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Many employers around the world offer health incentives to their employs to motivate them to live a healthy lifestyle. In this era when employers are desk bound during all their working hours, the lack of physical activity is turning them obese. Many employers have found themselves helpless for not been able to successfully motivate their workers to exercise.

A research carried out by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found the best strategy to encourage employees to become health conscious is to offer monetary benefits. The results showed that loss of incentives motivates people to exercise.

As per a recent statement from the agency, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is presently doubtful over whether autism screening for young children is useful or if it may even potentially be risky.

Generally, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) screening begins between the ages of 18 and 30 months. But, many a times it is carried out without a parent or caregiver expressing delay. Officials have said that so, there has been a lack of proof regarding the outcomes for screening in order for children to get early diagnosis.

While speaking to Reuters, Dr. David Grossman, vice chair of the USPSTF, said that there recommendation isn’t a recommendation against screening, but a call for further study.

3D printing has been helpful in making plastic knick knacks, action figures, braces for broken arms and phone cases, and now is going to help in making new ears and other organs. A team working on an interesting project using 3D printing has reported success in creating organs which can be used effectively to improve healthcare services.

On Tuesday, a South Florida teen got arrested and charged with practicing medicine without a license after allegedly having a fake medical practice and passing himself off as with a PhD degree.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said the 18-year-old Malachi Love-Robinson has been arrested after he allegedly carried out an examination on an undercover agent, offering medical advice. He has been held on $6,000 bail.

The Palm Beach Post said that a cease-and-desist order showed that since January 26, Love-Robinson had been running a medical office in West Palm Beach. The accused has allegedly dubbed his practice New Birth New Life Holistic and Alternative Medical Center & Urgent Care and called himself a psychology doctor.

On Tuesday, Federal prosecutors said that an ex-medical technician has been convicted of interfering with narcotics at a Colorado hospital, due to which authorities have requested about 3,000 people who underwent surgery there to get tested for blood-borne diseases.

The US Attorney John Walsh said in a statement that the case has been brought after the defendant was found swapping a syringe that has fentanyl citrate, a strong synthetic opiate, for a dose of an unnamed substance during the surgery of a patient recently.

Walsh said that the shocking incident has taken place at the Swedish Medical Center in suburban Denver, and the hospital has immediately fired the surgical technician being questioned in the case Rocky Allen, notifying law enforcement.

An experimental treatment has registered success in eliminating blood cancer symptoms in 94% of patients, according to a new report. Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle have claimed medical victory by treating many patients with cancer of the white blood cells known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

Generally, only 40% of patients aged between 25 and 64 are able to survive for five years after being diagnosed with ALL. The survival rate reduces for those aged 65 and above, at 15%. The new therapy used by the U.S. researchers involves genetically modifying an important factor in the patient’s natural immune defense system called T-cells.