President Barack Obama wants medical treatment to become more personal. As a senator, he introduced a bill to have U.S. agencies work together on more personal treatment. It also would support research with a data bank and tax credits.
Music can make you laugh or cry, rile you up or calm you down. Some say it’s good for the soul. It just might be good for the heart, too. Make no mistake — daily doses of Mozart won’t clean out your arteries or fix a faulty heart valve. But music can help ease your recovery from a cardiac procedure, get you back to normal after a heart attack or stroke, relieve stress, and maybe even lower your blood pressure a tad.
Navi Radjou, the Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, articulates the importance of preventative care.
Many are counting on the adoption of electronic health records to help the healthcare system save billions of dollars. But to realize IT's promise, hospitals and medical practices need to empower employees.
Our carbon footprints are calculations of the greenhouse gases we’re individually responsible for. Reduce yours, and you can take some satisfaction in having done something, however small, to reduce emissions and slow global warming. Now might be a good time to start thinking about our healthcare footprints.
Stepping off the career track is easy. What's hard is getting back on. Careers, companies, and economies suffer when highly skilled women cannot get back where they belong.
Roughly one million American women undergo biopsies each year to determine whether they have breast cancer. A small study by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston provides evidence that women who learn they need further testing to make a diagnosis may experience as much stress as those who learn they have cancer.
A major study suggests that statins also quell inflammation. Now what?
Women are judged to be less visionary than men in 360-degree feedback. It may be a matter of perception, but it stops women from getting to the top.
Up to now, most women who have relatives with breast cancer have been able to breathe a sigh of relief after undergoing testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, the two genes that have been strongly linked to breast cancer and ovarian cancer risk. Most women who are tested, after all, do not carry these genes. But a new study tells us that high-risk women with negative BRCA tests should not feel so reassured. Women who do not have these genes still have an alarmingly high chance of getting breast cancer if they have cancer in multiple family members.