater than 33 ng/mL are seven times more likely to benefit from bisphosphonate therapy compared with women with lower levels, according to researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery. “Maintaining adequate vitamin D levels above those…