High-carb diet may help you think faster
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 30 07
A low-carbohydrate/high-fat diet and a high-carbohydrate/low-fat diet both improve weight loss, enhance mood, and speed thinking, a study shows, but the low-carb diet may…
Bird flu virus can pass mother to child: study
• Flu • Sep 30 07
The H5N1 bird flu virus can pass through a pregnant woman’s placenta to infect the fetus, researchers reported on Thursday.
They also found evidence…
Occupational therapy is an effective way of improving the daily life of stroke patients
• Neurology • • Stroke • Sep 28 07
Occupational therapy can improve the lives of patients who have suffered a stroke and lessen their chances of deteriorating, according to a study published…
Stress in Seniors Linked to Low Birth Weight
• Children's Health • • Neurology • Sep 27 07
Low birth weight children may be at a greater risk of stress-related health problems as adults, according to a new study accepted for publication…
Acupuncture does not reduce radiotherapy-induced nausea, but patients believe it does
• Alternative Medicine • • Cancer • Sep 26 07
Despite widespread belief among cancer patients and health care professionals that acupuncture helps relieve nausea caused by cancer treatment, new research in radiotherapy has…
Mixing large doses of both acetaminophen painkiller and caffeine may increase risk of liver damage
• Drug News • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 26 07
Consuming large amounts of caffeine while taking acetaminophen, one of the most widely used painkillers in the United States, could potentially cause liver damage,…
Nosespray Vaccine Using Aloe Vera Has Exciting Potential
• Drug News • • Flu • • Infections • Sep 26 07
Researchers at Texas A&M University are participating in developing a medicine that is worth sneezing about: a treatment for influenza that forms a jelly…
New Lenses Offer Cataract Patients Clearer Future
• Eye / Vision Problems • Sep 25 07
You’re reading and you notice 3’s look like 8’s or vice versa. When driving, you find yourself needing to be closer to road signs…
Acupuncture Treatment May Be More Effective Than Conventional Therapy In Treating Lower Back Pain
• Alternative Medicine • • Backache • Sep 25 07
Six months of acupuncture treatment appears to be more effective than conventional therapy in treating low back pain, according to a study in the…
Norepinephrine May Increase Chances of Survival in Hemorrhagic Shock
• Brain • • Neurology • Sep 24 07
For trauma patients with shock caused by severe bleeding, giving the drug norepinephrine along with initial fluid replacement might help to improve the chances…
U.S. Adults Spent More on Lipitor in 2004 than Any Other Drug
• Drug News • • Public Health • Sep 24 07
With a total nearly $5 billion, Lipitor, a cholesterol-reducing drug, ranked first in terms of total spending on prescription medicines by adults ages 18…
Secondhand smoke increases teen test failure
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 20 07
Teens exposed to secondhand smoke at home are at increased risk of test failure in school, suggests a new study in the Journal of…
Genetic variation affects smoking cessation treatment
• Genetics • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 20 07
Mark Twain boasted that it was easy to quit smoking because he did it every day. We now may have the beginnings of understanding…
Those Who Stay in School, Stay Healthier
• Children's Health • Sep 19 07
Both education and income can determine whether a person will remain healthy, but those who stay in school longer have the best odds, largely…
Dizziness Causes Don’t Differ Across Age Groups
• Neurology • Sep 19 07
Dizziness is the distortion of the perception of space; vertigo is a special type of dizziness, which induces a sensation of spinning around. Dizziness…
Common Abdominal Pain May be Due to a Potentially Treatable Newly Recognized Inflammatory Reaction
• Pain • Sep 19 07
As many as one in four people in westernized countries experience pain or discomfort in their upper abdomen, and physicians have almost nothing to…
New understanding of basic units of memory
• Brain • • Neurology • Sep 19 07
A molecular “recycling plant” permits nerve cells in the brain to carry out two seemingly contradictory functions – changeable enough to record new experiences,…
New antibiotic drug combo to speed up treatment of tuberculosis
• Drug News • • Infections • Sep 18 07
A team of tuberculosis (TB) experts at Johns Hopkins and in Brazil have evidence that substituting the antibiotic moxifloxacin in the regimen of drugs…
Genes in rheumatoid arthritis
• Arthritis • • Genetics • Sep 18 07
A paper published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine provides strong evidence that one specific part of the genome is associated…
How Nutrition Affects the Breakdown of Fats
• Fat, Dietary • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 18 07
Scientists report in the October issue of the Journal of Lipid Research that when either lean or obese individuals exercise after eating a high…
It Is Easy to Purchase Prescription Drugs and Controlled Substances Through Spam Messages
• Drug Abuse • • Public Health • Sep 18 07
It Is Easy to Purchase Prescription Drugs and Controlled Substances Through Spam Messages on the Internet
A new study in PLoS Medicine has…
The importance of gene regulation for common human disease
• Genetics • Sep 17 07
A new study published in Nature Genetics on Sunday 16 September 2007 show that common, complex diseases are more likely to be due to…
Genetic variant linked to odor perception
• Genetics • Sep 17 07
Why the same sweaty man smells pleasant to one person and repellant to another comes down to the smeller’s genes.
Duke University Medical Center…
New way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease promises earlier treatment
• Brain • • Neurology • Sep 17 07
Physicians may be able to detect and treat Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in its earliest stages, when patients are experiencing only mild degrees of cognitive…
Rating your pain from 0 to 10 might not help your doctor
• Pain • Sep 17 07
The most commonly used measure for pain screening may only be modestly accurate, according to researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and…