New British Nutrition Foundation portion-size guidelines
eMediNexus, 17 January 2019
#Business And Medicine #Public Health
The British Nutrition Foundation has released new portion-size guidelines designed to help people eat the right amounts of each food group -- and possibly help them avoid overeating The p ...MORE

ACP releases new edition of its Ethics Manual
eMediNexus, 17 January 2019
#Business And Medicine #Internal Medicine #Public Health
The American College of Physicians ACP today released the seventh edition of its Ethics Manual published as a supplement to the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine New or sign ...MORE

Parents do not realize teens have suicidal ideation and thoughts of death, says study
eMediNexus, 16 January 2019
#Pediatrics #Psychiatry #Public Health
Half of parents surveyed were unaware of their teenagers rsquo thoughts of killing themselves and more than 75 were unaware of their teens rsquo recurrent thoughts of death according ...MORE

Clinical trial testing fecal microbiota transplant for recurrent diarrheal disease begins
eMediNexus, 15 January 2019
#Gastroenterology #Infectious Diseases #Pharmacist #Transplantation
A research consortium recently began enrolling patients in a clinical trial examining whether fecal microbiota transplantation FMT by enema mdash putting stool from a healthy donor in th ...MORE

New hope with Ebola drug trial
eMediNexus, 15 January 2019
#Critical Care #Emergency Medicine #Infectious Diseases #Pharmacist #Public Health
There is no cure for Ebola and the mortality rate in this outbreak is about 60 However there is new cause for hope Since the start of this current outbreak in August 2018 ndash the t ...MORE

Health hazards from exposure to cement common in construction workers
eMediNexus, 14 January 2019
#Dermatology #Public Health
Men and women labourers at construction sites who handle cement or are exposed to it are at high risk of contracting skin infections owing to the harmful chemicals it contains a new study ...MORE