health - "medicine"

The American Medical Association's apology to the nation's black physicians remains pertinent, if long overdue.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - European regulators have approved a breakthrough new medicine to help patients emerge far more quickly from anesthesia than existing treatments,

By Will DunhamWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nonsmokers married to smokers have a greatly increased chance of having strokes, according to a U.S. study published on Tuesday showing yet another hazard from secondhand smoke.Being married to a smoker raised the stroke risk by 42 percent in people who have never smoked compared to those married to someone who never smoked, the researchers said.This jumped to 72 percent for former smokers married to a current smoker, according to the study published in the American Journal of Preventive medicine.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will be conducting a project to review and consolidate the current medicines legislation. There is a growing number of Statutory Instruments (SIs) affecting medicines legislation; a number of which have numerous additional amending SIs. This makes the current legislation unwieldy.

A hormone that affects thyroid gland function and thyroid hormone levels may cause women to have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The report, found in the Archives of Internal medicine, suggests women with low or high levels of the hormone thyrotropin appear to have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.A clinically [...]

The risk of potentially devastating tears to an important knee ligament may be reduced in female college soccer players by an alternative warm-up program that focuses on stretching, strengthening, and improving balance and movements, according to a CDC study published online this week in The American Journal of Sports medicine. The program can be done without additional equipment or extensive training that other prevention programs may require.read more

Researchers have found that a compound that helps rice seed grow, springs back into action when brown rice is placed in water overnight before cooking, significantly reducing the nerve and vascular damage that often result from diabetes. 'You have to let it grow, germinate a little bit,' says Dr. Robert K. Yu, director of the Institute of Molecular medicine and Genetics and Institute of Neuroscience at the Medical College of Georgia.

In a article to be published in the Archives of Internal medicine this week an alarming spike in the number of accidental deaths from prescription drug use related to 'medication errors' is reported. The Article by David P. Phillips, a sociologist at the University of California, San Diego is the most recent in a series of research he has done on the subject of drug abuse, suicide, and societal trends.read more

Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that regular consumption of sugar-sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks is associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes in African-American women. These findings appear in the July 28 issue of Archives of Internal medicine. Type 2 diabetes, a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States, has increased in incidence in recent years, while the age of diagnosis has dropped.

Is it Bottled Water? Is it medicine? It's Both. Paradise Promotions Ltd., a Canadian healthcare corporation, has launched the first bottled water products to be allowed by the FDA to make specific, qualified ...