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Results from this small, 8-week crossover study suggest that the antioxidant Pycnogenol, which also possesses anti-inflammatory actions, could help improve endothelial function in people with stable coronary artery disease.
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Aspirin can reduce the risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction, but not mortality, in people without coronary vascular disease, at the expense of increased risk of bleeding. It should not be routinely recommended.
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Among patients with coronary heart disease and LDL-cholesterol levels less than 70 mg/dL, there is no incremental clinical benefit from the addition of niacin to statin therapy during a 36-month follow-up, despite improvements in HDL-cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
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This brief but important intervention trial was detailed recently in the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The conclusion was that eating canned soup on a regular basis could rapidly increase the body load of BPA, high levels of which have been associated with a variety of illnesses.
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The first results of a 5-year study of the effects a mindfulness-based stress reduction program on medical complications and psychosocial outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes show prolonged reduction in psychological distress and depression compared to usual care.
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Both vitamin D deficiency and supplementation with vitamin D are significantly associated with several cardiovascular outcomes, including mortality.
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Emergency contraception (EC) should be widely available and easily accessible to all women, according to a just-released committee opinion issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
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Public health is a familiar setting for many readers of Contraceptive Technology Update. About 51% of respondents to the 2012 Salary Survey say they work in a health department, and most noted no changes in 2012 staffing numbers.
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An annual Pap smear might soon become a thing of the past. Most women should be screened for cervical cancer no more often than once every three to five years, according to new cervical cancer screening guidance issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
