- (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
If you are aged 18 to 65 and have been diagnosed with
GAD, or regularly have symptoms including chronic anxiety, muscle
tightness, restlessness, prolonged sleep disturbance, and pain, you may
qualify for this study.
The research site is in Costa Mesa, Calif.
More [...]
- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by editors of HealthDay:
Veterans' Hot Line Prevented 1,221 Suicides in
One Year
A suicide hot line launched a year ago has received calls from more
than 22,000 veterans of the Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam wars and has
prevented 1,221 suicides, according to U.S. government figures being
released [...]
- MONDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) — It may be harder to prove the
effectiveness of new Alzheimer's disease therapies, because researchers
have been having a hard time finding measurable decline in memory and
thinking processes in the placebo groups the drugs are being tested
against, according to two new reports.
Several discoveries may explain this, according to [...]
- MONDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) — Calculating a woman's bone
mineral density appears to shed light on her risk for breast cancer.
A new study has found that high bone mineral density (BMD) predicts a
greater likelihood of developing breast cancer, independent of how high
her risk is on the often-used Gail model.
The two measurements together might [...]
- MONDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have discovered a
soaring increase in the number of fatal medication errors that occur in
people's homes.
The report incidentally follows the death earlier this year of Heath
Ledger, the 28-year-old actor who died from an accidental overdose of
prescription drugs in his apartment in New York City.
“[There was] large-scale evidence [...]
- MONDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) — The number of Americans
admitted to hospitals for heart failure has jumped in recent years, and
the trend almost certainly will continue, government experts report.
“Our study covers more than two decades, from 1979 to 2004, and the
number of hospitalizations almost tripled during that time,” said Dr. Jing
Fang, an epidemiologist [...]
- MONDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) — A possible new biomarker for
early cancer detection has been identified by researchers at the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle.
They found that microRNAs — which regulate gene expression — are
released by cancer cells and circulate in the blood.
In this study, scientists analyzed blood from mice and humans with
advanced [...]
CHICAGO - A milder type of mental decline that often precedes Alzheimer’s disease is alarmingly more common than has been believed, and in men more than women, doctors reported Monday.
Nearly a million older Americans slide from normal memory into mild impairment each year, researchers estimate, based on a Mayo Clinic study of Minnesota residents.
That’s on [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
Preventable medical errors during or
after surgery cause 10 percent of surgery-related deaths and
may cost employers nearly $1.5 billion a year, according to a
U.S. government report released on Monday.
Errors ranged from bedsores and reopened wounds to
infections and blood clots, according to the study from the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The agency looked [...]
WASHINGTON - The government warned consumers Monday not to eat the soft, green substance found in the body cavity of lobsters, saying it may be contaminated with a toxin.
It’s still OK to eat the white lobster meat found in the claws and tails of the undersea delicacy, but the green stuff that most diners already [...]