The fruit fly had 15 minutes of fame during the 2008 presidential general election campaign when it was suggested that money could be better spent than on fruit…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More than half of patients with an idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder develop a neurodegenerative disease within 12 years of being diagnosed; according…
By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of an MRI study suggest that the brain may be affected very early in the course of systemic lupus…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As indicators of arousal, elevations in the heart and respiration rates immediately after a traumatic event are predictive of future posttraumatic stress disorder…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term exposure to anticholinergic agents is associated with poor memory and executive function in older men, according to a report in the Journal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients who are undernourished after experiencing an acute stroke benefit from intensive protein and energy supplementation during inpatient rehabilitation, according to results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with incidental MRI anomalies resembling demyelinated lesions that are not due to another disease process are at increased risk for multiple sclerosis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While prophylactic cranial irradiation can reduce the occurrence of brain metastases and improve survival in patients treated for extensive-disease small-cell lung cancer, it…
By Anthony J. Brown, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The increase in autism prevalence that many studies have reported in recent years may be attributable, at least…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Serum procalcitonin is highly sensitive and specific for differentiating bacterial from aseptic meningitis in pediatric patients, physicians in Europe report in the December…