Parents Advised to Use Minimum Dose to Treat Childhood Fever
• Children's Health • Jun 30 06
Parents should be advised to use the minimum dose necessary when treating a child with fever, say researchers in an editorial in this week’s…
Taking Medicine Regularly (Even Placebo) Is Good for You
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 30 06
People who take their medicine regularly, even dummy (placebo) medicine, have a lower risk of death than those with poor adherence, finds a study…
FDA grants accelerated approval for Sprycel (dasatinib)
• Drug News • Jun 30 06
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval for Sprycel (dasatinib), a new oral treatment for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia…
Stopping SARS viruses from reproducing
• Infections • Jun 30 06
In times of the “bird flu” SARS seems to be no threat anymore. This notion is deceptive. Experts assume that viruses causing the severe…
Biomarker Reduces Length of Antibiotic Treatment
• Infections • Jun 30 06
For hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), lower measurements of procalcitonin, a biomarker of infection, can reduce the length of antibiotic treatment by an…
A red light for surgeries in supermarkets and a green light for better food labelling
• Surgery • Jun 29 06
Doctors in Britain are objecting to plans for walk-in clinics to be set up in supermarkets.
The Department of Health in its efforts to…
New guidelines for healthy swimming
• Public Health • Jun 29 06
The World Health Organization (WHO) is launching the world’s first-ever international guidelines on how to create safe places to swim and bathe.
The guidelines…
Canadian task force targets trans fats
• Fat, Dietary • Jun 29 06
A Canadian government task force is recommending strict regulation to reduce the amount of harmful trans fats in foods.
The Trans Fat Task Force…
When it comes to honesty the eyes have it!
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 29 06
According to researchers in the UK people behave in a more honest fashion when they think they are being watched.
In an interesting experiment…
Lifestyle changes can affect heartburn symptoms
• Bowel Problems • Jun 29 06
Patients have been known to hug Lauren Gerson, MD, so overjoyed are they at hearing her words. What does she say to them? Go…
New discovery boosts basic understanding of prion infections
• Infections • Jun 29 06
Brittleness is often seen as a sign of fragility. But in the case of infectious proteins called prions, brittleness makes for a tougher, more…
That Conk on the Head Could Be a Concussion
• Trauma & Injuries • Jun 28 06
You’re playing a pick-up game of basketball and get hit in the head with the ball. The jolt leaves you feeling slightly dizzy and…
Measuring Your Life Expectancy
• Public Health • Jun 28 06
With the first baby boomers entering their 60s, issues of life expectancy and quality of life are more important than ever. There’s plenty of…
FDA approves Exelon to treat dementia of Parkinson’s disease
• Drug News • Jun 28 06
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Exelon (rivastigmine tartrate) for the treatment of mild to moderate dementia (chronic loss or impairment of…
FDA gives tentative approval for generic pediatric AIDS drug
• Drug News • Jun 28 06
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the tentative approval of the generic version of Abacavir Sulfate Oral Solution, 20 mg (base)/mL manufactured…
New marketing tactics by the tobacco industry reported
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 28 06
A new American Lung Association report, Alcohol-Flavored Cigarettes - Continuing the Flavored Cigarette Trend, shows that the tobacco industry continues to target the nation’s…
Scots now more likely to visit pub since “smokefree”
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 28 06
A quarter of Scots are likely to visit pubs and bars more often now that Scotland is smokefree - according to a Cancer Research…
Traditional therapy combo good for migraines
• Migraine • Jun 27 06
A product that combines extracts of Tanacetum parthenium, commonly known as feverfew, with Salix alba, also called white willow, appears to be effective in…
Cell phones excite the brain but is that good or bad?
• Brain • Jun 27 06
According to a new study the electromagnetic fields from cell phones excite the brain cortex adjacent to it and that possibly has implications for…
Link established between Parkinson’s and pesticides
• Neurology • Jun 27 06
Researchers in the U.S. say they have found evidence that exposure to pesticides may be linked to the development of Parkinson’s disease (PD).
In…
Full thickness skin grafts for complex penile surgeries in children
• Urine Problems • Jun 27 06
Chordee and hypospadias are notorious for having a paucity of penile skin from prior surgical interventions.
Although hypospadias surgery is typically responsible for creating…
3 new genes implicated in rheumatoid arthritis
• Arthritis • Jun 27 06
Researchers continue to search for genetic clues into rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic inflammatory joint disease.
While its specific cause is not yet known,…
Weight loss may reduce arthritis disability
• Arthritis • Jun 27 06
Overweight adults with osteoarthritis who lose just five percent of their body weight can reduce the amount of physical disability associated with this most…
Study shows how ADHD drugs Adderall, Ritalin and Dexedrine work in brain
• Neurology • Jun 27 06
Although millions depend on medications such as Ritalin to quell symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), scientists have struggled to pinpoint how the…
More problems for Merck over Vioxx
• Drug Abuse • Jun 27 06
The painkiller Vioxx was withdrawn from the market in 2004 following a three-year study which showed it doubled the risk of heart attack and…