Counseling encourages exercise; environment changes may help
... Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. Hillsdon and colleagues reviewed 17 studies that included 6,255 healthy ...Antioxidants have no effect on Lou Gehrig's disease
... Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. ALS is a fatal disease that causes deterioration of motor nerve cells in...Annual mammogram, doctor visits are enough for breast cancer follow-up
... Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. The new analysis is an update of a 20-year-old Cochrane report on the to...Clinical trial participants fare no better, no worse than other patients
... Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. What is new in this review is that the researchers compared outcomes of ...Routine use of nose-to-stomach tube slows recovery from abdominal surgery
... Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. "Some Cochrane reviews answer questions so definitively that you think, ...Steroids increase death risk from traumatic head injury
... Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. Corticosteroids are anti-inflammatory hormones used to treat all kinds o...Vaginal hysterectomy leads to better outcomes than abdominal surgery
... Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. In a vaginal hysterectomy, surgeons remove the uterus through the vagina...Drugs aid weight loss among type 2 diabetes patients
... Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. Although a variety of other weight loss drugs exist, only 22 randomized ...Medication helps alcoholics control drinking
... Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. Dr. Joseph Volpicelli, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medic...Exercise therapy builds strength, mobility in MS patients
... Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. Multiple sclerosis is a degenerative nerve disease that damages the pro...Insurance incentives might help smokers quit, study says
... Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. Previous research shows that smoking-cessation treatment, including coun...Penn study will compare heart failure management technologies
...with the information going into a 'smart box' that evaluates a patient's objective data and then asks a series of subjective questions that are determined by the data. The box then helps the patient self manage or guides them to contact their physician or nurse. 3. Usual heart failure care. ...Exercise tolerance is good screening test for chest pain patients
...ith chest pain is a major challenge. A system that evaluates symptoms and estimates the risk of each patient is useful in determining treatment protocols and the need for additional tests. "Our strategy with exercise treadmill testing in selected patients helped us choose patients for hospital admission in a c...Study finds indoor allergen levels vary, cockroach allergens cause more asthma symptoms
... the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , evaluates the relationships among allergen exposure, sensitivity and asthma morbidity in inner-city children. It is the first study to compare allergen levels and exposure on such a geographically large scale in an inner-city population. "It is known that cock...Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
...eople with spinal cord injury, pg 55 This study evaluates the influence of osteoporosis risk factors on bending of the tibia (shin) bone and discusses a method to identify at-risk groups for osteopenia following spinal cord injury (SCI). Investigators measured the tibia- bending stiffness in 175 able bodied...Specific test key to determine whether or not allergy symptoms are really allergy-related
...ment." Szeinbach is referring to a blood test that evaluates the reaction of Immunoglobulin E (IgE) to specific allergens, such as pollen from grass and trees. IgE is an antibody that helps fight off toxins and also triggers allergic reactions. "Part of the reason that the majority of family physicians don't u...