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Earlier, a report of The Washington Post stated that about 50% Obamacare exchanges could face financial struggle in the near future. According to the report, nearly half of the insurance marketplaces that were set up by the states under the United States president’s law have been struggling financially.

The report by The Washington Post came after about $5 billion in federal taxpayer subsidies for call centers, IT vendors and other factors required to support the health insurance entities set up by the government. The feds control about 34 state exchanges, while about 16 states and the District of Columbia have set up their own.

Robotic surgery is nothing new to Siouxland, but a latest technology has made it easier for doctors and patients.

One of the patients, Larry Hardersen, said the threat of prostate cancer has always seemed real to him. Larry said his father had prostate cancer and he lived to be 100. His father’s brother also had this cancer, and he died from it at an earlier age.

A year and half ago, Hardersen went in for a PSA test to detect the disease. A year later, his levels went up, and again three months later they kept going on. So he had a biopsy.

It came back and showed that there was cancer in the prostate. Since then he decided to have the procedure done. Hardersen said the procedure performed by Dr. Craig Block at Mercy Medical Center wasn't a traditional one.

Researchers at the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have reported that they have found traces of gluten in over half of the popular probiotics they tested.

They performed the tests on 22 top-selling probiotics, and revealed that 12 of them had detectable amounts of gluten.

Patients generally take probiotics for their theoretical effect in promoting intestinal health, though its evidence of benefits is limited to a few clinical situations.

It has been found in a study that testing for sensitivity to peanuts could help the children suffering from asthma. The study has been conducted on 1,517 children at Mercy Children’s Hospital in Toledo by Dr. Robert Cohn; these were the children treated for respiratory problems.

On Sunday, the study was put forward at the American Thoracic Society’s international conference in Denver. Dr. Cohn is medical director of pulmonary medicine at Dayton’s Children’s Hospital and the lead author of the study.

There was a confirmed diagnosis of asthma in children, however only 11% were aware regarding their peanut allergy. According to researchers, blood tests for peanut allergy were conducted on 665 of the children, and 22% of those children tested positive for peanut sensitivity.

Many drinkers don’t go in for treatment when they suffer a hangover. Now it seems many Americans have found a way to deal with it using a rehydration mixture for children who suffer the effects of diarrhea. Consumption of Pedialyte in adults has increased nearly 60% since 2012. At present adults account for over one-third of the sales for the products i.e. three times the earlier average, according to the manufacturers.

The lawmakers have taken concrete steps to keep health laws of the country in pace with the current health care needs of its residents.

A House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee has recently revised version of the 21st Century Cures Act. The act has been passed with the aim of escalating the speed of medical breakthroughs and cures.

The act was inaugurated by Fred Upton, the chairperson of the House Energy and Commerce Committee together with Diana Degette, a Ranking Member of the Investigations Subcommittee.

According to Upton, such a step has been taken by Congress for the first time in the lawmaking history of America. Before this, Congress has never looked in and identified factors that played key roles to boost the speed of cures in the country.