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<p><span>Refill cartridges full of nicotine solution for e-cigarettes may be a growing accidental-poisoning threat for children, researchers say.</span></p>
Higher levels of physical activity may help older people keep moving longer despite the late-life motor impairment that typically comes with age, according to a new study.
In this podcast, Rebecca E. Wells, MD, discusses her research on using mindfulness-based stress reduction vs headache education for migraine treatment, a topic she presented at the AAN’s 2021 Virtual Meeting.
The prevalence of HIV in the United States is currently 1.2 million, peaking between the ages of 20 and 30 years of age, while AIDS peaks at close to 45 years of age.
By Andrew M. SeamanA national TV ad campaign featuring real people with smoking-related diseases may have helped encourage others to kick the tobacco habit, according to U.S. health officials.The campaign, known as "Tips from Former Smokers," ran between March and June 2012 across the U.S. and reached about four of every five smokers.While it was running, 1.6 million smokers attempted to quit, and more than 100,000 kicked the habit, researchers say.
Previous research has shown that lack of sleep and obesity increases cardiovascular and metabolic disease in adults and young children. New research studies the impact on adolescents.
Making improvements in HIV diagnosis and retention in care is as important as reducing high-risk sexual and drug use behaviors in terms of cutting the number of HIV transmissions in the United States, according to new research.
<p>Older men who take vitamin E and selenium supplements have the same risk of dementia as people who don't use these products.</p>
Neil Baum, MD
Neil Baum, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Urology, Tulane Medical School, New Orleans, LA, and author of Marketing Your Clinical Practice: Ethically, Effectively, and Economically, Jones Bartlett Publishers. He is also author of Social Media For The Healthcare Profession, Greenbranch Publishing, 2011. He blogs at http://neilbaum.wordpress.com/
Health care providers need to target unhealthy behaviors as seriously as physical risk factors in disease prevention, according to a forthcoming advisory statement from the American Heart Association.
Primary Care BlogThere’s probably not a physician in practice who hasn’t had a patient come to the office with a briefcase or an iPad loaded with information that they have downloaded from the Internet and want to ask you to review their research and ask for your opinion.
It is much more important to have a balanced diet for the long-term instead of relying on a short-term plan to lose weight.
Approximately 70% of pregnant women experience pelvic girdle pain (PGP). Therefore, the American Physical Therapy Association has released a new guideline with recommendations for PGP management.