by PHC Team | Apr 5, 2013 | Healthcare News
A study just published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology has attempted to answer if there is a correlation between obesity and chronic kidney disease (CKD). The study was conducted in England, Scotland, and Wales and involved 4,584 people. The...
by PHC Team | Apr 2, 2013 | Healthcare News
A new study just published from Canada is showing that patients who had proteinuria had a shorter life expectancy than other individuals without this disease process. Proteinuria can also be referred to as albuminuria or urine albumin. It is a condition which exists...
by PHC Team | Mar 27, 2013 | Healthcare News
Researchers continue to unlock the importance of vitamin D in the body. Researchers have shown that poor vitamin D levels in the body have been associated with a higher prevalence of the metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, or both in adults and adolescents. In a...
by PHC Team | Mar 22, 2013 | Healthcare News
New guidelines have been released by the American Academy of Neurology concerning sports concussions and when a player can be released. Previously the guidelines tried to classify the severity of concussions at the time they occurred and then based return-to-play...
by PHC Team | Mar 21, 2013 | Healthcare News
Duke University Medical Center recently published the results of a study on the role of anxiety and depression on heart disease. [1]The study involved 934 patients who were carefully screened to make sure they met the criteria that the researchers were using for this...
