Female baby boomers with asthma may need help
Asthma takes a backseat to other conditions with older women. Women over the age of 65 face numerous barriers to good health: an increased risk for obesity, greater… read more.
Asthma takes a backseat to other conditions with older women. Women over the age of 65 face numerous barriers to good health: an increased risk for obesity, greater… read more.
Studies have shown that 50 percent of patients taking opioids for at least three months are still on opioids five years later. A review of the available studies… read more.
A telephone-delivered intervention, which included automated symptom monitoring, produced clinically meaningful improvements in chronic musculoskeletal pain compared to usual care, according to a study in the July 16… read more.
Controlling pain during childbirth and post delivery may reduce the risk of postpartum depression, writes Katherine Wisner, M.D., perinatal psychiatrist, in an editorial in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
by Professor John O’Grady, Kings College Hospital, London – Liver transplantation is highly successful from the technical perspective, returning the majority of patients to a level of health… read more.
Controlling childbirth pain appears to lower the risk of postpartum depression, researchers reported in a July 23 editorial in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
by Bruce Sylvester – The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) citalopram appears to impede development of amyloid beta, a plaque-forming peptide in the brain believed to be involved… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) citalopram appears to impede development of amyloid beta, a plaque-forming peptide in the brain believed to be involved… read more.
National guidelines for lipids and blood pressure are likely to be a focus of attention at this year’s meeting of the American Diabetes Association.
People with diabetes have about double the risk of premature death as people of the same age without diabetes. Studies also have shown that they have about twice… read more.
Emerging uses of FDA approved drugs – by Bruce Sylvester – Over half of depressed subjects in a newly reported study who were injected with onabotulinumtoxinA (OBA/Botox) achieved… read more.
Analysis could eventually lead to improved therapy, researcher says. So many variables can contribute to shortness of breath that no person can keep them all straight. But a… read more.