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Home blood pressure monitor can be great monitoring tool, group says
People with high blood pressure should make monitoring their condition at home a routine, says a new statement from the American Heart Association.
Hypertension Treatment With Diuretics Recommended In New Guide
A thiazide-type diuretic is the best first-choice drug for hypertensive patients according to recent research. According to the American Heart Association, about one in three U.S. adults has high blood...
Latent TB Treatment Saves Time, Money, And Lives
A new way to treat patients with latent tuberculosis, who are infected with TB but without symptoms, can effectively treat it in less than half the time and at a...
Delayed Adverse Effects May Occur Following Injection With Cosmetic Skin Fillers
Polyalkylimide implants -- injections used as cosmetic fillers primarily in Europe -- may be associated with infrequent but sometimes severe immune-related adverse effects months following the procedure, according to a...
Tracking Influenza's Every Movement
Analysis of approximately 13,000 human influenza A viruses from six continents 2002--2007 revealed continuous circulation in east/southeast Asia via a regional network of temporally overlapping epidemics and that epidemics in...
Dermatologists Link Family History To Shingles Susceptibility
Researchers have identified family history as one reason why some people might be more susceptible to shingles, a severe skin condition. Shingles, or Herpes Zoster, is a burning, painful, itchy...
Technique For Nasal Obstruction Helps Patients Breathe Easier, Study Finds
Z-plasty, a minimally invasive surgical technique to treat internal nasal valve collapse, showed significant improvement in relieving nasal obstruction with less recovery time compared to more traditional open rhinoplasty, according...
Old Antibiotic May Find New Life As A Stroke Treatment
An old intravenous antibiotic may have new life as a stroke treatment, researchers say. Minocycline appears to reduce stroke damage in multiple ways -- inhibiting white blood cells and enzymes...
Blood-clotting Protein Modified For People With Hard-to-treat Hemophilia
Pathologists have developed a chemically modified protein that may help people with a hard-to-treat form of a genetic bleeding disorder known as hemophilia A. With a shortage of the blood-clotting...
Benefit Of Surgery For Gastroesophageal Reflux Confirmed
Despite the growing availability of prescription and over-the-counter medications for gastroesophageal reflux disease, surgical treatment remains a viable alternative for patients whose symptoms persist. A survey of almost 200 patients...
Cure For The Common Cold? Smallpox Drug May Also Target Some Upper-Respiratory Infections
Scientists have made two key discoveries that could lead to the first-ever human testing of a drug to target the adenovirus, which causes a number of severe upper-respiratory infections and...
Abnormal 'Editing' Of Gene Messages May Be A Cause Of Lupus
Researchers have uncovered evidence that the abnormal "editing" of gene messages in a type of white blood cell may be behind the development of lupus. Scientists hope the finding will...
Hormone Replacement Therapy Is Safe For Healthy Women Entering Menopause, Summit Concludes
Menopause experts have concluded that hormone replacement therapy in the early postmenopausal period is safe, and healthy women going through the first few years of the menopause who need HRT...
Study identifies trends of vitamin B6 status in US population sample
In an epidemiological study, Tufts University researchers identified trends of vitamin B6 status in a sample of the United States population based on measures of plasma pyridoxal...
Farm Moms May Help Children Beat Allergies
Mothers exposed to farms, particularly to barns and farm milk, while pregnant confer protection from allergies on their newborns, according to a group of German researchers.
Erectile Dysfunction May Signal A Broken Heart
Erectile dysfunction is always a matter of the heart, but new research shows that more than romance is at stake. Two new studies of men with type 2 diabetes found...
Tracking influenza's every movement
It’s the case of the missing flu virus. When the flu isn’t making people sick, it seems to just vanish. Yet, every year, everywhere on Earth, it reappears in the...
'Blood-free' monitoring as good as blood tests in predicting the course of AIDS
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown that monitoring treatment adherence to AIDS therapy is a simple blood-free way to monitor risk of disease progression. The...
Embryo bill debate: Do families need fathers?
Tolerance of non-traditional families will be tested as MPs decide whether the embryo bill should be amended to make it impossible for lesbians and single women to have children through...
Letters: Stopping the clock on abortion
Letter: Professor David Field's clinical audit of neonatal survival rates from 16 hospitals in the Trent health region is neither 'landmark' nor does it illuminate the abortion-limit debate
Response: I have a disability, yet I still think it's wrong to destroy embryos, says Alison Davis
Response: Medical conditions such as Parkinson's can be treated by ethical sources of stem cells, says Alison Davis
Black men appear less likely to undergo elective aneurysm repair than white men
Black men are less likely than white men to undergo elective surgery to repair abdominal aortic aneurysms, even after accounting for racial differences in rates of developing the disease, according...
Study: Doctors not always sure when to treat BP in people with diabetes
For people with diabetes, high blood pressure poses a special threat, multiplying their risk of heart attacks, strokes and kidney problems.
Health agency puts spotlight on mystery diseases
NIH launches programme to help patients with undiagnosed conditions.
Study outlines tools to assess facial plastic surgery outcomes
Objective, validated measures for assessing outcomes following facial plastic surgery have become more prevalent over the past decade, according to a review of previous studies published in the May/June issue...
Do we know enough about presidential health?
(AP) -- Woodrow Wilson's secret stroke. Grover Cleveland's secret cancer surgery. Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretly worsening heart disease at the world-changing Yalta Conference. Notice a lot of secrets?
68 pct. of young drivers killed at night unbuckled
(AP) -- More than two-thirds of young drivers and passengers killed in nighttime car crashes aren't wearing seat belts - deadly proof of what can happen when young people...
Antibodies in the brain
Each of us carries an unbelievable multitude of antibodies, allowing us to survive the daily battle against pathogens. However, sometimes these antibodies go haywire and attack structures of their own...