Medicare Starts Paying for Visual Rehabilitation Services
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006People who qualify for Medicare and whose eyesight has significantly declined due to macular degeneration, diabetes
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People who qualify for Medicare and whose eyesight has significantly declined due to macular degeneration, diabetes
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Type 2 Diabetes and Youth
As schools across the country reopen their doors this fall, hundreds of sixth graders in 42 middle schools will begin
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Skin Care and Sunscreen Damage
Are sunscreens always beneficial, or can they be detrimental to users? A research team led by UC Riverside
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You have read all that you wish to know about how to stop being overweight. Those easy set of directions should be simple to follow, but not for 36% of Americans who are not
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Throughout her life, a woman may blame many things on her hormones: unpredictable emotions, weight gain and even changes in her skin, hair and nails.
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Morning After Pill Approval
The approval of Plan B, the emergency contraceptive, for over-the-counter sales to women age 18 and older by the Food and
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The beginning of the end? Or too much ado about the end of menses?
There’s no shortage of myths and misconceptions about menopause - which begins at the one-year mark after a
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In the car, at work or walking to and from a store, you can’t escape the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays. However, new research about the transmission of UV light through window and
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It’s a Less-Invasive Outpatient Surgery
— Brand-new outpatient plastic surgery techniques could give patients the body they want without spending hours at the gym or enduring a painful recovery and unsightly scars.
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Pregnancy and Depression
The majority of pregnant women who have full-blown major depression aren’t getting any treatment for the condition, and
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