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Patients living with seizure clusters have very limited treatment options for their condition. Researchers are working on developing a nasal spray which could provide acute relief for these patients.

What if exercise could prevent dementia? A growing body of observational (but not interventional) research suggests that physical activity seems to be associated with vigorous cognitive aging.

Hip pain doesn’t necessarily mean hip osteoarthritis, but then again, hip osteoarthritis doesn’t necessarily mean hip pain, as examined by researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is now the most common hepatic pathology in developed nations. Public health officials are worried, as NAFLD increases the likelihood of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease.

A research team led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health investigators has issued a report to help tackle the prescription opioid epidemic that kills an average of 44 people per day in the United States.

Study results suggest that a community-based, low-impact exercise program appears to successfully help older patients with musculoskeletal conditions living in underserved communities improve musculoskeletal outcomes and quality of life.

A condition like epilepsy requires a successful working relationship between the patients and their health care professionals, including the ability to communicate effectively a recent study showed that that is an area of concern in the field.

Researchers from Rutgers University observed a population representative sample of children in the United Kingdom in order to determine if antibiotic exposure was linked to newly diagnosed juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Giving extremely preterm infants inhaled budesonide may lower the risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, but may also increase the risk of mortality.

Researchers say that patients using YouTube videos to obtain advice about their peripheral nerve pain are being misguided about half of the time.

The contrast media injected into patients' vascular systems in a heart procedure can cause injuries to the kidneys. That is particularly true for patients with chronic kidney disease. Diluting the effect by hydrating a patient helps, but can risk overloading the heart. Chinese doctors offer a solution.

Multiple sclerosis patients with histories of neuro-ophthalmic symptoms tend to perform poorly on neuropsychological tasks.

Treating hepatitis C sooner rather than later -- even at the early stages of liver fibrosis -- is worth the thousands of dollars it costs to pay for the new, more effective drugs, according to researchers who developed a model to assess historical treatment data.

The longer a patient lives with epilepsy the more damage their brain can take from the countless seizures they endure. Recent research has shown that the condition can also cause a patient's brain to age beyond their years as a result of these seizures.

Treating epilepsy can be an effort in individualized medicine with different patients reacting differently to the various seizure medications available. Finding the right one can often determine a patient's quality of life moving forward after diagnosis.

Price increases for psoriasis have consistently outpaced the Consumer Price Index, expert says.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risks may already occur in adolescence, according to findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Part of an ongoing series that takes a high-level look at the positions of the leading nominees for President when it comes to political issues potentially impacting physicians, this installment focuses on Donald Trump.

Part of an ongoing series that takes a high-level look at the positions of the leading nominees for President when it comes to political issues potentially impacting physicians, this installment focuses on Jeb Bush.

Researchers plan study to assess whether intradiscal methylene blue injection (IMBI) could be effective in treating low back pain.

Study results suggest that rhytidectomy procedures don’t necessarily lead to increased self-esteem for patients.

Cleveland Clinic had success with adding telemedicine to the operation of its mobile stroke treatment unit. The change could potentially reduce costs of operating the unit.

Does having a fever help fight infection? Patients who got acetaminophen to relieve fever while in intensive care units did about as well as patients who got a placebo when it came to mortality. But in a puzzling finding, survivors who got the drug tended to have shorter ICU stays while those who died and got acetaminophen had longer ICU stays.

"At the moment, just publishing the research and presenting it at meetings and writing guidelines doesn't seem to be enough," says Dr. Rachelle Buchbinder.

If recent trends in specialty drug price increases continue unabated, an increasing number of consumers may be unable to afford specialty medications.

There are pros and cons to giving patients once-weekly injections of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), a new group of drugs to treat type 2 diabetes.

Older patients with heart and kidney failure can be helped with cardiac resynchronization therapy, a new study finds. But implanting devices to treat them is expensive, invasive, and not a full cure for many patients. Maybe it's better to ask these patients if they wouldn't rather die, two physicians argue.

Researchers have identified possible biomarkers for flare-up of leprosy that may also have application to how other chronic infectious diseases are treated.

Study results suggest that auricular acupuncture can be used to treat sore throat pain. The study also measured time lost to work with and without the acupuncture procedure, but the results for lost productivity did not meet statistical significance.

Depression appears to be a risk factor for patients who have both that condition and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These patients are more likely to be readmitted to a hospital with acute episodes of COPD, Alabama researchers report.