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Coordinating specialty care for neurological ailments is important but a UK study showed it doesn't always happen, particularly for patients with multiple sclerosis.

Public health officials across the globe are seeing a reciprocal relationship of obvious concern: obesity is increasing and physical activity is decreasing.

How do I loathe EHRs? Let me count the ways...

Intranasal oxytocin has the potential to be an effective pharmacologic intervention for improving measures of compassion in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Nearly 50% of Medicare patients taking biologic therapies for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis stop treatment within a year, reported a study by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Although multiple bacteria in the Mycobacterium species can cause tuberculosis (TB), the main culprit is Mycobacterium tuberculosis. But now, a collaborative team has identified a new bacteria that can cause the lung disease.

Congenital heart disease may have the same name in adult and pediatric care but the two conditions can often require vastly different approaches in care. Despite that work in the field is being done to help patients of all age maintain a high quality of life.

Celiac disease prevalence is highest among US patients originally from the Punjab region of India, according to new research published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

As congenital heart patients transition from pediatric care to adult care there is a world of new challenges awaiting them. How they approach those challenges and how their doctors help them in that time can determine how they manage the condition in the future.

Treatment of adult congenital heart disease has improved by leaps and bounds in the past few decades but there is still much more work to be done. Areas of research like stem cells could be part of the future of treating this condition in the future.

A lot has been done to bolster the treatment of congenital heart disease and managing the risks of this patient population. Because of that these patients are able to live a longer and fuller life including pregnancy and childbirth like other people.

Researchers in Italy found that some patients who are successfully treated for the hepatitis C virus tend to live as long as others in the general population not infected with the disease.

Even the most severe cases of congenital heart disease can be treated to a level where they can safely navigate high risk pregnancies.

It was not that long ago that women with congenital heart disease were discouraged from becoming pregnant. Thanks to advances in diagnosis and treatment that is no longer the case.

Analysis of trial data found that etanercept monotherapy treats psoriatic arthritis as effectively as the combination of etanercept and methotrexate.

Researchers found that as-needed use of novel oral anticoagulants can effectively lower stroke risk in “motivated†patients with atrial fibrillation.

An analysis of population-based medical databases has found that strokes are more likely to prove fatal in diabetic patients who use selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) than in diabetic patients who do not.

The main ingredient in Tylenol can kill a person’s empathy for others, according to a new study from Ohio State.

What should physicians tell patients who are worried about lead in their drinking water? Filtering that water is an easy first step, and there are others.

As the country has seen headlines about exposure to lead recently there have been more questions than answers about what that means for people and how much lead is safe in daily life.

Not worried about lead in your water? You should be, says Newark toxicologist Steven Marcus, MD.

Researchers reported that reawakened astrocytes appear to be a key trigger for S1 cortex (the remote region of the brain that is not directly affected by spinal cord injury) circuit rewiring and may contribute to sustained neuropathic mechanical allodynia.

Researchers suggest that acute otitis media rates during a baby’s first year have declined in recent years.

Researchers report that a lipid mediator known as resolvin D1 demonstrated anti-arthritis properties in mice models.

The last several days in San Francisco have been quite busy. Nearly 15,000 international and national heart rhythm specialists had gathered to share important innovations and treatments for patients suffering from heart disease.

Researchers have called into question patterns of brain activity that have been widely accepted to show pain responses after the team found these patterns in patients who were born without a sense of pain.

The architecture of schizophrenia is in the midst of a renovation, with the details of its clinical course and underlying neurobiology rapidly evolving, with important treatment implications.

Scientists at MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, Living Proof, and Olivo Labs have successfully developed a new material that could temporarily protect and tighten skin and smooth wrinkles.

The most common and debilitating psychiatric disorder in the world may have a new, innovative treatment thanks to a chemical discovered in the Bruce Hammock laboratory at the University of California, Davis.

Research indicates that serum zinc concentration appears to be inversely associated with serum C-reactive protein concentration, possibly contributing to chronic inflammation, in patients with HIV.