Featuring news, articles and special features relating to health and wellness, the Dr Prem’s Health Guide & Magazine assesses industry developments and analyses the latest thinking around preventative and curative medicine. Packed with essential healthcare information, the title also includes must-read items on nutrition, fitness and lifestyle management.
<![CDATA[ The BBC News reported that the “health hazards of obesity may have been grossly underestimated because we are not measuring the condition adequately”. Its website says that we should not focus on weight gain […]
Persistence of obesity decides health hazards Read More »
<![CDATA[ A federal judge on Friday sentenced a Miami man who had owned the nation’s largest community mental health center chain to 50 years in prison for his role in a $205 million Medicare fraud
$205 million medicare fraud goes for 50 years imprisonment Read More »
<![CDATA[ A major study challenges the way diabetics and others with failing kidneys have been treated for half a century, finding that three-times-a-week dialysis to cleanse the blood of toxins may not be enough. Deaths,
3 times dialysis a week not sufficient for diabetics and kidney patients Read More »
<![CDATA[ Heart failure puts patients at a nearly 30% greater risk for major osteoporotic fractures than those without the condition, according to research presented here at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR)
Research indicates higher risk of fractures with heart patients by 30% Read More »
<![CDATA[ Low gestational age (preterm birth) was associated with a higher risk for death in early childhood and young adulthood, according to a Swedish national cohort study published online September 20 in *JAMA*. The study
Preterm birth is associated with higher risk of death Read More »
<![CDATA[ Physical activity may improve teen smoking cessation rates, especially among boys, according to the results of a randomized trial reported online September 19 in *Pediatrics.* “Studies of adult smokers have suggested that enhanced physical
<![CDATA[ Well-managed maternal diabetes mellitus (DM) may not significantly worsen outcomes of very-low-birth-weight, preterm infants according to the results of a study reported online September 19 in *Pediatrics.* “With modern management and adequate glycemic control
Diabetic pregnant women can cause less risk of respiratory syndrome in infants Read More »
<![CDATA[ Low-risk patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain can be diagnosed more efficiently with coronary computed-tomographic angiography (CCTA) than myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), results of trial published in the September 27, 2011
CCTA preferable than MPI for chest pain diagnosis Read More »
<![CDATA[ It’s now possible to test for breast cancers in young, high-risk African-American women before cancer cells appear, according to study results presented Monday at the Fourth American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Conference on
Detection of breast Cancer before appearance of cancer cells possible Read More »
<![CDATA[ One in 13 men and one in 11 women in the national Capital run the risk of developing cancer by the time they turn 64. The probability is more acute by the time they
Individuals after 64 have risk of Cancer in Metro cities Read More »