Long-term opioid use related to erectile dysfunction
by Bruce Sylvester – Long-term use of opioids is linked to an increased higher risk of erectile dysfunction (ED), researchers reported on May 15, 2013 in the journal… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Long-term use of opioids is linked to an increased higher risk of erectile dysfunction (ED), researchers reported on May 15, 2013 in the journal… read more.
FDA Highlights by Bruce Sylvester – Patients with an elevated cardiac risk treated with beta-blockers on the day of or day following non-cardiac, non-vascular surgery have achieved significantly… read more.
FDA Highlights by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women’s hospital in Boston, Massachusetts report that topical anakinra,… read more.
FDA Highlights by Bruce Sylvester – Patients suffering chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy treated with the anti-depressant duloxetine for 5 weeks achieved a greater reduction in pain compared with patients… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – taken from the BMJ – Researchers have reported a significant decline in the proportion of young women diagnosed with genital warts in Australia following… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – taken from The Lancet – Results from a new retrospective study of data from a large mother-child population in the UK suggest that maternal… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – taken from JAMA – Among non-diabetic adults, smoking cessation compared with continued smoking correlates to a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, even with subsequent… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – taken from the NEJM – Approximately 90 percent of children who have two copies of a genetic variation and who wheezed when they had… read more.
By Bruce Sylvester – Men treated with long-acting (extended release) opioids for chronic pain experience low testosterone levels five times more often than men using short-acting (immediate release… read more.
By Bruce Sylvester – Even with good clinical management of type 2 diabetes, the risk of premature death increases significantly with the onset of kidney disease, researchers reported… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – In a study published in PLOS Medicine on January 29, 2013, researchers reported that an increasing risk of future cardiovascular disease and of premature… read more.
Taken from The Lancet – by Bruce Sylvester – Short-term folic acid supplement use does not affect overall cancer risk and does little to increase the risk of… read more.