A federal health official’s ruling has cleared the way for 50 different types of cancer to be added to the list of sicknesses covered by a $4.3 billion fund set up to compensate and treat people exposed to the toxic smoke, dust and fumes in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.The

วันนี้ (11 มิ.ย.) ที่ศูนย์ความเป็นเลิศด้านชีววิทยาศาสตร์ (องค์การมหาชน) หรือ ทีเซลส์ (TCELS) ศ.เกียรติคุณ มนตรี จุฬาวัมทล ที่ปรึกษาทีเซลส์ แถลงข่าว “แนวคิดการตั้งเขตพัฒนาและบริการสุขภาพแนวใหม่ของประเทศไทย หรือ เวชนคร (Medicopolis) ว่า แม้ปัจจุบันไทยจะมีนโยบายเมดิคัล ฮับ (Medical Hub) แต่ยังเป็นการดำ

About one in six children and teenagers are also obese, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association report which showed that obesity remains a significant problem in US society despite efforts to combat it.“Obesity prevalence shows little change over the past 12 years, although the

Clare True had autism and periodic seizures, but nothing prepared her family for Christmas Eve in 2006, when the 26-year-old went to bed after watching a movie and stopped breathing.“I got home from a party, went to check on her just after midnight, and she was — she was gone,” said her mother, Jane

Scientists have located the cells in the cervix that give rise to cancer when attacked by the human papillomavirus, a discovery that may lead to new methods of preventing and treating the disease.Even though the virus pervades the entire genital tract, HPV infection causes precancerous and cancerous

http://wapo.st/K7vTBPWhat’s in a name? That’s a question that experts are wrestling with as they prepare to revise the diagnostic manual that spells out the criteria for addiction and other substance-use problems.The catalyst for this discussion is a set of proposed changes to the Diagnostic and Sta

The debate over the price of the vaccine against HPV has become intense http://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/family/295534/stepping-up-the-campaign-against-cervical-cancerWhen it comes to making the shot against cervical cancer the national vaccine programme, which means girls be

Even in health care systems in which doctors do not bill for each test they administer, the use of diagnostic imaging like CT and PET scans has soared, as has patients’ radiation exposure, a new study has found.The study, published online on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Diesel fumes cause lung cancer, the World Health Organization declared Tuesday, and experts said they were more carcinogenic than secondhand cigarette smoke.The W.H.O. decision, the first to elevate diesel to the “known carcinogen” level, may eventually affect some American workers who are heavily e

Doctors often order tests and recommend drugs or procedures when they shouldn’t — sometimes even when they know they shouldn’t. The problem has become so serious that such groups as the American College of Physicians, the ABIM Foundation, the National Physicians Alliance and a coalition of medical s