In patients with acute ischemic stroke, even small reductions in the time to thrombolytic therapy are associated with improved outcomes, according to a study in JAMA.

Flushed face, sweating, a sudden rush of heat. The hot flash, the bane of menopausal women, also can affect men who are undergoing hormone therapy for prostate cancer.

7/18/2013 – Cocaine and Alcohol Dependent People on Topiramate Were More Likely to Stay in Treatment and Use Less Cocaine, But Not Alcohol

An analysis of breast cancer trends in the U.S. finds a small but statistically significant increase in the incidence of advanced breast cancer for women 25 to 39 years of age, without a corresponding increase in older women, according to a study appearing in the…

Birth Order Linked to Increased Risk of Diabetes, Metabolic Disorders

In Denmark between 2001 and 2010 there was an increase in bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) that was associated with an increase in survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, according to a study in the October 2 issue of JAMA.

12 August 2013 – Hormonal treatment for breast cancer causes menopause in over 80% of women in the first year of therapy, but now new research, published in the peer-reviewed journal Climacteric, has found that how these women are diagnosed and treated for menopausal symptoms…

A study set up to examine the association between multiple sclerosis (MS) and narrowing of the veins which lead from the brain to the heart has found that there is no significant difference between rates of venous narrowing in people with MS, their unaffected siblings,…

The first study to look extensively at sexual function in women who underwent bariatric surgery found that significant improvements in overall sexual function, most reproductive hormones and in psychological status were maintained over two years following surgery. Women reporting the poorest quality of sexual function…

Two new studies show that severe hypoglycemia can be common even among patients with poorly controlled diabetes, contrary to conventional wisdom, and that hypoglycemia’s association with cardiovascular disease cannot be solely explained by confounding factors.

Less-Invasive Option for Spinal Stenosis Poses ‘Trade-Off’ in Outcomes, Reports Study in Spine Interspinous spacer implantation—a less-invasive alternative surgical option for spinal stenosis—has a lower complication rate than spinal fusion, reports a study in the May 1 issue of Spine.

In the largest study on the topic to date, research shows that speaking a second language may delay the onset of three types of dementias. The research is published in the journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study found that people who spoke…