Sixteen years after Congress enacted the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), people with psychiatric disabilities are faring worse in court cases against employers for discrimination than are people with physical disabilities, researchers have found in a national study.
Dr. Angela Clark, associate professor of nursing at The University of Texas at Austin, is conducting a new study to help people living with chronic heart failure, an illness which affects five million people in the United States. Clark says an estimated one-third to one-half of hospital re-admissions for chronic heart failure could be prevented with better education about symptoms, medications and diet.
For migraine sufferers who don’t benefit from current migraine medications, hope may come from a new clinical trial, conducted in part at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The trial offers an unexpected solution ? doctors are closing a hole in the heart to try to fix the ache in the head.
JHUSON researcher Jerilyn K. Allen, ScD, RN is heading a five-year $2.5 million study of a team- and community-based health care delivery system designed to manage the total cardiovascular health of 500 high-risk patients.
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine are the first to report that in animal studies, a common diabetes drug prevents the memory and learning problems that cancer patients often experience after whole-brain radiation treatments.
This release announces research that directly compared the early therapeutic response of drugs from widely used classes of heartburn medications, omeprazole magnesium, a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) and famotidine, a histamine-2 receptor antagonist (H2RAs), in an over-the-counter (OTC) setting.
As Congress debates changes to the Medicare Part D prescription drug plans, a new study finds tremendous variation in what seniors in different states pay for the same medications, even if they choose the lowest-cost Part D plans in their areas. The highest costs often occur in the lowest-income, lowest cost-of-living areas.
Scientists have revealed the intricate structure of cartilage in what they hope will provide clues to how the crippling joint disease osteoarthritis might one day be treated.
A comprehensive meta-analysis of procrastination research, 10 years in the making, shows that: Most people’s New Year’s resolutions are doomed to failure; self-help books have it wrong when they say perfectionism is the root cause of procrastination, and procrastination can be explained by a single mathematical equation.
Heavy flooding has provoked the spread of Rift Valley Fever from north-east Kenya to near Garissa in the north-west of the country, the World Health Organization warned.