Washington: Not only is it safe for asthmatics to exercise, but doing so could reduce their risk of asthma symptoms or attacks, a new study has revealed. Many people with asthma report avoiding exercise because they`re afraid it could trigger symptoms including shortness of breath, wheezing or a full-blown asthma attack, said review author Kristin [...]
Presenting Symptoms May Aid in Initial Bladder Cancer Diagnosis
ATLANTA—Irritative urinary symptoms are encountered more frequeny among patients with bladder cancer who are exposed to bladder carcinogens as a result of occupational activities, according to a Brazilian study presented at the American Urological Association 2012 annual meeting. Sanarelly Adonias, MD, of the Cancer Institute of São Paulo, and colleagues examined 100 patients with bladder [...]
New Drug Trial Seeks to Stop Alzheimer’s Before It Starts
Experts say the study will be one of the few ever conducted to test prevention treatments for any genetically predestined disease. For Alzheimer’s, the trial is unprecedented, “the first to focus on people who are cognitively normal but at very high risk for Alzheimer’s disease,” said Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes [...]
GI symptoms can persist a decade after intestinal infections
Thirty percent of individuals with a history of Salmonella or Campylobacter infections reported ongoing post infectious symptoms as long as 10 years after the initial infectious event, the results in a poster at the meeting. “These patients represent a clinically important population with high somatization, anxiety, and depression scores.” Surveys were sent to 576 people [...]
Pfenninger: Colitis associated with antibiotic use
Antibiotics were designed to kill bacteria. Different antibiotics are aimed at different ones. The gut is full of millions and millions of bacteria. They protect the bowel in many ways. Depending on which type of antibiotic is used for treatment of an infection, none, some, many, or most of these bacteria in the bowel can [...]
Relief of Urinary Symptoms Found to Be a Previously Underappreciated Benefit …
BIDMC findings presented at American Urological Association Annual Meeting Newswise — BOSTON – Treatment of early stage prostate cancer can also result in improved quality of life for a subgroup of men who suffer from lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), according to an abstract of a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-led study presented to the [...]