Category Archives: Health News

Clinicians need to take into account the risk of harmful weight loss in adults who are prescribed common medications for dementia. According to researchers and clinicians at the University of California, San Francisco, a certain class of drugs (cholinesterase inhibitors) used in the treatment of dementia can result in clinically significant weight loss. Their study ...click here to read more

Continuous research is being conducted on the cause of depression. To date, there is an understanding that genes, hormones and neurotransmitters are disrupted in those with depression. Research from the University of Illinois has found genes that regulate neurotransmitters in high abundance in depressed women. They said the overactive gene could be responsible for higher ...click here to read more

The Action on Smoking and Health reports every six seconds someone dies from a smoking-related illness. On the world stage smoking is a serious issue, but new findings suggest each country has the ability to support smokers to quit. In the latest review, experts concluded that globally countries can adopt measures to help their populations ...click here to read more

The FDA recently approved a new device to treat obesity without invasive surgery. The device, called ReShape Integrated Dual Balloon System or ReShape Dual Balloon for short, is designed to help adult patients lose weight. The primary modus-operandi of the device seems to be to take up space in the stomach, and trigger a feeling ...click here to read more

There’s no doubt that music can affect our mood. Whether it makes us happy, or provokes a memory, music has a way of taking over. New research suggests that when surgeons listen to their preferred style of music their stitches are completed better and faster. The study comes from the University of Texas Medical Branch ...click here to read more

New research points to a drug used to treat advanced skin cancer as an effective means to treat medulloblastoma, a type of brain cancer, in adults. The research was published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and was led by the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Medulloblastoma develops in the cerebellum at the base ...click here to read more

One in every 5 adults has some form of disability or the other according to a recent study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The most common form of disability type was a mobility limitation – characterized by serious difficulty in walking or climbing stairs. This form of disability is reported by one ...click here to read more

Pay inequality continues to be a highly discussed topic worldwide. It is reported that women only make 78 percent of what men do, and black women only make 68 percent of what a white male makes. These findings were from 2013, which goes to show that pay inequality is still a pressing issue. In the ...click here to read more

Numerous studies have come out highlighting the dangers of long hours of sitting. New research suggests if you want to improve blood sugar, triglycerides and cholesterol it’s best to stand. Australian researchers tracked the activity of 782 men and women between 38 to 80 years of age all part of the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and ...click here to read more

A new approach to investigating factors that affect the onset of symptoms of Huntington’s disease (HD) has identified a couple of genome sites where variants that can speed-up or delay symptom onset can be found. The team of researchers analyzed more than 4,000 gene samples from HD patients. They found that particular variants on two ...click here to read more

The results of a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health could lead to new follow-up protocols for oropharyngeal cancer patients. Cancer in the oropharynx is responsible for almost 3% percent of new cancers in the United States. In a study among 67 oropharyngeal cancer patients, traces of HPV16 ...click here to read more

A new strategy that delivers electrical stimulation to patient’s spinal cords without surgery has helped five men with complete motor paralysis to generate step-like movements voluntarily. Called transcutaneous stimulation, this strategy delivers an electrical current to the spinal cord via electrodes placed on the skin of the lower back. This is the first time that ...click here to read more

New research reveals the health of the liver plays a role in susceptibility in pneumonia. The findings come from Boston University School of Medicine. Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of death in children worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. In both children and adults, pneumonia is often associated with sepsis – the body’s ...click here to read more

Benefits of exercise are well known but a new study suggests that if you exercised in your youth, you can reduce your risk of death in later life. Researchers from the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center examined 75,000 women aged 40 to 70 from the Shanghai’s Women’s Health Study. The study included baseline information for the women ...click here to read more