Aspirin 'helps protect against bowel cancer'

" A daily aspirin tablet may help prevent bowel cancer, a study suggests. Oxford University found it cut cases by a quarter and deaths by more than a third in a review of 14,000 patients. Aspirins are already widely used to help protect people against strokes and heart...

Alcohol Might Help In Brain Injury Recovery

A new study conducts alcohol may help people survive trauma to the head, and should perhaps be considered as a treatment method for patients with brain injuries in the future. The study, published in the Archives of Surgery, compared the outcome of patients who had been...

Strained by Katrina, a Hospital Faced Deadly Choices

Katrina will, I am sure, show itself as a real blight in American history - but as this story shows, will it also show that patients were euthanised by the very people who are writing and passing laws that will negate most civil law suits?"Anna Pou, defended herself on...

8 Ways Health Care Reform Brings Security and Stability to Public

I have a sibling who is a medical doctor supporting Barack Obama's health care reform. My sibling forwarded the following e-mail message to me for guidance as the health care debate rages on.  It seems to have been prepared by President Obama's folks as key talking...

Sri Lanka doctors 'to be tried'

By Charles Haviland BBC News, Colomb group of doctors who worked in Sri Lanka's rebel-held war zone are being held on suspicion of collaborating with Tamil...

15 child cancer patients from Gaza to be treated in Israel

 " Fifteen Palestinian child cancer patients are slated to arrive at the Israeli clinic at the Erez crossing in the Gaza Strip.   The children will undergo preliminary testing and be transferred for medical treatment in hospitals in Israel. (Meital Yasur – Beit Or)"