Although they were prescribed widely in the 1960s to women looking to avoid dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy, diuretic drugs should not be recommended as a way to prevent this serious condition, called pre-eclampsia, according to a recent review of studies.
Low doses of steroids can inhibit joint damage when used in the early phase of rheumatoid arthritis, according to a new review of evidence.
Award-winning physician John Abramson argues that clinical trials provide no evidence of lowering cholesterol in women and elderly.
The billions of bacteria and other microscopic critters that live in the mouth unquestionably influence the health of teeth and gums.
Dr. Patricia Dorn, professor of biology at Loyola University New Orleans has discovered the first human case of insect-transmitted Chagas parasite in Louisiana and sixth ever in the United States.
Although several medications are available to help children maintain asthma control, clinical trials directly comparing them have not been conducted. In fact, current recommendations in national and international asthma guidelines are based either on studies of single treatments compared to a placebo in children or on comparison studies in adults.
Stent users need blood thinners, antiplatelet medications like thienopyridines and aspirin to reduce the chance of clotting within the stent.
For years cardiologists and other specialists have disagreed over the condition known as metabolic syndrome, a complex confluence of factors such as abdominal obesity, low HDL, or “good” cholesterol and hypertension.
Rapid influenza testing is associated with reductions in the use of antibiotics in hospitalized adults, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the Feb_26, 2007, print issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that a drug commonly used to lower blood pressure reverses muscle wasting in genetically engineered mice with Marfan syndrome and also prevents muscle degeneration in mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The results are reported online this week at Nature Medicine.