A high-dose, purified form of an omega-3 fatty acid has been shown to shrink colorectal polyps about as effectively as the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug commonly used to treat them, but without the associated cardiovascular risks, according to findings from a small trial published online March 18 in Gut.
A multidisciplinary approach to low backpain management, in which an occupational physician coordinates a patients care with therapists and workplace supervisors, can reduce by more than half the amount of time it takes for people with chronic pain to return to work, even if their pain persists, Dutch researchers have found.
Treatment for melanoma costs Medicare about $249 million annually, but effective prevention and early detection could reduce expenses by up to 60%, according to a new study reported in the March issue of the Archives of Dermatology.
Nateglinide, an insulin secretagogue that lowers postprandial glucose, failed to prevent the development of diabetes and related cardiovascular events among high-risk patients in a large international clinical trial.
The investigational cholesterol-lowering drug mipomersen, added to a regimen of standard cholesterol-lowering drugs such as statins, has been found to reduce low-density lipoprotein levels by a quarter in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, researchers reported online March 13 in the Lancet.
Obese women who consume moderate amounts of alcohol have a risk of developing cirrhosis nearly twice that of normal-weight women who drink the same amount, and obesity and heavy alcohol consumption act in concert to increase deaths from liver disease in men, according to two linked studies published online March 12 in BMJ.
Nearly half of patients with hyperlipidemia are given the wrong cholesterol-lowering targets by their primary care physicians, and women are particularly vulnerable to having their risks underestimated and their targets too lenient, German researchers have found.
WASHINGTON (EGMN) Alzheimers disease is twice as likely to develop in blacks as it is in whites, and 1.5 times more common among Hispanics, a new national has found.
