Medical News
December 14th, 2009
If a healthy person were to take a sick person’s medication, would this make the healthy person… super healthy? Take Ritalin for example, a drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but also adapted to help normal students study harder while cramming for exams.
There are now several new online prescription drugs that are for [...]
December 11th, 2009
Patients taking antidepressants may not only feel less depressed, but may also become more extraverted and less neurotic, a new study suggests.
Research in the past has determined that extraversion, usually associated with positive emotions, can protect against negative feelings and sadness. On the other hand, neuroticism and the feelings of negative emotions and emotional instability [...]
December 10th, 2009
Only 6% of American women who are at high risk of breast cancer are willing to take the prescription drug tamoxifen because of worries about side effects, a surprising new study reveals.
In order to promote usage of the drug and a better understanding of risks, researchers at the University Of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center made [...]
December 9th, 2009
A treatment for type 2 diabetes, used by millions of people, is connected with a higher risk of dying and heart failure compared to the newer treatment metformin, a new study suggests.
Sulfonylureas, a common diabetes treatment, was tested against metformin in a study of anti-diabetes drugs taken orally and did not perform as well. Examples [...]
December 4th, 2009
Doctors are being advised to prescribe oral phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE-5) inhibitor canadian prescription drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra for men who suffer from erectile dysfunction—unless their patient is on nitrate therapy–decided the American College of Physicians.
A new guideline has been created that includes advice such as: erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs should be prescribed [...]
December 3rd, 2009
Men and women have asked the same question for years: “what happens if a man takes birth control?” For the first time in history, birth control may be available for men as a hormonal male contraceptive that is safe, effective and reversible. Many researchers are expecting and hoping that this medication may become commercially offered [...]
December 2nd, 2009
Xenical, a weight loss drug that limits fat absorption in the intestine has now been shown as a drug that offers benefits to obese diabetics by rising high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and lowering serum triglycerides to leave low-density lipoprotein unchanged in patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
At the meeting of the European Association for the Study of [...]
November 27th, 2009
The infamous erectile dysfunction prescription drug sildenafil, more commonly known as Viagra, has been found to increase the pumping ability of the heart for children and young adults who’ve had the Fontan operation that fixes single-ventricle heart defects, new research has concluded.
The Fontan operation consists of doctors directing venous blood into pulmonary arteries to bypass [...]
November 26th, 2009
A surprising new statistic has been released by the government claiming that at least 1 in 4 American teenage girls have had or currently have a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Many of these girls are infected following their first sexual encounter.
“Sexual health is an important part of the overall health and well-being of teenagers,” says [...]
November 25th, 2009
Although it is common for people hospitalized from H1N1 swine flu to have had chronic medical conditions, many healthy people are also seriously affected by the disease, said a U.S. health official recently.
The majority of adults taken to hospital for the virus have had health problems like asthma, immune system disorders, chronic lung diseases, and [...]
