health - "medicine"

AP - Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.

A recent report finds adults who had improved nutrition in early childhood may score better on intellectual tests, regardless of the number of years they attended School. The study is found in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.“Schooling is a key component of the development [...]

The New York Times on Sunday examined how the Genentech cancer drug Avastin 'signifies both the hopes and dilemmas of modern medicine' because while it offers incremental benefits for cancer patients, the drug is costly and concerns have been raised about its safety and efficacy.

US researchers working on a study comparing approaches to weight loss, found that keeping a food diary can double weight loss as part of a managed programme; they said that the more food records they kept, the more weight the participants lost. The study was carried out by investigators from Kaiser Permanente's Center for health Research, and is to be published in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive medicine.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine....

First-in-Class Treatment set to Provide a New and Important Targeted Treatment for Distressing and near Universal Side Effect in Patients Receiving Opioids for Pain Relief as Part of Palliative Care Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, announced that it has received EMEA marketing approval for Relistor(TM) (methylnaltrexone bromide) subcutaneous injection.

Washington, July 7 : Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine say that alterations in a molecular brain pathway marijuana activates may give rise to the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia.

Although acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is rare in women of child-bearing age, pregnancy can increase a woman's risk of heart attack 3- to 4-fold, according to a study published in the July 15, 2008, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Since women today may delay having children until later in life, and advances in reproductive medicine enable older women to conceive, the occurrence of AMI associated with pregnancy is expected to increase.

(Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center) Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and, perhaps worse, very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of medicine. the researchers say the combination could be a potentially dangerous food source for some patients with heart disease, arthritis, asthma and other allergic and auto-immune diseases that are particularly vulnerable to an 'exaggerated inflammatory response.'

(Kaiser Permanente) Study of nearly 1,700 participants shows that keeping a food diary can double a person's weight loss. The study, which will appear in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive medicine, found that the best predictors of weight loss were how frequently food diaries were kept and how many support sessions the participants attended. Those who kept daily food records lost twice as much weight as those who kept no records.