Archive: 04/02/2019

Mother's age, race, weight affect hormone concentrations in pregnancy, study finds

Hormone concentrations during early fetal development—that may affect the child's development and increase the mother's risk for breast and ovarian cancer years later—are significantly affected by maternal age, body mass ...

Feb 4, 2019

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New study shows cost effectiveness of early cancer surveillance

New research published today in the journal Pediatric Blood and Cancer shows how early cancer screening and surveillance in patients with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (LFS) results in additional years of life, and is cost effective ...

Feb 4, 2019

New wisdom about high cholesterol treatment for adults aged 80 and older

Experts know that in adults younger than 65, having high cholesterol levels in your blood can raise your risk for heart attacks and strokes. However, in adults 80 years old and older, researchers have not—until now—thoroughly ...

Feb 4, 2019

Patients with facial pain report most benefit from self-care techniques

While oral appliances such as splints and bite guards are the most common treatment for facial pain from temporomandibular disorders (TMD), patients rate them as less helpful than self-care treatments, such as jaw exercises ...

Feb 4, 2019

Laughter may be best medicine—for brain surgery

Neuroscientists at Emory University School of Medicine have discovered a focal pathway in the brain that when electrically stimulated causes immediate laughter, followed by a sense of calm and happiness, even during awake ...

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What drives patients to use medical marijuana: mostly chronic pain

Slowly but surely, the stigma surrounding marijuana use is losing its grip in the U.S. Since the 1990s, advocates have pushed for a re-evaluation of cannabis (the plant species name often used interchangeably with marijuana) ...

Feb 4, 2019

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Study: Medicare rules increase out-of-pocket costs of multiple sclerosis drugs

Medicare patients with multiple sclerosis face skyrocketing out-of-pocket costs for therapies due to complicated insurance rules that force them to pick up an increasing share of the cost, according to new research.

Feb 4, 2019

Improvements in cardiovascular care for elderly save billions in health care costs

Health care spending among the Medicare population age 65 and older has slowed dramatically since 2005, and as much as half of that reduction can be attributed to reduced spending on cardiovascular disease, a new Harvard ...

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OxyContin reformulation to curb opioid abuse led to hepatitis C surge, study finds

Reformulation of the pain medicine OxyContin in 2010 to make it more difficult to abuse directly led to a large rise in hepatitis C infections as drug abusers switched from the prescription medication to injectable heroin, ...

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Diversity in the CD4 receptor protects chimpanzees from infection by AIDS-like viruses

Beatrice H. Hahn, MD, a professor of Medicine and Microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and her colleagues have been studying the origin of HIV-1 in non-human primates for decades. ...

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Archive: 04/02/2019

Mother's age, race, weight affect hormone concentrations in pregnancy, study finds

New study shows cost effectiveness of early cancer surveillance

New wisdom about high cholesterol treatment for adults aged 80 and older

Patients with facial pain report most benefit from self-care techniques

Laughter may be best medicine—for brain surgery

What drives patients to use medical marijuana: mostly chronic pain

Study: Medicare rules increase out-of-pocket costs of multiple sclerosis drugs

Improvements in cardiovascular care for elderly save billions in health care costs

OxyContin reformulation to curb opioid abuse led to hepatitis C surge, study finds

Diversity in the CD4 receptor protects chimpanzees from infection by AIDS-like viruses

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