JAMA / Archives - A traditional Mediterranean diet with an additional daily serving of mixed nuts appears to be useful for managing some metabolic abnormalities in older adults at high risk for heart disease, according to a report in the December 8/22, 2008 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
The metabolic syndrome is a set of [...]

JAMA / Archives - Older adults with symptoms of depression appear more likely to gain abdominal fat, but not overall fat, over a five-year period, according to a report in the December 2008 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
About 10 percent to 15 percent of older adults have symptoms of depression, according to background information [...]

JAMA / Archives - Face-to-face and telephone follow-up sessions appear to be more effective in the maintenance of weight loss for women from rural communities compared with weight loss education alone, according to a report in the November 24, 2008 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. In addition, telephone counseling appears to be just as [...]

JAMA / Archives - Older adults who take the diabetes medication rosiglitazone appear to have a higher risk of death and heart failure than those taking the related medication pioglitazone, according to a report in the November 24, 2008 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
In 1997, a new class of oral medications known as thiazolidinediones [...]

Aecom.yu.edu - A team of researchers has determined that certain commonly-prescribed headache pain medications may have the unintended consequence of increasing the frequency of migraine attacks. This important finding by investigators at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University could alter the way doctors prescribe migraine medicines.
In a recent article published in the [...]

JAMA / Archives - Sleeping less than seven and a half hours per day may be associated with future risk of heart disease, according to research presented in the November 10, 2008 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. In addition, a combination of little sleep and overnight elevated blood pressure appears to be associated with [...]

JAMA / Archives - A European study suggests that the combination of low plasma levels of antioxidants and blue light exposure from the sun is associated with certain forms of the eye disease age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a report in the October 2008 issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.
“The retina is vulnerable to [...]

JAMA / Archives - Caffeine consumption does not appear to be associated with overall breast cancer risk, according to a report in the October 13, 2008 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. However, there is a possibility of increased risk for women with benign breast disease or for tumors that are hormone-receptor negative or larger [...]

JAMA / Archives - A majority of Parkinson’s disease patients had insufficient levels of vitamin D in a new NIH-funded study from Emory University School of Medicine.
The fraction of Parkinson’s patients with vitamin D insufficiency, 55 percent, was significantly more than patients with Alzheimer’s disease (41 percent) or healthy elderly people (36 percent).
The results [...]

JAMA / Archives - Women age 70 and older who sleep five hours or less per night may be more likely to experience falls than those who sleep more than seven to eight hours per night, according to a report in the September 8, 2008 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Additionally, the use of [...]