The Medical College of Georgia is leading an initiative that could result in a paradigm shift in the care of patients with sickle cell disease.
Morehouse University School of Medicine and University of Florida are partners in the initiative that is enlisting primary care physicians across Georgia to serve as “medical homes” for patients, changing how [...]

The Welsh Assembly Government is making new plans to improve health and well-being across the board – with particular emphasis on helping people with the poorest health.
It is working with its partners to develop ‘Our Healthy Future’ which will set out the direction for action to build a healthier nation.

Giving patients with glioblastoma-the most common and aggressive form of primary brain tumour-the chemotherapy drug temozolomide in combination with radiotherapy increases their survival compared with those receiving radiotherapy alone and this improvement persists for up to 5 years, according to the final results of the EORTC-NCIC trial*, published Online first and in the May edition [...]

A new study by researchers at Brigham Young University and Harvard School of Public Health shows that average life expectancy in 51 U.S. cities increased nearly three years over recent decades, and approximately five months of that increase came thanks to cleaner air.

The incidence of ovarian cancer is highest in women over 70 years old, and the disease is the leading cause of death from gynecologic malignancies in the United States and Europe. Nevertheless, improving the quality of medical care for elderly women with ovarian cancer continues to be a challenge. This paper presents the major issues [...]