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Dairy farming began to alter human genetics 10,000 years ago. Now, those who can more readily tolerate milk are exponentially more likely to develop osteoporosis.

The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and Rollins School of Public Health, along with Emory College of Arts and Sciences, and Emory School of Medicine received a $5 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a children’s environmental health center.

As more is learned from the battlefield about limb salvage and prosthetics those lessons can be applied in civilian care. This is particularly true for conditions like peripheral artery disease.

If peripheral artery disease is not caught soon enough patients risk losing toes, feet, or legs to amputation. Going from the beginning of the treatment process through potential amputation is a delicate balancing act for doctors.

Diagnosing peripheral artery disease can be a simple process if doctors know what they are looking for and patients follow medical directions.

Patients who suffer spinal cord injuries are getting better help with their condition than they did just a few years ago but there is much more work to be done in this field.

When patients need delicate spinal procedures finding the newest technologies and techniques can help not only in the operating room but also following discharge.

A recently released study from the University of Southampton argues that if a gene that causes airway remodeling can be turned off, remodeling can be reversed and asthma can be prevented.

Even though almost one-quarter of the participants had suboptimal adherence, the researchers say, “we observed a higher proportion of optimal adherence than previously reported in the MS literature.”

Patients with psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis still face challenges research has yet to meet, according to the authors: “Given the commonality of comorbidities across all three diseases, there is a degree of overlap in their management.”

A review of well over 100,000 patients in Texas found that breast and prostate cancer patients with rheumatoid arthritis lived roughly two years less than those without.

Patients afflicted with severe psoriasis may be at higher risk for chronic pancreatitis (CP).

Aquatic exercise appears to improve balance for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and hemiplegia according to a recent review of 8 published studies. “It was concluded that exercises in water improved postural control in patients with multiple sclerosis.”

In study, GPT and GOT levels significantly decreased in the Kuan Sin Yin group as compared to the placebo group, by 29.7% and 24.4% respectively.

A “banana apricot” scent can bind with the receptor, dilating the bronchi, allowing for easier breathing and counteracting the effects of histamines.

Moderate-to-severe asthmatics typically hover around 5% sputum eosophinal, with non-asthmatics under 1%. After the study, the average participant in the fevipiprant group saw a reduction from 5.4% to about 1.1%.

Analysis of data from 2 large trials finds that cutoffs used to separate different “disease activity states” on the Disease Activity index for Psoriatic Arthritis (DAPSA) are valid. Different disease activity states are associated with different degrees of functional impairment and joint damage progression.

“Our study has taken us to the most complete understanding yet of the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes,” say the researchers.

In addition to new medications there are new devices and procedures constantly being developed to help patients across a broad spectrum of conditions. Data from these trials can determine how helpful they are for patients and what their future usage will be.

A new analysis finds that patients taking warfarin for their atrial fibrillation are more likely to develop dementia than those taking the drug for treatment of other conditions.

There are many patients around the world suffering from various degrees of heart failure. With such potentially fatal consequences there has been a push to make the condition only treated by specialists.

As newer medications are developed for various conditions there can be a rush to prescribe them for patients. However, various factors including cost can make these prohibitive options for doctors and patients alike.

Despite limitations, the results of a new study suggest that prospective research addressing the question of reserve-related activities in patients with MS should be pursued.

“In the clinical studies, daclizumab demonstrated statistically significant benefits on clinical, radiographic, and patient-reported outcome measures in patients with RRMS.”

British Columbia's HIV patients far more likely than average to lack access to traditional, healthy food.

The injection use of extended-release oxymorphone led to the rapid transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in a small Indiana community according to a CDC investigation.

A recent study of children from two traditional, agrarian communities seems to indicate that environmental exposures experienced by Amish children dramatically reduce their predisposition to asthma.

As transcatheter aortic valve replacement (or TAVR) becomes more common, more work is being done to help patients undergoing this procedure.

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, who served as FDA Commissioner and CMS Administrator, will be the keynote speaker at the fall meeting of the ACO & Emerging Healthcare Delivery Coalition, presented by The American Journal of Managed Care. The meeting will be October 20-21, 2016, in Philadelphia.

Even the newest OBGYN should be able to identify polycystic ovarian syndrome though it may require a specialist to effectively treat the condition. Work is also being done to help the partners of patients better understand its impact in daily lives and fertility.