health - "medicine"

Survey reveals widespread belief that divine intervention can revive the dying.

U.S. health regulators warned of more cases of dangerous pancreas inflammation in patients taking Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc's diabetes drug, Byetta, pounding company shares on fears of lower sales and doubts about a new version of the medicine.

Main Category: Alzheimer's / Dementia Also Included In: Radiology / Nuclear medicine Positron emission tomography scanning may allow non-invasive assessment of the formation of Alzheimer's disease-related ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Many academic health centers offer programs that include traditional Chinese treatments or Ayurvedic medicine from India. The University of New Mexico goes beyond that, says management of its new Center for Life....

Bochum, Germany - medicine alone will not help a diabetes 2 patient lose weight. A nutrition plan, plus a routine of endurance and strength training, is the key. Unless they lose weight, diabetes 2 patients run a higher risk of accompanying diseases ...

A study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep medicine shows that the sleep patterns of older adults who live with and provide direct care during the night for a person with dementia are significantly worse than other older adults. When sleep was measured objectively, and after adjusting for depressive symptoms, age, health condition and education, adults who take care of a person suffering from dementia took longer to fall sleep and had less total sleep than noncaregivers.

A study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep medicine shows that surgical weight loss results in an improvement of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), but most patients continue to have moderate to severe OSA one year after undergoing bariatric surgery. .Results of this study suggest that it is the severity of the condition, rather than a patient's presurgical weight, that determines if OSA will be resolved.

In this desert town flanked by canyons and Lake Powell, traditional Navajo healing is merging with modern medicine. The hospital's ...

Highly traumatized children living in war-torn Kosovo experienced significant reductions in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when treated with a comprehensive, non-drug model developed by The Center for Mind-Body medicine (CMBM), according to a new study published online in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

The NPA believes that the reclassification of the bottle presentation of Calpol Six Plus from P to GSL could compromise patient safety, is anomalous in relation to other paracetamol products and is unnecessary as the product can be obtained in alternative packaging that carries less risk. Changes to the Prescription Only Medicines Order in 1998 were made to reduce the pack sizes of paracetamol available for sale to the public to prevent both accidental and intentional poisoning.