Teens with migraine at greater risk of suicide
• Children's Health • • Headaches • • Migraine • • Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Apr 30 07
Teens who have chronic daily headache, especially those with migraine headaches, are at greater risk for suicide than teens who don’t have migraines, according…
Herbal Medicine Used for Chinese Stroke Patients Lacks Strong Evidence
• Alternative Medicine • • Stroke • Apr 27 07
The herbal medicine Dan Shen, a standard treatment for ischemic stroke in China, lacks strong scientific evidence to support such use, according a new…
Costs of treating arthritis on the rise nationwide, study finds
• Arthritis • Apr 27 07
The amount Americans spent on arthritis medications more than doubled between 1998 and 2003, due to the fast-rising number of people with the disease,…
Children with asthma have more emotional problems
• Children's Health • • Asthma • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Apr 25 07
Children with asthma may be at increased risk of certain behavioral, emotional and developmental problems, particularly if the asthma is severe, the results of…
Commonly Used Pain Medications Do Not Prevent Alzheimers Disease
• Drug News • • Neurology • • Pain • Apr 25 07
Over-the-counter pain medication naproxen and prescription pain reliever celecoxib do not prevent Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published April 25, 2007, in the…
Workplaces ‘should help smokers give up’
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 25 07
Employees who smoke should be allowed to attend stop smoking clinics during working hours without loss of pay, new public health guidance recommended…
Primary Urinary Tract Infection in Infants
• Children's Health • • Urine Problems • Apr 24 07
Wan, et al evaluated 95 infants who presented with a urinary tract infection. They reviewed the clinical and laboratory findings as well as the…
Good News for Rural Stroke Patients: Telephone Treatment Works
• Stroke • Apr 24 07
Stroke patients in rural hospitals can get safe, effective treatment with the use of a clot-busting drug when a doctor from a larger hospital…
Tamiflu best for bird flu, but avoid steroids
• Drug News • • Flu • Apr 23 07
Bird flu patients who get early treatment with the antiviral drug Tamiflu have the best chances of surviving, but steroid treatments can do more…
Chronic Cough Can be Tamed with the Right Treatment
• Respiratory Problems • Apr 22 07
Chronic cough – often causing much discomfort, frustration, irritability and sleep disturbances in 10 percent to 20 percent of adults – is one of…
Heavy cannabis use by teens is more dangerous than alcohol
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 22 07
People who start using cannabis as teenagers are more likely than drinkers to suffer from mental illness, have relationship problems, and fail to…
The school that took on mobile phone companies
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Apr 22 07
Two giant mobile phone companies are to move a mast at a primary school, after parents claimed their children fell sick.
The mast…
Wi-Fi: Children at risk from ‘electronic smog’
• Children's Health • Apr 22 07
Britain’s top health protection watchdog is pressing for a formal investigation into the hazards of using wireless communication networks in schools amid mounting…
Dry Eyes Are More Than a Nuisance
• Eye / Vision Problems • Apr 20 07
If you don’t suffer from dry eye syndrome (DES), chances are you’ve never heard of it. It is a condition characterized by an insufficiency…
Dental X-Rays of carotid artery not enough to estimate stroke risk
• Stroke • Apr 20 07
Detection of calcified tissue in the carotid artery by dental x-rays is not enough evidence to estimate a patient’s stroke risk was the conclusion…
Euthanasia bid woman forced to withdraw case
• Public Health • Apr 19 07
A terminally ill woman has been forced to abandon a ground-breaking bid to end her own life, it was announced today.
Kelly Taylor, 30,…
Green tea may help prevent autoimmune diseases
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Apr 19 07
Green tea may help protect against autoimmune disease, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
Researchers studied an animal model for type I diabetes and…
Gardens Grow Kids’ Desire for Veggies and Fruit
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Apr 19 07
If you are looking for a way to encourage your children eat their fruits and vegetables, search no further than your backyard, suggests new…
LASIK for Older Adults
• Eye / Vision Problems • Apr 18 07
A new University of Illinois at Chicago study appearing in the online edition of the journal Ophthalmology reports on the safety, efficacy and predictability…
UK ‘has worst drug problem in Europe’
• Drug Abuse • • Public Health • Apr 18 07
The UK has the highest level of problem drug use and the second highest level of drug-related deaths in Europe, according to a…
Placebo Effect in the Pharmacologic Treatment of Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
• Urine Problems • Apr 18 07
All physicians involved in the treatment of PBS/IC understand that the placebo effect likely plays a major role in treatment, and is important when…
MS Drug Helps Reduce Vision Loss
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Neurology • Apr 16 07
A drug that slows disability and reduces relapse rates in multiple sclerosis (MS) has been found to also reduce vision loss in patients with…
Novel Gene Therapy Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease Shows Promise
• Genetics • • Neurology • Apr 16 07
It is estimated that 60,000 new cases of Parkinson’s disease (PD) are diagnosed each year, adding to the estimated one to 1.5 million…
Smoking ban dramatically reduces air pollution in Irish pubs
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 16 07
A national workplace ban on smoking in Ireland resulted in an 83 percent reduction in air pollution in pubs, an 80 percent decrease in…
Antidepressant promising for tension headaches
• Drug News • • Headaches • Apr 13 07
For some patients seeking relief from frequent tension-type headaches, the antidepressant Effexor XR may reduce the number of days with headache, according to results…