The caffeine in a morning cup of coffee could help improve athletic endurance, according to a new University of Georgia review study.Authored by Simon Higgins, a third-year doctoral student in kinesiology in the College of Education, the study was published in this month’s issue of…

Idiopathic pancreatitis is often caused by small gallstones that are difficult to observe prior to surgery, shows a study from the University of Eastern Finland. Small gallstones were found in surgery from two out of three idiopathic pancreatitis patients. The study also showed that acute…

Some doctors may recommend that patients with the flu take acetaminophen, or paracetemol, to relieve their symptoms; however, a new randomized clinical trial found no benefits to the over-the-counter medication in terms of fighting the influenza virus or reducing patients’ temperature or other symptoms.The trial…

Children born to mothers with polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS, are at an increased risk of developing autism spectrum disorders, according to a new epidemiological study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet. The findings, which are published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, support the notion that exposure to…

Obese young people can still turn their chances of developing life threatening illness around if they change before middle age, says new research.The study looked at the body mass index (BMI) of people when they were young and compared it to when they were middle…

MD Anderson study in mice points to sugar’s impact on inflammatory pathways as culprit The high amounts of dietary sugar in the typical Western diet may increase the risk of breast cancer and metastasis to the lungs, according to a study at The University of…

Three-fourths of ER stroke cases had some degree of preventability, UCI survey finds Many strokes that required immediate treatment in emergency rooms may have been preventable, according to a University of California, Irvine study.While therapy for acute stroke continues to advance and improve patient outcomes,…

A recent cross-sectional study conducted by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham explored a new pathway between short sleep — less than seven hours — and obesity.Gabriel S. Tajeu, DrPH, a postdoctoral fellow in UAB’s Department of Epidemiology, in collaboration with Bisakha Sen,…

Ingesting a drink rich in cocoa flavanols improved blood vessel function and reduced diastolic blood pressure in patients with kidney failure.Heart disease is the leading cause of death in patients with chronic kidney disease. Consuming a beverage containing cocoa flavanols improves blood vessel function in…

A study of a million UK women, published in The Lancet, has shown that happiness itself has no direct effect on mortality, and that the widespread but mistaken belief that unhappiness and stress directly cause ill health came from studies that had simply confused cause…

New Clinical Practice Guidelines Recommend Use of Arteries Rather than Veins in Heart Bypass Surgery The Society of Thoracic Surgeons has released new clinical practice guidelines that recommend expanding the use of arteries from the chest and forearm rather than using veins from the leg…

Using antidepressants during pregnancy greatly increases the risk of autism, Professor Anick Bérard of the University of Montreal and its affiliated CHU Sainte-Justine children’s hospital revealed today. Prof. Bérard, an internationally renowned expert in the fields of pharmaceutical safety during pregnancy, came to her conclusions…