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.
Laser treatment can reduce inflammatory facial acne lesions with few side effects, new research shows. Moreover, it appears to work even with the darkest skin types.
For people with diabetes who also have abnormal levels of blood fats, or lipids, the combination of two types of cholesterol-lowering drugs seems to work better than either one alone, researchers report.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today expanded the approved use of Oncaspar to include treating children and adults with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) as part of a multiple drug chemotherapy regimen. FDA previously approved Oncaspar in 1994 only for patients with ALL who were unable to receive the cancer drug L-asparaginase because they were allergic to that drug.
You can take every pill and rue your parents for passing on their genes, but if you want to live long and well there are two things you must do — eat right and exercise.
Adding a supplement to infant formula that encourages the growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria lowers the chances of high-risk babies developing eczema, an international team of researchers report.
A “thread lift” procedure provides many of the benefits of a face lift, without the risks or recovery time, according to an expert who outlined the procedure Thursday at a meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology in San Diego.
More than half of older Americans have trouble sleeping and accept it as a normal part of aging. But there are steps elderly people can take to improve their sleep, a researcher says.
After a woman has fibroids removed by “keyhole” surgery, her chances of having a successful pregnancy and a term delivery are good, Italian researchers report. This approach is relatively safe in the hands of expert surgeons, they say.