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Friday, Jul. 31st 2009
Survey Shows Americans Adopting More Favorable Attitudes Toward Depression, Anxiety Medications By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
July 31, 2009 — American attitudes toward psychiatric medications are becoming more positive, with more and more believing these drugs work at relieving panic attacks and anxiety, a new study shows.
For the study, which appears in the August issue
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Friday, Jul. 31st 2009
But Surgery Only Performed on Hard-to-Treat Migraine Patients By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
July 31, 2009 – Stacy Porter, 29, can’t remember a time when she didn’t suffer from crippling, relentless migraines before having the surgery that changed her life eight years ago.
“I was diagnosed with migraines when I was 2 years old,” the New Philadelphia, Ohio, marketing
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Thursday, Jul. 30th 2009
Study Says Organic Foods No More Nutritious, but Others Disagree By Kathleen Doheny
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
July 30, 2009 — Organically grown food is no more nutritious than conventionally grown food when it comes to the amount of certain important nutrients, according to a new review of published studies.
“We wanted to answer the question, ‘Is there any evidence that organic food
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Thursday, Jul. 30th 2009
11% of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending Goes to CAM By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
July 30, 2009 — Americans spend almost a third as much money out-of pocket on herbal supplements and other alternative medicines as they do on prescription drugs, a new government report shows.
Out-of-pocket spending on herbal supplements, chiropractic visits, meditation, and other
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Thursday, Jul. 30th 2009
Immune-Suppressing Lupus Treatments Dampen Flu Vaccination By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
July 30, 2009 — Immunity-suppressing lupus drugs dampen the effects of flu vaccines, a Dutch study warns.
Lupus patients who are taking these drugs at the same time they get their flu shots may be vulnerable to flu complications.
Flu is often more severe and deadly for
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Thursday, Jul. 30th 2009
Substance in Black Tea Mimics Diabetes Drugs By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
July 30, 2009 — Black tea contains a substance that mimics type 2 diabetes drugs Precose and Glyset.
Black tea contains more of the substance, a polysaccharide compound, than either green or oolong tea, report Haixia Chen and colleagues of Tianjin University, China.
Coarse tea has
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Wednesday, Jul. 29th 2009
Study Shows Death, Short-Term Complications Rare for Most Patients By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
July 29, 2009 — Dying or having serious complications in the month after weight loss surgery is rare, a new study shows.
The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, tracked 4,776 obese adults who had weight loss surgery at 10 U.S. centers from 2005
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Wednesday, Jul. 29th 2009
Experts Say They Fear Epidemic of Throat Cancer Caused by HPV Infection By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
July 29, 2009 – Changing sexual practices have led to a dramatic rise in throat cancer in the United States over the past two decades, and experts say they fear an epidemic of the disease.
The comments were made Wednesday at a news conference held by the American Association
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Wednesday, Jul. 29th 2009
Compound Similar to Food Dye May Help People With Spinal Injuries Regain Movement By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
July 29, 2009 — A compound that’s similar to the blue food dye in Gatorade and M&Ms may hold promise for people with spinal cord injuries, new research says.
The compound, called Brilliant Blue G, blocks the cascade of events that leads to inflammation following
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Wednesday, Jul. 29th 2009
People Caring for/Living With Infants Also at Front of Line By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
July 29, 2009 – If swine flu vaccine is in short supply — nationally or in local areas — pregnant women and people caring for or living with infants will go to the front of the line, the main U.S. vaccine advisory committee today recommended.
Next would come health care workers
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