Some experts say medical residents are tasked to the point of exhaustion, putting patient safety at risk. Others say the training makes them better doctors, even when they’re tired
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Regardless of the cause, stress sets in motion certain automatic changes in the body that are designed to give it a quick burst of energy. The pattern of changes has been called the “fight-or-flight” response because it most likely evolved from our prehistoric ancestors, who faced daily dangers in their search for food and [...]

Diabetics..who manage to turn things around, getting their blood sugar under control, either escaping the need for drugs or improving enough to quit taking them, are drawing keen interest from the medical community… “technically, you could call somebody cured,” but that patient still needs to be followed closely.
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20% of Americans say they have delayed or postponed medical care, mostly doctor visits, citing cost as the main reason, according to a survey released by Thomson Reuters.
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Across a range of different food-borne illnesses, there has been no statistically significant change over the past three years in the share of the nation’s population that has been severely sickened by food.
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If you want to live to a hundred, you’d better lighten up.
Children of centenarians—who usually inherit both longevity and personality traits from their parents—are on average more outgoing, agreeable, and less neurotic, according to a new study.
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A Northwestern University doctor-in-training potentially exposed hundreds of patients, including infants, at three Chicago-area hospitals to tuberculosis in what is being called an unusual case of a medical-care provider putting patients’ health at risk.
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Human memory, the ability to recall vivid mental images of past experiences, has been studied extensively for more than a hundred years. But until recently, there’s been surprisingly little research into cognitive processes underlying another form of mental time travel — the ability to clearly imagine or “see” oneself participating in a future.
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A group of researchers at Rockefeller University in New York City have abandoned the as yet fruitless search for a magic bullet to vaccinate for AIDS and instead try to mimic the body’s natural, if rare, and more diffuse defense against the HIV virus.
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While an all-around diet is the key to stronger immunity, these particular immune system-boosting foods and ingredients can keep you in fighting condition. (Click on “Print this” to view all on a single page)
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