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A New Drug Class article released on July 4, 2008 in The Lancet seeks to highlight a new group of drugs intended to treat Crohn's disease. Most current drugs seek to control the autoimmune response via the tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), but many new classes attempt to control other aspects of the immune response or even to reinforce the intestinal barrier itself.

A study in the July 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that episodes of sleep-disordered breathing accompanied by mild oxygen desaturations of as little as two percent are associated with hyperglycemia. Adults with 11 or more apnea-hypopnea events per hour with an oxygen desaturation of 2.0 percent to 2.9 percent had an adjusted cumulative odds ratio of 1.

A new study by researchers in Finland has some advice for older men when it comes to preserving their sexual function. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)

Faster recovery times and better visual outcomes are among the early results of a corneal transplant pilot study underway at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is calling for the strongest type of warning to be placed on drugs which are used to treat epilepsy.

Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wants to get this message out to Americans: health ...

USA TODAY readers report how they are coping with higher grocery bills while still eating healthfully, listing ways they're cutting ...

Women who have breast reconstruction after an elective mastectomy are satisfied with their decision, have low complication rates and 98 percent would do it again, reports a study in July's Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

We already know that recycling benefits our planet; and now new research suggests that the cellular version might be useful for battling cancer.

Red wine, or rather the natural compound resveratrol found in the red grapes used to make the wine, is in the news again for all the right reasons.