New Internet Test Diagnoses Autism in Minutes

(ePharmaNews) – A good news for every parent afraid of his child having autism, as a group of American researchers has announced yesterday that they created a method that only needs an internet connection and a couple of minutes, eliminating the need to visit the physician's clinic and handling hours of stress. The new technique can enable parents to diagnose their children themselves, which may have a positive impact on the over-all prognosis by detecting the diseases as early as possible. Continue reading

FDA Add New Side effect to Birth Control Pills Labels

(ePharmaNews) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has completed today its review of recent observational (epidemiologic) studies regarding the risk of blood clots in women taking drospirenone-containing birth control pills. Continue reading

High Blood Sugar May Benefit Heart Patients!

(ePharmaNews) - We know that strict control of blood sugar is essential to prevent the terrible complications of diabetes like amputations, blindness, kidney and heart diseases, but it seems that there is an exception for this in patients who have both diabetes and heart failure. A new study -lead by researchers in UCLA- found that for patients with diabetes and an advanced heart failure, having higher blood glucose levels may actually help improving survival rates. Continue reading

Dental X-Ray Causes Brain Tumor

(ePharmaNews) - Dentists use X-ray repeatedly as an important diagnosis tool, but a recent study, which is the first of its kind, may force dentists to reconsider X-ray medical procedures. Continue reading

Summer Temperature Swings Kill Elders

(ePharmaNews) - New research suggests that what seems like small summer temperature swings—as little as 1°C more than usual—may shorten life expectancy for elderly people with chronic medical conditions, and could result in thousands of additional deaths each year. Continue reading

Teenage Pregnancy Rates Increased by Inequality

(ePharmaNews) - Teenage pregnancy is a problem for teenage mothers and children and society as a whole. According to a Non-Government Organization Save the Children, there are 13 million children around the world that are born to women under 20 years old, annually; that is more than 90% in the developing countries. Continue reading

Less Support For Depressed Patients

(ePharmaNews) - Many people tend to blame persons with psychological disturbances and ask them not to act as "patients", even though they are actually identified by specialists as patients. This phenomenon is addressed in a recent study, researchers found that patients of depression and common mental illnesses do not receive adequate support. Continue reading

Economic Recovery is Associated with A Decrease in Cholesterol Level

(ePharmaNews) - Improving standards of living and increasing income is often associated with higher risk of having the rich diseases, especially higher cholesterol levels caused by unhealthy diet, lazy lifestyle and a reduction in the exercise time. Anyway, it seems that the relationship is complex and may be the opposite, as a recent study showed that income improvement in the community leads to lower levels of blood cholesterol. Continue reading

Life Expectancy Controls Major Life Decisions

(ePharmaNews) - A new Canadian study has found that major decisions in life is affected by how long people believe they will live. Continue reading

Genes Make You Nicer

(ePharmaNews) - "So if one of your neighbors seems really generous, caring, civic-minded kind of person, while another seems more selfish, tight-fisted and not as interested in pitching in, their DNA may help explain why one of them is nicer than the other," according to a recent study. Continue reading