According to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), studies revealed that Michigan has one of the highest rates of teen prescription drug abuse across America. Teens turn away...
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by Gloria Gamat on April 29, 2007
Not according to me, but according to most physicians as revealed by the "2007 Obesity Report" from Epocrates, Inc.: 52 percent of physicians believe that more than half of their patients...
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Compared to most widely-used scar treatment, an emu oil based treatment, Transdermis™ Scar Therapy demonstrated dramatic improvement in scar healing and appearance. Such were the findings of a first...
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Contradictory to previous hopeful findings, regular intake of low-dose aspirin does not protect older, healthy women against cognitive decline. Such were the conclusion of a major 10-year study on...
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So you've tried every medication to alleviate your allergies, you've swept, dusted and scrubbed incessantly, and still your symptoms persist? A commonly overlooked step in the quest for...
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Previous observational studies reported that sustained use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may have a protective effect against Alzheimer's disease. Contradictory to that claim is...
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As part of an ongoing clinical research trial, medical and surgical endoscopists at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center were able to remove a woman's gall bladder...
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The most effective non-surgical remedy for carpal tunnel syndrome is local injections of corticosteroid, according to Shawn Marshall, M.D., a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the...
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Characterized by fever, headaches, and sleepiness, African sleeping sickness or trypanosomiasis is caused by a parasite that is transmitted to humans through the bites of tsetse fly. Previously tested...
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HIV-1 is the virus mostly responsible for human AIDS. As recently reported in the April 20, 2007 issue of the journal Cell, scientists have been able to identify a relatively abundant molecule in the...
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Who among you here have been on some drinking binge sometime during their college life, please raise your hands? [me raises hand first..] :-D Well, this is the bad news to those who heavily drank in...
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A balloon catheter device is being used by head and neck surgeons at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital as a minimally-invasive treatment for chronic sinusitis in order to clear blocked sinus...
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The US Food and Drug Administration debunk previous research claims that the sugar substitute aspartame causes cancer. According to FDA's Office of Food additive Safety Director, Laura Tarantino:...
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WebMD, the leading resource of trustworthy and timely health and medical news and information, fired its top tech guy, Chief Technology Officer David Gang, 52 years old, who served since July 2005 as...
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Though the controversial drug dipyrone can treat acute headaches, it puts the patients into risk of the potentially serious blood disorders or "dyscrasias". These were the warning of a...
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Dietary fibre made of guar gum - a fibre-rich extract of a legume plant grown in India- have been found to be able to flush artery-clogging cholesterol from the body and lower the risk of heart...
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As stated in the American Heart Association/american stroke association guidelines published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, intravenous (IV) delivery of an approved clot-busting...
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Alzheimer's disease can be diagnosed at its early stage with a high accuracy rate by evaluating the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. This was determined by a 3-year, $1.1-million funded...
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The use of Strattera® (atomoxetine HCl) in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children is 4.2 times more likely to lead into changing the therapy compared to when...
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According to the latest report from the Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs® project, aspirin is the drug of choice for most people in need of a blood-thinning drug to help prevent a first or repeat...
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While it is very important for women of all ages to have enough calcium intake, supplementation of this bone mineral doesn't always lead to stronger bones in postmenopausal women. Such were the...
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