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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Source: New York Times
By GINA KOLATA
Call it the arrow of cancer. Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened.
But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week, data from more than two decades of screening for breast and prostate cancer call that view into question. Besides [...]
Fish intake can help prevent macular degeneration
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009The addition of omega-3 fatty acids to the diet, particularly in the form of fish, can help prevent the development of age-related macular degeneration vision loss by more than 30 per cent, according to a new study.
Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in people older than 50, and is an eye disease that [...]
Low-dose colchicine may be effective for reducing gout pain, research suggests.
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009MedPage Today (10/21, Gever) reported that, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, “low-dose colchicine (Colcrys) appears to be as effective as high doses of the drug in reducing the pain of gout with fewer adverse side effects.” In an analysis of data on 185 [...]
Feelings Of Stigmatization May Discourage HIV Patients From Proper Care
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Source: ScienceDaily.com
The feeling of stigmatization that people living with HIV often experience doesn’t only exact a psychological toll — new UCLA research suggests it can also lead to quantifiably negative health outcomes.
In a study published in the October issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, researchers from the division of general internal medicine and health [...]
Today’s pill offers much more than birth control
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Long gone are the days when the term “the pill” applied to one medication with just one function: birth control.
Today’s birth control pills include hundreds of options to prevent pregnancy and/or address reproductive health issues such as cramps, acne and cysts. Though there are many alternative forms of contraception these days — from patches to [...]
The Many Ills of Peripheral Nerve Damage
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Source: New York Times
If you have ever slept on an arm and awakened with a “dead” hand, or sat too long with your legs crossed and had your foot fall asleep, you have some inkling of what many people with peripheral neuropathy experience day in and day out, often with no relief in sight.
And numbness and tingling are hardly [...]
FDA approves Crestor for younger patients with familial hypercholesterolemia.
Monday, October 19th, 2009The AP (10/16) reported that “the Food and Drug Administration approved AstraZeneca PLC’s cholesterol drug Crestor [rosuvastatin] for use by children and teenagers with a genetic disease” called heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia. The condition “affects 10 million people worldwide, and causes high levels of…LDL cholesterol.”
HeartWire (10/16, O’Riordan) reported that “the approval is [...]
Home cures for kids suffering the common cold
Monday, October 19th, 2009Some remedies can soothe your child’s symptoms without calling a doctor
How can you soothe and treat your child’s cold? Doctors consider a fever significant when it’s above 100.4F degrees.
Call your doctor if your child (a) is younger than four months and has a fever; (b) has other symptoms along with the fever; (c) is a [...]
50mg of ritonavir may be an effective booster for some protease inhibitors
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Source: AidsMap
The amount of ritonavir needed to boost levels of other protease inhibitors differs between individual drugs, a meta-analysis published in the online edition of AIDS suggests.
Ritonavir (Norvir) doses of between 50 mg and 100 mg were as effective as higher doses of the drug at boosting saquinavir (Invirase), fosamprenavir (Telzir) and darunavir (Prezista).
However, indinavir (Crixivan), [...]
Benzoyl Peroxide Plus Clindamycin Gel Improves Quality of Life in Patients With Mild to Moderate Acne
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Quality of life is significantly improved in patients who are treated with a benzoyl peroxide 5% plus clindamycin 1% (BPO/C) gel, compared with those receiving adapalene 0.1% (AP) gel for mild to moderate acne, researchers reported here at the 18th Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV).
In addition, BPO/C treatment resulted in [...]
