Americans spend most on Lipitor, drug survey finds
Public release date: 12-Sep-2007 (updated 2004 figure’s) Lipitor - 9 Billion Zocor - 4.7 Billion Nexium - 4.2 Billion Prevacid - 2.4 Billion Zoloft - 1.9 Billion Plavix -…
Less than one-third of women aware of landmark hormone therapy study, Stanford researcher finds
Public release date: 18-Sep-2007 STANFORD, Calif. - Despite the huge publicity generated by a 2002 study on the potential dangers of hormone therapy for postmenopausal women, new research from…
Vaccine tied to ‘superbug’ ear infection
Public release date: 17-Sep-2007 CHICAGO --A vaccine that has dramatically curbed pneumonia and other serious illnesses in children is also having an unfortunate effect: promoting new superbugs that cause…
Pomegranate juice: Tart, trendy, and targeted on prostate cancer cells
Public release date: 24-Sep-2007 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Researchers in California are reporting new evidence explaining pomegranate juice’s mysterious beneficial effects in fighting prostate cancer. In a study…
How much of the medical literature is shaped behind the scenes by drug companies?
Public release date: 24-Sep-2007 Drug companies control or shape multiple steps in the research, analysis, writing, and publication of a large proportion of the medical literature, and they do so…
Researchers say lack of sleep doubles risk of death… but so can too much sleep
Public Release: 24-Sep-2007 Researchers from the University of Warwick, and University College London, have found that lack of sleep can more than double the risk of death from cardiovascular disease.…
Consumption of omega-3 fatty acids associated with decreased risk of type 1 diabetes
Public release date: 25-Sep-2007 Preliminary research suggests that in children at increased risk for type 1 diabetes, dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids was associated with a reduced risk of…
Tufts University biologists link Huntington’s disease to health benefits in young
Public release date: 25-Sep-2007 MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- For years researchers in neurology have believed that people with Huntington’s disease have more children than the general population because of behavioral…
Why don’t painkillers work for people with fibromyalgia?
Public release date: 27-Sep-2007 Research may explain why common drugs don't help ANN ARBOR, Mich. — People who have the common chronic pain condition fibromyalgia often report that they…
Clinical trials for diabetes drugs should measure outcomes important to patients
Public release date: 27-Sep-2007 ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Most clinical trials for new diabetes drugs do not consider the impact medication will have on a patient’s quality of life or other…
Occupational exposures may be linked to death from autoimmune disease
Public release date: 28-Sep-2007 A new study examined the possible associations between occupation and the risk of dying from systemic autoimmune diseases and found that occupational exposures in farming and…
The impact of physical activity on weight-bearing knee joint
Public release date: 28-Sep-2007 Exercise for cardiovascular health keeps knee cartilage healthy, too, suggests long-term, community-based study The world’s most common joint disease, osteoarthritis (OA) is a major…
U of M study finds that U.S. high school dropout rate higher than thought and hasn’t improved in years
Public Release: 28-Sep-2007 MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 9/27/2007 ) -- University of Minnesota sociologists have found that the U.S. high school dropout rate is considerably higher than…
Low maternal cholesterol tied to premature birth
Public release date: 1-Oct-2007 Pregnant women who have very low cholesterol may face a greater risk of delivering their babies prematurely than women with more moderate cholesterol levels, a team…
Chemical compound found in tree bark stimulates growth, survival of brain cells
Public release date: 1-Oct-2007 Researchers have identified a compound in tree bark that mimics the chemical reactions of a naturally occurring molecule in the brain responsible for stimulating…
Almost one-third of US children regularly take dietary supplements
Public release date: 1-Oct-2007 More than 30 percent of American children age 18 and younger take some form of dietary supplement, most often multivitamins and multiminerals, according…
Mental disorders cause 1.3 billion annual days of lost role performance / half of U.S. adults have a mental or physical condition
Public release date: 1-Oct-2007 New findings published by Drs. Kathleen Merikangas from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Ronald Kessler from Harvard Medical School and colleagues in the…
Low doses of a red wine ingredient fight diabetes in mice
Public release date: 2-Oct-2007 Even relatively low doses of resveratrol—a chemical found in the skins of red grapes and in red wine—can improve the sensitivity of mice to the hormone…
Daisies lead scientists down path to new leukemia drug
Public release date: 2-Oct-2007 A new, easily ingested form of a compound that has already shown it can attack the roots of leukemia in laboratory studies is moving…
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