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African American and Hispanic patients with arthritis experience a greater burden from their disease, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, published in Preventing Chronic Disease.

Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have developed an endoscopic scanning technique that successfully detects dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus early in the disease's progression, which is a crucial step in detecting esophageal cancer early and therefore improving prognosis.

Among male chronic pain sufferers, Black men are more likely to experience depression, affective distress, and disability than white men, according to study results published in the Journal of the National Medical Association.

A study presented at the 51st American Society of Hematology Meeting and Expedition reported that 5 days of palonosetron (Aloxi) was significantly more effective than ondansetron at preventing delayed chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). Both drugs had similar efficacy in preventing acute CINV.

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have completed a comparative review of heart bypass surgery and angioplasty that examined the safety and efficacy of each for the treatment of heart blockages.

Some health care IT industry heavyweights have gone so far as to suggest that the iPad will be greatly utilized in the healthcare setting and revolutionize the way we do business. While I do think the iPad is incredibly shiny and is great computer replacement for your grandma, I think it's a bit of an exaggeration to suggest that it will ever be fully adopted by healthcare IT shops.

McDonald's and other fast food restaurants are catching heat from a variety of sources, but here's something new to add to the fast food naughty list: researchers say that it fosters impatience, at least as with respect to college students.

Acute migraine headache sufferers may find relief from taking 1000 mg of Aspirin alone or in addition to 10 mg of metoclopramide, according to conclusions drawn from a Cochrane Systematic Review.

Results were printed in the journal Immunity and illustrate that in patients suffering from RA the pathway fails to work properly as it would in healthy patients.

Modern medicine's technological advances now allow more people to live long enough to develop chronic diseases where the mortality is low but the morbidity high. Hyperchondriacs are acutely aware of this, and perceive great threats in their aging and the future. Hyperchondriacs have similar attributes to hypochondrial patients even as they lack the attendant "symptoms" of a physiologic illness.

One of the dilemmas facing young women treated for breast cancer is the issue of pregnancy. Is it safe for a breast cancer survivor to become pregnant? To deliver at term?

An international study, led by University of Montreal researchers Julie Gauthier and Guy Rouleau, reveals that gene mutations in the SHANK3 gene may predispose individuals to schizophrenia.

Neurogenesis reduces the severity of a stroke and improves post-stroke functionality, according to the results of a new study by David Greenberg, MD, PhD, and fellow researchers at the Buck Institute for Age Research.

A graphical tool that tracks down the cause of drug-side-effects is the focus of a study published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (April 2010).

Google has just completed a major overhaul of Google Docs that includes redesigned spreadsheet, document, and drawing editors; group chat functionality; and the ability to collaborate with real-time character-by-character mark-up.

How can we pay for healthcare reform? The simple answer is to determine what saves money while improving care, and then focus our attention. Part 1 of this article looks at issues of cost, quality, and access.

When I read on CNN's website that more than 900 infant lives could be saved each year simply by breastfeeding, I was stunned.

A nice surprise buried somewhere in the healthcare reform bill is that, starting next year, Medicare patients will be able to get annual preventative care exams that are paid for by their health insurance.

Several new studies from the Medical College of Georgia examine the role that a sedentary lifestyle and being overweight can have on a child's health.

Resistance to the antibiotic vancomycin requires expression of vanH, vanA, and vanX under control of several other mechanisms, according to new research from McMaster University.

While we Floridians slept last week, our esteemed Florida legislature was passing a bill, SB 6, which effected a major change in how teachers in the state would be paid. Florida physicians were watching the situation very closely.

Although there was a 181% increase in the use of e-prescribing across the country from 2008 to 2009, the prohibition on the use of this new technology to prescribe controlled substances (schedule II - schedule V) has been a key barrier holding e-prescribing back from widespread adoption.

Researchers at Stony Brook University received a $606,000 grant to continue studying a telephone-based program designed to help arthritis patients maintain better control of their pain.

In people who are depressed and anxious, the negative effects of depression may be modified, positively or negatively, by anxiety.

What one hospital has done to increase compliance.

Yesterday, April 11, 2010, the Governor of Oregon, Ted Kulongoski, vetoed a bill that would have allowed psychologists to prescribe medication after completing two years of additional education.

Women living at northern latitudes are at higher risk for being diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, according to study results published online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Robert Matheny, MD, discusses a technology that enables a person's own stem cells to repair damaged cardiovascular tissues by serving as scaffolding.

Using an evidence-based practice approach, researchers have developed new diagnostic algorithms that will provide diagnostic pathways for common symptoms like diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, and constipation.

A new study from a team of researchers around Canada reveals that fetal alcohol syndrome significantly increases patients' risk for seizures.