When it comes to understanding autism, the picture is far from complete. Michael Chez, MD, Director of Pediatric Neurology at the Sutter Health, helps demystify current trends related to…
Oriane Chausiaux, PhD, and Shamus Husheer, PhD, explain the hardships faced by 1 in 7 American couples who have difficulties with fertility. These issues range from a lack of…
Richard Sadovsky, MD, wants you to talk about sex with your patients. He discusses easy ways that physicians can screen for sexual dysfunction with male patients and common…
The Misfit “Shine” is a new device that empowers people to track their daily activity goals in a simple and elegant way. Sonny Vu and Sridhar Iyengar, co-founders…
Oriane Chausiaux, PhD, and Shamus Husheer, PhD, discuss DuoFertility, a new method to aid couples struggling with infertility. The program monitors over 20,000 physiological measurements to guide couples on the best ways to conceive…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There is “sufficient” evidence that treatment with a proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) increases the incidence of Clostridium-difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD), say the authors of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After 20 weeks of use, laropiprant continues to reduce flushing related to niacin treatment for a further 12 weeks, according to a study…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rather than a 24-hour urine collection to measure proteinuria, a 12-hour urine protein determination and the protein:creatinine ratio can be used for evaluating…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with inflammatory joint disease (IJD), including rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis, respond as well to statin therapy as those without…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Smoke from organic matter used as fuel – known as biomass smoke — worsens lung function in young adults, researchers from UK report…