In the double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled study, 34 patients used a portable battery-operated device that emits a low-intensity pulsating…
Adults who have both diabetes and major depression are more than twice as likely to develop dementia, compared to adults with diabetes only, according to a…
Pregnant subjects between 6 and 20 weeks gestation (using standard pregnancy dating criteria) were eligible for screening and enrollment. Eight hundred and…
Imagine a mosquito-borne virus that has already infected millions of people in recent outbreaks in South and Southeast Asia, the islands of the Indian Ocean,…
For the study, researchers identified 658 people diagnosed with ocular shingles and 1974 without the infection. None of these people had a history of stroke at…
Studies have suggested that exposure to minimal doses of blue-violet light (400-500 nm) elicits production of small amounts of reactive oxygen species (ROS),…
“[This] is the first human study on DC-based immunotherapy in patients with mesothelioma,” wrote Joachim G Aerts M.D., Ph.D., a pulmonary physician at Erasmus…
This data is being featured in the online edition of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.LAM is a rare but serious lung disease that…
A daily dose of vitamin D may just be what Chicagoans need to get through the long winter, according to researchers at Loyola University Chicago Marcella…
“This study gives physicians confidence in using long-acting beta-agonists if a patient is not responding to steroid treatment alone,” said said Dr. Szefler,…
Marr's findings come from a comprehensive study that evaluated marathon race results, weather data, and air pollutant concentrations in seven marathons over a…
A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine reveals how extremes of sleep – both too much and too little – can be hazardous to your…
The findings, published in a recent issue of the journal European Urology, compared treatments for three groups of study participants with enlarged prostates…
“This is one of the very first comprehensive investigations that examined whether childhood obesity trends changed after new statewide policies were enacted in…
In 2005, almost 30% of the U.S. adult population had prediabetes, but over 90% were unaware of their prediabetes status. Although it is known that diabetes can…
Robotic surgical technology with its three-dimensional, high-definition view gives surgeons the sensation of touch, even as they operate from a remote console….