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Watchdog Group Wants Black Box on BP Meds

WASHINGTON -- The consumer watchdog group Public Citizen petitioned the FDA to add a black box warning to three classes of hypertension drugs, cautioning against their combined use.

Working with Weights May Help Stroke Rehab

Resistance training -- which is often overlooked in stroke rehab -- may help improve thinking and memory in stroke survivors, researchers found.

Study Counters WHI on Risk of Hormones in Menopause

Hormone therapy may actually help the heart in some respects for newly menopausal women, a randomized trial showed, although the impact on hard outcomes like stroke and breast cancer still remains to be seen.

Pot Smokers Who Quit Find It Harder to Function

The more severe a person's marijuana withdrawal symptoms when they quit using the drug, the bigger the effect on their functional ability and the more likely they were to start using again, results of an Australian study showed.

Weight Gain After Bypass Not Affected by Diet

SAN ANTONIO -- Lifestyle factors -- including dietary intake, physical activity levels, and treadmill time -- were not predictive of weight regain from 2 to 6 years after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, researchers found.

Suboxone Maker Pulls Pills in Favor of Film

The buprenorphine-naloxone combination product (Suboxone) in sublingual tablet form will soon be pulled from the U.S. market because its child-resistant packaging isn't effective enough.

Romney Takes Daily Statin, Aspirin

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has hyperlipidemia and takes a statin and low-dose aspirin daily, according to a letter from his personal physician released Friday.

Genetic Obesity Risk Heightened by Sugary Drinks

SAN ANTONIO -- The relationship between genetics, body mass index, and obesity risk appears to be magnified in adults who drink the most sugar-sweetened beverages, researchers found.

Cranberry Juice May Help Lower BP a Bit

Cranberry juice modestly lowers blood pressure in healthy adults when consumed daily, a carefully controlled trial showed.

Drug Works in AI-Resistant Breast Cancer

SAN FRANCISCO -- A tamoxifen-like drug slowed progression of advanced breast cancer previously treated with a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor, results of a small Japanese trial suggested.

Afinitor Helps Breast Tx in Older Patients

SAN FRANCISCO -- Older patients with advanced breast cancer had significant improvement in progression-free survival when everolimus was added to exemestane, a new analysis of a randomized trial showed.

Young Women Skip Mammo After USPSTF Recs

SAN FRANCISCO -- Rates of screening mammography among women younger than 50 declined within 2 months of a negative recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and have remained below baseline rates, according to a study reported here.

Device May Cut Re-Excision Rate in Breast Cancer

SAN FRANCISCO -- Re-excision after breast-conserving surgery occurred 50% less often with intraoperative margin assessment by a device that distinguishes cancer cells from normal tissue, results of a randomized study showed.

Low Preop Sodium Raises Mortality Risk

Preoperative hyponatremia significantly increased the risk of 30-day postsurgical mortality, a risk that extended across all subgroups of surgical patients, investigators reported.

Anatomy of an Epidemic: The Opioid Movie

The national clamor over abuse of prescription opioids is now at a fever pitch, but little has been said about what drove the boon in opioid prescriptions. This latest report from 榴莲视频/ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analyzes a pivotal Oxycontin marketing video, it's impact and its aftermath.

Anemia a Risk with Low-Dose IVIG, Too

Even small doses of intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) can cause acute, severe anemia, researchers warned.

Lying Prone for Radiation Best for Breast Tx

Lying face down for radiation therapy lessens the amount of collateral damage to breast cancer patients' heart and lungs, researchers found.

Daily Cialis Alternative to On-Demand Drug

CHICAGO -- For men who don't respond to on-demand tadalafil (Cialis), a low daily dose may do the trick, researchers said here.

Chewable Viagra Gets Thumbs-Up in Mexico

CHICAGO -- Men thought a chewable version of sildenafil (Viagra Jet) made the drug work faster and longer, a Mexican study found.

Newest ED Drug Works in Less than Half Hour

CHICAGO -- The highly specific PDE5 inhibitor Avanafil may work in as little as 15 minutes after dosing, researchers said here.

Viagra from Online Sources Mostly Fake

CHICAGO -- Most of the sildenafil (Viagra) sold online is counterfeit and contains far less of the active ingredient than the real thing, researchers said here.

Persistence of Finasteride Side Effects Raised at Meeting

CHICAGO -- One of the topics under discussion among sexual medicine specialists, gathered here from around the world, is whether the sexual side effects of a hair-loss drug are long-lasting, according to a leader in the field.

Three Reasons Why Epocrates is Becoming Irrelevant to Medical Professionals

Brain-Eating Amoeba Came From Faucet

The recent cases of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis represent the first reported instances of U.S. tap water harboring the amoeba that causes the fatal disease, according to CDC researchers.

Gallbladder Polyp Size Can Guide Treatment

The follow-up strategy for patients with gallbladder polyps should be based on the size of the lesions, which can influence progression and malignancy potential, British researchers advised.

Conservative Fluids for ARDS Tied to Cognitive Dysfunction

Jesse Jackson, Jr. Responding to Bipolar Therapy

After months of silence from his office about his absence from Congress, the Mayo Clinic has announced that Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., (D-Ill.) is being treated at the facility for bipolar disorder.

NYC to Limit Baby Formula in Hospitals

By Labor Day, at least 27 hospitals in New York City will have implemented the main components of an initiative aimed at encouraging breastfeeding for new mothers.

Engineers Turn Fat into Blood Vessels

Liposuction can provide the raw materials for growing new small-diameter blood vessels in the lab, researchers found.

Olympic Doctors Ready to Treat Team U.S.A.

While the world watches elite athletes like Michael Phelps and Hope Solo go for Olympic gold, the athletes' team physicians will be watching them, too, but with a different perspective.

Adult Lungs Can Sprout New Growth

The lungs may have greater capacity for regeneration in adults than thought, according to a case report of new growth after lung cancer resection.

Playing Sports Helps Teens Fight Fat

Team sports may fight weight problems better than other forms of exercise among high schoolers, researchers found.

Readers: Who Really Benefits from Spanking?

Although a majority of our readers don't think childhood spanking causes mental illness in adulthood, many of them noted that the topic is more complex than a simple "Yes" and "No" survey.

California Docs Sue Aetna Over Out-of-Network Denials

Several medical groups and more that 50 individual physicians in California are suing Aetna, claiming that the insurer often wrongly denies coverage for patients accessing out-of-network providers.

NAMS Founder: WHI Wrong on HRT

A leader of the North American Menopause Society wants an independent review of all major publications from the Women's Health Initiative.

No Weight Gain with Linagliptin in Diabetes

The DPP-4 inhibitor linagliptin may control type 2 diabetes with less hypoglycemia or weight gain than glimepiride when used as second-line treatment with metformin, a trial showed.

Vitamin D Test Accuracy Called into Question

HOUSTON -- Two widely used tests to determine vitamin D status produced results that exceeded the allowable limits for error in at least 40% of cases, according to a study reported here.

Big Breakfast, Plus Dessert Aids Weight Loss

HOUSTON -- Obese adults lost significantly more weight by starting the day with a calorie-and carbohydrate-heavy breakfast that included a sweet treat, instead of saving more calories for dinner, according to a study reported here.

Testosterone Tx Helps Obese Men Trim Waistline

HOUSTON -- Obese hypogonadal men lost an average of 36 pounds during long-term testosterone replacement therapy, results of a prospective cohort study showed.

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