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On average, Aboriginal Australians have a lower forced vital lung capacity compared to the rest of the population, a phenomenon that was formerly attributed to COPD, according to a study published in Respirology.

A study that used data from the Danish Melanoma Group database shows the incidence of malignant melanoma has doubled during the past 25 years, despite targeted awareness campaigns and a focus within the dermatology community on early detection and treatment.

The new antivirals for hepatitis C have a growing target market. According to the latest CDC analysis, the infection is on the rise in the US. One expert calls for making HCV testing a new quality metric for providers.

A US Supreme COurt Decision on the legality of the Affordable Care Act is expected Monday, June 19. Analysts are predicting no winners. It will be expensive eiither way the court decides.

It has been four years since the Indiana University Health System developed it post intensive care clinic and in that time they have seen positive results in a variety of fields. Taking that success and building on it while helping other clinics develop has been and will be the focus of the group going forward.

With many Americans blaming overprescribing for the painkiller abuse epidemic, novel treatments excluding medication – such as the oxygen chamber – are few and far between. However, a new analysis may have uncovered one for patients with chronic lower back pain.

The intensive care unit is one of the most important parts of a hospital providing the highest level of service. Even with that being the case it may be time to take a new approach to treatment in this area.

Patients who are discharged from intensive care may not always be ready to return to their normal lives. Plans, therefore are necessary to ensure they get the care they need even when they are out of the hospital.

Patients who are admitted to the intensive care unit face a litany of potential issues from that part of their hospital stay alone. How they recover from that process can often dictate whether they will be readmitted to the hospital in the near future.

Potentially addictive opioids may be avoidable thanks to a new treatment pathway for chronic pain and other painful conditions by focusing on genetics.

A gout medication did not show significant statistical benefit in lowering flares associated with the condition.

As summer quickly approaches, the products and procedures that claim to remove excess fat are seemingly endless. One of the latest trends – body sculpting treatments – is rapidly growing in popularity.

Sunscreen jargon may be proving to be too difficult to comprehend for many consumers.

Spend any appreciable time on PubMed, Medline, or Embase, and you can begin to think that there aren't many untapped areas of clinical exploration. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course, and a recent clinical review in Arthritis Research and Therapy outlines some of the uncharted territory even in a condition as prevalent as osteoarthritis of the knee.

Pain management research goes far beyond identifying drug development and new uses for existing medication. One particularly interesting but neglected area of study involves prism adaptation, a non-invasive, non-medication procedure that sounds like something straight out of a science fiction novel.

Vitamin D insufficiency can be like the slippery suspect in a network procedural: It's probably up to no good on any number of counts, but pinning the crime on it with airtight evidence can still prove elusive.

A single-shot vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) will never become a reality, according to researchers from The Rockefeller University, but stimulating the immune system may lead to improved preventive treatments.

Multiple studies have demonstrated the efficacy of a new class of drugs for preventing the intense pain and crippling effects of migraines.

A CDC report recommends that when physicians prescribe opioids, appropriate patients should also get naloxone kits in case they overdose.

As more awareness is being raised about autoimmune hepatitis more can be done to help the patients with the condition. While it may be a slow moving process doctors are encouraged that their patients are receiving the help they need.

The number-one cause of death in children under the age of 5 worldwide has also been shown to harm DNA.

Following Tuesday's FDA ruling that partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) are no longer categorized as "generally recognized as safe," additional research has revealed trans fat consumption could potentially have a negative impact on memory.

Thanks to the power of social media and the internet doctors and patients around the world can now learn more about autoimmune hepatitis. This marks a big step forward for a condition where information used to be few and far between for people who need it most.

There are a variety of ways to test patients for autoimmune hepatitis and there are different treatment options for those patients as well. The key is finding the condition to match treatment before it is too late for the patients.

Autoimmune hepatitis has only been known in its current form for around 20 years meaning there is still much to be learned about the condition.

Medical treatments and who pays for them-and how much they pay for them-are obviously widely divergent depending on the country's healthcare system. But whether a nation has universal coverage or a third-party payer system such as the one in the US, all systems try to draw some correlation between the cost and benefit of a given procedure or prescription therapy.

Survival rates and other outcome measures for liver transplant from a living donor compare favorably with transplants from deceased donors.

Feelings of social acceptance or rejection were felt in both depressed and non-depressed patients in a study from the University of Michigan Health System.

Immigrant populations tend to have nearly 2 times the prevalence of psychotic disorders compared to the general population of the host country.

Epidemiological studies have provided conflicting evidence regarding the impact of dietary cholesterol and egg consumption on heart disease risk in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Also controversial is the idea that dietary cholesterol may contribute to the very development of T2DM by altering glucose metabolism. Given the significant influence of diet on diabetes management, the lack of conclusive evidence on this subject emphasizes the need for further study.