When a nursing home patient is dying, aggressive interventions such as inserting a feeding tube or sending the patient to the emergency room can futilely exacerbate, rather than… read more.
Banning sodas from school vending machines, building walking paths and playgrounds, adding supermarkets to food deserts and requiring nutritional labels on restaurant menus: Such changes to the environments… read more.
Medicine obviously can’t do much good if it sits on a pharmacy shelf. Yet more than one-quarter of the acne patients surveyed by researchers didn’t get medications prescribed… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Compared to women who deliver at full-term, women with a history of spontaneous preterm delivery appear to have a doubled risk of developing heart disease,… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Results of a retrospective study suggest that, among middle-aged to elderly smokers, men have a higher risk than women of developing osteoporosis and fractures of… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Researchers report that treating post-tonsillectomy pain with morphine can cause some children to develop life-threatening respiratory problems. The study also showed that ibuprofen is a… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Atrial fibrillation patients treated with digoxin have a 27 percent greater risk of dying than atrial fibrillation patients not treated with the drug, according to… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Among patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation has led to lower mortality, hospitalization or recurrent atrial fibrillation than treatment with the heart… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Patients treated for one year with evolocumab, an investigative drug used to lower LDL cholesterol, have achieved significant reductions in mortality, heart attack and stroke,… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: The addition of antiplatelet drug ticagrelor to aspirin for long-term post-heart attack therapy has reduced the rate of mortality from subsequent cardiovascular causes, heart attack… read more.
Genetic factors help to explain the commonly found association between low back pain and depression, suggests a large study of twins in the March issue of PAIN®.
Although U.S. military veterans who have returned from Iraq or Afghanistan are more likely to suffer chronic pain than veterans of any other conflict in American history, little… read more.
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