Surgery to relieve chronic lower back pain is no better than intensive rehabilitation and nearly twice as expensive, researchers said. Low back pain is one of the world’s most common complaints. In the 25-nation European Union, it affects over 40 million workers and accounts for nearly half of all sick days.
Headache specialist Seymour Diamond, with Mary A. Franklin, offers advice and encouragement in Conquering Your Migraine: The Essential Guide to Understanding and Treating Migraines for All Sufferers and Their Families. Collaborators on Coping with Your Headaches and colleagues at the Diamond Headache Clinic, they here examine the most debilitating form.
As many as one in eight women have a thyroid condition. In Living Well with Hypothyroidism, Mary Shomon outlines the most common of these–too little thyroid hormones in the body. Weight gain, depression, fatigue, and what patients call “brain fog, Brillo hair, and prune skin” result. Because the symptoms of hypothyroidism mimic so many other conditions–chronic fatigue, PMS, clinical depression–it can be very tricky to diagnose, especially since patients with HMOs may not get the thorough testing they need.
In this compelling memoir, Brooke Shields talks candidly about her experience with postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, and provides millions of women with an inspiring example of recovery.
Malignant mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer, in which the cancer cells are found in the sac lining the chest (pleura) or abdomen (peritoneum).
Mesothelioma is a multiauthored book that aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the epidemiology, biology, diagnosis, and treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma.
Postmenopausal women who have survived early breast cancer face a higher than average risk of osteoporosis, according to a report by Canadian researchers.
Very early treatment of babies infected with HIV — before age 3 months — is associated with better outcomes than when treatment is delayed, investigators report in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
Pancreatic cancer patients who are given a combination of chemotherapy drugs survive longer than those prescribed a single treatment, Italian researchers said.
Two research teams tricked one of the body?s growth factors into helping the heart repair itself after a heart attack, according to reports in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.