Archive: 23/06/2015

Medication may stop drug and alcohol addiction

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have successfully stopped cocaine and alcohol addiction in experiments using a drug already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat high blood pressure. ...

Jun 23, 2015

2

329

Subclinical hypothyroidism ups DM risk only with statin use

(HealthDay)—Hypothyroidism is associated with increased risk of diabetes mellitus (DM); however, subclinical hypothyroidism appears to increase this risk only with statin use, according to research published online June ...

Jun 23, 2015

0

17

Anti-clotting drug approved for angioplasty

(HealthDay)—Kengreal (cangrelor) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prevent blood clots from forming during angioplasty.

Jun 23, 2015

Doctors should urge against pot use during pregnancy: guidelines

(HealthDay)—Doctors should discourage women from using marijuana during pregnancy, due to the potential effects that pot's active ingredients can have on a child's brain development, new guidelines state.

Jun 23, 2015

0

494

Academic detailing could boost treatment of tobacco use

(HealthDay)—An educational outreach program, academic detailing (AD), can improve the frequency of physicians' performance of simple and complex components of tobacco use treatment, according to a study published in the ...

Jun 23, 2015

0

3

Yoga, meditation aid menopausal symptoms after breast cancer

(HealthDay)—For breast cancer survivors, a yoga and meditation intervention is associated with improvement in menopausal symptoms, according to a study published in the July 1 issue of Cancer.

Jun 23, 2015

0

29

B. cenocepacia overrepresented in urologic chronic pelvic pain

(HealthDay)—Burkholderia cenocepacia is overrepresented in initial stream urine of men with urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome, according to a study published in the July issue of The Journal of Urology.

Jun 23, 2015

0

2

Poor health as teen, poor job prospects later, study suggests

(HealthDay)—Mental or physical health problems during the teen years may make it harder to get a good job or to complete higher education later on, a new research review suggests.

Jun 23, 2015

0

56

Drug may be antidote to bleeding tied to blood thinner pradaxa

(HealthDay)—The new blood thinner Pradaxa (dabigatran) is being widely used, but it comes with one serious drawback: rare but dangerous cases of sudden, uncontrolled bleeding in patients.

Jun 23, 2015

0

38

Samsung heir apologises over S. Korea MERS outbreak

The heir to South Korean business giant Samsung on Tuesday publicly bowed his head in apology for one of its flagship hospitals becoming an epicentre of the MERS virus, as health officials reported three new cases.

Jun 23, 2015

page 10 from 11

«
»