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The Work Group from the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes organization updated its set of guidelines that offers clinical practice guidelines in the treatment of chronic kidney disease and diabetes.
A new study sought to systematically review guidelines on sugar intake and assess consistency of recommendations, methodological quality of guidelines, and the quality of evidence supporting each recommendation.
Preliminary research suggests that immediate and effective treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) reduces the risk of patients developing joint damage and disability within two years.
In this podcast, Sonia Singh, PhD, talks about HIV testing before HIV diagnosis in the Black population in the United States from 2013 to 2018, including ways to help make routine HIV testing more accessible and ways to help address disparities to help end the HIV epidemic.
Fiber is an underconsumed nutrient, and this is considered a public health concern because of its impact on overall health.
s there a family history of mental illness? Is there any stress going on at home?
By Will Boggs MDNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with type 1 diabetes are nearly three times as likely as others to develop epilepsy, researchers report.
Researchers conducted a review and meta-analysis in an attempt to quantitatively summarize the effects of circulating n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids on all-cause mortality risk.
A multidomain intervention, including mental and physical training, could decrease the risk of cognitive decline in at-risk elderly patients, according to a recent study.
By Rob GoodierNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although symptoms of transient ischemic attacks are thought to disappear within 24 hours, new research suggests that poor cognitive performance may persist for weeks.
<p>Scientists who unlocked the genetic code of bacteria grown from a soldier who died of dysentery in World War I say it revealed a superbug already resistant to penicillin and other antibiotics decades before they were in common use.</p>
A rapid systematic review recently published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry suggests that isolation and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to increased levels of depression and possibly anxiety in children and adolescents.
The effects of alcohol consumption on acute cardiovascular risk were examined in a recent study.
In a widely reported new CDC study, 1 in 68 children were identified with autism spectrum disorder in 2010, up from 1 in 88 in 2008. A careful look at the data, however, suggests a circumspect approach.
Researchers investigate the role that immunosuppressive drugs play in increasing the risk of melanoma for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
In this video, Sarah El-Heis, MRCP, DM, lead author of the study, "Maternal Antenatal Vitamin D Supplementation and Offspring Risk of Atopic Eczema in the First 4 Years of Life: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial" describes how her research team found a reduced risk of eczema at the age of one in infants whose mothers had vitamin D supplementation.
According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), more than half of childhood cancers are leukemias and cancers of the brain and CNS.