Vitamin Studies Spell Confusion for Patients
If it's Monday, it must be bad news about multivitamin day -- or was that Wednesday? No, Wednesday was good news about vitamin D, not so good news about vitamin E -- if you're confused, join the club. The alphabet soup of vitamin studies making headlines in the last few […]
September 7th, 2012
Hopes dashed for ginkgo biloba in Alzheimer’s disease
English medwireNews: The GuidAge trial of ginkgo biloba extract in people with evidence of memory problems confirms that the treatment does not reduce their risk for progression to Alzheimer's disease. The findings, which appear in The Lancet Neurology, add to previous evidence against a protective effect of ginkgo biloba against […]
August 30th, 2012
Smoking Cessation Lowers Risk of Brain Bleed
Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston Action Points --A Korean case-control study found that smoking cessation for more than 5 years reduced the elevated risk of subarachnoid hemorrhage associated with current smoking. --Note that the risk of subarachnoid hemorrhage was still […]
August 30th, 2012
I Was Always Taught You Control The Pain, Not The Drug
Armon B. Neel, Jr., Pharm.D, CGP, FASCP I was having lunch with a friend the other day, and he was upset because his wife had just had surgery on both feet with bones broken, pins inserted, and many stitches. She’d come home with a prescription for five days of pain […]
August 29th, 2012
CSF Markers Aid in Dementia, Parkinson’s Diagnosis
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner Action Points --These researchers found that levels of five proteins in cerebrospinal fluid can distinguish among different types of dementias and also among conditions that resemble Parkinson's […]
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