Exercise after arthritis hospital stay cuts costs
• Arthritis • Feb 29 08
Arthritis sufferers who participate in three weeks of intensive exercise therapy after being hospitalized for their disease enjoy a better quality of life a…
Sex Differences Extend into the Brain
• Brain • • Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • Feb 29 08
What was once speculation is now being confirmed by scientists: the brains of women and men are different in more ways than one.
Discoveries…
Unrecognized Health Hazards of Smoking from a Hookah
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 29 08
A new fad among college students and other young people—smoking from a hookah—is raising public health concerns. The centuries-old tradition of smoking from a…
Hormone replacement therapy appears to have no effect on risk and severity of rheumatoid arthritis
• Arthritis • • Endocrinology • Feb 29 08
Although rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is more predominant in women, the reasons for this are unclear. Many studies have examined the effects of estrogen on…
Genetic Factors in Smoking Also Increase Risk of Chronic Bronchitis
• Genetics • • Respiratory Problems • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 29 08
Smoking is a known risk factor for respiratory diseases like chronic bronchitis, but genes also play a significant role in its development, according to…
Gene Expression Differences Between Those of Europeans and African Ancestry
• Genetics • Feb 28 08
Differences in gene expression levels between people of European versus African ancestry can affect how each group responds to certain drugs or fights off…
Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Worldwide Concern
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 28 08
Although secondhand smoke has been linked to death and illness, a new study suggests that parents around the world do very little to protect…
Headache common in people with GI trouble
• Headaches • • Migraine • Feb 28 08
The prevalence of headache is higher in people with gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms such as nausea, acid reflux, diarrhea, and constipation, than in people who…
Degenerative Eye Disease More than Doubles Heart Attack and Stroke Risk
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Heart • • Stroke • Feb 28 08
The progressive eye disease, age related macular degeneration, or AMD for short, doubles the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke,…
Scientists discover how cigarette smoke causes cancer: Study points to new treatments, safer tobacco
• Cancer • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 28 08
Everyone has known for decades that that smoking can kill, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells…
What Is the Maximum Safe Dose of Opioids?
• Tobacco & Marijuana • • Cocaine Addiction • Feb 27 08
Charts and tables are readily available from multiple sources that attempt to correlate certain doses of oxycodone to other opioid narcotics. “Maximum safe dose”…
Statins may cut pneumonia deaths: study
• Drug News • • Respiratory Problems • Feb 27 08
Statin drugs used to lower cholesterol levels and, to a lesser extent, ACE inhibitors used to lower blood pressure, may reduce mortality in older…
Tips for Troublesome Medications
• Drug Abuse • • Emergencies / First Aid • Feb 27 08
Bad reactions to a prescribed medication send more than 175,000 older Americans to the emergency room each year. Just 10 commonly used medications -…
The human and economic cost of heart disease in Europe
• Heart • • Public Health • Feb 26 08
New figures published by the European Society of Cardiology1 and the European Heart Network2 this month, highlighted the significant differences in cardiovascular disease across…
“Fluorescent” Cells Give Early Warning for Eye Disease
• Eye / Vision Problems • Feb 25 08
Scientists at the University of Michigan have shown that their new metabolic imaging instrument can accurately detect eye disease at a very early stage.…
Stroke more prevalent in United States than in Europe
• Stroke • Feb 22 08
American adults have a higher prevalence of stroke than their European counterparts, due in part to a higher rate of stroke risk factors among…
Helping back pain sufferers to stay in work
• Backache • Feb 22 08
New research to be carried out at The University of Nottingham could have a major impact on the way that people struggling with low…
Potential Risk Factor Identified for Parkinson’s
• Neurology • Feb 20 08
A new study demonstrates that high levels of MAO-B, an enzyme that regulates nerve activity in the brain, cause Parkinson’s-like symptoms in mice genetically…
Laser light may be able to detect diseases on the breath
• Asthma • • Cancer • • Respiratory Problems • Feb 18 08
A team of scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU)…
Tobacco Could Kill 1 Billion by 2100
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 16 08
The World Health Organization warned in a new report Thursday that the ``tobacco epidemic’’ is growing and could claim 1 billion lives by the…
Chronic pain should be considered a disease
• Pain • Feb 15 08
The concept that chronic pain is a disease in its own right is leading to new specific treatments aimed at physical, psychological, and environmental…
One in Four Stroke Patients Die within a Month
• Stroke • Feb 15 08
Should doctors suggest alternative sources of nicotine to people who are unable to give up cigarettes, asks this week’s BMJ?
Smoking currently kills…
Smoking-related deaths to rise sharply in India
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 14 08
Death attributed to tobacco smoking is likely to account for nearly one million deaths per year by 2010, with more than two thirds of…
Fast food eaters risk liver damage, weight gain
• Dieting • • Dieting To Lose Weight • Feb 14 08
Too much fast food and too little exercise can wreak havoc on the liver, according to results of a small Swedish study.
In the…
New cataract gene discovered
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Genetics • Feb 14 08
Breakthrough in study of childhood cataracts
The international team of researchers was able to identify the location and defect in the coding region of…