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National survey projects growing shortage of primary care physicians as job satisfaction plunges and moral deteriorates.
A survey released today by The Physicians’ Foundation finds widespread frustration and concern among primary care physicians nationwide about their jobs.  The dissatisfaction is so prevalent that a dramatic decrease in practicing doctors may be coming in the near future. [...]

A mouse study published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Metallomics finds that a drug based on a chemical found in garlic can treat diabetes types I and II when taken as a tablet,
Researchers from the Suzuka University of Medical Science in Japan gave the drug orally to type I diabetic mice, they found [...]

New research finds that the banned appetite suppressant drug may cause damage to heart valves long after use has stopped. The new study, published in the journal BMC Medicine, reviewed the history of 5,743 people who had not taked the drug fenfluramine for more than a decade.
“Valve problems were common in individuals exposed to [...]

Radiological health expert Daniel Hayes, Ph.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene suggests that a form of vitamin D could be one of our body’s main protections against damage from low levels of radiation. Writing in the International Journal of Low Radiation, Hayes explains that calcitriol, the active form of [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is notifying health care professionals and patients that Tyco Healthcare Group LP (Covidien) is recalling one lot of ReliOn sterile, single-use, disposable, hypodermic syringes with permanently affixed hypodermic needles due to possible mislabeling. The use of these syringes may lead to patients receiving an overdose of as much as [...]

Beta-alanine (BA), a dietary supplement widely used by athletes and body builders, has been proven to increase the fitness levels of a group of elderly men and women. The research, published in BioMed Central’s open access Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, suggests that BA supplementation improves muscle endurance in the elderly.
The research [...]

(OMNS, November 5, 2008) If you have often suspected that drug studies are rigged by
the pharmaceutical manufacturer, you are right. “Drug studies skewed toward study
sponsors,” reported The Washington Post. (1) “Industry-funded research often favors
patent-holders, study finds.” Specifically, the American Journal of Psychiatry study
authors said, “In 90% of the studies, the reported overall outcome was in [...]

An over-the-counter vitamin in high doses prevented memory loss in mice with Alzheimer’s disease, and UC Irvine scientists now are conducting a clinical trial to determine its effect in humans.
Nicotinamide, a form of vitamin B3, lowered levels of a protein called phosphorylated tau that leads to the development of tangles, one of two brain lesions [...]

Vitamin D is essential to good health but needs to be activated to function properly in the human body. A study published in  the Journal of Immunology links the vitamin D locally produced in lung airway cells to activation of two genes that help fight infection.  Until recently, this activation was thought to happen primarily [...]

About 5 million people in the United States suffer from heart failure (HF). While some reports indicate that changes to diet can reduce HF risk, few large, prospective studies have been conducted. In a new study researchers observed over 14,000 participants for more than 13 years and found that whole grain consumption lowered HF risk, [...]