Do You Need A Caregiving Break Today?
It's time for a break for America's unsung heroes, the 50 million American caregivers who work tirelessly on behalf of their loved ones.
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Tapentadol Effective For Acute Pain From Common Foot Surgery
Many foot-surgery patients experience intense pain for several days following removal of a bunion, one of the most common foot surgeries.
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FLECTOR Patch Yields Significantly Reduce Pain
Alpharma's two studies demonstrate the efficacy, tolerability and positive pharmacokinetic profile of Alpharma Pharmaceuticals' FLECTOR Patch 1.3%, the first and only prescription anti-inflammatory pain relief patch in the United States.
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SoloSTAR Prefilled Insulin Pens Accurate
A new study examining the dose accuracy of the SoloSTAR disposable insulin pen for diabetes patients, prefilled with Lantus or Apidra, found the pens accurately delivered all insulin doses within standard limits defined by the ISO.
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Insulin Pumps Linked To Injuries, Death In Diabetic Teenagers
Teens with Type 1 Diabetes often use Insulin pumps as part of treating the disease but an FDA study shows the device has been linked to injuries and a few deaths.
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QRxPharma Results For Dual Opioid Pain Therapy Are Successful
QRxPharma announced initial Phase 3 efficacy results for Q8003IR, an immediate release dual-opioid product intended for the acute management of moderate to severe pain.
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New Insights Into Cause Of Diabetes
University of Michigan researchers have new clues to what goes awry at the cellular level in type 2 diabetes.
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Book Helps Older Adults Manage Chronic Pain
IASP Press releases a new book -- Pain Management for Older Adults: A Self-Help Guide -- to help older people understand and proactively address their chronic pain.
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UV Protection For Eyes Especially Important During Summer Months
Ultraviolet (UV) protection is a concern for many Americans, particularly in the spring and summer months, but most people are thinking about their skin, not their eyes.
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Americans Get Physical After A Good Night In Bed
While weary, overextended Americans are turning to "quick fixes" like caffeine and performance-enhancing supplements, which claim to improve everything from their daily workout to their sex lives, they are losing sight of what experts say is essential to improved performance: a good night's sleep.
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Sleep duration related to having the metabolic syndrome
A study is the first known to report that short and long sleepers are more likely to have metabolic syndrome, or a combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
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Costs For Elder Care Increases
Costs for nursing homes, assisted living facilities and some in-home care services have increased for a fifth consecutive year and might continue to increase as a result of an expected shortage of long-term health care workers.
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Most Effective Medicine To Slow Aging
Movement is truly one of the best remedies we have available to us, especially as we age.
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Excessive Sun Exposure Can Cause Severe Damage To Eyes
Without the proper protection, tanning beds can cause serious burns, not just to the skin but to the eyes.
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Soft Contact Lenses Do Not Increase Myopia Progression
Soft contact lens wear does not accelerate the development of nearsightedness in children.
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May Is Vulnerable Adult Abuse Prevention Month
According to DHHS, the difference between a vulnerable adult being abused or not might be you.
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Gene Therapy Provides Vision To Nearly Blind People
Scientists employing a gene therapy have provided partial vision to patients who were nearly blind from a condition known as Leber congenital amaurosis -- a severe form of retinitis pigmentosa.
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Drug Combo Could Lower Diabetes Complications, Costs
A highly detailed mathematical simulation model can help people with undiagnosed diabetes identify whether they likely have the disease and can predict ways for dramatically reducing the costs and complications associated with this now epidemic illness.
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Lumbar Supports Not Particularly Effective For Low Back Pain
Lumbar or lower back supports - those large belts that people wear around their waists when they lift or carry heavy objects - are not very useful for preventing low back pain.
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Most In USA Expect A Family Member To Move Into An Assisted Living Community
Eighty-four percent of Americans over the age of 50 expect an immediate family member to move into a senior living community within the next 10 years, while 24 percent over the age of 65 expect the same for themselves.
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Diabetes Before Pregnancy Is On The Rise
Study of 175,000 teenage girls and adult women finds that diabetes is doubling before pregnancy.
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First gene therapy for inherited blindness show vision improvement
Researchers have announced results from the world's first clinical trial to test a revolutionary gene therapy treatment for a type of inherited blindness
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Lasik Eye Surgery Complaints Get To FDA
A decade after Lasik surgery hit the market, unhappy patients will air their grievances before the Food and Drug Administration Friday as the government begins a major new effort to see if warnings about the risks are strong enough.
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FDA Hears USAEyes' Lasik Quality of Life Survey
More than 99% of patients report their quality of life after laser vision correction surgery is as they had expected or better, even though 2% report complications with lasik eye surgery that are frequently or always problematic.
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Americans Sleeping Thanks To Science
More people than ever before are buying bedding products that meet established scientific standards -- especially people with asthma and allergies -- in search of a better night's sleep.
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Work Hassles Hamper Sleep
Common hassles at work are more likely than long hours, night shifts or job insecurity to follow workers home and interfere with their sleep.
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Life Expectancy Shorter In Women And Poorer Countries
Life expectancy in US drops especially in women and people living in poorer countries.
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Zsweet Improves Life For Diabetics, Overweight
The modern world is entrenched in a love hate affair with sugar. It proliferates throughout our daily diet, we crave it, we adore it and yet it destroys our health.
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Leading The Way To Earlier Diagnosis Of Type 1 Diabetes
Researchers at Children's Research Institute recently made significant discoveries in juvenile diabetes diagnosis.
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Dynatronics Introduces New DynaPro Spinal Health System
Dynatronics Corporation introduced two new products: the DynaPro Spinal Health System for treating back pain and the Dynatron X5 "Turbo" soft-tissue oscillation therapy unit.
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Anticholinergic Drugs May Increase Cognitive Decline In Older People
Anticholinergic drugs, such as medicines for stomach cramps, ulcers, motion sickness, and urinary incontinence, may cause older people to experience greater decline in their thinking skills than people not taking the drugs.
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How To Relieve Metatarsalgia Pain
Chronic pain in the ball of the foot hurts, and it can be disabling.
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REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Linked To Neurodegenerative Disorders
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep behavior disorder is associated with anxiety, apathy, lower scores in attention and executive functioning, as well as symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
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Lacosamide Significantly Reduced Pain
UCB presented efficacy and safety results from pooled analyses of Phase II and III double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials investigating lacosamide for the treatment of diabetic neuropathic pain.
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Pelikan, Lilly Alliance Promotes Diabetes Education
Pelikan Technologies and Eli Lilly will promote awareness and education in the management and treatment of diabetes, including insulin therapy, insulin delivery devices and technological advancements in lancing designed to optimize Finger Health and Glucose Monitoring.
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Memory Loss Comes To Men Earlier Than To Women
Men are facing memory loss problems earlier than women do.
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Abbott Blood Glucose Monitoring System Now Available With No Coding
Abbott announced the availability of the FreeStyle Freedom Lite Blood Glucose Monitoring System.
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Shenandoah Life Launches New Vision Care Insurance Plan
Shenandoah Life Insurance Company has partnered with EyeMed Vision Care to launch StarVision, a new group vision care insurance plan.
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Health Care Work Force Unprepared For Aging Baby Boomers
As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care work force that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs.
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Study Links Pain And Fatigue Together
Study reveals a biological link between pain and fatigue and may help explain why more women than men are diagnosed with chronic pain and fatigue conditions like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
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