Nearly 98% percent of people prescribed direct-acting oral anticoagulants such as apixaban used over-the-counter products. Of those, 33% took at least one such product that, in combination with the anticoagulants, could cause ...
Oct 28, 2019
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A stroke treatment developed by researcher Byron Ford at the University of California, Riverside, has moved toward clinical trials.
May 9, 2019
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Motivational text messages are a well-liked, feasible new way to provide additional support to Chinese patients with heart disease, reports a preliminary study by researchers at Yale and in China. However, the study did not ...
Apr 8, 2019
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Picture two different families, each dealing with a diagnosis of dementia in one of its members. In one case, the patient is a retired executive, whose family tries as long as possible to keep the diagnosis secret, relying ...
Aug 17, 2018
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The easing of China's one-child policy was a godsend to Zhang Yinzhe and his wife Xu Mengsha, who had decided they wanted to use in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) to freeze an embryo in the hope of one day having a second child.
Jun 19, 2018
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The School of Chinese Medicine (SCM) of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) conducted a clinical observation of scalp acupuncture treatment for 68 children with autism. The findings indicated that 66 patients have shown improvements ...
Oct 17, 2017
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Genetic screening of Chinese patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) indicates that different genetic constitution in different populations could cause the same disease.
Jun 19, 2017
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China will double the number of AIDS patients it treats with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), officials have said, part of a broader push to increase the use of the ancient practice in the country's medical system.
Feb 6, 2017
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(HealthDay)—For Chinese patients with Crohn's disease (CD), 2 mg/kg/day azathioprine (AZA) seems more effective than 1 mg/kg/day, according to a study published online Sept. 21 in the Journal of Digestive Diseases.
Oct 4, 2016
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The use of traditional Chinese medications is common in East Asian countries. Guidelines for their use should be updated based on research evidence.
Sep 6, 2016
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