If you are one of the millions of Americans with high blood pressure, more help is on the way. That’s because a new research study published in the October 2010 print issue…
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Study Links Some Cannabis Strains With Memory Impairment
People who smoke potent strains of cannabis that are low in cannabidiol (such as skunk) are putting themselves at far greater risk of acute memory loss than people who smoke other types…
Brain Chemical Finding Could Open Door To New Schizophrenia Drugs
New research has linked psychosis with an abnormal relationship between two signalling chemicals in the brain. The findings, published in tomorrow’s edition of the journal Biological Psychiatry, suggest a new approach to…
Seeking Biomarkers Of Parkinson’s Disease
$40-million, Five-Year Observational Clinical Study, Sponsored by Michael J. Fox Foundation, Seeks Biomarkers of Parkinson’s Disease The Penn Medicine Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center announced that it is one of 18…
Family And Friends May Cause Most Tension For Caregivers
The biggest cause of stress for people who care for loved ones after a stroke may not be worrying about the affected family member. Rather, surprising new research from Northwestern Medicine shows…
Surgery Offers Long-Term Survival For Early-Stage Prostate Cancer Patients
In the largest, most modern, single-institution study of its kind, Mayo Clinic urologists mined a long-term data registry for survival rates of patients who underwent radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer. The…
Study Finds Increases In 5-, 10-year Survival At Every Stage Of Breast Cancer
Advances in screening for disease detection, better surgical techniques available to more women, and an increased number of therapies that reduce the risk of relapse in patients with both locally advanced and…
Study Finds Women Treated For Breast Cancer While Pregnant Have Improved Survival
Long associated with a worse outcome, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that women treated for breast cancer while pregnant, in fact, have improved disease-free survival…
First Preventative Approach To Improve Outcomes In Traumatized Children
After experiencing a potentially traumatic event – a car accident, a physical or sexual assault, a sports injury, witnessing violence – as many as 1 in 5 children will develop Posttraumatic Stress…
Strong Link Discovered Between Diabetes And Air Pollution
A national epidemiologic study finds a strong, consistent correlation between adult diabetes and particulate air pollution that persists after adjustment for other risk factors like obesity and ethnicity, report researchers from Children’s…
Garlic Oil Shows Protective Effect Against Heart Disease In Diabetes
Garlic has “significant” potential for preventing cardiomyopathy, a form of heart disease that is a leading cause of death in people with diabetes, scientists have concluded in a new study. Their report,…
Psychology Study Reveals A Need To Clean The Body Part That Lies
Apparently your mom had it right when she threatened to wash your mouth out with soap if you talked dirty. Lying really does create a desire to clean the “dirty” body part,…
Professionals gather to learn latest treatments
It’s been seven years since Chris Morgan was diagnosed with breast cancer, and nearly six and a half since she received her last treatment. “We’re very lucky to be here, because there’s…
Herpevac Trial for Women finds experimental vaccine ineffective in prevention of genital herpes disease
An experimental vaccine intended to prevent genital herpes disease in women, although generally safe and well-tolerated, proved ineffective when tested in the recently concluded clinical study known as the Herpevac Trial for…
U.K. Begins Cancer Drug Fund Amid Warning of Cash Shortfall
Britain today opened its Cancer Drugs Fund, set up to pay for new treatments not available in the state-funded health service, as specialist pharmacists warned it may have less than half the…