Who Can Drive After a Stroke? Tests Can Help Decide
• Neurology • • Stroke • Feb 22 11
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Many people want to keep driving after having a stroke, and many can do so safely. Simple tests in the…
Cost-Effectiveness Needs to be Considered in Health Policy
• Public Health • Feb 22 11
Cost-effectiveness analysis should play a bigger role in the American health care system, argued a University of Chicago researcher Friday at the annual conference…
Payment, Shipping Bans Stub Out Cigarette-Selling Websites
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 22 11
Bans on using credit cards to pay for cigarettes bought on Internet sites – combined with bans on commercial shippers delivering the products –…
Mayo Clinic Receives Re-accreditation as Certified Stroke Center
• Public Health • Feb 22 11
Mayo Clinic was awarded the Gold Seal of Approval for stroke care and re-accredited as an Advanced Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission…
Alcohol linked to complications after joint surgery
• Surgery • • Trauma & Injuries • Feb 21 11
The more people drink before having a hip or knee replaced, the higher their risk for complications right after the surgery, a new study…
Increasing triglyceride levels linked to greater stroke risk
• Stroke • Feb 21 11
A study by researchers in Denmark revealed that increasing levels of non-fasting triglycerides are associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke in men…
Weight Loss Improves Knee Pain From Common Arthritic Condition, Study Says
• Arthritis • • Pain • • Weight Loss • Feb 21 11
Knee pain related to osteoarthritis (OA) is a common complaint among obese individuals and retired professional athletes, especially former NFL players, but researchers presenting…
Using amphetamines may increase risk of Parkinson’s disease
• Brain • • Neurology • Feb 21 11
New research shows people who have used amphetamines such as benzedrine and dexedrine appear to be at an increased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease,…
How to leave your body
• Brain • • Neurology • Feb 21 11
Leave your body and shake hands with yourself, gain an extra limb or change into a robot for a while. Swedish neuroscientist Henrik Ehrsson…
Family planning programs have success in developing countries, but need to be expanded
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Feb 21 11
While many researchers generally credit the desire for smaller families for the decline in fertility rates in developing, low-income countries, new research suggests that…
Is the link between poverty and water-related disease making rich people sick?
• Food & Nutrition • • Infections • Feb 21 11
Despite clean water and improved public services, water-related diseases continues to spread in cities around the world. Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar Kate Mulligan presents…
Careful cleaning of children’s skin wounds key to healing, regardless of antibiotic choice
• Children's Health • • Infections • Feb 21 11
When it comes to curing skin infected with the antibiotic-resistant bacterium MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), timely and proper wound cleaning and draining may be…
Food tax could trim some people’s calorie intake
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Feb 18 11
People are generally more likely to pass on high-calorie food when there is a tax on it - though it might not matter…
Good Diets Fight Bad Alzheimer Genes
• Dieting • • Genetics • • Neurology • Feb 15 11
Scientists today agree that there are five molecules that are known to affect or cause Alzheimer’s disease, which plagues an estimated five million Americans.…
New Psoriasis Guidelines Stress Importance of Individualized Treatment Plans
• Dermatology • Feb 15 11
Building on the evidence-based findings of five previously published guidelines of care that examine the use of a variety of medical therapies for the…
Lavender oil has potent antifungal effect
• Infections • Feb 15 11
Lavender oil could be used to combat the increasing incidence of antifungal-resistant infections, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology.…
Obesity is heart disease killer in its own right, irrespective of other risk factors
• Heart • • Obesity • Feb 15 11
Obesity is a killer in its own right, irrespective of other biological or social risk factors traditionally associated with coronary heart disease, suggests research…
Obesity takes heavy toll on knee arthritis
• Arthritis • • Obesity • Feb 14 11
New studies will help patients better understand the role that obesity plays in knee arthritis and recovery from knee surgery
More than 14 million…
Hearing loss associated with development of dementia
• Hair Loss • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Feb 14 11
Older adults with hearing loss appear more likely to develop dementia, and their risk increases as hearing loss becomes more severe, according to a…
Cigarette smoking associated with increased risk of developing ALS
• Neurology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 14 11
Cigarette smoking may be associated with an increased risk of developing the muscle-wasting disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to a report in the…
Obese women may be less likely to develop glaucoma
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Obesity • Feb 14 11
Obesity may be associated with higher eye pressure and a decreased risk of open-angle glaucoma in women but not men, according to a report…
An early step in Parkinson’s disease: Problems with mitochondria
• Brain • • Neurology • Feb 14 11
For the last several years, neurologists have been probing a connection between Parkinson’s disease and problems with mitochondria, the miniature power plants of the…
What Do Fats Do in the Body?
• Fat, Dietary • Feb 14 11
It’s common knowledge that too much cholesterol and other fats can lead to disease, and that a healthy diet involves watching how much fatty…
Acute anemia linked to silent strokes in children
• Children's Health • • Stroke • Feb 14 11
Silent strokes, which have no immediate symptoms but could cause long-term cognitive and learning deficits, occur in a significant number of severely anemic children,…
Stroke medicines still unaffordable for some survivors, according to University of Michigan research
• Public Health • • Stroke • Feb 14 11
Young, uninsured stroke survivors or those covered by the Medicare Part D drug benefit often can’t afford medications — increasing the risk for future…