Disease and Condition:
Research and publications on disease and conditions.
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Oct 24th, 2009
In an email declaration, President Obama has declared an H1N1 emergency. This national emergency is not in response to anything new with the H1N1 situation. However, to provide individual hospitals with the needed tools they need to handle overload problems, this was a critical step in caring for the nation’s citizens, writes Reuters.
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Oct 24th, 2009
The cause of multiple sclerosis, a chronic, often debilitating disease that attacks the central nervous system, has puzzled doctors for decades. Now neurologists at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York are embarking on research that may introduce an entirely new hypothesis as to what causes the disease.
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Oct 24th, 2009
Long term use of popular drugs to treat GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), seem to lead to weight gain. The study is the first to investigate the effect of GERD drugs on body weight, and show that patients taking the popular reflux drugs should be encouraged to take extra care not to overeat and manage weight.
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Oct 23rd, 2009
Remember mumps? Baby boomers may remember getting the childhood disease or getting the vaccine as a young child. Now the New York Department of Health has confirmed an outbreak of about 57 confirmed or probable cases of mumps, which have been reported since August 21 in Brooklyn. Across the border, residents in the New Jersey township of Lakewood are reporting about 15 to 30 cases of their own.
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Oct 21st, 2009
Locked-in syndrome is a rare condition in which a patient is aware and awake, but cannot move or communicate due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body. In French, the condition is described as “maladie de l’emmure vivant”, literally translated as walled-in alive disease.
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Oct 20th, 2009
A drug similar to one now used to treat sepsis, an illness in which the bloodstream is overwhelmed with bacteria, holds promise as a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, per research published online in the October 19th Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Oct 20th, 2009
Scientists have gained insights about controlling H1N1 flu spread from a major outbreak of swine flu that occurred June 2009 at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA). They found that the H1N1 virus persists after symptoms of swine flu have disappeared, though questions remain about how long it can spread.
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Oct 19th, 2009
In recognition of World Osteoporosis Day and the millions of women and men who have osteoporosis or who are at risk of the disease, the International Osteoporosis Foundation is issuing a new report on FRAX®. The FRAX was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and stands for “Fracture Risk Assessment Tool.”
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Oct 18th, 2009
Until now, no drug has been found to be effective for treating scleroderma. Results of a new study to be presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in Philadelphia on October 18 may change that.
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Oct 15th, 2009
A study published online Oct. 14, 2009, in the American Journal of Roentgenology warns that H1N1 flu can cause pulmonary emboli. The study authors suggest evaluation with CT scan for the presence of pulmonary emboli (blood clots in the lungs) when caring for patients diagnosed with respiratory complications from H1N1 flu.
