Medicine NewsHeadlines tell us the nation is getting fatter, and that obesity has become an epidemic. But there is more to the story, according to one University of Houston sociologist. While she acknowledges that there has been a shift in body weight over the years, assistant sociology professor Samantha Kwan looks at obesity [...]
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Preliminary research in healthy men suggests that the narcolepsy drug modafinil, increasingly being used to enhance cognitive abilities, affects the activity of dopamine in the brain in a way that may create the potential for abuse and dependence, according to a study in the March 18 issue of JAMA.
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Consciousness arises as an emergent property of the human mind. Yet basic questions about the precise timing, location and dynamics of the neural event(s) allowing conscious access to information are not clearly and unequivocally determined. Some neuroscientists have even argued that consciousness may arise from a single [...]
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Health Canada has approved Cymbalta® (duloxetine HCl) for the symptomatic relief of anxiety causing clinically significant distress in patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), Eli Lilly Canada Inc. and Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd. announced today.
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Companies and organizations from the fields of ICTs, computing, drug engineering and health have joined forces under the joint research project Home-based Empowered Living for Parkinson’s Disease (HELP), which is funded by the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme as part of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme.
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St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the newest version of the Merlin.net™ Patient Care Network (PCN), a secure, Internet-based remote care system for patients with implanted medical devices. This remote care system gathers and stores data from the implant procedure, in clinic follow-up visits or from both [...]
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Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is commonly associated with smell of rotten eggs, stink bombs and blocked drains but lower blood levels of the gas are possibly linked to cardiovascular complications in some male patients with type II diabetes, according to research recently presented by researchers at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England [...]
More than five years ago, Dr. Lawrence C.B. Chan and colleagues in his Baylor College of Medicine laboratory cured mice with type 1 diabetes by using a gene to induce liver cells to make insulin. “Now we know how it works,” said Chan, director of the federally designed Diabetes and Endocrinology Research [...]
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is commonly associated with smell of rotten eggs, stink bombs and blocked drains but lower blood levels of the gas are possibly linked to cardiovascular complications in some male patients with type II diabetes, according to research recently presented by researchers at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England [...]
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