Parents may have already begun the annual back-to-school shopping expedition with their children, where school shoes are likely be purchased. According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), parents buying back-to-school gear should make sure their children have properly fitting shoes that offer both protection and comfort.
“The primary purpose of shoes is to protect [...]

Researchers at the University of Southern California have uncovered the health benefits of aspirin in the fight against osteoporosis. Forty-four million Americans, 68 percent of whom are women, suffer from the debilitating effects of osteoporosis according to the National Institute of Health. One out of every two women and one in four men over 50 [...]

Can the heart muscle damage from heart attacks be dramatically reduced by medications already approved by the FDA for other uses? Researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have just released news that a class of medications - HDAC inhibitors - shows promise in promoting recovery from heart attacks. Some HDAC inhibitors, such as Depakote [...]

AACR.org - Among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone therapy following prostate cancer vaccine treatment improved overall survival compared with either treatment alone or when the vaccine followed hormone treatment, according to recent data published in the July 15, 2008 edition of Clinical Cancer Research , a journal of the American Association [...]

MayoClinic.org - A recent small but well-designed medical study showed that a combination of fish oil and red yeast rice supplements - combined with active lifestyle intervention - actually worked better than conventional statin therapy for lowering LDL cholesterol, improving triglyceride levels, and weight loss. The alternative medicine study is published in the July 2008 [...]

A group of aging experts from the United States and the United Kingdom suggests that the best strategy for preventing and fighting a multitude of diseases is to focus on slowing the biological processes of aging.
"The traditional medical approach of attacking individual diseases - cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease - will [...]