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A study based at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston provides added justification that a thiazide-type diuretic is the best first-choice drug for hypertensive patients. Generic levitra pills no prescription The findings, published in the American Heart Association’s Circulation, Volume 117, Issue 20, evaluate the results of Continue Reading »

New research casts doubt on government health recommendations that infants and new mothers avoid eating peanuts to prevent development of food allergy.
The study, published in the November issue of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, shows that children who avoided peanut in infancy and early childhood were 10 times as likely to develop peanut allergy as those who were exposed to Continue Reading »

Americans are feeling more stress
than they did six months ago, according to a new national stress study. The
survey of 1,000 men and women, ages 18 and older, revealed that 47 percent
of respondents currently feel more stress than they did six months ago. And
no surprise, the #1 source of stress reported is personal finance concerns,
the top response for almost half (49%) of those surveyed. Continue Reading »

Men’s Health News
"Young men undergoing treatment for cancer often want to know how the disease and its treatment affect their chances of fathering healthy children. Our large-scale study shows that there is a slightly higher risk of deformities, but the actual risk of having a child with deformities is nevertheless extremely low. I think this is good news!"
These words are from the cancer physician Olof Stahl, who has studied this issue in his coming dissertation Continue Reading »

Research funded by Asthma UK has led to the development of a vaccine treatment that can prevent asthma-like symptoms in mice.
Dr Noble and his team at King’s College London have been studying allergic mechanisms in mice and investigating whether it is possible to regulate the immune system’s response to potential allergic triggers. Sometimes the immune system initiates Continue Reading »

People with fragile X syndrome, as well as those who carry the gene, are likely to have additional conditions that include attention problems and anxiety, according to a study by researchers at RTI International.
The study, published in the Aug. 15 issue of American Journal of Medical Genetics, surveyed more than 1,000 parents of children who either had fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability, or were a carrier Continue Reading »

generic acomplia online buy NicOx S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris: COX) announced positive results of a pre-specified pooled analysis of 2,734 Continue Reading »

Before menopause, women have a blood pressure advantage.
Women’s blood pressure starts out lower than men’s, but the advantage doesn’t last. The August issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource offers insights on blood pressure changes in women and steps to avoid high blood pressure.
Women’s systolic pressure — the top number in the blood pressure reading and the one that’s more closely associated with heart Continue Reading »

Prescriptions filled for antidepressant drugs increased from 154 million in 2002 to 170 million in 2005, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Among the prescriptions (not including refills) which were written after patients talked with doctors in-person Continue Reading »

Treatment that combines a certain type of psychotherapy with an antidepressant medication is most likely to help children with anxiety disorders, but each of the treatments alone is also effective, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study was published online Oct. 30, in the New England Journal Continue Reading »

The law firm of Izard Nobel LLP, which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of those who purchased Biovail Corporation ("Biovail" or the "Company") Continue Reading »

Women can usually keep using the same asthma drugs they were using before they got pregnant. Budesonide sprays are the best studied and can be regarded as safe. Buy generic propecia More trials of other essential medicines are necessary however. According to the German Institute Continue Reading »

An expert has written an article on bmj.com
that suggests a link between heart attacks and erectile
dysfunction. Dr Geoffrey Hackett (Good Hope Hospital,
Birmingham, UK) says that erectile dysfunction gives a two to three
year early warning of a heart attack, but doctors are largely ignoring
the relationship.
Hackett writes that he noticed a pattern occurring over several Continue Reading »

Coloplast announced today the first U.S. patient training with its new Titan® inflatable penile prosthesis with One-Touch Release (OTR) pump for men with erectile dysfunction who do not respond to traditional ED drug therapy.
"Coloplast is excited to launch the first true one-touch release penile implant that is designed for ease of patient training," said Jan Rolin Continue Reading »

Neuronetics, Inc. announced
that a new health economic study evaluating the cost effectiveness of its
NeuroStar TMS Therapy system in the treatment of depression was presented
at the U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress in San Diego last week.
This study is the largest and most comprehensive cost effectiveness study
to date of TMS Therapy in patients with major Continue Reading »