health - "study published"

A widely reported Israeli study, published in the New England Journal of medicine, compared three popular weight loss diets - low fat, which was attributed to the American Heart Association, low carbohydrate/high protein based on the Atkins diet, and Mediterranean style. the researchers found that people on the low carbohydrate/high protein diet lost slightly more weight over a two year period. Does that mean that people who are trying to lose weight should adopt a low carbohydrate/high protein diet?read more

Many newly diagnosed diabetic Hispanics are unaware that their condition increases their risk for eye disease, according to a study published in the July issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.Hispanics have a diabetes rate that is 1.9 times higher than the rate of whites.

According to a study published in The Lancet, immunization against the amyloid-β peptide clears amyloid plaques in the brain but fails to halt the progressive neurodegeneration that comes with Alzheimer's disease. The amyloid-β peptide accumulates in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease, and this engenders plaque formation.

The erectile dysfunction drug Viagra has proven effective at combating sexual dysfunction in depressed women, according to a study published Tuesday.

Young adults age 35 or younger with a low-level elevation in blood pressure, called 'Prehypertension,' are more likely to have calcium in their coronary arteries later in life, predisposing them to a higher risk of strokes and heart attacks, according to a UCSF study published in Annals of Internal medicine.The study analyzed blood pressure in 3,560 adults age 18 to 30 over 20 years and measured coronary calcium at the end of the study.read more

A new study published in The Lancet has some promising results for treating Alzheimer's disease (AD) with the drug dimebon. Researchers show that in patients with mild-to-moderate AD, dimebon significantly improves the clinical course of the disease. Unlike any other approved AD therapy, dimebon resulted in increasing benefits over a 12 month period.

(McGill University health Centre) The question of whether insulin-producing cells of the pancreas can regenerate is key to our understanding of diabetes. Dr. Rosenberg from the McGill University Health Center and McGill University together with Dr. Bernard Massie from the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal have concluded that they can. The results of their study are published in the July issue of the journal Laboratory Investigation.

SAN DIEGO -- Bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) is more accurate and reliable than other methods of subclinical assessment of lymphedema in breast cancer patients, according to a paper published in the July 20 issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology (2008; Vol. 26, Issue 21: 3536- 3542). Titled 'Lymphedema After Breast cancer: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Effect on Upper Body Function,' the paper, authored by Sandra Hayes, PhD., and colleagues from Queensland University of Technology in Australia, is based on a study that involved 265 breast cancer patients. Approximately 87 percent of the patients had undergone lymph node dissection, 70 percent had received radiation therapy and 40 percent had received chemotherapy and/or h...