Clinical Research

Air Pollution Linked To Appendicitis?

Can air pollution trigger appendicitis?  Yes, says a study conducted by researchers at the University of Calgary, University of Toronto and Health Canada who looked at 5191 adults admitted to hospitals in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Fifty-two per cent of adm ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2009 - 1:33pm

Future Medicine- 'Closed' Heart Surgery Using Gene Therapy

Everyone's heard of open heart surgery but closed heart surgery could one day be just as ubiquitous, according to research from the Universities of Michigan and Minnesota in the FASEB Journal. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prev ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2009 - 4:45pm

Difficult-to-treat asthma- is it the patient's fault?

There are myriad reasons why pharmaceutical treatments are ineffective in certain people, but the first suspect is typically not the patient him- or herself. An article published in the November 1 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical C ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 23 2009 - 9:39am

Exercise May Help You Quit Smoking

Exercise makes cigarettes less attractive, says a new study from the University of Exeter. Exercise can lessen the power of cigarettes and smoking-related images to grab the attention of smokers, the authors write in the journal Addiction.   They did a stu ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2009 - 1:33pm

Hormone Replacement Therapy Does Decrease Mortality In Younger Postmenopausal Woman, Says Study

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) had been used to treat menopausal estrogen deficiency  for decades but the 2002 publication of a major study, the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), indicated increased risk for certain outcomes in older women, without ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2009 - 12:01pm

Faulty RORB Genes May Explain Bipolar Disorder In Children

A team of researchers said this week that they may have identified the genes responsible for bipolar disorder in children. Their study, published in BMC Psychiatry, implicates malfunctioning circadian clock genes, four alterations of the RORB gene to be sp ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2009 - 11:57am

Exercise During Pregnancy Benefits Mother And Child

Contrary to conservative wisdom, exercising up to the end of pregnancy has no harmful effect on the health of the mother or child, and may even be beneficial for both, indicates a study published in the International Journal of Obesity. 160 healthy women b ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2009 - 7:46pm

Skin Color Says A Lot About Your Health, Researchers Claim

People associate all kinds of physical features with good health; a slim waistline, full head of hair, and chiseled abs are all typical examples. Now researchers are suggesting that another feature may tell an awful lot about a person's health--their ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2009 - 11:39am

Making People Healthier With Text Messaging

Despite widespread educational efforts aimed at helping the public make healthy choices, it's understood among experts that people often fail to comply with the advice offered by their doctors and others in the health community. To correct this defici ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2009 - 5:46pm

Heart Disease Patients Treated With Their Own Stem Cells

Out of the estimated 1 million people in the U.S. who suffer from chronic, severe angina-- chest pain due to blocked arteries-- about 300,000 cannot be helped by any traditional medical treatment such as angioplasty, bypass surgery or stents. Recently, a n ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2009 - 7:55pm