Dr. Peter Croft and his associates at Keele University, UK, surveyed more than 6,000 patients, age 50 years or older, who reported having pain somewhere in their bodies for at least one day of the previous month.
Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley, the Army’s surgeon general, reports that a survey of 1,000 US soldiers returning to their home bases in Italy from combat in Iraq indicates that 30 % experience mental health problems including anxiety, depression, nightmares, anger and inattentiveness after three to four months.
Dr. Arch G. Mainous III, of the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, and associate, analyzed cancer risk for 3,278 participants in the Framingham Offspring Study whose iron and lipid levels were high.
Dr. Richard N. Fedorak of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and team, treated 34 subjects who had active ulcerative colitis that failed to respond to standard treatments with a probiotic mixture.
There is evidence to support the putative link between consumption of milk products and ovarian cancer risk, finds a new meta-analysis of epidemiological studies, but the case is far from cut and dried.
Dr. Karen Linnet and fellow researchers at Aarhus University in Copenhagen, Denmark, matched 170 hyperactive children with 3,800 of their peers of the same age.
Vitamin B12 deficiency is more common than doctors once thought, and experts advise that those most at risk — vegetarians and older adults — be sure to take supplemental forms of the vitamin.
While apparently healthy men don’t routinely undergo exercise stress testing, it may be useful for raising a red flag about impending health problems, Norwegian investigators report based on a study of middle-age men.
Scientists from Britain’s Institute of Cancer Research say they’ve developed a technique to markedly help in predicting the behavior of prostate cancer.
Airline pilots are at higher risk of developing cataracts because of exposure to cosmic rays while aloft, researchers said.