You’ve heard about “spring cleaning,” but what about a “fall cleaning?” As days get shorter and temperatures continue to fall over most of the United States, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology is recommending that perennial, or year-round allergy sufferers, take some precautions before retreating inside during the colder months.
Hispanic adults in the United States are more likely than whites or blacks to have cataract-related vision problems due to language and financial barriers, researchers report.
Elderly women with breast cancer whose surgeons refer them to cancer specialists are twice as likely to be prescribed tamoxifen, a treatment recommended for preventing recurrence of the disease, a new study shows.
Women with moderate-to-severe urinary incontinence are two or three times more likely to be seriously depressed than continent women, according to new study results — which suggests that doctors should be assessing the mental health of women with incontinence.
Women who have had a certain type of anorexia nervosa show an alteration of the activity of a chemical in their brain that is widely associated with anxiety and other affective disorders more than one year after recovery, according to a study in the September issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
The study, funded by the United Kingdom Government’s Department of Trade and Industry, is led by Dr Colin McGuckin and Dr Nico Forraz from Kingston University’s School of Life Sciences. It represents a significant step forward in the fast-developing field of stem cell research. Until now, experts have struggled to find a supply of cells in sufficient numbers that does not offend previous critics of stem cell research. The latest advance may overcome such difficulties.
Routinely discarded as medical waste, placental tissue could feasibly provide an abundant source of cells that may have the potential to treat diseases and regenerate tissues as their more controversial counterparts, embryonic stem cells, suggests a University of Pittsburgh study to be published in the journal Stem Cells and available now as an early online publication in Stem Cells Express.
Moderate pressure massage therapy increases weight gain in preterm infants by improving stomach motion, investigators at the University of Miami School of Medicine report.
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.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers are developing a tiny, highly efficient heat spreader to be used in a new device to be implanted in the brain of patients who suffer from severe epileptic seizures.