Transition to Work With Autism
Recent reports show that teens with autism are more likely to have trouble transitioning out of high school and into work. New research shows that a transition program may help.
Different Prostate Cancer Discovered
Recent genetic studies on prostate cancer have found an entirely new variation that does not follow the normal pattern and could represent an entirely different sort of cancer.
Treatment for Bell’s Palsy
Waking up one morning to facial paralysis can be quite a shock. The best bet is to get to the doctor for steroid treatment as quickly as possible.
Mother’s Loss May Affect Infant
When a mother experiences a traumatic loss, her behavior toward and around her infant may interfere healthy development. New research may offer moms and their babies help through a loss.
Bypass Surgery Becoming More Common for PAD
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) patients are now more likely to receive lower extremity bypass surgery to open clogged arteries in their legs. Despite the increase, survival rates remain unchanged.
Cancer Cart Before the Horse
The last few decades have seen an incredible growth in the number and kinds of drugs used to treat cancer, including entirely new classes of drugs outside traditional chemotherapy.
A Cystic Fibrosis Therapy not for Kids
Studies show that concentrated saline therapy provides some benefit to adults and older children with cystic fibrosis.
Questions Gynecologists Should be Asking
Men discuss sexual dysfunction with their doctors, so why not women? Many obstetricians/gynecologists may not ask about a how a patient’s sex life is going.
Intracoronary Drug Improves Heart Attack Survival
Giving injections of an anticoagulant directly into the heart instead of infusing intravenously appears to boost short term survival among patients suffering a severe type of heart attack.