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Good research has shown that diabetes is linked to heightened risk for brain atrophy, white matter abnormalities, and cognitive impairment. It's a risk factor for dementia, especially if the diabetes is classified as type 2.

Why target sugar-sweetened beverages? SSBs are the single biggest source of added sugars in American children’s diets. Unsurprisingly, studies show that children who consume SSBs will choose unhealthy foods over healthier choices.

Although prenatal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission has declined by 90% since the early 1990s, the need for studies focusing are pregnant women with HIV are very much needed.

For patients needing to lose the most amount of weight for help with cardiovascular conditions or diabetes there are many ideas on how best to achieve their goals.

Men over the age of 50 who have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and who are adherent to an antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimen are at risk for cognitive decline, according to the results of a recent study.

The latest United States Preventive Service Task Force screening guidelines for diabetes, released in October 2015, miss 55% of high-risk individuals with prediabetes or diabetes, a new study shows.

While outperforming placebo, thee was not much separation between the new drug and an existing treatment, teriparatide, and it is unclear whether the two share risks.

Family members of diabetics can be stressed by worry, wondering what to do about a hypoglycemic attack or fretting over the patient's job security. A new study looks at the impact of diabetes on these caregivers.

While it has been known for some time that psoriasis patients are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease and other comorbidities, new research has shown that these patients also have a higher risk of developing aortic aneurysms.

For chronic conditions like atrial fibrillation the needs of patients can change regularly. With doctors unable to answer all questions all the time patient organizations can help provide a peer to peer level of help.

Diabetics who need CABG surgery have better outcomes when surgeons perform total arterial revascularization.

When patients come to doctors with information about a given topic it is important for them to provide guidance not only on the information provided but also help them find results that will be of more use to their individual are.

It can be easy for patients to go online and get all the information they could ever want about just about any topic. However, finding information, and finding factual information are two very different issues.

Polymers called nucleic acid scavengers (NAS) can be used to seek out and bind to dead-cell debris, limiting the immune system’s pathological response without compromising it.

It has been many years since Howard Schatz was a practicing physician and while he said the retina specialty has changed he has also seen the field of photography change as digital passes the age of film.

It was supposed to be just a one year sabbatical for Howard Schatz to take a break from his work as a retina specialist and enjoy what had become a growing hobby of photography. More than two decades later Schatz said he misses some parts of practice but is greatly enjoying what has become a second career.

In a post hoc statistical analysis of data from 61 consecutive patients diagnosed with intermediate uveitis, the central foveal thickness cut-off value for starting systemic corticosteroid treatment was determined to be 215.5 μm. This value was found to have a sensitivity of 62.5% and a specificity of 96.4%.

“On the basis of evidence currently available, IL-1 RA is an attractive candidate drug for clinical trial.” Interleukin-1 is an anti-inflammatory protein typically used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

Because those who experience BPD very early in life are believed to be at a higher risk of decreased lung function and other chronic breathing issues like apnea and asthma, the study of microbial balance in infant airways could provide doctors with important predictive information.

Acetaminophen – the most common drug ingredient in the United States – has been believed to be safe for pregnant women, no matter what stage of pregnancy they’re in. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics challenges that belief.

The discussion of intravitreal injections may not be an easy one for doctors to have with their patients, but when the full treatment picture is explained it can show how the benefits outweigh other potential issues.

Patients diagnosed with central retinal vein occlusions may not like having intravitreal injections but research is being done to see if the frequency of the injections can be reduced over time.

Study results show that adults with chronic low back pain are more likely to use illicit drugs—including marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine—than those without chronic low back pain.

“Each entry contains contextual information pertaining to the entry such as the HCV genotypic background and links to the original publication,” say the authors.

Many psoriasis patients wish they were better informed of the significant impact their skin condition would have on their physical and mental health, according to results from Psoriasis in America 2016, a Health Union national survey.

The news that physicians in Princeton, NJ were confronting an outbreak of hepatitis C in young people who were also using heroin shocked this affluent, mostly white community. Ronald Nahass, MD, talks about how it occurred and what needs to happen next.

There are many areas of medicine where treatments are being combined in hopes of finding better outcomes for patients. Early studies are being done to see if a new combination can help patients with certain eye conditions.

There are differences in the tissue sodium signal and the fluid-attenuated sodium signal in the brain lesions of patients with acute multiple sclerosis (MS) and those with chronic MS, according to a recent study.

Analysis of adult diabetics between 1998 and 2014 has found a significant shift in how kidney disease presents itself, a shift that may have implications for both diagnoses and treatment.

A new matched cohort analysis contradicts several prior studies that conclude patients with psoriatic arthritis face an increased risk of cardiovascular comorbidity.