Researchers at Johns Hopkins are reporting what is believed to be the first conclusive evidence in men that the long-term ill effects of vitamin D deficiency are amplified by lower levels of the key sex hormone estrogen, but not testosterone. In a national study in 1010 men, researchers say the new findings build on previous [...]

Harvard.edu – Combination drug therapy has become a staple for treating many infections. For instance, doctors treat extensively drug resistant forms of tuberculosis with one drug that breaks down the pathogen’s protective barriers and opens the door for another to deliver the deathblow. Just as some drugs work better together, however, other pairings are counter-productive. [...]

Charles H. Hennekens, M.D. is presenting at the American Heart Association’s Annual Scientific Sessions meeting the first data in humans to show that all doses of aspirin used in clinical practice increase nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is released from the blood vessel wall and may decrease the development and progression of plaques leading to heart [...]

AACR.org – Although scientists are reluctant to officially endorse green tea or green tea extract as a cancer prevention method, evidence continues to grow about its protective effects, including results of a new study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, which suggests some reduction in oral cancer. [...]

Med.UMich.edu – A small group of patients with severe Graves’ eye disease experienced rapid improvement of their symptoms – and improved vision – following treatment with the drug rituximab. Inflammation around their eyes and damage to the optic nerve were significantly reduced. The same patients had not previously responded to steroids, a common treatment for [...]

HopkinsMedicine.org – Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects, and old medications can sometimes find new uses. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a gonorrhea medication – acriflavine – that might help fight cancer. “Often times we are surprised that a drug known to do something else [...]