Diseases & Conditions

Details: Written by: Leslie Orr, University of Rochester

The Best Option For Cancer Fatigue Isn’t A Pill Exercise and/or psychological therapy work better than medications to reduce cancer-related fatigue and should be recommended first to patients, say researchers.

Details: Written by: Ziba Kashef, Yale University

The Disability Risk Rises After Older Adults Visit ER Older adults who go to the emergency department for an illness or injury are at increased risk for disability and decline in physical abilities up to six months later, research shows.

Details: Written by: Sarina Gleason, Michigan State University

How Breast Cancer Genes Could Predict Their Best Treatment Effective breast cancer treatment options are predictable based on the way certain genes act or express themselves, new research shows.

Details: Written by: Kristina Sauerwein, Washington University in St. Louis

Kidney Trouble Could Surprise You If You Are On Heartburn Drugs People taking heartburn drugs called proton pump inhibitors—Prevacid, Prilosec, Nexium, and Protonix—may not be aware of kidney damage linked to the medications, research suggests.

Details: Written by: Nathan Collins, Stanford University

bored teenager 02 26 There’s no easy way to predict which teenager will become a problem drug user. While certain personality traits—impulsiveness for example—may signal danger, not every adolescent fits the description.

Details: Written by: Stanford University

This Implant Lets Paralyzed People Type With Their Minds A brain-to-computer hookup recently allowed people with severe limb weakness to type via direct brain control at the highest speeds and accuracy levels reported to date.

Details: Written by: Caroline Curran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

People With Asthma Are Missing An Airway ‘Muscle Relaxer’ A protein that appears to play a vital role in airway function is virtually missing in people who have asthma. The discovery points to a potential new treatment.

Details: Written by: Lisa Chedekel, Boston University

Diabetes Could Be Causing Up To 12% Of All US Deaths The proportion of deaths attributable to diabetes in the US is as high as 12 percent—three times higher than estimates based on death certificates suggest—a new analysis shows.

Details: Written by: Robin Lally, Rutgers University

Toxic Garbage Day Might Explain How Alzheimer’s Spreads A new study with worms may help explain how diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s spread in the brain. Sometimes when neurons dispose of toxic waste, neighboring cells get sick.

Details: Written by: Stephanie Brown, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

We've All Heard About Postnatal Depression, But What About Prenatal Depression? We all know and hear a lot about postnatal depression, but what about depression and anxiety during pregnancy?

Details: Written by: W. John Diamond, M.D. and W. Lee Cowden, M.D.

Do Emotions Play A Role in Cancer Resistance and Cancer Survival? Under emotional distress, the brain may signal the adrenal glands to produce chemicals called corticosteroids. Cancer-related processes are accelerated in the presence of these chemicals. Certain cancers have also been associated with distressing life events.

Details: Written by: Sarah Allinson, Lancaster University

Why Cancer Rates Are Increasing Disproportionately In Women Recent reports that cancer rates in UK women are set to rise six times faster than in men over the next two decades will have alarmed many.

Details: Written by: Gustavo Machado, and Manuela L Ferreira, George Institute for Global Health

Here's What Actually Does Work For Back Pain How’s your back? About a quarter of Australia’s population experience a back pain episode at any point in time, and nearly all of us (around 85%) will have at least one lifetime experience with back pain.

Details: Written by: Chyrisse Heine, La Trobe University

Why We Lose Our Hearing And Vision As We Age

As the baby boomer generation begins to age, the prevalence of both eye and ear disease will rise exponentially, as there is a strong correlation between vision loss, hearing loss and ageing.

Details: Written by: William Fergus Martin

Who Is In Charge? You or Chocolate? Many of us do things we wish we would not do. We may compulsively eat sugary or fatty things, drink too much alcohol, become a zombie in front of the TV, or whatever. We may judge ourselves as “weak” or “lacking in willpower”, because of this. Maybe we...

Details: Written by: Robert Kopecky

How It's Possible To Just Think Pain Away Pleasure and pain are always coming and going, fluctuating to and fro, sometimes only five minutes apart, doing “their thing” to this flesh-and-bone vehicle, inspiring all kinds of crazy thoughts in our thinking organ—the brain.

Details: Written by: Allison Hydzi, University of Pittsburgh

This Type Of Fat Boosts Heart Risk After Menopause New research reveals a new, menopause-specific indicator of heart disease risk—and suggests possible ways to reduce it.

Details: Written by: Tamara Bhandari, Washington University in St. Louis

How Infections That Stick Around Can Be Good For You Many infectious diseases are one and done—people get sick once and then they are protected from another bout of the same illness.

Details: Written by: Jesslyn Chew, University of Missouri

Are Anxiety And Stress Related To GI Trouble In People With Autism? It is common for individuals with autism to have a more intense reaction to stress, and some of these patients seem to experience frequent constipation, abdominal pain, or other gastrointestinal issues...

Details: Written by: David Hill, University at Buffalo

Anxiety Can Lead Men To Overtreat Prostate Cancer The anxiety many men experience after being diagnosed with prostate cancer may lead them to choose potentially unnecessary treatment options, researchers report.

Details: Written by: Sarina Gleason, Michigan State University

A New Chemical Compound That Cuts Melanoma’s Spread By Up To 90% Scientists have discovered that a chemical compound—and potential new drug—reduces the spread of melanoma cells by up to 90 percent.