Overweight toddlers and those not in day care at risk
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Sep 04 07
A study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has found that overweight toddlers and those not enrolled in day care are at high…
Loss of vision a possibility after glaucoma surgery
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Surgery • Sep 03 07
Roughly 6 percent of patients who undergo a type of surgery called “trabeculectomy” for advanced glaucoma will experience severe loss of central vision, according…
Gene mutation may explain postoperative delirium
• Psychiatry / Psychology • • Surgery • Sep 03 07
Elderly patients who carry the apolipoprotein E (APOE) e4 allele, a gene mutation implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, are at increased risk for experiencing early…
Adolescent Girls on Diets More Apt to Become Smokers
• Dieting • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Aug 31 07
Teenage girls who are dieting are almost twice as likely to start smoking regularly as girls who are not dieting, according to a new…
Patients who stop using statins after stroke increase risk of death
• Neurology • • Stroke • Aug 31 07
Patients who stop taking cholesterol-lowering drugs within a year of surviving a stroke had a two-fold increased risk of death, researchers reported in Stroke:…
Mothers’ smoking linked to kids’ marijuana use
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Aug 31 07
Children with mothers who smoke cigarettes are more likely to be regular marijuana users by early adulthood, a new study suggests.
Part of the…
Social, Church Activities May Protect Against Adolescent Smoking
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Aug 30 07
Preventing youth smoking could take a village or a neighborhood. Church and school activities may help reduce smoking among youth in disadvantaged areas, according…
Different Method of Evaluating the Urinary Tract System Reduces Radiation Dose
• Urine Problems • Aug 28 07
The split-bolus (cross sectional imaging) MDCT urography technique reduces both radiation dose and number of images produced, according to a recent study conducted by…
Topiramate reduces frequency of chronic migraine
• Headaches • • Migraine • Aug 27 07
In patients with chronic migraine, a daily dose of topiramate (Topamax) is reasonably well tolerated and reduces the number of headaches per month, even…
US approves drug for two pediatric mental disorders
• Children's Health • • Drug News • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Aug 23 07
Johnson & Johnson won U.S. approval to promote its drug, Risperdal, for two psychiatric conditions in children, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday.
The…
60 second test could help early diagnosis of common brain diseases
• Brain • • Neurology • Aug 22 07
Until recently physicians have had to rely on time-consuming and uncertain behavioural examinations to diagnose the onset of brain diseases such as multiple sclerosis,…
Fish Oil Could Provide Measure of Relief for Some MS Patients
• Dieting • • Neurology • Aug 22 07
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease found in one in 700 Americans. It affects women more often than men, and generally begins to show…
New research explores newborn in-hospital weight loss
• Children's Health • • Weight Loss • Aug 21 07
Healthy, full-term newborn babies tend to lose weight during the first few days after their birth. A groundbreaking new study published in the latest…
Take the Itch and Burn Out of Hemorrhoids
• Pain • • Surgery • Aug 21 07
Are you tired of the itch and burn of hemorrhoids? While it’s a fairly common condition, many patients may be too embarrassed to talk…
High alcohol consumption increases stroke risk among Chinese men
• Neurology • • Stroke • Aug 21 07
Heavy drinking may increase the risk of stroke in Chinese men and should be targeted for prevention strategies, according to a new study to…
How Air Force Women Are Handling the Stress
• Gender: Female • • Neurology • Aug 19 07
About 20 percent of Air Force women deployed during the Iraq war report that they are experiencing at least one major symptom of post-traumatic…
Triptan nasal spray effective for adolescent migraine
• Children's Health • • Headaches • • Migraine • Aug 17 07
A nasal spray containing the drug zolmitriptan, which is known by the brand name Zomig, effectively relieves migraine headache in adolescents and is well…
Aldara cream treats skin damage from sun
• Dermatology • • Skin Care • • Drug News • Aug 17 07
A type of skin lesion called actinic keratosis, caused by long-term exposure to the sun, responds well to prescription Aldara cream applied three times…
Acupuncture doesn’t reduce arthritis pain
• Alternative Medicine • • Arthritis • • Pain • Aug 16 07
New research suggests that the reduction in arthritis pain as a result of exercise-based physical therapy is not enhanced by the addition of acupuncture.
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Age-related Macular Degeneration Patient Receives Investigational Eye Drops
• Eye / Vision Problems • Aug 16 07
An 88-year-old man at The Methodist Hospital in Houston is one of two patients in the world today to receive an investigational eye drop…
Whiplash May Produce Delayed Jaw Pain
• Pain • • Trauma & Injuries • Aug 16 07
One in three people exposed to whiplash trauma is at risk of developing delayed TMJ symptoms that may require treatment, according to research published…
Health matters for children
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Aug 16 07
With UEFA’s help, children from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been highlighting the role that sport can play in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Street…
The Memories You Want to Forget Are the Hardest Ones to Lose
• Brain • • Neurology • Aug 15 07
Painful, emotional memories that people would most like to forget may be the toughest to leave behind, especially when memories are created through…
Ways to Reduce Dental Anxiety
• Dental Health • Aug 13 07
For some people, the fear of visiting a dentist outweighs the pain of a toothache. But putting off that visit almost invariably leads to…
Chewing Tobacco: An Underestimated Danger
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Aug 13 07
In the U.S. this year more than 55,000 Americans will develop cancer of the head and neck (most of which is preventable) and nearly…