‘Health’ Archives
Questions Over Avandia Safety Continue
Controversy continues to plague GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia. Several studies have found that Avandia raises heart risks in diabetics, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether the drug is too dangerous to stay on the market. But in a new study of more than 29,000 diabetics, done by researchers at health insurer [...]
New Hope For The Genetically Weight Challenged
There is hope for those who thought they could never lose weight because of inherited predilection to obesity. New research published in PLoS Medicine suggests that an active lifestyle can reduce people's genetic predisposition to obesity by about 40 per cent. This puts into question the opinion that exercise doesn't help people lose weight if [...]
Seasonal Variation In Multiple Sclerosis Lesions Uncovered
A recent study published in Neurology indicates brain lesions associated with increased multiple sclerosis activity appear in patients more often between the months of March and August. Scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Washington University in St. Louis compared 939 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of 44 people with [...]
