Immunology
Ready for spring allergies?
(HealthDay)—Spring routinely spells misery for allergy sufferers, but a recent survey reveals that most patients don't try to manage their symptoms until it's too late.
Mar 30, 2017
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Neuroscience
Brain scans show dopamine levels fall during migraine attacks
Using PET scans of the brain, University of Michigan researchers showed that dopamine falls and fluctuates at different times during a migraine headache.
Mar 29, 2017
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Immunology
Allergy sufferers can expect a bumper crop of weeds and pollen
California experienced record rainfall this year and may have even made headway against the state's historic drought. Now that lush landscapes abound and spring is upon us, what does this mean for allergy sufferers?
Mar 24, 2017
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Neuroscience
Wireless arm patch may blunt migraine pain
A wireless arm patch may be a promising new treatment for migraine headaches, researchers report.
Mar 1, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New study finds reading can help with chronic pain
A study conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool, The Reader and the Royal Liverpool University Hospitals Trust, and funded by the British Academy, has found that shared reading (SR) can be a useful therapy ...
Mar 1, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Given the choice, patients will reach for cannabis over prescribed opioids
Chronic pain sufferers and those taking mental health meds would rather turn to cannabis instead of their prescribed opioid medication, according to new research by the University of British Columbia and University of Victoria. ...
Feb 27, 2017
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Immunology
Bait knocks out cockroaches—and asthma symptom days
It may be easier and cheaper for parents to manage a key asthma trigger in children—exposure to cockroaches — than previously thought, according to a new Tulane University study published in The Journal of Allergy and ...
Jan 17, 2017
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Risk of heart attack in rheumatoid arthritis patients almost halved by biologic drugs
A biologic drug which treats rheumatoid arthritis has been shown by new research to reduce the risk of heart attacks in arthritis sufferers by up to 40 per cent.
Jan 11, 2017
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Personalised care for dementia sufferers
The company Noen AS runs courses for its helpers to enable them to establish close relationships with their dementia patients. The aim is to increase the patients' quality of life. Researchers have developed an IT tool to ...
Nov 1, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Grass pollen allergy vaccine also effective against hepatitis B
A new type of vaccine against grass pollen allergies (BM32) might also offer an effective treatment for combating hepatitis B infection. This is the finding of a study conducted at MedUni Vienna's Institute for Pathophysiology ...
Sep 8, 2016
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