A major rebranding is under way at Wake Forest Baptist Health — Lexington Medical Center as the first major campus signs bearing the new name and logo have been installed at the entrances on Hospital and Emergency drives.
Feb. 08, 2012
The-Dispatch.com
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC, have successfully created and implemented an emergency general surgery registry (EGSR) that will advance the science of acute surgical care by allowing surgeons to track and improve surgical patient outcomes, create performance
Feb. 07, 2012
Enterprise Post News
Study found it could pressure bladder, lower capacity to hold urine
Feb. 06, 2012
MSN Health & Fitness
Experimental drug shows promise on uterine fibroids
For women with troublesome uterine fibroids, hope is on the horizon: A new study shows that an experimental drug can control excessive bleeding caused by the growths while shrinking them.
Feb. 06, 2012
Philly.com
Hailed as a “game changer,” a new way of treating burn victims is being tested by researchers at Fort Sam Houston and across the country. Healthy skin is taken from a patient, mixed in a small kit and sprayed over damaged skin.
Feb. 03, 2012
My San Antonio (AP)
Shingles is part of a triple whammy of illnesses -- including chickenpox and postherpetic neuralgia -- caused by the same virus lingering in your body.
Feb. 02, 2012
MedicineNet
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have been infected with the ulcer-causing bacteria Helicobacter pylori are more than twice as likely to develop diabetes later on as people who do not have signs of the infection, according to a new study of Latino adults in California.
Feb. 02, 2012
Reuters Health & Fitness News
Physicians say patient anxiety is increasing because of medical information read online, with self-diagnoses of diseases like fibromyalgia and lupus.
Jan. 30, 2012
American Medical News
Bedwetting isn't always due to problems with the bladder, according to new research by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Constipation is often the culprit; and if it isn't diagnosed, children and their parents must endure an unnecessarily long, costly and difficult quest to cure nighttime wettin
Jan. 27, 2012
Science Daily
There are few more sybaritic pleasures than scratching an itch.
But according to a study just out in the British Journal of Dermatology, the intensity of the scratching delight varies with the location of the itch.
Jan. 27, 2012
NPR: Blogs