Hypertension :: US beats Europe for hypertension treatment
By starting treatment for high blood pressure earlier and being more aggressive, physicians in the U.S. control hypertension significantly better than their counterparts in western Europe.
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Pregnancy :: Cells passed from mother to child during pregnancy live on and make insulin
A Bristol team has looked for maternal cells in children with type 1 diabetes, an immune-mediated disorder, and found that around 20 percent of these children have unusually high levels of maternal DNA in their circulation.
Bipolar Disorder :: Grant to find new drugs for bipolar disorder
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have been awarded a three-year $2.1 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop a new drug to treat bipolar disorder.
Sterilize :: Microwave oven can sterilize sponges, scrub pads
Microwave ovens may be good for more than just zapping the leftovers; they may also help protect your family.
Tuberculosis :: Detaining patients is justified to contain deadly TB strain in South Africa
A team of medical ethics and public health experts say tough isolation measures, involuntary if need be, are justified to contain a deadly, contagious, drug-resistant strain of TB in South Africa and to prevent “a potentially explosive international health crisis.”
Anorexia :: Families do not cause anorexia nervosa
Misstatements and ignorance claiming that families “cause” eating disorders is like blaming parents for diabetes or asthma or cancer says an international group of eating disorders researchers.
Bioterrorism :: Bioterrorism alerts induce anxiety and pose health risk
A team of researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found that bioterrorism alert messages measurably raise anxiety levels, which could pose adverse health effects.
Health Care :: Health care costs for abused women are higher
Women with a history of abuse by intimate partners have significantly higher health care costs and utilization than women with no history of such abuse, according to a study conducted at Group Health, a Seattle-based health plan.
Dementia :: Acupressure reduces agitated behavior in dementia
Providing 15-minute treatment sessions twice a day for five days a week significantly reduced agitated behavior in older people with dementia, including physical and verbal attacks and wandering.
Breast Cancer :: Radiation therapy reduces cancer recurrence in older breast cancer patients
Radiation therapy after lumpectomy and five years of treatment with the drug tamoxifen can dramatically reduce the risk of both cancer recurrence and new tumors in older women with early breast cancer.