Cancer risks lowered with increased physical activity supriya kashyap kashyap17 May 2016 12:52 PM ISTHigher levels of leisure-time physical activity were associated with lower risks for 13 types of cancers, according to a new study published online by...
Free Meals for Doctors by Drug Cos influence their prescriptions : JAMA Study Meghna Singhania24 Jun 2016 11:08 AM IST In this cross-sectional study of 279 669 physicians, physicians who received a single meal promoting the drug of interest, with a mean value of less...
Surgery found to increase risk of chronic opioid use : Stanford study supriya kashyap kashyap12 July 2016 2:11 PM ISTA study of health insurance claims showed that patients undergoing 11 of the most common types of surgery were at an increased risk of becoming...
JAMA Study points to higher ICU usage, unnecessary costly procedures supriya kashyap kashyap10 Aug 2016 3:11 PM ISTLos Angeles : With the use of intensive care units (ICUs) on the rise in many hospitals, researchers at LA BioMed and UCLA examined ICU usage and...
Thiazide diuretics reduce fracture risk: JAMA Internal Medicine. supriya kashyap kashyap22 Nov 2016 11:55 AM ISTFurther examination of randomized clinical trial data suggests that thiazide diuretics to treat hypertension may be associated with lower risk of hip...
Testosterone treatment improves bone density and anemia, may lead to cardiac risk : JAMA supriya kashyap kashyap22 Feb 2017 10:07 AM ISTIt is commonly known that testosterone levels decrease as men age, but until last year, little was known about the effects of testosterone treatment...
Acupuncture might help prevent migraines: JAMA Internal Medicine supriya kashyap kashyap27 Feb 2017 9:11 AM ISTJakarta : For people with a certain type of migraine headache, regular acupuncture treatments may help reduce the frequency of these debilitating...
Hospitals put your data at risk : JAMA Internal Medicine Study supriya kashyap kashyap9 April 2017 3:47 PM ISTLying in a hospital bed, the last thing you should have to worry about is a personal data breach. Yet recent research co-authored by a Michigan State...
Beta Blockers Do Not Cause Fetal Heart Defects: JAMA Internal Medicine Meghna Singhania23 April 2017 10:24 AM ISTβ-Blockers are the most commonly used class of medication for treating cardiac conditions in pregnant women. Despite the common use of this class of...
How Do Patients, Clinicians Feel About Collecting Sexual Orientation Data?-Study supriya kashyap kashyap26 April 2017 10:25 AM ISTPatients are more willing to disclose their sexual orientation in the emergency department than many health care professionals thought, according to a...
Finger-stick blood test may not help type 2 diabetes treatment: JAMA Internal Medicine Anjali Nimesh Nimesh14 Jun 2017 12:24 PM ISTChapel Hill, NC - In a landmark study, UNC School of Medicine researchers have shown that blood glucose testing does not offer a significant advantage...
Latest JAMA study questions of orthostatic hypotension guidelines Anjali Nimesh Nimesh1 Aug 2017 11:00 AM ISTA new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests that testing for the presence of orthostatic hypotension, a form of low blood pressure, be...
