epidemic proportions

Although long-term solutions may be on the horizon with the new health care law, in the interim, more than 50 million Americans are uninsured.

With the rising prevalence of chronic diseases, such as diabetes, which has reached epidemic proportions, people without prescription coverage often struggle to afford necessary and life-saving medications and products.

 

(MedPage Today) -- Children with uncomplicated skin and soft tissue infections can still be treated with cephalexin -- along with drainage and careful wound care -- even though community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has reached epidemic proportions worldwide, a randomized study suggested.

New research suggests diabetes is taking on epidemic proportions in China because of the rapid change in lifestyle.

An article published Online First and in a future edition of The Lancet reports that low-level laser therapy (LLLT) reduces pain after treatment for non-specific neck pain.

The article is the work of Dr Roberta Chow, Nerve Research Foundation, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Australia, and colleagues.

In the next thirty years, chronic pain is predicted to reach epidemic proportions in developed countries with ageing populations.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Childhood obesity in the United States is reaching epidemic proportions. With more than one fourth of advertising on daytime and prime time television devoted to foods and beverages and continuing questions about the role television plays in obesity, a study in the November/December issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior examines how food advertising aimed at children might be a large contributor to the problem.

Breast cancer has reached epidemic proportions. Once a relatively rare disease, it now affects two to three million American women, and the incidence is growing at an alrming rate. What can we do to protect ourselves? Christine Horner, M.D., has the...