It's hard to predict which pills will best lower which patient's high blood pressure, but researchers are hunting ways to better personalize therapy — perhaps even using a blood test.
The vaccine used to contain the recent swine flu pandemic was effective, but health authorities will need to ramp up the speed and volume of production during the next global outbreak, a World Health Organization official said Monday.
Drinking even moderate amounts of alcohol may raise the risk for breast cancer recurrence in some women, new research indicates.
The association seems confined to former breast cancer patients who are postmenopausal or overweight or obese, the researchers noted.
Researchers find psilocybin improved the anxiety and depression of terminal cancer patients for up to six months. The study is considered a first step in restoring the hallucinogen's respectability.
People often talk about the importance of being in "the here and now" and "living in the moment." It seems simple enough, and it makes sense — life happens in the present.
Nearly half of all Americans now use prescription drugs on a regular basis according to a CDC report that was just released (1). Nearly a third of Americans use two or more drugs, and more than one in ten use five or more prescription drugs regularly.