How can I stop smoking? The Cochrane Library has evidence that can help
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 26 07
Acupuncture? Nicotine patches? Telephone therapy? Antidepressants? Cognitive behavioural therapy?
Which work? Which have no effect? Which are dangerous? Confused?
Tamiflu could halve pandemic flu death toll
• Drug News • • Flu • Jun 25 07
The antiviral drug Tamiflu could halve the potential death toll from an influenza pandemic if it was used both to treat and prevent the…
Protein Roadmap for Inherited Eye Diseases
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jun 25 07
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified proteins in the rod and cones of the eye that could lead to…
Medical Marijuana?
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 25 07
For more than 4,000 years, it was used medicinally. Then, in 1942, medical marijuana was banned in the United States. But that’s not the…
Scientists identify first gene linked to scoliosis
• Children's Health • • Genetics • Jun 25 07
Physicians have recognized scoliosis, the abnormal curvature of the spine, since the time of Hippocrates, but its causes have remained a mystery - until…
Self-hypnosis helps kids with frequent headaches
• Children's Health • • Headaches • Jun 25 07
Self-hypnosis training is an effective treatment for chronic recurrent headaches in children and adolescents, new research suggests.
Dr. Daniel P. Kohen, from the University…
Gene Discovery Aids Understanding of Neurological Disorder
• Genetics • • Neurology • Jun 21 07
Scientists have identified the gene responsible for one type of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder, a common inherited neurological disease, thanks to the chance appearance of a…
Cigarette Smoking Impairs Ligament Healing
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 21 07
The list of reasons you shouldn’t smoke has gotten longer. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are reporting that smoking…
Thrombolysis for Acute Stroke in Pediatrics
• Children's Health • • Stroke • Jun 21 07
Thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for patients with acute stroke began in the eighties. After several small series and some pilot trials, the…
Is It Time for a Large, Collaborative Study of Pediatric Stroke?
• Children's Health • • Stroke • Jun 21 07
Childhood stroke, although rare, results in significant mortality and long-term morbidity. The lack of information about risk factors for childhood stroke recently led an…
Children of Smokers Have Five Times Higher Levels of a Nicotine Toxin
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 19 07
Children who have at least one parent who smokes have 5.5 times higher levels of cotinine, a byproduct of nicotine, in their urine, according…
Coffee Drinking Protects Against an Eyelid Spasm That Can Lead to ‘Blindness’
• Dieting • • Eye / Vision Problems • • Food & Nutrition • Jun 19 07
People who drink coffee are less likely to develop an involuntary eye spasm called primary late onset blepharospasm, which makes them blink uncontrollably and…
Keep a Cool Head on Hot, Humid Days to Avoid Heat Stroke
• Neurology • • Stroke • Jun 19 07
Keeping cool on hot, humid summer days is good advice for more reasons than sheer comfort. It’s vital for good health - even staying…
Alcohol may prevent rheumatoid arthritis
• Arthritis • Jun 16 07
More good news for drinkers - imbibing regularly may halve your risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, according to scientists.
New research presented at the…
Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Affects Attention in Early School Years
• Children's Health • • Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 13 07
Adding to the evidence that maternal drug use can have lasting effects, a new study finds that young schoolchildren of cocaine-using moms scored more…
Recurrence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Has Been Overestimated
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Jun 13 07
Recurrence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is rare and has been overestimated by studies which have tried to quantify it, says a review…
Stroke study sheds light on left-right brain divide
• Neurology • • Stroke • Jun 11 07
Research into the effects of strokes has furthered our understanding of the different roles of the left and right sides of our brains. A…
Insomniacs pay higher health-care costs than noninsomniacs
• Public Health • Jun 11 07
A research abstract that will be presented Monday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) finds that…
Breakthrough developments in rheumatoid arthritis reported
• Arthritis • Jun 11 07
Peter K. Gregersen, MD, stares at x-rays of hands, searching out the telltale signs of inflamed joints and wrists from his research subjects with…
Premature infants, toddlers more likely to have a sleep-related breathing disorder
• Children's Health • • Respiratory Problems • Jun 11 07
A sleep-related breathing disorder among infants and toddlers born prematurely occurs earlier than expected in this population, and at higher rates than among full-term…
Parents May Play Role in their Kids’ Migraine Headache Pain
• Headaches • • Migraine • Jun 08 07
According to preliminary results of an ongoing study at Columbus Children’s Hospital, to be presented at the American Headache Society’s June meeting in Chicago,…
Degenerative Disk Disease
• Backache • Jun 06 07
Back pain can interfere with normal activities. One of the most common causes is degenerative disk disease. Fortunately, there is help. For most people,…
Fibromyalgia: the Misunderstood Disease
• Pain • Jun 04 07
Fourteen years ago, Josephine* began to experience severe pain throughout her body. As her symptoms became worse, she sought help from a variety of…
7 Ways for Kids to Have a Slimmer Summer
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Jun 04 07
This might be the first generation of children who do not outlive their parents, says Amy Bohn, M.D., a family physician for the University…
Use Caution with All Pain Medications
• Drug News • • Pain • • Stroke • May 31 07
Not long ago, choosing a pain reliever meant finding one that eased your pain without being too hard on the stomach. Now, research suggests…