by Kaiser Permanente Patients with type 2 diabetes who were in poor health were more likely to continue taking insulin after age 75 than their counterparts in better health, according to Kaiser Permanente research published today in JAMA Internal Medicine. As people with type 2 diabetes age, the risks of insulin use can outweigh its...
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A Simple Regimen Can Prevent TB. Why Aren’t More People on It?
Two antibiotics, taken for a month, can stop a leading killer. But “when it’s for TB, people just sort of shrug.” Tuberculosis struck 10 million people worldwide in 2017, killing 1.6 million of them — a toll greater than that of H.I.V., malaria, measles and Ebola combined. TB is the leading infectious killer around the...
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Why Can’t We Stop Pancreatic Cancer?
There is little a person can do to prevent it, and there is nothing comparable to mammography or colonoscopy to screen for it when it is most amenable to cure. Pancreatic cancer, which will be diagnosed in about 56,770 people in the United States this year, is the only cancer with a rising mortality rate...
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Cheaper drug just as effective protecting heart in duchenne muscular dystrophy
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new clinical trial conducted at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center found a cost-effective generic medication works just as well as a more expensive drug in preserving cardiovascular function in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Results of this multi-center trial are in today’s...
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Why do estradiol levels vary among women using hormone therapy?
New study based on ELITE data identifies multiple determinants affecting estradiol levels and a woman’s protection against atherosclerosis THE NORTH AMERICAN MENOPAUSE SOCIETY (NAMS) CLEVELAND, Ohio (September 24, 2019)–The benefits of hormone therapy (HT) on atherosclerosis relates to achieved estradiol levels among those women who initiate HT early in postmenopause. Despite the use of hormones,...
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Veterans with mental health conditions have higher risk of heart disease, stroke
Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes Journal Report AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, Sept. 24, 2019 – Veterans with specific mental health disorders – depression , psychosis and bipolar disorder – had an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and death from cardiovascular disease, according to new research published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American...
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Chronic insomnia can be cured in cancer survivors with a basic sleep education class
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE Affecting as many as 30% of cancer survivors, chronic insomnia can be effectively treated with intensive cognitive-behavioral techniques, but such methods are time-consuming, costly, and limited by the availability of trained specialists. In a study published online today by the journal Cancer, investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report that a single-session sleep...
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Synchronized or independent neurons: This is how the brain encodes information
by International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) “Like a book in which the single pages are not all different but carry small portions of common text, or like a group of people who whistle a very similar tune”: this is how our brain cells work, say scientists. It is the phenomenon of “co-relation,” in which...
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XStraw Makes Swallowing Oral Meds Easier
MEDGADGET EDITORS GERIATRICS, MEDICINE, PEDIATRICS Many people experience difficulties swallowing their medications, with kids and elderly people being most commonly affected. Crushing pills and taking apart drug capsules is usually a poor solution, since the effectiveness and rate of release of medications can be significantly altered. DS Technology, a German firm, has developed a unique drinking straw...
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A healthy diet may help prevent kidney disease
by American Society of Nephrology Maintaining a healthy diet may help prevent kidney disease, according to an analysis of published studies. The findings appear in an upcoming issue of CJASN. Making dietary changes can help slow the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD), but it’s not clear whether a healthy diet is protective against the...