Although surgery is the most effective (and hence, the most widely used) breast cancer treatment method, there are several other ways of dealing with the disease, some are more powerful than the others. These include radiation therapy, chemotherapy or hormonal therapy, each of them with their own assets and downsides.
Back pain is often a sign of injury or some underlying problem related to your spine ? its bones, muscles, and other soft tissues. It could disrupt your work, routine, and your daily activities. It may even affect your normal lifestyle as you are unable to participate in recreational activities due to pain.
For hikers, campers and others who enjoy the outdoors, summer can bring concerns about tick bites and related illnesses such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Researchers are investigating the role that antioxidants — alpha-lipoic acid and potentially others like green tea and vitamins C and E, for example – might play in preventing or treating the deadly rickettsia bacteria.
A new study suggests that behavioral therapy plus medication is the most effective approach to treating trichotillomania, a psychiatric disorder characterized by obsessive hair pulling.
Religious faith helps people cope with stressful medical experiences such as heart surgery, new research suggests.
Deficits in certain neurological and psychological areas strongly predict conversion to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in individuals with mild cognitive impairment, research shows.
In elderly patients with type 2 or non-insulin dependent diabetes, treatment with the short-acting drug repaglinide (NovoNorm) may be safer than that with the longer-acting drug, glibenclamide (glyburide), Italian researchers report.
Only one in five people with HIV in poor and middle-income countries receives the drugs that treat the virus, said a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday.
Elderly patients with heart disease who undergo coronary revascularization surgery enjoy better long-term health status and quality of life than those who are managed medically with drug therapy, according to results of a study.
Doctors who classify asthma severity in children solely by asking about symptom frequency and severity may miss a significant number of children with moderate to severe asthma, doctors warn in a report released this month.