Studies show ways to predict, prevent Alzheimer’s
• Neurology • Jun 20 05
Painless brain scans and simple blood tests may offer ways to predict who has the highest risk of Alzheimer’s disease, and it…
Antibodies, drug, exercise provide Alzheimer’s hope
• Neurology • Jun 20 05
A “passive” vaccine against Alzheimer’s, a drug designed to filter out brain-clogging proteins and inhaled insulin may all offer ways to treat
Nicotine acts on brain in similar way as heroin
• Brain • Jun 20 05
New research hints at why it’s so hard to quit Smoking. In a mouse study, Pennsylvania researchers found that nicotine affects the brain through…
Hay fever not linked to kids’ immunizations
• Children's Health • Jun 18 05
Routine childhood immunizations do not increase the likelihood that kids will develop hay fever, US researchers suggest.
“Suggestions that immunization…
Epilepsy increases risk of becoming schizophrenic
• Epilepsy • Jun 18 05
A history of epilepsy more than doubles the risk of developing schizophrenia or schizophrenia-like psychosis, according to findings from…
U.S. approves blood test to screen for stroke risk
• Neurology • Jun 17 05
The PLAC test, already used to screen for heart problems, won U.S. approval to help predict a patient’s risk for Stroke, officials for the…
Seventh state eases ‘morning-after’ pill access
• Fertility and pregnancy • Jun 17 05
New Hampshire on Thursday joined six other U.S. states in allowing pharmacists to dispense emergency birth control without a prescription, amid growing controversy over…
High intensity training aids some heart patients
• Heart • Jun 17 05
For people with coronary artery disease (CAD) who are basically in good condition, high-intensity interval training is a safe alternative to traditional cardiac rehab…
Kids need an hour of brisk activity daily
• Children's Health • Jun 17 05
School-age children should engage in at least 60 minute’s worth of moderate or vigorous physical activity each day, according to a review of studies…
Indonesia finds first human case of bird flu
• Flu • Jun 16 05
The first human case of bird flu was identified in Indonesia after a poultry worker tested positive this month, a World Health Organisation (WHO)…
Continuous L-dopa delivery useful for Parkinson’s
• Neurology • Jun 16 05
Giving the anti- Parkinson’s drug levodopa continuously through a naso-gastric tube is better than the pill form of the drug at reducing…
NitroMed drug cut deaths in blacks
• Drug News • Jun 16 05
NitroMed Inc.‘s heart-failure drug for African-Americans reduced deaths and hospitalizations and its side effects were similar to a placebo’s, U.S. regulatory staff…
Ulcer bug strongly linked to irregular heartbeat
• Heart • Jun 16 05
The gastric microbe, Helicobacter pylori, that’s the cause of most stomach ulcers also takes it out on the heart, according to new research.
They…
New version of nasal flu vaccine shows promise
• Flu • Jun 16 05
MedImmune Inc. said on Thursday that an easier-to-store version of its nasal spray flu vaccine FluMist met the main goal of a late-stage trial,…
Vietnam detects six new bird flu patients
• Flu • Jun 15 05
Vietnam has recorded six more bird flu victims, taking the number of infections in the country to 61 since December, 18 of whom have…
Fish oil may harm defibrillator patients
• Food & Nutrition • Jun 14 05
Fish oil appears to do more harm than good for heart patients who have surgically implanted defibrillators to shock their weakened hearts back into…
Asthma may be linked to teenage behavior problems
• Asthma • Jun 14 05
Kindergarten-aged children who have Asthma may be at increased risk of becoming withdrawn, anxious or depressed as teenagers, according to new research.
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A good night’s sleep may be good for memory
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 14 05
Our bodies may be at rest while we sleep, but new research finds more evidence that our brains are hard at work as we…
High-dose painkillers increase heart attack risk
• Heart • Jun 14 05
At high doses, both the older anti-inflammatory painkillers known as NSAIDs and the newer COX-2 inhibitors (dubbed coxibs) modestly increase the risk of heart…
Brain surgery for epilepsy holds up long-term
• Epilepsy • Jun 14 05
After temporal lobectomy for epilepsy, half of patients are seizure free 30 years later, according to a study from the National Institute…
Psychological distress common in heart patients
• Heart • Jun 14 05
Many people with heart failure or who have had a Heart attack suffer from psychological distress, yet only about one third of…
Expert panel urges limited use of J&J heart drug
• Drug Abuse • Jun 14 05
A panel of heart experts has recommended limited use of Johnson & Johnson’s heart drug Natrecor (nesiritide) and backed the company’s plan to conduct…
Viagra helps childhood lung condition
• Drug News • Jun 14 05
The impotence drug Viagra, originally developed to treat Heart disease, may help children with a serious heart-lung condition - pulmonary arterial hypertension…
Cholera detected in Kabul
• Public Health • Jun 14 05
Authorities have detected 30 cases of cholera among more than 2,500 instances of acute diarrhoea in the Afghan capital Kabul, but there…
Calcium, vitamin D may help prevent PMS
• Menopause • Jun 14 05
Among thousands of 27- to 44-year-old women involved in the ongoing Nurses’ Health Study II, those who consumed the most vitamin D and calcium-rich…