Preventive Medicine News

A Loyola University Health System study has found that one out of five Type 2 diabetics is morbidly obese -- approximately 100 pounds or more overweight.

Controversy continues over the mammography guidelines released Monday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Last night NYAM inducted 132 new Fellows and Members and recognized 37 individuals who were celebrating their 30th anniversary as Fellows.

The Kensington Way by Stephen Twigg, a holistic health practitioner who counts the late Princess Diana among his clients, is a weight-loss program that relies on combining specific foods, rotating food choices, and using mind-body techniques - such as affirmations - to transform you from fat to fit.

Main Category: Smoking / Quit Smoking Also Included In: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture ; Preventive Medicine ; Public Health Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 - 6:00 PST Indoor smoking bans have forced smokers at bars and restaurants onto outdoor patios, but a new University of Georgia study in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Tried-and-true diuretics maintain their status as the best first-line treatment in older men and women with high blood pressure, new research concludes.

From the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health and Center of Human Development and Aging , University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, N.J.; Assaf Harofe Medical Center , Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Zerifin, Israel.

Men, especially black men, are at a relatively high risk of sudden cardiac death over their lifetime compared to women, a new study finds.

Main Category: Preventive Medicine Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 14 Nov 2009 Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a new public opinion survey that finds that 71 percent of Americans favor an increased investment in disease prevention and that disease prevention is one ...

Main Category: Sexual Health / STDs Also Included In: HIV / AIDS ; Pediatrics / Children's Health ; Preventive Medicine Article Date: 14 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST In the last 10 years, the St.

Klaus Berger MD, MPH, MSc; Julie E. Buring ScD; Carlos S. Kase MD; J. Michael Gaziano MD, MPH; and Tobias Kurth MD, ScD* From the Division of Preventive Medicine , the Division of Aging , Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; the Department of Epidemiology , Harvard School of Public Health, ...

PREVENTIVE MEASURE: Director of the Preventive Medicine in Makkah province Dr. Adel Turkistani takes a vaccine against the H1N1 virus at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah on Wednesday.

Paul M. Ridker MD, MPH, and Christine M. Albert MD, MPH* From the Center for Human Genetic Research and Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston ; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Mass ; Center for Arrhythmia Prevention , Division of Preventive Medicine , Channing Laboratory , and Cardiovascular Division ...

A national accrediting body has put its stamp of approval on the University at Buffalo 's School of Public Health and Health Professions, just six years after the school was formed.

Hot-tub injuries have skyrocketed in the United States in recent years, rising by 160 percent between 1990 and 2007, a new study has found.

Senior medical officials who successfully slowed the spread of H1N1 flu virus at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., published what they learned in an October article featured in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Editor's note: New America Media senior editor Paul Kleyman recently met popular columnist Aurora Cudal, of The Filipino Press, in San Diego, when both attended an educational workshop of the Association of Health Care Journalists.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $15 million grant to the chief of preventive medicine at the Memphis Veterans Administration Medical Center.

A world first study by Monash University researchers into the health of families who drink rainwater has found that it is safe to drink.

As the nation tries to deal with its annual $2.2 trillion health care pricetag, there's a way you can help save as much as $1 trillion: Take better care of yourself.