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…
Childhood Respiratory Disease Boosts Illness and Death Risks in Adulthood
• Children's Health • • Respiratory Problems • Feb 14 08
Respiratory disease, particularly bronchitis, in early childhood boosts the risks of illness and premature death in adulthood, indicates research published ahead of print in…
Smoking Marijuana Impairs Cognitive Function in MS Patients
• Neurology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 14 08
People with multiple sclerosis (MS) who smoke marijuana are more likely to have emotional and memory problems, according to research published February 13, 2008,…
Vaccine for Stomach Flu May be Possible
• Bowel Problems • • Drug News • • Neurology • Feb 14 08
Every year, millions of people are infected with noroviruses - commonly called “stomach flu” – often resulting in up to 72 hours of…
New findings show additional similarity between opiate and nicotine addiction
• Tobacco & Marijuana • • Cocaine Addiction • Feb 13 08
“That was good!” “Do it again.”
This is what the brain says when people use tobacco, as well as ‘hard drugs’ such as heroin.…
One Drink of Red Wine Or Alcohol Is Relaxing to Circulation, but Two Drinks Are Stressful
• Food & Nutrition • • Heart • • Neurology • Feb 13 08
One drink of either red wine or alcohol slightly benefits the heart and blood vessels, but the positive effects on specific biological markers disappear…
Plastic Surgeons Deploy New Laser for Wrinkle Removal, Acne Scarring, Tattoo Removal
• Cosmetics • • Dermatology • • Skin Care • • Surgery • Feb 13 08
UT Southwestern Medical Center plastic surgeons are among a handful in the nation deploying a new type of laser that goes deeper into the…
Research May Explain Why Some Stroke Patients Recover Language Skills
• Neurology • • Stroke • Feb 13 08
New research suggests that when one part of our language network breaks down, the system has the ability to reroute itself.
Applying tools from…
Drug Doesn’t Help Prevent Migraine After All
• Migraine • Feb 12 08
Contrary to some reports, the epilepsy drug oxcarbazepine does not appear to prevent migraine, according to research published in the February 12, 2008, issue…
Is your dating partner happy?
• Psychiatry / Psychology • • Public Health • Feb 12 08
Research tends to focus on the positives of self-monitoring - a personality characteristic that accounts for how attuned individuals are to societal conventions as…
Chronic prostatitis: Current concepts
• Urine Problems • Feb 10 08
Chronic prostatitis (CP) is a common condition. It causes significant suffering to the patients and constitutes a sizeable workload for the urologists. The purpose…