Asthma :: Asthmatic Children at School
If your child has asthma, the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver suggests you make sure the school is properly alerted to your child’s condition:
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Allergy :: Food Allergy Research Consortium Focuses on Peanut Allergy
The only advice doctors can give to the 4 percent of Americans with potentially life-threatening food allergies is to avoid the culprit food, often nuts or shellfish. But that may change as researchers in a new Food Allergy Research Consortium, announced, strive to develop therapies to treat and prevent food allergy.
Heart Disease :: BiDil Heart Failure Drug for Black Patients
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BiDil (bye-DILL), a drug for the treatment of heart failure in self-identified black patients, representing a step toward the promise of personalized medicine.
Joint Pain :: New Topical Therapy Brings Relief to Pain Sufferers
ALCiS Health Inc., a consumer health company specializing in pain relief and body therapy products that utilize unique drug delivery technologies, announced the availability of ALCiS Daily Relief, a topical pain cream engineered to provide fast relief from muscle and joint pain, including that associated with arthritis, backache, strains, sprains and bruises.
Cancer :: True cancer-causing genes revealed by new technique
New research under the direction of Paul Khavari, MD, PhD, professor in the Program in Epithelial Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the dermatology service at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System, shows a novel and more effective way of testing which mutations cause cancer and which are mere research distractions. The work is published in the June issue of Nature Genetics.
Diabetes :: Diabetic Retinopathy Occurs in Pre-Diabetes
Diabetic retinopathy has been found in nearly 8 percent of pre-diabetic participants in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), according to a report presented today at the American Diabetes Association’s 65th Annual Scientific Sessions. Diabetic retinopathy, which can lead to vision loss, was also seen in 12 percent of participants with type 2 diabetes who developed diabetes during the DPP. No other long-term study has evaluated retinopathy in a population so carefully examined for the presence or development of type 2 diabetes.
Pregnancy :: Yoga may help improve pregnancy outcome
The practice of yoga during pregnancy seems to improve birth weight and reduce prematurity and overall complications, Indian researchers report.
Cholesterol :: Plant based foods slice away ‘bad’ cholesterol in low fat diet
The health benefits of differing low-fat diets are far from equal, say researchers, suggesting that a low-fat diet rich in vegetables and fruits has twice the cholesterol-lowering power of a conventional low-fat diet.
Bronchiolitis :: Chest physio doesn’t help infants with bronchiolitis
Chest physiotherapy using vibration and percussion techniques does not reduce length of hospital stay, oxygen requirements, or reduce symptoms in infants with acute bronchiolitis who are not being ventilated and don’t have any other accompanying illness.
Depression :: St. John’s wort also effective in severe depression
The rate of satisfactory treatment outcomes in moderate and severe depression is at least as high with a plant extract of St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) as with the synthetic antidepressant paroxetine. This is the finding to emerge from a new research study recently published in advance in the online issue of the renowned British Medical Journal.