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Risks For Painkiller Abuse Do Not Outweigh Benefits Of Chronic Pain Control
As controversy swirls about proper clinical use of opioids and other potent pain medications, research reported at the American Pain Society annual meeting shows that, contrary to widespread beliefs, less...
Exercise plus psychological counseling may benefit depressed heart failure patients
Aerobic exercise combined with cognitive behavioral therapy may improve physical function, reduce depressive symptoms and enhance quality of life in depressed heart failure patients, researchers reported at the American Heart...
Researchers Synthesize Compound To Flush HIV Out Of Hiding And Into Crosshairs
Chemists have found a way to synthesize better bird dogs, agents that can be tailored to flush HIV out into the open where the immune system and antiretroviral therapies can...
Bees disease -- 1 step closer to finding a cure
Scientists in Germany have discovered a new mechanism of infection for the most fatal bee disease. American Foulbrood (AFB) is the only infectious disease which can kill entire colonies of...
Younger women unaware of heart attack symptoms, study finds
Women under 55 often fail to get timely treatment for heart attacks because they simply aren't aware of the symptoms, new research suggests.
Alzheimer's Disease Risks Gender Specific: Women With Depression, Men With Stroke
The risks of developing Alzheimer's disease differ between the sexes, with stroke in men, and depression in women, critical factors, suggests research published ahead of print in the Journal of...
Blood pressure killing the world's workers while banks and drug firms stand idle
In a today`s issue of The Lancet, international health experts call for urgent action from international development banks and pharmaceutical companies to stem the epidemic of blood pressure-related diseases affecting...
Analysis of alcoholics' brains suggests treatment target
An analysis of brain tissue samples from chronic alcoholics reveals changes that occur at the molecular level in alcohol abuse - and suggests a potential treatment target, according to...
World First: Completely Automated Anesthesia System Developed
Researchers have performed the world's first totally automated administration of an anesthetic. Nicknamed "McSleepy," the new system developed by the researchers administers drugs for general anesthesia and monitors their separate...
Link between vaccine, autism is disputed
Public health officials say a report that fueled the speculation has been widely discredited. But some parents are not convinced. ...
Medical journal calls for review of Taser safety
An editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal is calling for more study of the health risks posed by stun guns.
Smart Instrument For Tissue Damage Assessment Developed
New technology may allow surgeons to make a precise diagnosis and be better equipped for making accurate decisions during treatment. It has the potential to determine the level of tissue...
Causes Of Disease Can Be Revealed By Metabolic Fingerprinting
Your metabolic 'fingerprint' can reveal much about the possible causes of major diseases, according to the first 'metabolome-wide' association study ever carried out. The study provides new insights into the...
Legalizing the production of opium for medical use is neither viable or necessary
Proposals to legalise the production of opium in Afghanistan for medical use are unworkable and unnecessary, says the Minister of State for Africa, Asia, and the United Nations in an...
Congress Passes Bill to Bar Bias Based on Genes
The bill speaks to the hope that genetic research may vastly improve health care and to the fear of a dystopia in which people’s DNA could be turned against them.
DNA Tests Confirm the Deaths of the Last Missing Romanovs
For nine decades after the Bolsheviks shot Czar Nicholas II and his family, there had been no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Aleksei.
Dental Clinics, Meeting a Need With No Dentist
A program in Alaska trains dental therapists to provide basic services in communities chronically underserved.
Group Urges Ban on Medical Giveaways
The proposed ban is the result of a two-year effort to create policy governing interactions between the medical colleges and drug and medical device companies.
Study Warns Job Losses Will Strain Government Health Programs
Health researchers projected that each percentage-point rise in unemployment would swell the uninsured by 1.1 million, stoking demand for government health coverage.
Drug From Genentech and Biogen Fails as a Lupus Treatment
The companies said that their drug Rituxan did not achieve any of seven measures of effectiveness in a late-stage patient trial.
States Limit Costly Sites for Cancer Radiation
A commission in Michigan moved to prevent hospitals in the state from each spending $100 million or more to provide a new form of radiation treatment for cancer.
Prozac May Help Curb Disease Activity In Multiple Sclerosis
The antidepressant Prozac may help to curb disease activity in the relapsing remitting form of multiple sclerosis, reveals preliminary research in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.
Fast-Food Liver Damage Can Be Reversed, Experts Say
Diets high in fast food can be highly toxic to the liver and other internal organs, but that damage can be reversed, says one of the country's leading experts on...
Astronauts Suffer Agonizing, High-Pitched Death After Helium Leak: The Onion
Astronauts Suffer Agonizing, High-Pitched Death After Helium Leak
The Science of Swine
We've got pork on the brain here this week at PopSci. Earlier today we told you about how cells from a pig's bladder helped a man regenerate part of his...
Anti-depressants could help bowel disease victims, study finds
Anti-depressants could help people suffering from Inflammatory Bowel Disease, as new research points to a link between the condition and depression.
Studies test new approaches to islet transplantation
Researchers from 11 medical centers in the United States, Canada, Sweden, and Norway have begun testing new approaches to transplanting clusters of insulin-producing islets in adults with difficult-to-control type 1...
Leek and noodle fried dumplings recalled
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of 1,000 cases of Leek and Oriental Noodle Fried Dumplings because of a labeling error.