Shivani Parmar, MPH

In low-income areas where educational and career opportunities are limited, the AMA's Doctors Back to School Program works to give students a vision of something bigger.

A new study published has found that Internet surfing can significantly relieve chronic pain in seniors.

A panel of experts from the APS and AAPM has issued a new set of clinical guidelines aimed at aiding clinicians with prescribing opioids for patients with chronic non-cancer related pain.

Researchers have determined that the ancient practice of Zen meditation may have pain reducing qualities.

Results from a study conducted by the NIH and CDC show that almost 13 percent of people 20 years old and over have diabetes, with 40 percent of those people unaware that they have it.

Researchers have found new evidence that antidepressants can reduce the severity of symptoms associated with fibromyalgia syndrome.

Patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy "might be able to engage in a graduated walking program under close supervision of a medical professional and thus prevent other life threatening illnesses."

A new study examined the major complications of epidurals and spinal anesthetics and found that previous studies overestimated the risks of these procedures.

Researchers have found data suggesting that frequently prescribed forms of postmenopausal hormone therapy may "slightly accelerate the loss of brain tissue in women 65 and older beyond what normally occurs with aging."

It’s official: Fortune magazine’s most powerful businessman of 2007, Steve Jobs, has a hormone imbalance.

New data presented at the 31st Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium suggest that estrogen therapy may be beneficial to controlling metastatic breast cancer.

New evidence suggests that it may be time to rethink the suggested diabetic diet.

Government funding for pain research has dropped in the past five years, declining more than 9% a year since 2003.

Researchers in PA found that using money as an incentive for people to lose weight might just be the answer.

New evidence-based guidelines have been issued by the American Academy of Neurology to test for distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DSP).

Clifford Chirls discusses the features of the new social networking site iMedExchange and explains how it diff ers from other social networking resources for physicians.

New research from the Regional Hospital of Bolzano in Italy suggests that "pediatric obesity may induce alterations in thyroid function and structure."

In examining the brains of people with a chronic pain condition known as complex region pain syndrome (CRPS), scientists found that patients’ brains "looked like an inept cable guy had changed the hookups, rewiring the areas related to emotion, pain perception and the temperature of their skin."

A three-year clinical trial conducted at the Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University has found that vitamin K can slow the development of insulin resistance in elderly men.

While obesity, hypertension, and diabetes have always shared connections, every now and then, scientists manage to make some of the unlikeliest connections. As it turns out, Geisinger Health System researchers found that "antimalarial medication may prevent the onset of diabetes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis."

Study results published in the most recent issue of General Hospital Psychiatry indicate that "patients with chronic pain are more prone than others are to consider suicide. The increased risk remained even when study authors took the possible influence of mental illness into account."

Numerous recent studies have shown that a child’s likelihood of developing obesity may be determined while he or she is still a fetus.

Clifford Chirls discusses the features of the new social networking site iMedExchange and explains how it diff ers from other social networking resources for physicians.

Clifford Chirls discusses the features of the new social networking site iMedExchange and explains how it diff ers from other social networking resources for physicians.

Clifford Chirls discusses the features of the new social networking site iMedExchange and explains how it diff ers from other social networking resources for physicians.

Molecular imaging reveals fibromyalgia symptoms related to functional brain abnormalities.

Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus gain added benefit if their exercise regimen included aerobic activities and eccentric resistance training.

The latest research from Dr. Costas Karageorghis's 20-year-old program shows that music can increase physical endurance.

Researchers developed a prediction tool to estimate the benefit of adding androgen deprivation therapy.

David Van Avermaete, CEO of VeraLight, a medical device company, discusses the SCOUT DS non-invasive diabetes screening system and the importance of early detection in type 2 diabetes.