Topic: Institute of Medicine
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-23 07:23:20
CHICAGO (Reuters) - High blood pressure is a "neglected disease" and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must do more to fight it by helping Americans eat better and encouraging doctors to treat it more aggressively, an expert panel said on Monday. The report by the Institute of Medicine, one of the National Academies of Sciences, urges the ...
AP News | 2010-02-22 16:30:50
Report finds high blood pressure epidemic neglected, urges doctors, feds to be more aggressive
A critical new report declares high blood pressure in the U.S. to be a neglected disease — a term that usually describes mysterious tropical illnesses, not a well-known plague of rich countries. The prestigious Institute of Medicine said Monday that even though nearly one in three ...
AP Features | 2010-01-11 15:14:32
<div><p>They're the overlooked viruses: Hepatitis B and C together infect three to five times more Americans than the AIDS virus does, and most don't know it.</p><p>In the next 10 years, these two liver-damaging infections will kill about 150,000 people in the U.S. alone ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-10-26 19:46:51
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most obese women gain more weight than is recommended during pregnancy, and may find those pounds tough to shed in the long run, a new study suggests.</p><p>In a study of 1,656 obese women who gave birth over five years, researchers found that ...
