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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...
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...
Daily Glass Of Wine Could Improve Liver Health
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine are challenging conventional thinking with a study showing that modest wine consumption, defined as one glass a day, may not only be...
Personalized cancer therapy found valuable
BOSTON, May 21 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists said they've conducted a trial that supports first-line use of targeted therapy to treat lung cancer.
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...
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...
Scientists 'paint' viruses to track their fate in the body
Biologists from Austria and Singapore developed a technique that adds a new twist on the relationship between biology and art. In an article recently published online in The FASEB Journal...
Overweight in adolescence gives increased mortality rate
People who were already overweight in adolescence (14-19 years old) have an increased mortality rate from a range of chronic diseases as adults; endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases,...
Tuberculosis not the only risk from new immunological drugs
A new survey cautions physicians that drugs commonly prescribed for patients suffering from immunological disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease may carry risks of serious infections other...
Heterotopic gastric tissue simulating acute appendicitis
It is not uncommon to find tissue that normally lines the stomach in locations outside of the digestive tract. This "heterotopic" gastric tissue has been identified in such diverse locations...
Tool creates personalized catch-up immunization schedules for missed childhood vaccinations
A new downloadable software tool will help pediatricians, parents and other health care professionals determine how to adjust complex childhood immunization schedules when one or more vaccine doses aren`t received...
Do chemicals in the environment affect fertility?
Our day-to-day exposure to chemicals is on the increase. From food packaging to the air we breathe, every day contact with potentially-toxic substances could be affecting our health — and...
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.
Overnight contact lenses safe
Despite reports, new contact lenses that can be worn overnight and then removed to provide clear vision during the day do not make the eye vulnerable to infections.
Pharaoh’s Unusual Feminine Appearance Suggests Two Gene Defects
The feminine features and elongated head of ancient Egypt’s King Akhenaten may be attributed to two genetic defects called aromatose excess syndrome and craniosynostosis, said Yale School of Medicine dermatology...
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...