Chronic, Phantom Pain Is from Affected Nerve Not Brain
• Pain • Jun 06 06
By some accounts, chronic pain affects nearly 100 million Americans from such varied causes as arthritis, sciatica, cancer, diabetes. Most forms of pain result…
Loss of Central Vision with Age May Be Linked to Quality of Dietary Carbohydrates
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jun 06 06
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of vision loss in older adults and a person’s risk may partly depend upon…
Knowledge helps prevent spread of herpes virus
• Infections • Jun 06 06
A new study suggests that the risk of transmitting the virus that causes most cases of genital herpes could be cut in half by…
Fractures, joint pain common in overweight kids
• Children's Health • Jun 05 06
Overweight children are more likely than their normal-weight peers to suffer fractures, muscle and bone pain and other orthopedic complications, a new study shows.
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Schering says leukemia drug MabCampath promising
• Drug News • Jun 05 06
German drugmaker Schering AG and U.S. biotech firm Genzyme Corp have seen good preliminary results in a study of the drug MabCampath to treat…
Newborn Screening Can Cause Unnecessary Parental Stress
• Children's Health • Jun 05 06
Virtually all babies in the U.S. have their heels pricked soon after birth to get a blood sample for genetic testing. These “heel stick”…
Migrating wild birds play a key role in transporting highly pathogenic avian influenza
• Flu • Jun 05 06
Migrating wild birds have played and will likely continue to play a role in transporting highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus, or bird flu,…
Mediterranean Diet May Cut Alzheimer’s
• Dieting • Jun 02 06
New research links a Mediterranean diet rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, legumes, cereals, and olive oil to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s diseaseAlzheimer’s disease.
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Keep Your Holiday Weekend Safe and Fun
• Public Health • Jun 02 06
There is nothing worse than a fun holiday weekend that ends suddenly due to an accident or illness. To prevent unnecessary problems from ruining…
Very Few Mothers Reject Childhood Immunisation
• Children's Health • Jun 02 06
Differences in risk factors for partial and no immunisation in the first year of life: prospective cohort study BMJ Volume 332, pp 1312-13
The…
“Female circumcision” raises childbirth risks: WHO
• Childbirth • Jun 02 06
Female circumcision, performed on as many as 3 million girls each year, complicates childbirth later in life and causes higher mortality among their babies,…
Patients More Open to Treatment Side Effects as Disease Progresses
• Public Health • Jun 02 06
Faced with declining health due to a chronic illness, many patients become more willing to accept treatments that could leave them functionally disabled, a…
Are Antibiotics for Suspected Childhood Meningitis Harmful?
• Children's Health • Jun 02 06
Parenteral penicillin for children with meningococcal disease before hospital admission: case-control study BMJ Volume 332, pp 1295-7
Effectiveness of antibiotics given before admission in…
Kids’ Chronic Headache and Sleeplessness Go Hand-in-Hand
• Children's Health • Jun 01 06
Frequent headaches in children appear linked with sleep problems, although researchers aren’t sure which comes first.
A team from the Mayo Clinic studied data…
Are Sleepy Kids at Risk for Obesity?
• Children's Health • Jun 01 06
Kids today tend to sleep less and weigh more than their peers growing up just a few decades ago. Now intriguing new research suggests…
Injectable Osteoporosis Drug Shows Promise
• Drug News • Jun 01 06
A new drug for osteoporosis increases bone mineral density and decreases the rate of bone destruction in postmenopausal women.
The findings, which appear in…
Progress in Gene Therapy for Immune Deficiency Diseases
• Genetics • Jun 01 06
A study showing that gene therapy may provide some benefit to certain older X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (XSCID) patients, who remain significantly immunodeficient after…
Diet changes can improve diabetic kidney function
• Dieting • Jun 01 06
In type 2 diabetes patients with macroalbuminuria - excessive urine levels of a protein called albumin - replacing red meat with chicken in the…
Antioxidant combo may prevent some migraines
• Migraine • Jun 01 06
Daily doses of antioxidants may reduce the frequency and severity of migraine headaches for patients who don’t response to drug treatment, a small new…
What to do about bird flu
• Flu • May 31 06
The latest deaths last week from bird flu in Indonesia have spread alarm across the globe that the world is on the brink of…
Study Looks at Health Decisions
• Flu • May 31 06
If a deadly bird flu reaches America, which would you choose: To get a risky experimental vaccine now, or to forego that risk but…
Is It A Migraine?
• Migraine • May 31 06
How can you tell if that throbbing headache is really a migraine ? Only about 15-20% of migraine sufferers experience the classic “auras” -…
EU citizens divided over smoking ban in bars-poll
• Tobacco & Marijuana • May 31 06
Most people in the European Union support a ban on smoking in offices, shops and some other public places but are divided on whether…
Flurry of H5N1 cases in Indonesia draws concern
• Flu • May 31 06
Scientists are worried about a sudden flurry of human bird flu cases in Indonesia, warning that a failure to control the situation may raise…
New skin care regimen proves effective for Rosacea
• Skin Care • May 31 06
Rosacea is a disabling skin condition characterized by facial redness and has historically been challenging to treat.
But, new research published by leading dermatologist…