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New research shows that ultralow-dose CT scans may be a viable means of diagnosing COPD. The study compared results of the ultralow-dose tests alongside those of standard CT tests.

The annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association provided many studies looking at the condition from a variety of angles. What doctors did with those results when they went back to their practices was up to them.

A new study suggests that personal, motivational coaching may reduce instances of e-hospitalization among COPD patients. " It is a process that happens with a patient; it is not something the coach does to a patient,” says that study's lead author.

A new study out of Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) is the first to show a direct link between pain level and risk of opioid addiction – and the increased risk is substantial.

Dietary oily fish content and other omega 3 fatty acids can benefit patients suffering from bowel (colorectal) cancer, and even lower their risk of death.

As patients with diabetes progress throughout their lives there may be a need to increase treatment to help manage their symptoms. A recent study looked at how likely patients are to intensify their treatment and what that can mean for their care.

The traditional sublingual delivery method of buprenorphine has revealed adherence issues in patients, but the implant version appears to have fixed that problem.

Researchers have reported that higher serum clusterin levels in children may be linked with atopic dermatitis symptom severity.

Doctors who did body cavity searches of a drug suspect without a warrant were named in two out-of-court settlements totaling $1.5 million. The ACLU says the practice is common and doctors should feel free to refuse despite pressure from law enforcement.

Recent advances in the field of hepatitis C therapy has prompted the European Medicines Agency to update its guideline for designing clinical trials on investigational direct-acting antiviral drugs that target chronic infection of the virus.

With a new armamentarium of medications, procedures, and operations patients with any number of cardiac conditions are seeing their quality of lives improve dramatically for considerably longer.

As the field of cardiology advances new procedures are being developed to help patients in more effective methods. The SCOUT trial looked at one potential treatment to help patients with tricuspid regurgitation.

Researchers have been examining the possibility of reducing the frequency of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in people with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and with recent positive results, it could only be a matter of time before that becomes a reality.

Pain management remains to be a challenging area for clinicians, nurses, and medical residents – and it doesn't matter how long they've been in the field.

Researchers found that inaccurate HIV status test results were not due to the tests being damaged by improperly storing them above the recommended temperatures. It must be operator error, they concluded.

Dimethylfumarate, a multiple sclerosis drug metabolite, could be a safe and effective therapy for Parkinson’s disease and slow its onset.

Significant racial/ethnic differences appear to exist in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions across 11 private, not-for-profit United States healthcare systems.

Survey results suggest nearly one-half of parents whose child had leftover prescription opioids following a surgery or for an illness keep the pain medication in the home.

California delegation staff attending the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, OH have been struck by an outbreak of norovirus. The jokes were inevitable.

Gastric bypass may be one of the most common solutions in the weight loss struggle, but there is also work being done to find less invasive options as well.

Patients in the open-label extension phase of RIDE/RISE who needed Lucentis less frequently tended to have less advanced diabetic macular edema (DME) at extension baseline and to respond better to initial treatment, according to post hoc analysis. These results suggest that earlier treatment of center-involving DME with loss of visual acuity may decrease its long-term treatment burden.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Health Care and School of Medicine are describing results from a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) study as groundbreaking.

An elderly Utah man who died last month with a massive Zika infection contracted the virus through travel. But how did his caretaker acquire it?

A new CDC study revealed that gonorrhea is on the verge of developing resistance to the most commonly recommended antibiotic treatments – oral azithromycin and single-injection ceftriaxone.

Chlamydia is the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and now the first steps toward creating a vaccine have been accomplished.

Pancreatitis is a serious problem which can lead to more dangerous health conditions if not treated properly. Because of this, work is being done to help catch the problem early.

Study results show that newly initiated combined antiretroviral therapy (ART) in treatment-naïve patients with HIV appears to not effectively prevent the progression of significant arterial inflammation.

Patients with diabetes face many challenges over the course of a day, not the least of which is ensuring their blood glucose levels stay in a safe range. Technological advances have helped make this an easier obstacle to overcome.

While technology is helping patients with diabetes improve their quality of life there is only so much that technology and their health care providers can do for them. In many ways a patient can and must now play a larger role in their overall care.

With so many patients dealing with diabetes on a daily basis the burden of trying to help can be too much for even the biggest and most advanced companies. By working together they can not only reach more patients but also provide a higher level of care.