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Understanding your asthma medicine is key to keeping asthma under control. But that's not as easy as it sounds, with several different classifications of asthma medicines available, along with medicines for ...

Scientists from the University have identified a risk gene associated with the mental health disorder schizophrenia.An international group of researchers, led by Professors Michael O'Donovan, Nick Craddock, and Michael Owen from the School of medicine examined DNA samples from over 7,000 individuals with schizophrenia, and almost 13,000 people without the disorder.Their findings, which are reported in the journal Nature Genetics, show that DNA variants that are common in the population at large also contribute to some individuals developing schizophrenia.read more

A recent report by the internationally renowned, independent Cochrane Collaboration adds further weight to the growing international popularity of standardized Pelargonium sidoides extract EPs® 7630 (Umckaloabo®) in the treatment of acute respiratory tract infections such as acute bronchitis and the common cold.

A swallowed string may someday replace the invasive, uncomfortable endoscope now used to diagnose a devastating childhood disease of the esophagus. Steven J. Ackerman of University of Illinois at Chicago College of medicine and Dr. Glenn T.

The tendency toward obesity is directly related to the brain system that is involved in food reward and addictive behaviors, according to a new study. Researchers at Tufts University School of medicine (TUSM) and colleagues have demonstrated a link between a predisposition to obesity and defective dopamine signaling in the mesolimbic system in rats. Their report appears in the August 2008 issue of The FASEB Journal.

Although Second Hand Smoke (SHS) is widely accepted as a risk factor for coronary heart disease, there have been few studies investigating the association of SHS and stroke risk. In a new study, published in the September 2008 issue of the American Journal of Preventive medicine, researchers report on evidence of increased risk of stroke for spouses of smokers.

GSK UK has announced that from 1st November 2008 it will partner with two of its current logistics service providers, AAH Pharmaceuticals Ltd and UniChem Ltd, to deliver its prescription medicines to customers in the UK. The NPA's Board will discuss this development at its meeting today.

A report published in the open-access journal PLoS medicine finds that maternal exposure to dangerous toxins damages thyroid function of babies. Andrea Baccarelli (University of Milan) and colleagues from the United States and Italy studied a 1976 accident at a chemical factory in Seveso, Italy that exposed several residents of the town to the most dangerous type of dioxin.

(Indiana University) In a study published in the July 2008 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Richard M. Frankel, Ph.D., of the Indiana University School of medicine, and colleagues report that older patients and their surgeons do not communicate effectively when exploring surgical treatment options.

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Researchers have used a drug to achieve normal levels of blood sugar in animals genetically engineered to have abnormally high insulin levels. If this approach succeeds in humans, it could become an innovative medicine for children with congenital hyperinsulinism, a rare but potentially devastating genetic disease in which insulin levels become dangerously high. There is currently no effective medical treatment for children with the most common type of congenital hyperinsulinism.