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The Department of Defense spent more than $84 million on erectile dysfunction medications in 2014, according to a report in Military Times. Nearly half of that, $41.6 million, was spent on Viagra, with military doctors writing nearly a million prescriptions for that drug alone last year.

For patients with skin of color there are a variety of conditions that they may face throughout their lifetimes. Some can be treated with topical creams while others use laser treatments.

Treating acute pulmonary embolism patients with surgery to remove the clot fell out of favor in the 1950s because of high mortality rates. But safety seems to have improved dramatically-at least at one health care system. In a study published in the Texas Heart Institute Journal Alan Hartman, MD chair of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at the North Shore-LIJ health system report on a retrospective review of 96 patients at the NY system.

Washing dirty dishes by hand seems to help curb food allergies in children.

Researchers based at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, have revealed potentially favorable results from 3 imaging methods for pediatric patients with Crohn's disease: magnetic resonance enterography (MRE), small-intestine contrast US (SICUS), and capsule endoscopy (CE) in diagnosing pediatric Crohn's disease (CD).

When it comes to Craniosynostosis there really is no such thing as an easy case but doctors can measure how successful their work has been and how difficult the case is based on a variety of factors.

Genetics may hold the key to a disfiguring and disabling --but surgically treatable-set of birth anomalies, a condition known as craniosynostosis. The chief of pediatric plastic surgery at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, David Staffenberg, MD said craniosynostosis, a problem in which the bones of a newborn's skull fuse prematurely, appears to usually be related to a spontaneous mutation. The condition occurs in 1 of every 2,000 births, he sai

When working with such young patients with still developing skulls, the operations performed on patients with craniosynostosis can be very involved and intricate. Having the operation hold as the patient grows older is a key part of the process.

The FDA will review the sNDA for Xeljanz (tofacitinib citrate) tablets for the treatment of adult patients with moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis.

Once a diagnosis of Craniosynostosis is made there is still much more work to be done including determining what kind of the condition exists. The form of the defect then determines what kind of operation is needed to remedy the condition.

A lot has changed about the treatment of Craniosynostosis from the diagnosis all the way through the operations available.

Studying the possible causes of inherited arrythmias is difficult using genetically altered mice or cultured human cells. But in a research breakthrough, doctors at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan have come up with a genetically engineered pig. Since pig hearts function much like those of humans, that has made their work much more effective, says David S. Park, MD, PhD an assistant professor of cardiology at NYU Langone.

Crainosynostosis is a rare condition in which the bones of the newborn's skull fuse prematurely. How and when those children are treated can have a lasting impact on their overall outcomes.

Morphine was shown to cause respiratory problems in children with post-operative pain, though ibuprofen was a safe alternative.

Researchers from Australia believe the bacteria in yogurt can help alleviate the food allergy that's most likely to cause anaphylaxis, but other experts want more evidence.

Patients with multiple sclerosis who received stem cell therapy instead of treatment with mitoxantrone achieved better outcomes over a 4-year-period.

A team of 26 experts from the US, Europe, and Scandinavia has recommended routine implementation of a new probe-based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (pCLE) system, Cellvizio, to improve diagnostic evaluation and management of several gastric, intestinal, and biliary diseases.

In many elderly Alzheimer's disease patients' brains, evidence of stroke is present.

Fears about toxic mold have spawned unqualified and useless testing, both of buildings and people, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. In a case history of an incident last year, Melody Kawamoto and Elena Page MD describe a costly case that yielded no proof of mold.

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have developed a genetically altered line of pigs with abnormal cardiac sodium channels-enabling them to better understand heart arrhythmias.

Researchers have reportedly identified several proteins that are highly prevalent in human psoriasis and may play an important role in the development and progression of the disease and its co-morbidities and complications, including psoriatic arthritis.

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have developed a genetically altered line of pigs with abnormal cardiac sodium channels-enabling them to better understand heart arrhythmias.

New research suggests that low testosterone levels in older men are less likely to lead to cardiovascular disease than a sign of underlying problems that are the real cause.

A potential link between asbestos exposure and a significant proportion of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) cases was recently discovered, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS)'s International Congress, held Sept. 6-10 in Munich, Germany.

A baby's asthma development is linked to parental smoking before their conception, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS)'s International Congress, held Sept. 6-10 in Munich, Germany.

More than 13,000 US residents froze to death from 2003 to 2013, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.) The CDC has a name for that, environmental hypothermia.In an attempt to determine just how common that is in the US, CDC researcher Jon Meiman, MD and colleagues looked at such deaths. The team also did a more focused study on environmental hypothermia deaths in Wisconsin in 2014, after a period of record low temperatures there from Jan. 1 to April 1, 2014.

While 7,300 deaths a year in nursing homes are attributed to influenza, a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control claimed that only 54% of staff were vaccinated.

While a study found that smokers were concerned with their impact on their friends' and family's health, they were seemingly unaware of the effects their habits - such as the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - could bring upon themselves.

Bronx researchers believe they may have solved part of the mystery of why older mothers have a higher risk of having Down syndrome babies.

While a recent study published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) highlighted an association between recent marijuana smoking and airway inflammation, moderate lifetime use was not linked to changes in lung function.