It costs pennies a pill-but for heart disease and stroke, the number one and number three killers of Americans, aspirin can be just as powerfully preventive as more expensive medications, such as cholesterol-lowering statins. Two-thirds of people at high risk for heart...
A new drug to fight osteoporosis, the bone condition associated with aging and debilitating fractures, reduces the risk of fractures and the...
Combined treatment with the antidepressant sertraline (Zoloft) and the alcoholism drug naltrexone (ReVia) improves the likelihood that people with both major depression...
A spray touted as the first potential treatment for premature ejaculation (PE) has proved effective in a second study, according to the...
A new study suggests that the cancer drug imatinib mesylate (Gleevec) may benefit people with scleroderma, a chronic connective tissue disease. Background...
Giving daily doses of a statin that lowers cholesterol and an ACE inhibitor (medication that lowers blood pressure) to people at high...
Pycnogenol (pronounced pic-noj-en-all), an extract from the bark of the French maritime pine, is known to improve circulation, reduce swelling and ease...
When most people think of bone problems, broken bones and osteoporosis (reduced bone density and strength) come to mind. But our bones...
If you have diabetes and heart disease and many Americans do, or will, since the two I tend to go hand in...
Vinegar has been used as a folk medicine for such things as headaches and indigestion. Now several studies reinforce its benefit for...
From the time you wake up until you go to bed, it is essential to keep your blood sugar as stable as...
People with diabetes do much better, in P terms of survival, if they can turn to others for support in times of...