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For cardiologists, treating a patient with hypertension is becoming a more common and less complicated effort. However, a similar condition, called pulmonary hypertension, is not nearly as well understood, managed, or treated.

Even in high-income countries, patients can have problems getting the expensive direct acting antivirals that are so effective in treating hepatitis C.

By a wide margin, Colorado voters approved a measure to legalize physician-assisted suicide.

While some Americans cheer and others sulk at the outcome of the 2016 Presidential Election (spoiler: Donald Trump is our new POTUS), others are just as interested in the various state ballot initiatives focused on marijuana.

In the wake of several mass murders with guns, three states passed new gun control laws. The American Medical Association's delegates this summer agreed that gun violence is a public health problem in the US and urged physicians to be activists.

The search for newer antimicrobial agents is a focus of those looking to help prevent patients from developing potentially dangerous conditions while admitted to the hospital.

In many hospitals there is a consistent effort to monitor how patients are responding to various treatments. This can be done at different increments which can determine in some cases how effective treatments are against pathogens which can affect a patients' health.

There are more and more challenges facing patients and doctors in hospital settings as "superbugs," or those conditions which are resistant to medications and antibiotics become a greater problem.

Should porn actors be forced to wear condoms as a public health measure? It's on the ballot in California but both major political parties oppose it.

A single-center cross-sectional study has found elevated rates of fibromyalgia in patients with various forms of arthritis, including psoriatic arthritis. It joins previous studies that observed that the two painful conditions sometimes coincide.

Proactive administration of topical corticosteroid was found to reduce allergen sensitization in patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) as well as the periodic exacerbation of pruritic eczema.

Authors of a new study noted that one type of one form of arsenic, trivalent DMA, inhibits insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in cultured fat cells. They considered arsenic exposure a risk factor for type 1 diabetes.

“November 7, 1991 was a life changing day that I never saw coming,” Earvin “Magic” Johnson wrote on his site, The Playbook.

Do physicians feel voting is a waste of time? They are less likely to go to the polls than the average person, and far less likely to cast ballots than lawyers.

Authors of a new meta-analysis of warfarin use in ESRD patients raised concerns that the anticoagulant may not lower stroke risk in these patients, and as such, might itself be an unnecessary risk.

Aiming to investigate the metabolic changes that occur before the onset of non-alcoholic fatty live disease (NAFLD) and type 2 diabetes, researchers found that insulin resistance and waist circumference were associated with NAFLD among women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus (pGDM).

Body heat loss, among other things, triggers “glucose oxidation and turnover and thereby improves glucose tolerance and peripheral glucose intake,” study authors wrote. The cold provokes physiological reactions to create energy to restore body heat.

Phase 3 trials showed that empaglifloxin (Jardiance/Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly) can reduce blood pressure in type 2 patients.

Several studies have ranked states by how fat its residents are. A new one looks at diabetes rates as well, and paints a picture of "diabesity" in the US.

The study authors believe that properly timed exercise could help patients lower body fat, cardiovascular risk, and the need for medication.

Researchers offer road map for choosing antiretroviral therapies for treatment-naive HIV patients.

Patients with HIV are three times more likely to smoke cigarettes than the general population, which means that about 40% of people with HIV are smokers.

A project to wipe out hepatitis C among the Cherokee Nation to has led to successful screening of thousands of people since the effort was launched a year ago, say tribal leaders.

Despite featuring a survey that produced interesting insight into how MS patients respond to their condition through dietary behaviors, researchers considered much of the existing research on the subject inefficient and thus had difficulty creating a program to educate patients.

There is an optimal drug regimen for preventing HIV positive mothers from infecting their newborns. But it comes with more adverse events.

Despite greater scrutiny on this practice in recent years, too many patients with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses are discharged from inpatient hospital stays while still taking multidrug regimens of antipsychotic medications.

A naloxone nasal spray device widely used in homes and by 911 providers was recalled due to a faulty part that turns the drug into a stream instead of a spray.

University of Houston researchers suggest that children who experience inadequate or disrupted sleep are more likely to develop depression and anxiety orders later in life.

The prevalence of noninfectious uveitis was 121 cases per 100,000 adults and 29 cases per 100,000 children. By such estimates, nearly 300,000 adults and 22,000 children in the United States had the disease in 2015.

There is no shortage of caregivers facing the challenge of helping their loved ones on a daily basis for any number of reasons. Getting them help can be done through telemedicine in an effort to reach as many people as possible in an efficient method.