Article: MS gene found.(INTERNAL MEDICINE NEWSBRIEFS)

Article: Spritz away headache pain.(INTERNAL MEDICINE ...
Health News;  November 1, 2007 ;     496 words ...Zolmitriptan, a prescription nasal spray, offers fast, effective relief from cluster headaches, a recent study published in the journal Neurology reported. Cluster headaches, among the most painful of headaches, affect just one-tenth of one percent of Americans, but those who suffer from them have

Article: Abdominal fat decreases lung functions.(INTERNAL ...
Health News;  November 1, 2009 ;     363 words ...According to a study of 120,000 subjects by French researchers, published in a spring 2009 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, a significant relationship exists between lung function impairment and metabolic syndrome, primarily due to abdominal obesity.

Article: New strain of virus spreads.(INTERNAL MEDICINE ...
Health News;  February 1, 2008 ;     534 words ...Adenovirus 14 is a new and slightly different variation of a cold virus that has caused deaths in various parts of the United States, according to a recent edition of the government's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has noted that controlling

Article: Vitamin D deficit linked to chronic pain.(INTERNAL ...
Health News;  December 1, 2007 ;     634 words ...One out of four people who suffer from chronic pain have insufficient blood levels of vitamin D, according to a study presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. W Michael Hooten, MD, medical director at the Mayo Comprehensive Pain Rehabilitation Center,

Article: Metabolic syndrome raises risk of kidney stones.(INTERNAL ...
Health News;  February 1, 2008 ;     576 words ...Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have found that patients suffering from metabolic syndrome--a combination of conditions that includes obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol--are more likely to develop highly acidic urine, which increases the

Article: Voglibose may prevent the development of ...
Health News;  July 1, 2009 ;     460 words ...Combined with dietary changes and increased exercise, a drug called voglibose may prevent the development of diabetes in people who already have impaired glucose tolerance. Voglibose reduces the amount of glucose absorbed into the bloodstream. (April 22, 2009 in The Lancet online.) Researchers in

Article: Pre-diabetics at risk for heart disease.(INTERNAL ...
Health News;  June 1, 2009 ;     533 words ...Older adults with impaired glucose tolerance who have not been diagnosed as diabetic are at risk for heart disease, according to the Feb. 10, 2009 online issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York studied a