Flu Drug Speeds Recovery from Brain Injury
• Brain • • Trauma & Injuries • Mar 01 12
Patients with severe traumatic brain injury who were treated with amantadine hydrochloride (Symmetrel) had more rapid recovery of function than those receiving placebo, a…
Bleeding Risk with Blood Thinner Cited
• Drug Abuse • Mar 01 12
A cluster of bleeding episodes in patients treated with dabigatran (Pradaxa) led a group of New Zealand hematologists to express concern and call for…
Nicotine Patches No Help in Pregnancy
• Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 01 12
Adding nicotine patches to behavioral counseling did not improve quit rates among pregnant women who smoked, a randomized trial showed.
Only 9.4% of women…
Nocturia
• Urine Problems • Feb 29 12
Frequent nighttime urination is a condition known as nocturia. Elderly men often suffer from this condition as a symptom of other diseases, medications being…
What Are the Causes of Nocturia in Elderly Men?
• Urine Problems • Feb 29 12
Nocturia is a part of life for most older persons, especially men, nearly 90% of whom experience at least one episode of nighttime…
Childhood Stress May Cause Genetic Changes
• Children's Health • Feb 29 12
A new research effort comes to the conclusion that major stress during childhood can change a person’s biological risk for psychiatric disorders.
Researchers from…
New Diet Drug Qnexa Promises 10% Weight Loss - At What Price?
• Drug News • • Weight Loss • Feb 29 12
This week’s big news is the potential arrival of Qnexa, the first new obesity drug to head for tentative FDA approval in 13 years.…
Government says airport screening machines safe
• Public Health • Feb 29 12
Studies by the U.S. government and professional organizations conclude the level of radiation emitted by full-body airport scanners is safe for passengers, according to…
FDA’s new statin label warning about diabetes risk may have little effect
• Diabetes • • Drug News • Feb 29 12
In evaluating the new warning U.S. regulators are issuing on statin prescription labels, many physicians are likely to take the view that high cholesterol…
FDA places warning on statin labels
• Drug Abuse • Feb 29 12
The FDA today added “important safety changes” to the labeling for some widely used statins.
These products, when used with diet and exercise, help…
Clamor for obesity pill may test FDA limits
• Drug News • • Obesity • • Weight Loss • Feb 29 12
U.S. drug regulators may have a hard time stopping millions of overweight Americans from taking a new obesity drug that many are likely to…
Damaged Myelin Is Not The Cause Of Multiple Sclerosis
• Neurology • Feb 28 12
It is estimated that in the US alone, there are currently 400.000 people suffering from multiple sclerosis or MS. Worldwide there are more than…
Future Study Aims To Assess The Outcomes Of Obesity Surgeries
• Obesity • • Surgery • Feb 28 12
Obesity represents a worldwide health problem with an increasing incidence among adults. For this reason the University of Bristol started a study named BY-BAND,…
Turkey: quadruple limb transplant fails
• Surgery • Feb 28 12
A 27-year-old Turkish man who underwent the world’s first would-be quadruple limb transplant died Monday, hours after the limbs were removed due to metabolic…
Nicotine quick-fix mouth spray helps some quitters
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 28 12
A mouth spray that delivers a dose of nicotine faster than patches and gums may help some smokers quit long-term, suggests a new study…
Active video games don’t mean kids exercise more
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Feb 28 12
All that virtual boxing, bowling and dancing along with video game systems might not be helping kids meet their daily exercise requirements, a…
Phosphate enemas may be deadly in elderly: report
• Aging and Gerontology • • Urine Problems • Feb 27 12
Sodium phosphate enemas, used to relieve constipation, may cause older people to suffer kidney failure or even die, a new report suggests.
The study,…
Study links high fiber to healthy gums in older vets
• Dental Health • • Dieting • Feb 27 12
U.S. researchers who followed healthy male veterans for up to 24 years found that older men who ate more high-fiber fruits were less likely…
Citrus fruits can cut stroke risk
• Food & Nutrition • • Stroke • Feb 26 12
New research suggests eating citrus fruits such as oranges and grapefruits may help to reduce the risk of women suffering a stroke.
Scientists from…
Raw Milk Is Highly Infectious
• Food & Nutrition • • Infections • Feb 26 12
It has been recently revealed that raw milk is a source of infection. Drinking raw milk has been frowned upon since a long time…
Flu Season Just Beginning, but Could Ramp Up Quickly
• Flu • Feb 26 12
The geographic spread of actual flu cases presents a slightly different picture, according to the CDC. From that perspective, Colorado and California had widespread…
Eating citrus fruit may lower women’s stroke risk
• Dieting • • Stroke • Feb 24 12
This prospective study is one of the first in which researchers examine how consuming flavonoid subclasses affects the risk of stroke. Flavonoids are a…
High total cholesterol may be risk factor for ischemic stroke
• Stroke • Feb 24 12
Japanese men with high serum total cholesterol levels have an “excess” risk for stroke, report researchers.
Hiroyasu Iso (Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine,…
Proteins behaving badly
• Neurology • Feb 24 12
Several neurodegenerative diseases – including Alzheimer’s and ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) – are caused when the body’s own proteins fold incorrectly, recruit and convert…
Circadian Rhythms Linked to Sudden Cardiac Death, Study Finds
• Heart • Feb 23 12
A fundamental discovery reported in the March 1st issue of the journal Nature, uncovers the first molecular evidence linking the body’s natural circadian rhythms…