Smoking interferes with thinking and memory in recovering alcoholics
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 30 07
Non-smoking recovering alcoholics outperform smoking recovering alcoholics on tests of memory, cognition, visual and auditory learning, and memory
After six to nine months of…
Men and women equally transmit genetic risk of MS to their children
• Children's Health • • Genetics • • Neurology • Jun 28 07
Men and women with multiple sclerosis (MS) equally transmit the genetic risk of the disease to their children, according to a study published June…
Study Shows Surgery Is More Effective Than Other Treatments for Common Back Problem
• Backache • • Surgery • Jun 28 07
When it comes to low back pain, physicians generally advise exhausting nonsurgical options before resorting to surgery. But a new study shows that for…
Natural signal holds promise for psoriasis, age-related skin damage
• Skin Care • Jun 28 07
The body may hold a secret to normalizing skin cell growth that is over zealous in psoriasis and non-melanoma skin cancers and too slow…
Adequate Pain Control Is A Human Right
• Pain • Jun 27 07
A growing international consensus urges change in several areas—including increased availability of controlled medications such as opioids—toward the goal of recognizing effective treatment for…
Mothers’ Second-hand Smoke Exposure Linked to Psychological Problems in Kids
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 27 07
Children whose mothers were exposed to second-hand smoke while they were pregnant have more symptoms of serious psychological problems compared to the offspring of…
Teens Often Take Prescription Drugs Prescribed for Peers
• Children's Health • • Drug Abuse • Jun 27 07
Caregivers have been prescribing psychotropic medication for adolescents in increasing numbers. Although the prescriptions may be appropriate, sometimes the medication ends up in the…
How can I stop smoking? The Cochrane Library has evidence that can help
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 26 07
Acupuncture? Nicotine patches? Telephone therapy? Antidepressants? Cognitive behavioural therapy?
Which work? Which have no effect? Which are dangerous? Confused?
Tamiflu could halve pandemic flu death toll
• Drug News • • Flu • Jun 25 07
The antiviral drug Tamiflu could halve the potential death toll from an influenza pandemic if it was used both to treat and prevent the…
Protein Roadmap for Inherited Eye Diseases
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jun 25 07
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified proteins in the rod and cones of the eye that could lead to…
Medical Marijuana?
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 25 07
For more than 4,000 years, it was used medicinally. Then, in 1942, medical marijuana was banned in the United States. But that’s not the…
Scientists identify first gene linked to scoliosis
• Children's Health • • Genetics • Jun 25 07
Physicians have recognized scoliosis, the abnormal curvature of the spine, since the time of Hippocrates, but its causes have remained a mystery - until…
Self-hypnosis helps kids with frequent headaches
• Children's Health • • Headaches • Jun 25 07
Self-hypnosis training is an effective treatment for chronic recurrent headaches in children and adolescents, new research suggests.
Dr. Daniel P. Kohen, from the University…
Gene Discovery Aids Understanding of Neurological Disorder
• Genetics • • Neurology • Jun 21 07
Scientists have identified the gene responsible for one type of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder, a common inherited neurological disease, thanks to the chance appearance of a…
Cigarette Smoking Impairs Ligament Healing
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 21 07
The list of reasons you shouldn’t smoke has gotten longer. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are reporting that smoking…
Thrombolysis for Acute Stroke in Pediatrics
• Children's Health • • Stroke • Jun 21 07
Thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for patients with acute stroke began in the eighties. After several small series and some pilot trials, the…
Is It Time for a Large, Collaborative Study of Pediatric Stroke?
• Children's Health • • Stroke • Jun 21 07
Childhood stroke, although rare, results in significant mortality and long-term morbidity. The lack of information about risk factors for childhood stroke recently led an…
Children of Smokers Have Five Times Higher Levels of a Nicotine Toxin
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 19 07
Children who have at least one parent who smokes have 5.5 times higher levels of cotinine, a byproduct of nicotine, in their urine, according…
Coffee Drinking Protects Against an Eyelid Spasm That Can Lead to ‘Blindness’
• Dieting • • Eye / Vision Problems • • Food & Nutrition • Jun 19 07
People who drink coffee are less likely to develop an involuntary eye spasm called primary late onset blepharospasm, which makes them blink uncontrollably and…
Keep a Cool Head on Hot, Humid Days to Avoid Heat Stroke
• Neurology • • Stroke • Jun 19 07
Keeping cool on hot, humid summer days is good advice for more reasons than sheer comfort. It’s vital for good health - even staying…
Alcohol may prevent rheumatoid arthritis
• Arthritis • Jun 16 07
More good news for drinkers - imbibing regularly may halve your risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, according to scientists.
New research presented at the…
Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Affects Attention in Early School Years
• Children's Health • • Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 13 07
Adding to the evidence that maternal drug use can have lasting effects, a new study finds that young schoolchildren of cocaine-using moms scored more…
Recurrence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Has Been Overestimated
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Jun 13 07
Recurrence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is rare and has been overestimated by studies which have tried to quantify it, says a review…
Stroke study sheds light on left-right brain divide
• Neurology • • Stroke • Jun 11 07
Research into the effects of strokes has furthered our understanding of the different roles of the left and right sides of our brains. A…
Insomniacs pay higher health-care costs than noninsomniacs
• Public Health • Jun 11 07
A research abstract that will be presented Monday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) finds that…