Medimun Health and Medical Blog

Although people have known that they are required to get at least half an hour of moderately intense exercise, several times a week, a new study shows that it might be healthier to stand rather than to sit at a desk all day long. The results of several medical studies have prompted employers to take [...]

In an effort to dissuade US citizens from smoking, the Food and Drug Association has approved nine images that many in the health industry have described as shocking. For years, doctors and government officials have warned of the negative impact that smoking has on health. From public service announcements to full fledged campaigns, the number [...]

The United States likes to think that it is ranked number one in all categories, including health, but a new study has revealed that women in the US aren’t as healthy as doctors first thought. Compared o other developed countries, US women’s health profiles falls in at number 37. Even in the US women from [...]

A deadly ’super strain’ of E. Coli has claimed the lives of at least 16 people, and hundreds more have fallen gravely ill across Europe. The source of the disease is said to have originated in Germany, but health officials are still trying to determine how the tainted batch of vegetables made it onto the [...]

Although the Bubonic plague was eradicated years ago thanks to antibiotics, occasionally a few isolated cases reappear. In New Mexico, a 58 year old man went to the local hospital because of reported leg and groin pains. After doctors examined the man they found that he had become infected with the disease after being fit [...]

Currently, there is a nation wide shortage of more than 200 separate medications in the US. Doctors and pharmacists say the reason behind the lack of medicines occurred when several generic pharmaceutical companies stopped producing off-brands. Because generic pharmaceutical companies saw that it was no longer profitable to make medicines such as Cytarabine, which is [...]