Obese and very obese patients have a lower risk of dying after they have been treated for heart attacks than do normal weight patients, according to research published in the European Heart Journal.
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE:WYE), provides comment on the Women?s Health Initiative (WHI) Coronary Artery Calcium Study published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
More than 1,500 participants from around the world are exchanging lessons learned from their efforts to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS and to care for sufferers at a four-day United Nations-backed meeting in Rwanda.
Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) breast cancer specialists are using a new way to treat patients by delivering a one-time dose of radiation during surgery. The procedure, called intraoperative radiation therapy, takes less than an hour and eliminates the need for further radiation treatments.
Keeping cool on hot, humid summer days is good advice for more reasons than sheer comfort. It’s vital for good health – even staying alive. That’s the message from the Pennsylvania Medical Society, warning young and old alike that heat stroke is a deadly illness to be avoided at all costs – even if it means sacrificing a day at the beach.
In this week?s PLoS Medicine, three psychiatrists working in India and Pakistan debate how best to improve the care of the 25 million people living with schizophrenia in low and middle income countries.
An examination of Medicare Part D plans in California and Hawaii reveals wide variations in drug formularies, but indicates that for many classes of drugs, it is possible to find at least one or more drug that is covered by nearly all Part D plans, according to a study in the June 20 issue of JAMA.
A review of previous studies indicates that two doses of a malaria preventive therapy during pregnancy provides substantial benefit to HIV-negative women in Africa, with more frequent dosing apparently necessary for HIV-positive women, according to an article in the June 20 issue of JAMA.
A protein long thought to be one of the body?s supporting players has quietly been taking a lead role in healthy eyesight, a discovery that could rapidly lead to treatments for babies born before their eyes are finished growing, University of Florida and Harvard Medical School researchers have found.
For the first time an important diagnostic test for cancer has been miniaturized and automated onto a microfluidic chip by a team of University of Alberta researchers in Edmonton, Canada.