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The timing of the onset of a patient's symptoms can serve as a critical piece of the puzzle when trying to determine a diagnosis.

Findings published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics indicate that women who are physically active at any point in life, particularly as teenagers, had a lower likelihood of cognitive impairment in late life.

Researchers found a significant decrease in average blood sugar levels from a baseline of 8.3% to 7.5% in the group using sensors and insulin pumps, compared to 8.3% to 8.1% in the multiple daily injection group, at one year.

Residents who were informed about the Medicare "no pay for errors" rule were less likely to choose the most appropriate clinical practice choices in response to clinical vignettes, according to findings published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

For the first time, Hospital for Special Surgery will host an international Osteoarthritis Summit in June 2011 that will bring together a comprehensive multidisciplinary group of world renowned scientists, thought-leaders and industry representatives from the US, Canada, and Europe.

A herniated disk is one of the most frequent causes of low back in adults.

As reported by the Hill.com, "more than a hundred pain management specialists are in Washington this week" in an attempt to draw attention to the dangers of prescription drug abuse.

I'd like to introduce Junig's Warm Coat Theory of Psychotropic Prescribing, or what I suggest the medical field refers to as the "JWCT."

Despite the changes the virus undergoes to evade the body's immune system, the original HIV infection is still present months after initial exposure.

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in conjunction with other institutions, have developed the first international consensus formulation of a standardized nomenclature for cardiac allograft vasculopathy.

Kaiser Permanente researchers have found that very young children vaccinated with a combination measles, mumps, and rubella and chickenpox vaccine are more likely to experience febrile seizures than children vaccinated separately for MMR and chickenpox.

Omega-3 supplements are an effective treatment for patients with major depression who are not suffering from comorbid anxiety.

Early experiments are being done to develop new drugs that have the potential to relieve cancer pain without causing some of the side effects associated with current pain treatments.

Researchers found that repairing a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) or meniscal cartilage injury in the knee does not decrease the chances of developing osteoarthritis.

Cancer is not a single disease, but a collection of many types of the disease.

Found in grapes, blueberries, peanuts and other plants, resveratrol may help treat age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinopathy of prematurity by stopping angiogensis.

With the passing of the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act in 2005, the climate for establishing state prescription monitoring programs seemed to be moving in a brighter direction, but some issues still remain.

A Doctor and his wife were found guilty of conspiring to profit from illegally prescribing painkillers to dozens of patients at their medical clinic in Wichita, Kansas.

The team from the University of California, San Francisco, found that serotonin greatly increases the release of two pregnancy hormones, prolactin and placental lactogen.

Antioxidants did not diminish the efficacy of chloroquine in eliminating Plasmodia from the blood and prevented subsequent cognitive impairment in mice, according to recent research from the University of Utah.

Administering a multimodal pain regimen that includes pregablin (Lyrics) prior to robotic-assisted laproscopic radical prostatectomy decreased patients' use of opioid analgesics afterward, according to researchers from the Thomas Jefferson University.

According to the results of an 11-year trial, researchers recommend administering disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) early and aggressively at the first sign of rheumatoid arthritis.

For as long as I've been a nurse I have been frustrated with the attitude of many of my peers regarding patients with chronic pain. I have never understood why so many nurses feel it so crucial to pass judgment on patients who are in obvious pain.

With the rise of retail clinics, convenience clinics, and other in-store health services at large pharmacy chains, should pediatricians be worried about losing patients and business?

According to an audit presented at the International Congress of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, patients with mental health issues are infrequently asked whether or not they have children, which is a violation of patient safety guidelines.

Although high-sensitivity C-reactive protein testing is effective in adult patients when traditional CRP tests do not provide enough information, the high-sensitivity test is not effective for pediatric patients.

For each study measure, there was a graded increase in the risk of diabetes with increasing quantiles of adiposity. Participants in the highest category of adiposity had an approximately 2- to 6-fold increased risk compared with those in the lowest category.

Researchers have definitively correlated screen time to chronic back pain and headaches in teenagers.

Just over half of US men see a doctor, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant for routine care, compared to nearly three-quarters of women, according to AHRQ research.

Watson Laboratories, Inc. recieved tentative approval from the Food and Drug Administration on its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Fentanyl Citrate Buccal tablets, 100 mcg, 200 mcg, 300 mcg, 400 mcg, 600 mcg, and 800 mcg.