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Can we treat a 'new' coronary heart disease risk factor?

Depressive symptoms after heart disease are associated with a markedly increased risk of death or another heart attack. However, less has been known about whether treating heart attack survivors for depressive symptoms could ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Targeted therapies can help alleviate back pain, study finds

Changing the way people think and move can have a huge impact on their experience of unexplained lower back pain, a study has found. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Studying brain-cooling for birth asphyxia

In high income countries brain cooling is standard treatment for neonatal encephalopathy - unexpected, devastating brain injury due to low oxygen and blood in the baby's brain at birth. This therapy reduces mortality and ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Results of trial to determine how to prevent future strokes encouraging

(Medical Xpress)—The results of a major, multicenter clinical trial to determine the best treatment for younger patients who have strokes that are potentially due to a hole in the upper chambers of the heart has provided ...

Cardiology created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Estrogen helps keep joint pain at bay after hysterectomy

Estrogen therapy can help keep joint pain at bay after menopause for women who have had a hysterectomy. Joint pain was modestly, but significantly, lower in women who took estrogen alone than in women who took placebo in ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Somatic symptom disorder: New condition could classify millions of people as mentally ill

Millions of people could be mislabeled as mentally ill when psychiatry's bible of diagnoses is updated in May, warns a senior doctor in this week's BMJ.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

FDA wants to relax approval process for Alzheimer's drugs

(HealthDay)—In an effort to quickly develop drugs that could prevent or slow Alzheimer's, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it plans to relax the approval process for experimental medications for ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rules must evolve to allow new drugs for early Alzheimer's

(HealthDay)—Given the shift in the focus of drug development for Alzheimer's disease toward earlier disease stages, before the onset of dementia, regulatory guidelines need to evolve, according to a perspective ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 14, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

First 'breathing lung' transplant on East Coast using OCS lung

UPMC surgeons have performed a "breathing lung" transplant using a portable machine that provides a constant supply of blood and nutrients to the donor organs, which doctors say has the potential to keep them healthier and ...

Other created Mar 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lymphoseek approved to help locate lymph nodes

(HealthDay)—The injected imaging drug Lymphoseek (technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help surgeons locate the lymph nodes among people with breast cancer or melanoma.

Cancer created Mar 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fertility after ectopic pregnancy: Study finds reassuring evidence on different treatments

The first randomised trial to compare treatments for ectopic pregnancies has found no significant differences in subsequent fertility between medical treatment and conservative surgery on one hand, and conservative or radical ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Use of adjunctive antipsychotic medications in depression

A study published this week in PLOS Medicine finds that while antipsychotic medications are associated with small-to-moderate improvements in depressive symptoms in adults, there is little evidence for improvement on mea ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Duration of breastfeeding during infancy does not reduce a child's risk of being overweight, obese, study reports

In research that included nearly 14,000 healthy infants in Belarus, an intervention that succeeded in improving the duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding during infancy did not result in a lower risk of overweight or ...

Health created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tickling the brain with magnetic stimulation improves memory in schizophrenia

Cognitive impairments are disabling for individuals with schizophrenia, and no satisfactory treatments currently exist. These impairments affect a wide range of cognition, including memory, attention, verbal and motor skills, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New add-on drug may improve memory in people with moderate Alzheimer's disease

A new drug may improve memory problems in people with moderate Alzheimer's disease, according to a phase IIa study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 65th Annual Meeting in San Diego, ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 11, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0