Study suggests vision insurance associated with eye-care visits, better reported vision
Vision insurance for working-age adults appears to be associated with having eye care visits and reporting better vision, compared with individuals without insurance, according to a report published Online First by Archives of ...
Ophthalmology
Dec 10, 2012 |
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Researchers show a better way for curbing TB where the disease is rampant
(Medical Xpress)—Those who live and die behind prison walls don't usually get much public attention. Incarceration is, after all, meant to remove criminals from society. But contagious and potentially deadly ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 28, 2012 |
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Common heart failure drugs could benefit more patients
A novel study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden suggests that commonly used drugs to treat heart failure and high blood pressure may have a wider range of application than earlier known, and also can be used against so ...
Cardiology
Nov 27, 2012 |
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Gene that causes tumor disorder linked to increased breast cancer risk
New Johns Hopkins research showing a more than four-fold increase in the incidence of breast cancer in women with neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) adds to growing evidence that women with this rare genetic disorder may benefit from ...
Cancer
Nov 27, 2012 |
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Alcohol dependence seems to shorten life more than smoking, especially among women
While researchers and clinicians know that the mortality rates among alcohol dependent (AD) individuals are high, most of that knowledge is based on studies of clinical populations. A new study is the first to examine excess ...
Addiction
Oct 16, 2012 |
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Patients with rheumatoid arthritis appear to be at increased risk for blood clots
A study that included more than 45,000 residents of Sweden with rheumatoid arthritis finds that individuals with this disease had an associated higher risk of venous thromboembolism (a blood clot that forms within a vein), ...
Arthritis & Rheumatism
Oct 02, 2012 |
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What makes surgeons happy?
(Medical Xpress)—Lack of control over operating rooms and other resources as well as a lack of work-life balance are among the main reasons general surgeons may be dissatisfied with their jobs, a new study ...
Surgery
Sep 28, 2012 |
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New study suggests clinicians overlook alcohol problems if patients are not intoxicated
Medical staff struggle to spot problem drinking in their patients unless they are already intoxicated, according to research by the University of Leicester.
Addiction
Aug 01, 2012 |
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Physical illness hospitalization found to increase suicide risk
(HealthDay) -- Hospitalization for physical illness more than doubles the risk of suicide, with approximately one-quarter of suicides attributable to physical illness, according to research published online ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 16, 2012 |
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Call to improve safety of home treatment for mental health patients
Deaths by suicide among mental health patients treated at home have reached 150 to 200 a year in England, latest national figures reveal – but suicides among patients on mental health wards continue to fall.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 11, 2012 |
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Cancer screening rates comparable for those with and without rheumatoid arthritis
New research reveals that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients do not receive fewer cancer screening tests than the general population. Results of the study, funded in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...
Arthritis & Rheumatism
Jul 10, 2012 |
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Biomarker panel to screen for pancreatic cancer may be possible
The development of a highly accurate, blood-based pancreatic adenocarcinoma screen that would be accurate enough to test the general population for this deadly disease may not be far out of reach, according to data presented ...
Cancer
Jun 19, 2012 |
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Control of disease activity and biologic treatment increase life expectency in RA patients
According to a study presented today at EULAR 2012, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who are prescribed biologic treatments have a significantly lower ...
Arthritis & Rheumatism
Jun 07, 2012 |
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Study finds high risk of gastrointestinal cancers among childhood cancer survivors
Survivors of childhood cancers are at an increased risk of another battle with cancer later in life, according to new research published online June 4 by the Annals of Internal Medicine. In the largest study to date of ris ...
Cancer
Jun 04, 2012 |
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Sleepwalking more prevalent among US adults than previously suspected
What goes bump in the night? In many U.S. households: people. That's according to new Stanford University School of Medicine research, which found that about 3.6 percent of U.S. adults are prone to sleepwalking. The work ...
Neuroscience
May 14, 2012 |
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