INDIANAPOLIS – About 50% of women with multiple sclerosis are postmenopausal, but objective data about the impact of menopause on the course of multiple sclerosis are lacking.
“We don’t know...
At Motherisk, we receive increasing numbers of queries from women and clinicians about the use of topiramate during pregnancy, mostly related to its use for...
Acetaminophen taken regularly or as required was no better than placebo in improving time to recovery in patients with acute low back pain, Australian research shows.
A randomized,...
WASHINGTON – During the last year of life for community-dwelling elders, up to three-fourths of hospital visits might have been avoidable.
Nursing home residents also were susceptible to potentially...
LAS VEGAS – Check fluoride levels in patients on long-term voriconazole who present with new-onset bone pain, researchers at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., advised after <link...
LAS VEGAS – Check fluoride levels in patients on long-term voriconazole who present with new-onset bone pain, researchers at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., advised after <link...
Citing an ongoing lack of data about the benefits and harms of screening, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has left unchanged the recommendations of its 2003 guidelines on cognitive impairment...
DENVER – Move over, gauze, bandages, and moist wound-healing techniques. Nanomaterials are making significant inroads in wound regeneration.
Dr. Adam Friedman, director of dermatologic research at...
Most people who misuse opioid pain relievers cite friends and relatives as their sources for the drugs, but more of the people who misuse these agents most often – those who take them from 200 to 365...
Since the West Nile virus was first detected in New York in 1999, hospitalized patients in the United States have cost an estimated $778.1 million in health care expenditures and lost productivity,...