General medicine is the medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis, management and nonsurgical treatment of diseases.
Researchers have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus. The so-called “Lujo” virus infected five people in Zambia and South Africa last fall. Four of them died, but a fifth survived. It’s not clear how the first person became infected, but the bug comes from a family […]
Possibly, when the clock is moved forward or back one hour, the body’s internal clock does not adjust. In a study of 55,000 people researchers from Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich, Germany, found that on days off from work, people tended to sleep on standard time, not daylight time.
Obesity is a major public health problem in the U.S. and many other countries. Weight loss has been an important target for cardiovascular illness risk reduction. The authors of a review that has recently been published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology suggest that increasing physical activity is enormously important and benefits of exercise are […]
