Simple question from your doctor can help identify your risk for breast cancer
...evity of patient visits or relevance to the actual ailment for which the patient is being seen....Uric acid may help reduce effects of spinal cord injury, Jefferson researchers find
...roblem, such as in gout," he says, referring to an ailment characterized by excessive uric acid. "We know that the human uric acid baseline is higher than that in mice, but we also know that the damage we see in the human spinal cord after injury is very similar to that seen in the mice. "Raising uric acid l...First US SARS vaccine trial opens at NIH
...o identify the cause of the mysterious respiratory ailment and to develop therapies and vaccines. By April 2003, NIAID-funded researchers in Hong Kong were the first to show that SARS is a viral disease. They soon proved that a newly emerging coronavirus causes SARS. By May, an international collaboration of...Researchers debate recreational use of PDE-5 inhibitors
...men over the age of 40, yet the treatment for this ailment appeals to numbers beyond. While PDE-5 inhibitors are technically used to enable men to have an erection when ED is caused by problems like diabetes, depression, hypertension or prostate surgery, others see these drugs as an opportunity to enhance t...'Painting' technique successfully transfers gene therapy to heart
...e gene therapies for atrial fibrillation, a common ailment in which the electrical signaling that triggers the heartbeat goes awry. Donahue led a controlled study that evaluated whether a gene therapy, using a gene called HERG-G628S that helps regulate the heartbeat, could effectively alter the heartbeat i...Telephone follow-up does not reduce rehospitalization for low-risk heart failure patients
...ization in people age 65 or older. It is a chronic ailment in which the heart loses some of its pumping capacity, though it may keep beating normally. It differs from heart attack, in which blood flow to the heart muscle itself is restricted. DeBusk and his team studied 462 patients receiving treatment fo...Flu crisis need not cost lives
...ne production this year are symptomatic of a wider ailment in the industry stemming from high production costs, static markets and low prices. Last December the US National Vaccine Advisory Committee recommended government purchasing guarantees and other means to ensure that more companies enter the vaccine ...Health care treatment differs by race
...suffers from back pain at some point, and it is an ailment for which medications are routinely prescribed. And since pain, unlike actual damage to the body, can't be measured by diagnostic tools such as X-rays, MRI tests and CT scans, doctors must decide what -- and whether -- to prescribe by listening to th...Self-management improves course of low back pain
.... Back pain is the second most common neurological ailment after headache, in the United States, according to the National Institutes of Health. Acute or short-term low back pain generally lasts from a few days to a few weeks and is caused by trauma to the lower back from work or sports injury, accident or b...Infections linked to mental decline in elderly
...e, the researchers could not determine whether the ailment played a role independent of the viruses in lowering the cognitive scores of participants....UCSF orthopedic surgeons test artificial back disc
...tment, spinal fusion. Back pain is the most common ailment of the working-age adult, affecting over four million individuals each year in the United States. It is estimated that treatment of lower back pain in the United States costs more than $100 billion a year. While most acute episodes of low back pain r...Injuries uncommon in youth football, Mayo Clinic study reports
... A game injury was defined as any football-related ailment that occurred on the field during a game that kept a player out of competition for the reminder of the game, required the attention of a physician, and included all concussion, lacerations, as well as dental, eye and nerve injuries. The researchers f...UNC researchers awarded $2.25 million to study link between arthritis, emotions
...nce and reduced quality of life the bone and joint ailment often causes. Osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis, afflicts almost a million North Carolinians, more than 21 million people nationally and many adults over age 65, research shows. Faculty members in UNCs schools of public health and me...Too much soy could lead to kidney stones
...se the risk and those with a family history of the ailment are more likely to suffer from the condition; individuals with a low probability of kidney stones are unlikely to be affected by oxalate in soy-based foods. More than one million people were diagnosed with kidney stones in the United States in 1996, ...Southeast appears to have a unique type of Lyme disease
... appears to have its own version of the tick-borne ailment Lyme disease that is not detectable by most standard tests, according to Georgia researchers. Extensive laboratory testing of 23 adults with the characteristic bull's eye rash showed that 70 percent were not infected with the spirochete known to cau......licated urinary tract infection, a bacteria-caused ailment also known ascystitis, plagues up to half of all women during their lives, resulting in anestimated 7 million office visits each year and costing the nation $1 billion ayear to treat. Many women are all too familiar with the disease's irritatingsymp...