health - "medicine"

AP - Scientists may have found a way to test for and possibly avoid the most serious side effect of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, one of the top-selling medicines in the world.

Cyberspace is buzzing today with news of Medpedia, a global collaboration wikipedia-type project that will offer a massive amount of up to date medical and health information for free to anyone with an internet connection. Medpedia is described as the 'world's largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine'.

'We are trying two active, Food and Drug Administration-marketed antidepressant medicines available by prescription from your local drugstore,' said Dr.

Study results show the effects of the combination cholesterol-lowering medicine ezetimibe and simvastatin (Vytorin) on aortic stenosis and coronary heart disease in 1873 patients. These results raised questions about the combination drug, and a subsequent meta-analysis of this and two larger, on-going studies was also reported.read more

Ensuring final chapter of human life on this earth is enacted with the greatest skill and compassion possible.Although a growing body of research supports a link between effective communication and patient, family and physician satisfaction, doctors, including oncologists and other specialists who frequently care for terminal patients, do not routinely receive training in end-of-life conversations during medical School, residency training, or after they start to practice medicine.read more

Besides the obvious horrors the recent arrest of Radovan Karadzic dredged up, it was really freaky to find out that the Butcher of Bosnia, murderer of a reported 8,000 men and boys, has apparently for years been practicing complementary medicine in Belgrade under the pseudonym Dragan Dabic. Among...

Scientists may have found a way to test for and possibly avoid the most serious side effect of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, one of the top-selling medicines in the world....

The sound of a noisy Chicago restaurant during the breakfast rush -- the clang of plates and silverware and the clamor of many voices -- was the crucial test of new hearing aid technology in a study conducted by researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis.The study showed that the hearing aids worked well in a noisy environment -- the most challenging test for a hearing aid. But the patients wearing the devices didn't need to fly from St. Louis to Chicago to participate in the test. Instead, the restaurant came to the clinic of Michael Valente, Ph.D., director of the Division of Adult Audiology in the Department of Otolaryngology at the School of medicine. Or at least its sounds did.

Ekkyo (formerly known as Heatwave Technology) a photomedicine company, which develops first-in-class laser-based systems for skin scar prevention and reduction, announced the publication of a scientific article in Lasers in Surgery and medicine reporting the results of a pilot study on cutaneous scar prevention by LASH.

Proven combinations of medicines and the introduction of new anti-arthritis drugs have significantly improved the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to guidelines issued by the American College of Rheumatology and co-authored by physicians at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Lead author Kenneth Saag, M.D., M.Sc.