An educational and motivational video, designed to increase emotional well-being and use of adaptive devices in low vision patients increased knowledge but did not change behavior or emotions, says Schepens Eye Research Institute scientists in a study in the March Issue of Optometry & Vision Science.
A Chicago-area study of 50 individuals with a misaligned Atlas vertebra (located high in the neck) and high blood pressure showed that after a one-time specialized chiropractic adjustment, blood pressure decreased significantly. The decrease was equal to taking two blood-pressure drugs at once. The results are published in the online March 2 issue of the Journal of Human Hypertension.
Patients with moderate to severe sleep apnea who have significantly higher serum levels of inflammatory markers that serve as precursors to coronary artery disease, as well as lesions associated with silent brain infarction, have an elevated risk of stroke, according to a group of Japanese medical researchers.
Does God or some other type of transcendent entity answer prayer? The answer, according to a new Arizona State University study published in the March journal Research on Social Work Practice, is ?yes.?
About one in five heart attack patients report having financial barriers to health care services, and these patients are more likely to have a lower quality of life and increased rate of rehospitalization, according to a study in the March 14 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on access to care.
Ireland HSE Head of Consumer Affairs, Mary Culliton, said last week that she was delighted with progress to date in rolling out the HSE’s new Comments and Complaints process, ‘Your Service, Your Say’.
Two peak cancer groups are joining with the Commonwealth Government to coordinate research resources and expertise.
Most postmenopausal women with small breast tumors don?t need chemotherapy to reduce their recurrence risk after lumpectomy.
CV Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CVTX) announced today that an analysis of unblinded data from the MERLIN TIMI-36 study of ranolazine shows there was no adverse trend in death or arrhythmias in patients on ranolazine. The study did not meet the primary efficacy endpoint.
A new study to be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Reproductive Medicine reveals that Pycnogenol, an antioxidant plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, significantly reduces symptoms of endometriosis by 33 percent.