Heart Attack Symptoms In Women: Are they Different?

Chest pain is still the most common sign of a heart attack for most women, although studies have shown that women are more likely than men to have symptoms other than chest pain or discomfort when experiencing a heart attack or other form of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), according to an article "Symptom Presentation of Women With Acute Coronary Syndromes Myth vs.

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A Better Smile Can Revive At Any Age

All his life, Phil Soraino has had an overbite so large he could put the tip of his thumb there. At age 74, he decided to do something about it.Soraino, a former Army paratrooper and ski instructor, visited Dr.

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Today marks the launch of a new national job board dedicated to including disabled employees in today’s workforce. (Read content ‘AccessibleEmployment.org; National Job Site To Connect Employers With Disabled Workers, USA’…)

New Software To Aid Early Detection Of Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Infectious Disease OutbreaksA newly released software program will let health authorities at the site of an infectious disease outbreak quickly analyze data, speeding the detection of new cases and the implementation of effective interventions.The program, called TranStat, was developed by a team of epidemiologists and computer scientists from the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS), an international program supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build computational models for studying disease spread."A main goal of MIDAS is to make the models developed by the researchers available to the public health community and policymakers," said Jeremy M.

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Recent congressional and public attention has focused on access problems at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, which provides medical care to servicemen and women once they have left active duty in a time of war or an official period of hostility. Although investigators note that improvements are under way, they say the VA has a long way to go.

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How familiar are you with the health of your family tree? While the relatives are gathered for the food and festivity of the Thanksgiving holiday, taking a good look at the family health history is also time well spent. (Read content ‘Acting Surgeon General Encourages Americans To Know Their Health History During Fourth Annual Family History Day’…)

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The BMA today expresses strong opposition to the idea of a new grade of NHS doctor, who would have a specialist qualification, but not the same expertise as a consultant. (Read content ‘BMA Warns Against Inferior Grade Of Doctor, UK’…)

Two articles on mortality are published in next week’s PLoS Medicine. In the first, Christopher Murray and colleagues achieved encouraging results from their use of vital registration data in Mexico with a new method to estimate population cause-specific mortality fractions. (Read content ‘Determining Cause Of Death: Validation Of New Methods In Developing Countries’…)