The medical home model is seen by many health-care providers, businesses and patients as a promising way to address problems with the country's health-care delivery system. It's believed that comprehensive primary care can ensure the best outcomes for patients.

The research examined post-mortem reports on 130 babies who died of SIDS, 32 who died suddenly as a result of infection, and 33 who died of non-infectious causes.

They may also have found a new way to prevent that rebound effect, at least in their mouse model.

Released on the eve of the seventh anniversary, the study looked at the health effects among all 71,437 participants of the registry, which includes rescue and recovery workers, lower Manhattan residents, area workers, commuters and passersby. Among the registrants: more

The authors of a study published Sept. 10 in Neuropsychopharmacology believe this may have to do with adolescents' heightened sensitivity to the "high" brought on by the drug.

MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus . It's a strain of staph that's resistant to many antibiotics commonly used to treat it, and it can be fatal. Both reports were presented Tuesday at the Society for General Microbiology Autumn meeting

Advances in treatment for these diseases have led to increased long-term survival for patients. But most population-based studies include survival data from patients diagnosed in the mid 1990s or before and, therefore, may not reflect current outcomes, according to background

Erbitux (cetuximab), a so-called monoclonal antibody, works by blocking cellular receptors, preventing tumor cells from receiving signals that tell them to grow and divide. The drug has been used successfully in metastatic colon cancer and now appears to also benefit

Retail health clinics, which are located in pharmacies and other stores, are becoming increasingly popular. Currently, there are almost 1,000 retail health clinics in the United States, and it's estimated there may be 6,000 by 2011. This is the first

The same cannot be said for type 2 diabetics who control their blood pressure for five years after diagnosis, however. The benefits from blood pressure control are only maintained as long as antihypertensive treatment is maintained, the same group of

Emory University researchers explained their use of these technologies to find microdeletions and microduplications in a specific region of one chromosome, called 1q21.1, in patients with unexplained mental retardation, autism or congenital anomalies in an article published online this week

This is the second major study to call into question the benefits of the surgery, and it may well influence how patients are treated.

The American Heart Association offers these suggestions to help your child stay healthy for life:

The U.S. National Library of Medicine offers these suggestions on how to apply it safely:

For 40-year-old Duane Morrow, playing a game of catch is more than one of life's simple pleasures. Some might call it a miracle. In 2004, Morrow broke his neck playing rugby and was paralyzed from the chest down.

If there is one war John McCain and Barack Obama agree on, it's the one against cancer.Thirty-seven years after President Richard Nixon launched the "war on cancer," the two U.S. presidential candidates agree on a need to fight the disease

Insurers recoup the costs of weight-loss surgery within two to four years as obese patients become healthier and have fewer medical problems, researchers said on Wednesday.The findings show that bariatric surgery, an increasingly popular operation, benefits patients' health and saves

People with diabetes given intensive drug treatment soon after diagnosis are healthier when they grow older, even if they become less rigorous about controlling their blood sugar later on, British researchers said on Wednesday.This means it may be important to

Bad teeth, bleeding gums and poor dental hygiene can end up causing heart disease, scientists heard today (Thursday 11 September 2008) at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn meeting being held this week at Trinity College, Dublin.People with poor dental

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements of the thickness of the optic nerve sheath are a good marker for raised intracranial pressure (ICP). New research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care shows that a retro-bulbar optic nerve