Aortic Aneurysm News
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Sundance Film Follows Woman's Worst Fear: Does She Have Huntington's Disease?Marianna Palka, who left Scotland to pursue a career in filmmaking in the United States, knew she had a "50-50" chance of getting Huntington's disease – a rare, but devastating genetic disease that has been described as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and ALS, all rolled into one. It began to destroy her
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Med Student Discovers Real Disease in Fake PatientA medical student learned an important lesson to never assume anything, when he correctly diagnosed a fake patient with a very real and very deadly disease. Ryan Jones, 25, a medical student at the University of Virginia, was taking part in a lesson in which local residents act out certain symptoms
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Father's Hidden Heart Condition Diagnosed In DaughtersTyson Wallis and his wife Kristin had decided on chicken tortilla soup for dinner as she got ready for work on the morning of January 12. "He told me, 'it's 9:17, you're going to be late Kristin, 30, of Houston, told ABCNews.com. "I told him I loved him as he was feeding our twin girls, and I
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Einstein's Brain Arrives in London After Odd JourneyAlbert Einstein’s brain has crossed the Atlantic for the first time. It’s a journey that one of the 20th century’s greatest minds never intended. Before Einstein died 57 years ago, he wrote in his will that he wanted to be cremated, his ashes discarded secretly...
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Genetic Testing for Aortic Aneurysms Could Spur Early Treatment and Save LivesResearchers Identify a Gene Variant That Could Point to Those at High Risk for Aortic Aneurysms
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Sperm Donor's 24 Kids Never Told About Fatal IllnessWashington Is First to Give Donor-Conceived Children Rights to Their Medical Information at Age 18
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Doctors encourage screening for aortic aneurysms
U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke most likely was unaware that his aorta had ballooned into an aneurysm, according to doctors not involved in his care. Holbrooke, 69, died Monday night after surgeons tried to repair a dissection, or tear, in his aorta, the main artery that carries oxygenated blood from
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HHS Issues Regulations for Preventive BenefitsRules Set to Go Into Effect This Fall Mandate Coverage of Mammograms and More
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America's Health: Regular Doctor, Regular ScreeningsMany studies suggest that people who don't have primary care physicians -- who go to emergency rooms for all their medical treatment -- miss out on cancer screenings and other preventive tests, so conditions that could have been treated if caught early become "potentially life-threatening," said
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Preventative Health Tests for Men
On "Good Morning America" today, Dr. Richard Besser described recommended preventative tests for men to maintain their health. For more information on these tests, click on the links below and then visit the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthy Men webpage . BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) A