The first, pan-European guidelines to be published on the treatment of valvular heart disease, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases have made a series of new recommendations which experts hope will contribute to improving the outcome of patients with these diseases.Published in the print version of the European Heart Journal (EHJ) today (Tuesday 6 February), the guidelines for valvular heart disease (VHD) highlight what should be happening according to the best available evidence from clinical t...Tuesday, 6-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Campaigners in the UK say sufferers of eating disorders are relegated to a "twilight zone" when it comes to accessing help for their disorder.They believe such disorders fail to receive attention because the Government has little idea how many people suffer from them.The problem they say is being relegated to the "twilight zone" with 9 in 10 sufferers feeling they have no one to turn to for help.Young people between 14 and 25 years of age are at greatest risk and a fifth of suffere...Monday, 5-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Experts say the months after Christmas when winter really sets in can be the most difficult for sufferers with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).SAD is a type of depression that follows the seasons and usually kicks in around autumn when the weather turns chilly and days become shorter.It is more common in northern geographic regions.A less common type of SAD, known as summer depression, usually begins in the late spring or early summer, it goes away by winter and experts believe S...Sunday, 4-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Snoring is a significant problem for many people, but it often goes undiagnosed or gets passed off as an irritation, with people being unaware that they are causing more damage to their health by not getting treated, especially if their snoring points to untreated Sleep Apnoea, a serious and potentially life threatening condition.Snoring is defined as noisy breathing through the mouth and nose during sleep, and a recent study found that 34% of men are habitual snorers, with up to 50% reporting s...Thursday, 1-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Sifting through the pages of newspapers, most people reading stories about autism would think scientists are primarily grappling with understanding how environmental factors, such as childhood vaccines, might contribute to the condition. But the truth is quite different. The efforts of the scientific community to explore autism lie predominantly in brain and behavior research.This disconnect between the scientific community and the popular media is starkly laid out in a study published in...Tuesday, 30-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]
A new review of hundreds of research articles has shown that the prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) is far higher than previously thought amongst the U.S. population. The review of articles published between 1990 and 2005, has found that nearly 1 out of 1,000 people has multiple sclerosis (MS) which is 50 percent higher than a review done in 1982.The authors from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, at the ...Monday, 29-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]
The number of individuals with Parkinson's disease in 15 of the world's largest nations will double over the next generation, according to a study published in the January 30 issue of the journal Neurology. The study highlights the significant challenge facing countries with rapidly growing economies, particularly in Asia, many of which are ill prepared to meet this impending public health threat.In recent years, a great deal of resources and...Monday, 29-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]
Texas researchers believe that they have discovered how to prevent many cases of the most common problem encountered by patients undergoing spine surgery: failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS).FBSS occurs when surgery either fails to cure back pain or leads to additional chronic pain after a spinal operation. In experiments using laboratory rats, neuroscientists at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) applied the local an...Monday, 29-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]
An international team of cancer specialists and imaging experts has developed standardized guidelines for assessing lymphoma response to treatment. The guidelines will provide clinicians worldwide with uniform criteria to compare and interpret clinical trials of lymphoma treatments and should facilitate the development of new therapies.The new guidelines developed by the International Harmonization Project (IHP) build on criteria for treatment response assessment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma...Tuesday, 23-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]
An expert in mental health at the University of York is calling for the radical reform of psychological therapies in the UK. Professor David Richards, of the University's Department of Health Sciences, says that despite being both effective and highly valued by patients, no more than one per cent of people with anxiety or depression receive such treatments. But in a seminar to the Dr Foster Ethics Committee, he argued that traditional ther...Monday, 22-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]