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Experts say US doctors overtesting, overtreating
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Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans _ maybe even President Barack Obama _ are being overtreated.
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People with variable blood pressure at stroke risk
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People with occasional spikes in their blood pressure could be at higher risk of having a stroke than those with regularly high blood pressure, new studies said Friday.
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Guidelines: Do medical tests later, less often
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Recent reports and guideline changes suggest some medical tests should be delayed, avoided, or done less often:
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Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given
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A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.
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Panel: Women need chance to avoid repeat C-section
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Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."
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Nurses save man along side of road
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| Talk about being in the right place at the right time. A trio of nurses saved the life of a Selkirk man. Had it not been for a few changes in itinerary, he might not be alive... |
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Brazil’s Silva quits smoking after 50 years
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Brazil’s president said Tuesday that he kicked the smoking habit he had for 50 years after a recent health scare sent his blood pressure soaring.
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Hoped-for drop in childbirth deaths not happening
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Eleven days after her son Benjamin’s birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot.
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UN says mother-child HIV can be eliminated by 2015
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The United Nations says mother-to-child HIV transmission can be eliminated by 2015 if health programs receive increased investments as planned.
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Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow
