medpagetoday — SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- Patients with ulcerative colitis treated with golimumab had robust clinical responses compared with placebo, researchers reported here.
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medpagetoday — SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- The sudden elevation of two biomarkers predicted Crohn's disease relapse in patients who achieved remission after treatment with the tumor necrosis factor inhibitor.
medpagetoday — (MedPage Today) -- Family history and male gender were among the risk factors that appeared to influence the development of early-onset non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to a large Swedish cohort study.
medpagetoday — ATLANTA (MedPage Today) -- Inability to achieve orgasm improved or resolved completely in almost 70% of men treated with the dopamine receptor agonist cabergoline, results of a small study showed.
medpagetoday — SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Low-dose erythromycin significantly reduced the rate of exacerbations in patients when widening of the bronchial tubes wasn't caused by cystic fibrosis, a researcher said here.
medpagetoday — CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- A promising treatment approach for metastatic colorectal cancer can be used safely in patients previously treated with bevacizumab (Avastin), researchers reported.
medpagetoday — (MedPage Today) -- The manufacturer of an intravenous administration set has recalled several lots of the product because of a risk of reverse fluid flow that may be fatal to patients.
psychcentral — Many of us are constantly in need of an extra 10 minutes — or hours, as if time is a balloon that’s escaped our hands; as we keep grasping, the balloon seems to float higher and higher. As Marney Makridakis explains in her fascinating and empowering book, Creating Time: Using Creativity...
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medicalnewstoday — Obese people are not always at greater risk of cardiovascular disease or early death, researchers from Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, reported in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. If the obese individual is metabolically healthy, their risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality is...
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webmd — Taylor Farms Retail Inc. is voluntarily recalling packages of organic baby spinach after a random sampling of the product by the USDA tested positive for salmonella contamination.
medpagetoday — PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Having adopted the American diet, the Chinese now are seeking help from American endocrinologists on ways to manage the negative byproducts of that diet: obesity and diabetes.
webmd — Chalk up another reason to exercise: A new study suggests vigorous physical activity could reduce the risk of psoriasis.
medpagetoday — (MedPage Today) -- People taking calcium supplements had nearly double the risk of heart attack as individuals not taking any dietary supplements, researchers in a large European study said.
medpagetoday — (MedPage Today) -- State spending on tobacco control programs is falling far short of levels recommended by the CDC, an agency analysis showed.
medicalnewstoday — It's always been the old wives' remedy for Epilepsy, that eating a high fat diet, low in carbs would help people reduce or prevent seizures. Now, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have uncovered the science behind the so called miracle cure for Epilepsy. The research, which...
medpagetoday — (MedPage Today) -- The overfilling of Hospira's Carpuject ready-to-use drug syringes previously reported for two injectable painkillers may also be seen in at least 13 other products, the FDA said.
medpagetoday — WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- The cost of physician visits and hospital stays rose more than overall health spending, suggesting that medical care is getting more expensive even as fewer people are using it, a report has found.
medpagetoday — NEW YORK CITY-- An investigational glucagon-like peptide-1 agonist significantly reduced systolic blood pressure in patients with type 2 diabetes who were taking oral anti-hyperglycemic medications, a phase II trial showed.
medicalnewstoday — A World Health Organization (WHO) preliminary estimate report on the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant found that human risk of cancer did not increase in most of the country, but that some infants in a nearby town who were exposed to radioactive iodine-131 may have a...
blogs.wsj — Also: An FDA panel votes against expanded use of a blood-thinning drug; a study finds calcium supplements increase the risk of heart attack; and an international group launches an emergency polio-vaccination plan.
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medpagetoday — NEW YORK (MedPage Today) -- For those who had hypertension in middle age, low blood pressure later in life was linked to brain atrophy, a study conducted in Iceland showed.
medpagetoday — ATLANTA (MedPage Today) -- Kidney stone prevalence increased by 70% over the past two decades, involving people with and without traditional risk factors for stone formation, investigators reported here.
abcnews.go — Infants delivered through cesarean section have about twice the risk of becoming obese as infants delivered vaginally, according to a new study.