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Monday, Mar. 8th 2010
Study Shows Stelara and Remicade Are Both Effective if Enbrel Stops Working By Charlene Laino
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
March 8, 2010 (Miami Beach, Fla.) — When the drug Enbrel stops working, people with psoriasis have two effective options, new research suggests.
One new study shows that the recently approved drug Stelara can helptreat moderate to severe psoriasis when Enbrel fails.
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Monday, Mar. 8th 2010
People Whose Parents Had Strokes Are at Increased Risk of Stroke, Study Finds By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD
March 8, 2010 — The odds of having a stroke are higher for people whose father or mother had a stroke by age 65, a new study suggests.
The finding means that parental stroke may be an important new risk factor for strokes, long known to be associated with high blood
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Tuesday, Mar. 2nd 2010
Study Shows People With Prediabetes Don’t Take Steps to Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes By Jennifer Warner
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
March 2, 2010 — People with prediabetes aren’t taking simple precautions that could prevent the potentially deadly disease of type 2 diabetes from taking hold.
A new study shows nearly 30% of all adults in the U.S. have prediabetes, yet more than 90% aren’t
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Thursday, Feb. 25th 2010
Middle-Aged Women 3 Times as Likely to Have Had a Stroke Than Men By Charlene Laino
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Feb. 25, 2010 (San Antonio) — The midlife gender gap in stroke rates continues to widen, with women aged 45 to 54 now three times more likely than men in that age group to report having had a stroke.
Several years ago, the same researchers reported that between 1999 and 2004, women
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Tuesday, Feb. 23rd 2010
Third Trimester Sex Less Frequent, but Nearly 40% of Pregnant Women Have Sex in Birth Week By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Feb. 23, 2010 — Sex during pregnancy: What do women really do?
Sexual intercourse is safe throughout a normal pregnancy. That’s what the experts say — but to find out what pregnant women really experience, why not ask the women themselves?
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Friday, Feb. 19th 2010
Findings Conflict With Earlier Studies Suggesting Plastics Chemical Is a Health Hazard By Kathleen Doheny
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Feb. 19, 2010 — In two new studies, researchers conclude that the plastics chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is not toxic to the brain or act as a hormone disrupter, altering the age of puberty or reproductive function.
Both studies are published in Toxicological
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Tuesday, Feb. 16th 2010
Study Shows Women With Migraines May Be More Likely to Get Multiple Sclerosis By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Feb. 16, 2010 — Women with a history of migraines may be more likely to develop multiple sclerosis than women without the headaches, but it is not clear if migraines are a risk factor for the neurological disorder.
In the first large-scale study to examine the relationship
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Wednesday, Feb. 10th 2010
Boy, 11, Got Mumps While in U.K.; 1,521 Sickened as Outbreak Continues By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Feb. 11, 2010 – An ongoing mumps outbreak has sickened 1,521 people in New York and New Jersey.
“Patient Zero” was an 11-year-old boy who got infected with mumps during a summer visit to Great Britain. He came down with symptoms while at a summer camp for Orthodox Jewish
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Tuesday, Feb. 9th 2010
Getting Plenty of Vitamin D During Pregnancy May Lower Baby’s Risk of MS, Researchers Say By Kelli Miller Stacy
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Feb. 9, 2010 — Pregnant women who drink plenty of milk may be protecting their child from developing multiple sclerosis (MS) in the future.
MS is a nervous system disease that attacks the material, called myelin, that covers nerve fibers. This
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Saturday, Feb. 6th 2010
Study Shows Experimental Drug May Build New Bone by Decreasing Serotonin Levels in the Gut By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Feb. 7, 2010 — The hormone serotonin may hold the key to new treatments for reversing osteoporosis-related bone loss, new research finds.
When investigators at Columbia University Medical Center treated mice and rats with an experimental drug that stopped
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