by Bruce Slyvester: Among a large group of women who carry disease-associated mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, genetic mutations appear to be associated with significantly different risks of developing breast… read more.
Experts are calling for a global review of guidelines used to diagnose sepsis, after a study found one in eight patients with infections severe enough to need admission… read more.
The first blood test for osteoarthritis could soon be developed, thanks to research by the University of Warwick. The research findings could potentially lead to patients being tested… read more.
A cancer drug could be made 50 times more effective by a chemical found in stinging nettles and ants, new research finds.
When a nursing home patient is dying, aggressive interventions such as inserting a feeding tube or sending the patient to the emergency room can futilely exacerbate, rather than… read more.
Banning sodas from school vending machines, building walking paths and playgrounds, adding supermarkets to food deserts and requiring nutritional labels on restaurant menus: Such changes to the environments… read more.
Medicine obviously can’t do much good if it sits on a pharmacy shelf. Yet more than one-quarter of the acne patients surveyed by researchers didn’t get medications prescribed… read more.
Genetic factors help to explain the commonly found association between low back pain and depression, suggests a large study of twins in the March issue of PAIN®.
Although U.S. military veterans who have returned from Iraq or Afghanistan are more likely to suffer chronic pain than veterans of any other conflict in American history, little… read more.
A new poll by the National Sleep Foundation finds that pain is a key factor in the gap between the amount of sleep patients say they need and… read more.
A momentary lapse of concentration is all it takes for a finger to become trapped or sprain an ankle – and it hurts. Pain is the body’s protective… read more.
Coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath are symptoms asthma sufferers are used to. They are also the symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). For sufferers, as well… read more.
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