Family Medicine

Although there are a wide variety of treatment options available for patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, methods for finding the proper course of treatment are still under development.

In 2 recent clinical trials, a treatment for young patients diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder reportedly demonstrated benefit over another currently used ADHD medication.

Recent efforts to overhaul standards of care for both food allergies in general and anaphylaxis in particular led expert panels from the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology to a shocking conclusion.

The US Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new drug aimed to aid the thousands of Americans affected by hereditary angioedema.

Disproven medical theories and practices can be slow to change, and nowhere is this truer than in the field of clinical nutrition.

For as long as baseball has been America's pastime Major League Baseball (MLB) players have been taking the field with mouthfuls of chewing tobacco and spewing the resulting liquid all over the place, from the dugouts to the outfield.

Study results indicate androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) does not extend the lives of men with early-stage prostate cancer.

The US Senate Finance Committee recently requested detailed pricing information on Sovaldi (sofosbuvir), its breakthrough oral treatment for hepatitis C.

A recent article examines the factors that influence a clinician's decision to continue a statin-intolerant patient on statin therapy when the benefits potentially outweigh the risks.

Although they are underutilized, intrauterine devices are among the safest and most efficacious forms of birth control available for adolescents.

Since roughly 70-80% of indeterminate thyroid nodules are diagnosed as benign from histologic follow-up of fine-needle aspiration cytology, researchers have conducted numerous studies to identify the clinical risk factors that predict malignancy.

Alcohol misuse precedes one-third of all suicides, according to research published in the Annals of Epidemiology.

Despite the general consensus that excessive alcohol consumption should be avoided prior to and during pregnancy, there is very little data on the effects alcohol consumption in early gestation has on birth outcomes.

The US Food and Drug Administration recently announced its approval of a new medication for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

Many young smokers are unaware of the adverse health effects associated with hookah smoking.

Researchers at Tufts University have further clarified a key protein's role in bipolar disorder.

In a recent survey, physicians identified peer-reviewed journal articles, continuing medical education, evidence-based guidelines, and national experts as the most useful sources of information to stay current on therapeutic advances.

Although the healthcare community's understanding of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis under stress is fairly good, one point has baffled researchers.

When patients with primary hypothyroidism report weight gain, most clinicians understandably believe that initiating appropriate thyroid hormone treatment will reverse the symptom.

A story that captivated the medical community for the past few years has reportedly taken a bad turn, as a 4-year-old child who was previously believed to be cured of HIV is once again showing signs of the virus.

Surprisingly, soldiers who have killed in combat are less likely to develop an addiction to alcohol, according to researchers at American University.

While half of all HIV/AIDS patients are African American, they only comprise 30% of those enrolled in clinical trials on the disease.

Researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne report having developed a fast and accurate method for determining exactly which milk proteins produce allergic reactions in specific patients.

Researchers in Australia have released the results of a study showing that dropping testosterone levels in older men could potentially put them at risk when taking care of themselves in their later years.

Preliminary research suggests that optogenetics could eventually replace electric shocks in the treatment of atrial fibrillation.

Victims of child abuse who become substance abusers are more vulnerable to addiction relapse.

A specific mutation in one key gene interferes with early brain development and even causes epilepsy.

It is generally assumed a viral infection will get better in "7 days with antibiotics and in roughly a week without them." As it turns out, these estimates are low, especially in children.

As the bioactive fatty acids in milk have been tentatively linked to anti-inflammatory and improved metabolic effects, its calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium content may lower blood pressure and alleviate cardiometabolic syndrome.

Molecular changes seen in animal models of radiculopathy may help explain the transition from acute inflammatory pain to chronic neuropathic pain.