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Allopurinol dose escalation for gout doesn’t improve mortality

20.09.2018 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—Allopurinol dose escalation is not associated with reductions in mortality risk among patients with gout, according to a study published in the August issue of Arthritis & Rheumatology. Brian W. Coburn, Ph.D., from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, and colleagues assessed whether allopurinol dose escalation is associated with cause-specific mortality in patients with gout. The authors performed […]

A behavioral intervention for cancer patients that works

20.09.2018 Health Problems

This is a story about something rare in health psychology: a treatment that has gone from scientific discovery, through development and testing, to dissemination and successful implementation nationwide. In a new study, researchers found that a program designed at The Ohio State University to reduce harmful stress in cancer patients can be taught to therapists from around the country and […]

Khloé Kardashian Disabled Instagram Comments for This Awful Reason

20.09.2018 Kids Health

It goes without saying that racist comments, whether they’re stated in real life or on social media, are reprehensible and inexcusable. But they’re especially stomach-turning when directed at a young child. Unfortunately, racist Instagram commenters, from behind the safety of their phone screens, decided to take aim at Khloé Kardashian’s 5-month-old daughter, True. It all started last week, when Kim […]

Common treatment for AFib may also lower anxiety, depression

19.09.2018 Health Problems

Levels of anxiety and depression seen in people who have a common heart rhythm disorder called atrial fibrillation may be affected by how the heart condition is treated, a new study suggests. Past studies have shown that anxiety, distress and depression are common among people with AFib. The new Australian study, published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Heart […]

Researchers call for major re-think on sun safety

17.09.2018 Health Problems

Most Australians are familiar with the ‘slip, slop, slap’ message, but new research suggests we’re not taking sun safety seriously enough. Currently, health agencies recommend that sun protection is used when the UV Index – which measures the intensity of UV radiation – is three or higher. But researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) and New Zealand’s National Institute […]

Repeat vaccination is safe for most kids with mild to moderate reactions

15.09.2018 Kids Health

Children who experience some type of adverse event following initial immunization have a low rate of recurrent reactions to subsequent vaccinations, reports a study in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, the official journal of The European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases. “Most patients with a history of mild or moderate adverse events following immunization [AEFI] can be safely reimmunized,” write […]

Cancer drug and antidepressants provide clues for treating brain-eating amoeba infections

13.09.2018 Health Problems

The amoeba Naegleria fowleri is commonly found in warm swimming pools, lakes and rivers. On rare occasions, the amoeba can infect a healthy person and cause severe primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a “brain-eating” disease that is almost always fatal. Other than trial-and-error with general antifungal medications, there are no treatments for the infection. Researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical […]

For women with genetic risk, twice-a-year MRI beats mammograms

13.09.2018 Health Problems

Getting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans twice a year instead of one annual mammogram is far more effective at detecting early breast cancers in young women with a high-risk genetic profile than mammograms alone, according to a research team based at the University of Chicago Medicine and the University of Washington, Seattle. The results, first presented Dec. 8, 2017 at […]

Discovery of new neurons in the inner ear can lead to new therapies for hearing disorders

12.09.2018 Health Problems

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified four types of neurons in the peripheral auditory system, three of which are new to science. The analysis of these cells can lead to new therapies for various kinds of hearing disorders, such as tinnitus and age-related hearing loss. The study is published in Nature Communications. When sound reaches the inner ear, […]

Protein analysis uncovers new cancer subtypes for medulloblastoma

11.09.2018 Health Problems

Two patients with the same kind of tumor can have very different experiences. One patient’s cancer may progress quickly while the other grows slowly. Treatments may shrink tumors or have no effect at all. And some patients survive while others don’t. Efforts to profile tumors at the DNA, RNA, or epigenetic levels have revealed subtypes of tumors that help oncologists […]

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