Using fMRI to study brain development
• Brain • • Neurology • Nov 30 07
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a powerful noninvasive tool for studying brain activity in both humans and experimental animals. Most fMRI studies are…
Recognizing the signs of Alzheimer’s
• Neurology • Nov 30 07
Growing old gracefully is easier said than done - the mirror can betray the fact that we may feel 10 years younger on the…
Join the Great American Smokeout
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 30 07
Every year, smokers across the nation take part in the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout by smoking less or quitting for the day.…
Drug maker packs red-wine-like compound in pill
• Drug News • Nov 29 07
New compounds that act like the red wine ingredient resveratrol may offer a new formula for type 2 diabetes drugs and other age-related…
Handwashing more useful than drugs in virus control
• Infections • • Public Health • Nov 29 07
Physical barriers, such as regular handwashing and wearing masks, gloves and gowns, may be more effective than drugs to prevent the spread of respiratory…
Current Smokers Cost Medicaid Nearly $10 Billion
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 29 07
Five years after all current smokers who receive Medicaid benefits quit smoking, program expenditures would be an estimated $9.7 billion lower, according to a…
Antibody responses in patients with Lyme arthritis
• Arthritis • Nov 29 07
Lyme disease in the U.S. is caused by a form of bacteria, the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, infecting humans by tick bites. It typically begins…
Effects of Progesterone on Alzheimer’s Disease
• Endocrinology • • Neurology • Nov 28 07
The first study on progesterone and Alzheimer’s disease has found no clear preventive benefit for the widely prescribed hormone in an animal model.
Progesterone…
Minimally invasive treatment reduces shoulder pain from tendonitis
• Arthritis • Nov 28 07
Radiologists are using a new minimally invasive procedure to treat tendonitis in the shoulder. Ultrasound-guided non-surgical therapy significantly reduces pain from calcific tendonitis of…
Pneumococcal Infection Rates Drop, Despite Uneven Childhood Vaccination
• Infections • • Public Health • Nov 27 07
Since its addition to the list of routine immunizations in 2000, one childhood vaccine has helped prevent some pneumococcal-related illness, including pneumonia and otitis…
Nicotine may enhance attention and working memory in recovering alcoholics
• Neurology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 26 07
* Alcoholics in early recovery tend to have impaired cognitive functioning.
* Nicotine is known to have beneficial effects under certain…
Secondhand smoke damages lungs, MRIs show
• Respiratory Problems • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 26 07
It’s not a smoking gun, but it’s smoking-related, and it’s there in bright medical images: evidence of microscopic structural damage deep in the lungs,…
Eating more fish may improve seniors’ memory
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Nov 22 07
Misplaced your keys? Can’t place that face? Study findings suggest that you may be able to lessen the frequency of these “senior moments’ simply…
Cigarette Smoke and Alcohol Damage Hearts Worse As Combo
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 22 07
Tobacco smoke-filled air is bad for cardiovascular health, and drinking alcohol at the same time only makes it worse, according to researchers at the…
Your Hearing May be at Risk
• Ear / Nose / Throat • Nov 20 07
Call it acoustic trauma or noise-induced hearing loss. By any name, it’s the most important preventable cause of permanent hearing loss. Up to…
Brain Differences Found in People with Migraine
• Brain • • Migraine • Nov 20 07
People with migraines have differences in an area of the brain that helps process sensory information, including pain, according to a study published in…
Combining Medications Often Best Strategy to Battle Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Arthritis • Nov 20 07
For patients with rheumatoid arthritis, combining one well-known, lower-cost synthetic drug with one of six biologic medications often works best to reduce joint swelling…
How I take control of migraines
• Headaches • • Migraine • Nov 19 07
Whether it’s bright lights or stress that bring on the crippling pain of a migraine, the effects bring misery to thousands of people in…
Strong Drugs without the Addiction
• Drug Abuse • • Drug News • Nov 19 07
Two University of Adelaide pharmacologists working with one the world’s leading neuroscientists have helped pave the way for the development of new pain-killing drugs…
Football game days tops for drinking among college students
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 19 07
College students drink larger amounts of alcohol on football game days, comparable to well-known drinking days such as New Year’s Eve and Halloween, according…
Yogurt Can Help Boost Immune System
• Food & Nutrition • • Immunology • Nov 16 07
Foods available at the grocery store that claim to boost immunity are a simple matter of eating good bacteria to fight bad bacteria and…
Coffee’s Costs, Calories Stack Up For Kids
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Nov 16 07
More and more teenagers are bypassing the school lounge or the library to hang out at a local coffee shop. The cost and the…
Blood Clotting Protein Linked to Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Arthritis • Nov 16 07
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s have issued the first study showing that a protein normally involved in blood clotting (fibrin), also plays an important role…
Older Children More Likely to Develop Vision Disorders
• Children's Health • • Eye / Vision Problems • Nov 16 07
In a study of more than 6,000 Los Angeles-area children – the largest study of its kind – researchers at the Keck School of…
Forteo’s Bone-Building Power Shown In Arthritis Patients
• Arthritis • • Drug News • Nov 15 07
The osteoporosis drug Forteo works better than Fosamax to strengthen bones in arthritis patients with prednisone-induced osteoporosis, according to a new study from a…