Medicine NewsUsing HIV-positive people’s social network is “an efficient, high-yield” method of contacting their partners who are at high-risk for the virus and providing them with testing and other HIV-related services, CDC researchers said in a recently published study, Reuters Health reports.
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Wayne State University medical researchers recently discovered a chemical that plays a major role in children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). David Rosenberg, M.D., the Miriam L. Hamburger Endowed Chair of Child Psychiatry and professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine at Wayne State, collaborated with researchers at the University of Michigan, [...]
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Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have found that an area known to be important for reading in the left visual cortex contains neurons that are specialized to process written words as whole word units. Although some theories of reading as well as neuropsychological and experimental data have argued for the existence of a neural [...]
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Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN) have announced results from an ongoing, one-year longitudinal health outcomes study (n=1275) in which patients who received three infusions of TYSABRI® (natalizumab) reported reduced fatigue, as well significant improvements in general and disease-specific measurements of quality of life (QoL) and cognitive function. Findings from the [...]
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Sublingual immunotherapy for the treatment of allergy symptoms caused by a wide variety of environmental inhalants has been effectively used in Europe. It should be employed to further treatment of allergies in the United States, where allergic symptoms are largely undertreated, according to an invited article in the April 2009 issue of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck [...]
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Folic acid, or vitamin B9, essential for red blood cell health and long known to reduce the risk of spinal birth defects, may also suppress allergic reactions and lessen the severity of allergy and asthma symptoms, according to new research from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
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Many adults who were raised Roman Catholic and leave the faith do so because of a dissatisfaction with the church’s teachings on abortion, birth control and other social issues, according to a report released Monday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the
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