Acupuncture benefits migraine patients
People who suffer from chronic migraines may benefit from acupuncture to reduce the severity and frequency of their headaches, German study results show. (Source: MedWire News - Consumer Health) MedWorm Sponsored Message: Find out how you can get your message across here by sponsoring this MedWorm news feed.
Factors may prevent postpartum smoking relapse
Eventhough a number of women quit smoking during pregnancy to protect their unborn children from the effects of cigarettes, half of them resume the habit within a few months of giving birth. By shedding light on the factors that enable the other half to put down that cigarette for good, a study by scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill could lead to programs designed to help women quit and stay quit........ (Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert)
Heart attack patients who stop statin risk death
Patients discontinuing statin medicine following an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) increase their risk of dying over the next year, say scientists at McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). Their study was published in a recent issue of the European Heart Journal Using data on British patients who survived an AMI and were still alive three months later, Dr. Stella Daskalopoulou and his colleagues observed that those who discontinued their statin medicine were 88% more likely to die during the following year in comparison to those who had never been on the medication........ (Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert)
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