Health

Bottom Line: Opioid-related adverse drug events were common among patients undergoing surgery and endoscopy procedures in the hospital and they...

Complementing conventional antibiotics

Credit: Nature/Kalayil et al, Mai 2018 FRANKFURT - Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major medical problem worldwide, impacting both human...

Lifestyle counseling program may reduce risk of certain cancers

A 5-year healthy lifestyle counseling program for adult men was linked with a reduced risk of developing cancers related to...

Tuberculosis: Pharmacists develop new substance to counteract antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise worldwide. This is becoming a problem for infectious diseases like tuberculosis as there are...

Laws allowing denial of services to same-sex couples associated with increase in sexual minority adults reporting mental distress

Bottom Line: Laws that allow same-sex couples to be denied services are associated with an increase in sexual minority adults...

Overweight and obesity make up for more than 15,000 cancer cases per year in Brazil

Some 15,000 new cancer cases are diagnosed in Brazil each year, and researchers have found that approximately 4% of these...

Chemsex linked with increased diagnoses of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections

Chemsex--the use of crystallised methamphetamine, mephedrone, γ-hydroxybutyrate or γ-butyrolactone and to a lesser extent cocaine and ketamine to facilitate sex--has...

New advances in understanding and treating intellectual disorder

Credit: Norifumi Shioda Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have investigated an intellectual disorder (ATR-X) syndrome to reveal its cause,...

Effect of new guideline on US adults recommended for high blood pressure treatment

Bottom Line: The number of U.S. adults with high blood pressure is estimated to grow by 31 million and the...

NIH begins testing ebola treatment in early-stage trial

Credit: NIAID A first-in-human trial evaluating an experimental treatment for Ebola virus disease has begun at the National Institutes of...

Medication-related harm in older adults is common, costly, and preventable

New research indicates that harm from medicines is common in older adults following hospital discharge, and it results in substantial...

Study examines bone health in children with leukemia

In a Journal of Bone and Mineral Research study that followed 186 children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) for 6...

Perceived socioeconomic status can affect how old we feel

A recent study finds that how older adults perceive their socioeconomic status influences how old they feel and their attitudes...

In a break with dogma, myelin boosts neuron growth in spinal cord injuries

Credit: UC San Diego Health Recovery after severe spinal cord injury is notoriously fraught, with permanent paralysis often the result....

Predicting relapses in patients with autoimmune vascular disease

Patients with an autoimmune disorder called antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis produce antibodies that damage blood vessels in the body. In...

Virtual visits for follow-up hypertension care have outcomes similar to office visits

Virtual follow-up visits for patients with hypertension appeared to be just as effective as in-person office visits in helping maintain...

Are you at risk for lung cancer?

Every year, 1.6 million people die of lung cancer. But if you think that these are just older heavy smokers,...

Can weekend sleep make up for the detriments of sleep deprivation during the week?

In a recent Journal of Sleep Research study, short, but not long, weekend sleep was associated with an increased risk...

Military-civilian partnerships aim to help meet military medical readiness needs