By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Columnist FRIDAY, Feb. 6, 2015 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Medicate Administration on Friday approved the sedate Lucentis (ranibizumab) to treat diabetic retinopathy in patients with diabetic macular edema. A driving cause of blindness among adults within the United States, diabetic retinopathy is the foremost common diabetic eye infection, […]
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Out-of-Pocket Costs Way Up for Type 2 Diabetes
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Laboratory-engineered “affront analogs” have ended up the most sort of insulin endorsed for people with type 2 diabetes, essentially boosting their out-of-pocket costs, a modern think about reports. Insulin utilize among those with sort 2 diabetes expanded by about 50 percent over a […]
Chronic Pain May Dim Memory
May 23, 2007 — Unremitting pain may occupy the mind, hampering the memory-making process, agreeing to a new Canadian think about. Learning more approximately constant pain’s effects on mental abilities such as memory may one day lead to new medicines, note the analysts, who included Bruce Dick, PhD, of the University of Alberta. They considered […]
Human Life Expectancy Nearing Limits
Feb. 18, 2001 (San Francisco) — When it comes to human aging, wild claims proliferate: Unused restorative advances will remedy the scourges of the centuries; vitamins, hormones, and antioxidants will preserve our tissues forever, and we’ll all live to the healthy ancient age of 150. Not exactly, according to a new study. Though life anticipation […]
Breast-Conserving Therapy Better Than Mastectomy?
Dec. 17, 2010 (San Antonio) — In a surprising finding, a huge study proposes that ladies with early breast cancer who undergo breast-conserving therapy live longer than those who have a mastectomy. Still, both medications work well, with almost 93% of 62,770 women who had lumpectomy taken after by radiation — and 87% of 51,507 […]
Finally, Food Labels to List Trans Fat
July 9, 2003 — Finding out how much of a little-known but artery-clogging fat your favorite nibble and handled foods contain is almost to induce a parcel less demanding. The FDA today reported that manufacturers will before long be required to list on the Nourishment Actualities label the amount of trans greasy acids, or trans […]
Experts: Pills Best for Erectile Dysfunction
May 24, 2005 – Erectile dysfunction? Attempt a pill first, specialists say. Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis are the pillars of comedy monologs. And they should be the backbone of genuine treatment for erectile brokenness, concurring to new treatment rules discharged today by the American Urological Association. Specialists call the erection drugs “PDE5 inhibitors” because they […]
Beginners Take Weightlifting Too Easily
Sept. 17, 2004 — When it comes to weightlifting, fledglings may got to pump up their load. In a recent study, male and female tenderfoots chose weights that were too light to do them much good. Stephen Glass, PhD, EPC, FACSM, of Fantastic Valley State College, and Douglas Stanton of Wayne State College, considered 13 […]
Swimmer’s Shoulder, Hot Tub Buns: Swimming May Be Hazardous to Your Skin
Aug. 4, 2000 — Green hair and two-piece yams? No, it’s not a after death Dr. Seuss book. These are two of the skin conditions that swimmers may create as they cool off this summer with a dip in the ocean or pool. Competitive swimmers “are less likely to endure from injuries caused by direct […]
Kids Need an Hour of Exercise a Day
June 13, 2005 — Kids need at least an hour a day of physical action to ensure good wellbeing, agreeing to the findings of a CDC-backed master panel. As childhood corpulence climbs to record levels and school-based physical instruction programs seem progressively imperiled, board individuals say they trust the proposals will serve as a wake-up […]