Tag: Medicine/Health

Findings in rats suggest that a pufferfish toxin, properly packaged, could offer a safe pain blockCredit: Opioids remain a mainstay ...

More men undergo plastic surgery as the daddy-do-over trend rises in popularity

Credit: American Society of Plastic Surgeons Just as women can turn to a suite of procedures, known as the "Mommy ...

Disease remission associated with 80% reduction in risk of cardiovascular outcomes

Among traditional risk factors, type II diabetes was significantly associated with both cardiovascular outcomes and pre-clinical cardiovascular disease Annual European ...

Being overweight linked to significantly higher disease severity in psoriatic arthritis

Study emphasizes the need for weight loss interventions alongside symptomatic treatment in patients with psoriatic arthritis Annual European Congress of ...

Exposure to inorganic dust increases risk of gout in women by 27%

Results also show that gout is more than twice as likely in alcoholic patients and more than three times as ...

Gout patients suffer in silence with low expectations of treatment

European survey suggests patients re satisfied with their treatment despite inadequate disease management Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2019) ...

Study supports glucocorticoid tapering in patients achieving disease control on tocilizumab

Approximately two thirds of patients experience treatment success following glucocorticoid tapering Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2019) Madrid, Spain, ...

Cyclosporine benefits patients through more rapid remission of proteinuria in lupus nephritis

Cyclosporine, azathioprine and mycophenolate mofetil proved to be effective in consolidating and maintaining remission after 10 years follow up Madrid, ...

Low-dose prednisolone significantly improves pain symptoms and function in hand osteoarthritis

HOPE study demonstrates that local inflammation is a suitable target for treatment in patients with debilitating disease Madrid, Spain, 12 ...

Community pharmacies make a lifestyle impact for patients with prostate cancer

Cardiovascular health and physical activity levels of prostate cancer patients improve following successful interventions by community pharmacies, new research in ...

Antibodies against HPV16 can develop up to 40 years before throat cancer is diagnosed

HPV16 antibodies mark a 100-fold increase in risk in white people An international group of researchers has found that antibodies ...

Vitamin D and estradiol help guard against heart disease, stroke, and diabetes

New study demonstrates synergistic effects of vitamin D and estradiol deficiency on metabolic syndrome CLEVELAND, Ohio (June 12, 2019)--Vitamin D ...

Cancer survival rates in the young show inconsistent progress

A new study in JNCI Cancer Spectrum finds that dramatic increases in cancer survival in adolescents and young adults are ...

New finding: Biomarker indicates tumor aggressiveness and poor prognosis in men with prostate cancer

Addition of the protein CCN3 on biomarker panel may further help predict prostate cancer metastasis to bone, according to a ...

Women caught in a pickle by their own immune systems

ASU scientists develop new hypothesis explaining sex differences in human diseasesCredit: Jacob Sahertian/ASU VisLab Women get autoimmune diseases, such as ...

Brain activation provides individual-level prediction of bipolar disorder risk

Activation patterns predicting mania symptom severity offer a potential neural biomarker to identify young people at risk for bipolar spectrum ...

Genetic marker linked to increased risk of diabetic peripheral neuropathy

Discovery presents pathway for potential drug development for serious complication that costs nearly one-quarter of US diabetes-care spendingCredit: John Soares ...

How nurses bring clarity to the nature of social change

Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (June 11, 2019) - History provides an enhanced understanding of the factors that inform social policy. ...

Electronic inhaler monitoring reduces hospitalizations, ER visits in patients with COPD

Credit: Cleveland Clinic Tuesday, June 11, 2019, Cleveland: In one of the first-of-its-kind studies, Cleveland Clinic researchers found that the ...

Fulmer Earns GSA’s 2019 Donald P. Kent Award