Chronic Care

Calcium channel blocker dramatically improved symptom scores in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps.

Yoga is a mind-body exercise sometimes used for nonspecific low back pain.

Propranolol granted Orphan Drug Designation by the European Commission.

Black patients more likely to exhibit eosinophilic airway inflammation than white patients.

In total dollars spent, diabetes costs Americans more than any other disease.

Post-polio syndrome affects polio survivors 30 to 40 years after they've recovered from their initial poliomyelitis.

Lubiprostone a promising treatment for chronic idiopathic constipation.

Dexcom G5 CGM could replace traditional finger-stick tests of blood glucose levels.

Primary care physicians and nurse practitioners are taking on more areas of co-infection out of necessity.

Drug manufacturer making progress in the quest for a diabetes cure.

A new book provides guidelines to help diabetics live healthy and normal lives.

Non-physician health professionals believe improving health insurance coverage for weight loss services could help obese individuals lose weight.

Low health literacy, financial instability, and lack of social support promote poor adherence.

Clinicians rely on a limited number of drugs to help patients with type 2 diabetes.

The discovery of a fundamental mechanism may provide different approaches for vaccine development.

Diagnostic errors impact the outcomes of patients with asthma and COPD.

The rise in indoor temperatures worsened respiratory symptom scores and increased the use of recuse inhalers, a new study found.

The National Standard for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support differentiates 2 important ways to improve diabetes care.

Past research has shown that conditions such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes occur more frequently following menopause. However, recent study results suggest the exact opposite.

Patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia often have difficulty communicating.

Today, 99,478 of the 120,001(83%) of patients on the organ transplant waiting list in the United States still await a kidney transplant.

Stress reduction may be an undervalued strategy in helping patients avoid cardiac-related event recurrence.

With projections of physician shortages ranging from 46,000 to 90,000 in the next decade, patients with hepatitis C virus could be left with gaps in their care.

August is Psoriasis Awareness Month, making it the perfect opportunity for clinicians to brush up on the wide variety of health issues often associated with the disease.

Poor medication adherence habits constitute a major threat to public health and costs the United States between $100 billion and $289 billion annually.

A scientific statement from the American Heart Association warns that unintended interactions among prescription drugs, OTC products, herbs, or nutritional supplements may trigger or worsen heart failure.

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants play an important role in curbing childhood obesity, which can lead to a variety of health and emotional problems both in adulthood and childhood.

The latest federal diabetes screening recommendations fail to catch 55% of adults at high risk for diabetes, a recent investigation found.

The US health system can expect to manage an explosion of older cancer survivors, new study results have found.

Text messages that provide advice, motivation, and support could make a difference for patients with coronary artery disease.