6 Symptoms You Shouldn't Ignore

Some medical symptoms are warnings that you need immediate care. WebMD describes how to recognize these six.

Bariatric Surgery Helps Forestall Gout (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Risk of gout decreased by 34% over more than 2 decades

U.N.'s Zeid cool on Syrian opposition plan to bypass Russian veto

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The top U.N. human rights official repeated his call on Wednesday for a dilution of big powers' United Nations veto in cases of serious war crimes, but he gave little support to Syrian opposition hopes of strong-arming Russia over eastern Aleppo. Russian war planes have bombed rebel-held eastern Aleppo in the past two weeks in support of Syrian and allied ground forces who are besieging about 275,000 civilians. The United Nations says hospitals have been hit and more than 400 people killed.

Changes in depression symptoms tied to lung cancer survival

(Reuters Health) – - Worsening depression symptoms are associated with shorter survival for lung cancer patients, particularly those in the early stages of disease, according to a new U.S. study.

Hurricane Matthew toll in Haiti rises to 1,000, dead buried in mass graves

By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a government official said on Sunday, as cholera spread in the devastated southwest and the death toll from the storm rose to 1,000 people. The powerful hurricane, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, slammed into Haiti on Tuesday with 145 mile-per-hour (233 kph) winds and torrential rains that left 1.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. A Reuters tally of numbers from local officials showed that 1,000 people were killed by the storm in Haiti, which has a population of about 10 million and is the poorest country in the Americas.

RA: Switching to Tocilizumab OK When DMARDs Not Tolerated (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Tocilizumab monotherapy nearly as effective as combination therapy

Wirral health chiefs scrap homeopathy funding

Wirral health bosses are stopping funding for homeopathy after "overwhelming consensus" to end the practice.