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Saturday, February 20th, 2010You’ll get more heart-healthy benefits from omega-3 fatty acids if you eat baked or boiled fish instead of fried, dried or salted fish, according to a new study, which also found that adding low-sodium soy sauce or tofu is a good idea for women.
“It appears that boiling or baking fish with low-sodium soy sauce [shoyu] [...]
FDA Approves New Drug Treatment for Long-Term Pain Relief after Shingles Attacks
Saturday, February 13th, 2010The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the approval of Qutenza (capsaicin) 8% patch, a medicated skin patch that relieves the pain of post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), a serious complication that can occur after a bout with shingles.
Shingles is an outbreak of rash or blisters on the skin that is caused by the same virus [...]
Face Transplant Patient Can Smell, Taste, Breathe Normally
Saturday, February 6th, 2010The woman who underwent the first facial transplant in the United States can now smell, taste what she eats and breathe through her nose, according to a report from her surgeons.
Nearly a year after the surgery, blood vessels from the transplanted tissue have integrated with existing tissue, she has had no significant complications and her [...]
Common Knee Pain May Improve With Therapy
Friday, January 29th, 2010Supervised physical therapy is better than regular “wait-and-see” care for patients with a certain type of severe knee pain, according to research that suggests it reduces pain and improves function more effectively.
The findings, which are published in the Oct. 21 online edition of BMJ, examine patellofemoral pain syndrome, a common condition that causes pain in [...]
Cocoa in Chocolate May Be Good for the Heart
Friday, January 22nd, 2010If you’re tempted to raid your child’s Halloween candy stash at the end of this month, here’s one reason you might not have to restrain yourself.
Spanish researchers put 42 men and women on a diet that included 40 grams of unsweetened cocoa powder (about 1.4 ounces) mixed with skim milk daily, or plain skim milk. [...]
Diabetes Drug May Boost Weight Loss in Obese Patients
Friday, January 15th, 2010The diabetes drug liraglutide helps obese people without diabetes lose weight, researchers have found.
The study authors also reported that high doses of liraglutide were more effective at helping people shed pounds than the weight-loss drug orlistat.
In the study, which included 564 diabetes-free obese patients aged 18 to 65 at 19 sites in Europe, participants were [...]
Adding Drug Doesn’t Help Control Blood Pressure
Friday, January 8th, 2010Adding an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) drug to help control blood pressure has no benefit for people with heart disease who already are taking an ACE inhibitor, a new study finds.
The so-called “meta-analysis” of 41 previous studies found that combination therapy seems no better than ACE inhibitor therapy alone and may be harmful.
Results of the [...]
Do Preemies Benefit From High-Tech Measures?
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009Even though more treatments are provided for extremely preterm infants, they’re no more likely to survive than they were in the mid-1990s, a U.S. study has found.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine compared 75 extremely preterm infants (born at 22 to 24 weeks’ gestation) delivered between 1993 and 1995 (early epoch) and 104 [...]
Habits May Keep Couples Together or Tear Them Apart
Monday, December 21st, 2009Marriages can be at risk when one partner is an excessive drinker and/or smoker, but the other isn’t, researchers say.
However, when their drinking and/or smoking habits are similar, both partners remain relatively satisfied with their marriage, according to the study published in a recent edition of the journal Addiction.
Researchers tracked 634 newly married couples for [...]
Doctors May Be Able to Predict Domestic Abuse
Thursday, December 10th, 2009It may be possible to use a person’s electronic medical records to predict the likelihood of domestic abuse years before it actually occurs, according to U.S. researchers.
They analyzed the medical records of more than 500,000 adults that included at least four years of data on hospital admissions and visits to emergency departments. In total, the [...]