health - "medicine"

Smoking in midlife results in poor memory and makes it harder to think and learn, according to research published in the Archives of Internal medicine.

As golf carts are used in more settings off the golf course, the number of injuries is rising. According to an article in the July 2008 issue of the American Journal of Preventive medicine, from 1990 until 2006, the injury rate rose more than 130 percent. During this period, nearly 150,000 golf cart-related injuries were recorded in people as young as 2 months and as old as 96 years.

Washington, June 10: A genetic variation in a protein, called tau, is responsible for an earlier age of onset in Alzheimer's disease, according to scientists at Washington University School of medicine in St.

There's more reason for people who smoke to quit. Smoking cigarettes could be bad for your memory. That's the latest information in The Archives of Internal medicine, which found that men and women w...

Many people with allergies think that they've used all of the allergy medicines available. Often, however, when I see a new patient in my allergy clinic, I am able to...

Lipid Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIPD) announced that the results of a proof-of-concept study that demonstrated a positive therapeutic effect with the Company's proprietary autologous virus vaccine in SIV-infected non-human primates was published in an original research article entitled, 'Delipidated Retroviruses as Potential Autologous Therapeutic Vaccines -- A Pilot Experiment.' The article appeared in Experimental Biology and medicine (233:732-740,2008).

Primary care physicians caring for patients with diabetes have worse outcomes among their black patients than their white patients, reports a study conducted by Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and published in the June 9, 2008 issue of the Archives of Internal medicine.

A single dose of antibiotics can significantly aid healing of the severe tearing that occurs in vaginal tissues during many births, according to researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, the Stanford University School of medicine and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. The study is the first to show that the simple treatment can prevent many of the short- and long-term repercussions of this relatively common complication of childbirth.

Over 95% of patients with testicular cancer are cured nowadays, but this success has produced a new problem for cancer survivors, the medical profession and national governments, a cancer expert will tell Teenage Cancer Trust's Fifth International Conference on Teenage and Young Adult Cancer medicine, which is meeting in London on Monday and Tuesday (June 9 and 10).

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an early communication on June 4, 2008 regarding an ongoing safety review of Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Blockers (marketed as Remicade, Enbrel, Humira, and Cimzia) and the possible association between the use of these medicines and the development of lymphoma and other cancers in children and young adults.