A major ingredient in those green coffee bean dietary supplements - often touted as "miracle" weight-loss products - doesn't prevent weight gain in obese laboratory mice fed a high-fat diet when given at higher doses. That's the conclusion of a first-of-its-kind study published in ACS' Journal...
An international research team led by Dr. Cindy Leissinger of Tulane University School of Medicine, along with Dr. Alessandro Gringeri from the University of Milan, has found that a drug commonly used to treat bleeding events in people with a type of severe hemophilia can also be used to prevent...
A simple-to-use, fertility-awareness based method of family planning developed by researchers from the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University Medical Center so effectively meets the needs of users that they continue to rely on it for years. A new study finds that women who...
Patients receiving virtually all types of chemotherapy have been advised not to take fish oil supplements because they can make chemotherapy drugs ineffective, researchers from the University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands wrote in the journal Cancer Cell. Fish oils contain two fatty...
The signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 reduced substantially the uncertainty about the future of health care reform and Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER). However, with US Congressional leaders suggesting various strategies to repeal or defund this...
Centella Therapeutics, Inc., a subsidiary of Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (NYSE: VAR), and Auckland UniServices Ltd. of Auckland, New Zealand, today announced that they have entered into a licensing agreement granting Centella exclusive rights to CEN-209, a novel investigational drug designed to...
Administering both the pneumococcal and the herpes zoster vaccines to patients during the same visit is beneficial and does not appear to compromise the protective effect of the zoster vaccine, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the journal Vaccine. The study's findings...
SCIENTISTS in London have found a potential new way of boosting the effectiveness of the anti-breast cancer drug, tamoxifen. The work carried out by Professor Clare Isacke and her team at the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), and partly funded...
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UroToday.com - Using linked SEER-Medicare data from 2003-2005, we found no evidence of a difference in postoperative or genitourinary complications (including the need for incontinence procedures) or need for additional cancer treatment between patients undergoing open versus minimally-invasive...
NPR continues its examination of medical marijuana: "Fourteen states and the District of Columbia have launched a medical experiment that doesn't follow any of the rules of science. By approving the use of marijuana as a medicine - with varying kinds of restrictions - these jurisdictions are...
time to do it once per week? My time is stretched pretty thin between family and a time-consuming work schedule. I only have one day per week that I have time to actually work out. Will this system still be fairly effective or is there something else that might have more benefits as far as...
The health insurer WellPoint has announced guidelines for using comparative effectiveness studies to pit drugs against one another and determine which works best, the Indianapolis Business Journal reports. "Congress has also approved $4.1 billion in the past 15 months to fund...
The new health law will infuse $3 billion into health research that compares treatments to gauge which are most effective, building on an earlier federal investment of $1.1 billion from the stimulus package, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports. In response to the recent wave of interest in so-called...
Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Within the health bill is an element that "has generated far less attention and political heat than other parts of the White House's plan to expand medical coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans. The measure requires the U.S. to put aside $500 million or more a year...
Foreign Aid Is A Smart Investment Although "foreign assistance is a very small proportion of the overall budget, its effectiveness is both measurable and priceless," Sheila Nix, the executive director of ONE, writes in a Roll Call opinion piece. "These investments are helping shape a world...
French medical researchers from the AP-HP (Henri Mondor Hospital and Avicenne Hospital) and Inserm (Unit 738 "Models and methods for therapeutic evaluation of chronic illnesses" and CIC 202, at Tours) have recently demonstrated the effectiveness of a new molecule in the fight against lice. Faced...
California governors of the past two decades "deserve praise for funding a wide array of programs aimed at combating teen births," a Sacramento Bee editorial states. The editorial notes that California is "bucking a national trend" of rising teen births. The number of births to California teens...
California governors of the past two decades "deserve praise for funding a wide array of programs aimed at combating teen births," a Sacramento Bee editorial states. The editorial notes that California is "bucking a national trend" of rising teen births. The number of births to California teens...
Evidence for the safety and efficacy of influenza vaccines in the over 65s is poor, despite the fact that vaccination has been recommended for the prevention of influenza in older people for the past 40 years. These are the conclusions of a new Cochrane Systematic Review. Adults aged 65 and over...