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This season, most of the areas have experienced significantly less number of flu cases. However still health officials recommend people to get vaccinate. Symptoms of flu include fever, chills, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches and fatigue. In some younger patients, vomiting and diarrhea can also be noticed.

In Greenwich, only a few people have been hospitalized for influenza this season, as per reports. “We had a very mild season in Greenwich; it’s been under 20 cases we’ve seen all season. During a bad season, we’re used to getting 10 a day,” said Dr. James Sabetta, who heads the Infectious Diseases Department at Greenwich Hospital.

According to a new research, the use of behavioral therapy before medicine for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) works faster than directly prescribing medicine to treat the disorder. The behavioral therapy includes giving instruction to diseased children in basic social skills. This could be a more affordable option. The research was published in two papers by the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.

Malachi Love-Robinson possessed all the accessories of a medical practice, including an office, stethoscope and a lab coat. Authorities said that what he didn’t have a medical license.

The Florida teen has been charged with practicing medicine without a license and theft as he had allegedly conducted an exam on an undercover agent, taking nearly $3,500 from an 86-year-old woman looking for stomach pain treatment. Also, he has been accused of stealing three checks from her, cashing them for nearly $2,800.

A day after arrest, Love-Robinson was released on $21,000 bail on Wednesday. In a brief phone interview, he told The Associated Press that those were only allegations.

A US study suggested that elderly patients hospitalized for cancer surgery have more chances of having complications later on in comparison to the middle-aged, mainly when they are suffering from many other health conditions.

The study of roughly 1 million cancer surgery patients has discovered that overall, nearly one in 10 adults of age 55 and above suffer from at least one post-operative problem, such as fractures, delirium, falls, pressure ulcers, dehydration, or unusual weight loss.

The setbacks were even more common in the case of patients aged at least 65 years old, having two or more other severe issues besides malignancies, or had undergone operation for tumors of the digestive system or surrounding organs.

As per a private analyst who combed through the public database of the US Food and Drug Administration, the agency has probably greatly underestimated the number of fetal deaths in women who got pregnant after using Bayer AG's Essure contraceptive device.

The FDA has mentioned five fetal deaths in women who conceived with the help of Essure, two metal coils put into the fallopian tubes.

A spokeswoman for Bayer said, “Irrespective of the type of birth control a woman uses, when pregnancies do occur, there can be complications. It would be irresponsible to suggest that Essure causes fetal deaths when, after an unsuccessful Essure procedure, an undesired pregnancy cannot be carried to term”.

In a big clinical trial of insulin-resistant stroke patients, Pioglitazone, a diabetes drug, sold as Actos has been shown to decrease the risk of recurring stroke and heart attack.

Yale University researchers have discovered that the drug reduced the number of cardiovascular events in previous stroke patients by about a quarter in the five-year trial.

In the previous studies, Pioglitazone has been shown to prevent stroke and heart attack in patients suffering from type 2 diabetes, and patients, who face trouble in processing sugar but aren’t diabetic, but was controversial because of elevated risks for heart failure and edema and weight gain.