Top

Find on this page all our news articles. You can filter them by disease using the search bar above. Browse these articles and register to give your opinion in a comment!

Epilepsy medicines pregabalin and gabapentin to be reclassified as class C drugs

Epilepsy
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Epilepsy medicines pregabalin and gabapentin to be reclassified as class C drugs

24 Oct 2018 • 5 comments

Epilepsy medicines pregabalin and gabapentin to be reclassified as class C drugs to help minimise possible misuse. The UK government announced last week that the medicines pregabalin and gabapentin...

Read the article
Diabetes: Fridge temperature may make insulin less effective

Diabetes (Type 2)
Diabetes insipidus
Diabetic neuropathy

Diabetes: Fridge temperature may make insulin less effective

22 Oct 2018 • 1 comment

New research that set out to analyze the temperatures at which people living with diabetes store their insulin is now warning against the perils of improper storage for the quality and effectiveness...

Read the article
Telling patients to 'fight' cancer puts them under pressure

Cancer

Telling patients to 'fight' cancer puts them under pressure

4 Oct 2018 • 11 comments

Cancer patients should not be told to “fight” their disease because doing so puts them under “exhausting pressure”, Macmillan Cancer Support has said. The charity warned that framing cancer in terms...

Read the article
In shift to general wellness, Weight Watchers becomes 'WW'

Choriocarcinoma
Difficult pregnancy
Dysmenorrhea
Dyspareunia
Eclampsia
Female hypogonadism
Fetal cytomegalovirus syndrome
Fibrocystic breast disease
Gestational diabetes
Hydatidiform mole
Hydramnios
Infertility
Internal endometriosis
Maternal hyperphenylalaninemia
Menopause
Menorrhagia
Miscarriage
MURCS association
Ovarian cyst
Postpartum depression
Preeclampsia
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Uterine fibroma
Vulvodynia / Vestibulodynia
Vulvovaginal Atrophy
Women's health

In shift to general wellness, Weight Watchers becomes 'WW'

27 Sept 2018 • 4 comments

Global weight loss giant Weight Watchers is changing its name to WW as it moves toward promoting healthy living ingeneral, the company announced Monday. Its new slogan -- "Wellness that works" --...

Read the article
MS: New drug proven to slow brain shrinkage

Multiple sclerosis

MS: New drug proven to slow brain shrinkage

26 Sept 2018 • 3 comments

A new clinical trial for the drug ibudilast offers much-needed hope for people living with multiple sclerosis — a neurological condition that affects primarily women and has limited treatment...

Read the article
Sex differences in brain activity alter pain therapies

Arthritis
Osteoarthritis

Sex differences in brain activity alter pain therapies

26 Sept 2018 • 3 comments

Women suffer from a higher incidence of chronic and inflammatory pain conditions such as fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis, say researchers. A female brain's resident immune cells are more active in...

Read the article
Inquiry starts into UK blood contamination scandal

Inquiry starts into UK blood contamination scandal

25 Sept 2018 • 1 comment

A public inquiry in Britain into a contaminated blood scandal dating back decades which left at least 2,400 people dead began Monday with a commemoration service and opening statements. The...

Read the article
'World first' trial in Cardiff for new treatment for Type 1 diabetes

Diabetes (Type 1)
Diabetes insipidus

'World first' trial in Cardiff for new treatment for Type 1 diabetes

24 Sept 2018 • 14 comments

A 'ground-breaking' clinical trial has been launched in Cardiff to help prevent and manage Type 1 diabetes. The Clinical Research Facility at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has dosed the...

Read the article
Removing 'zombie' cells deters Alzheimer's in mice

Acute motor axonal neuropathy
Acute motor-sensory axonal neuropathy
Aicardi syndrome
Alexander disease
Algodystrophy
Alström syndrome
Alzheimer's disease
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Angelman syndrome
Angiopathy
Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
Aphasia
Arachnoid cyst
Arnold neuralgia
Arnold-Chiari malformation
Asperger syndrome
Ataxia-telangiectasia
Autonomic dysreflexia
Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia
Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia
Brain Injury
Brown-Sequard syndrome
Cephalalgia
Cerebral palsy
Cervicobrachial neuralgia
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Chordoma
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
Chronic neuralgia
Chronic polyradiculoneuropathy
CLIPPERS
Cluster headache
Complex regional pain syndrome
Concussion
Congenital myasthenic syndromes
Corpus callosum agenesis
Corticobasal degeneration
Cutis verticis gyrata
Dentatorubral pallidoluysian atrophy
Dysautonomia
Dystonia
Encephalitis
Ependymoma
Epilepsy
Erythromelalgia
Essential tremors
Familial dysautonomia
Fanconi anemia
Friedreich ataxia
Functional Movement Disorder
Glioblastoma
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Harding ataxia
Hemidystonia
Hemiplegia
Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies
Herpetic encephalitis
Huntington disease
Hydrocephalus
Idiopathic aplastic anemia
Infantile Refsum disease
Intracranial hypertension
Isolated anencephaly/exencephaly
Kennedy disease
Korsakoff syndrome
Lafora disease
Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
Late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
Leigh syndrome
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
Lewy Body Dementia
Lissencephaly
MASA syndrome
MELAS syndrome
Meningioma
MERRF syndrome
Morton's neuroma
Multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block
Multiple system atrophy
Myasthenia
Myelitis
Myoclonic-Dystonia
Narcolepsy
NARP syndrome
Nervous system diseases
Neurodegeneration associated with pantothenate kinase deficiency
Neurodegeneration with iron accumulation in the brain
Neurogenic bladder
Neuroma
Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
Paralysis
paresis
Parkinson's disease
Paroxysmal hemicrania
Paroxysmal non-kinesigenic dyskinesia
Parsonage-Turner syndrome
Pelvic and perineal pains
Peripheral neuropathy
Pineal cyst
POEMS syndrome
Polyneuritis
Polyneuropathy
Postpoliomyelitic syndrome
Primary lateral sclerosis
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures
Pudendal neuralgia
Radiculopathy
Refsum disease
Restless legs syndrome
Schizencephaly
Sensory neuropathy
Short bowel syndrome
Spina bifida
Spinocerebellar ataxia
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3
Syringomyelia
Tarlov cyst
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Thoracic outlet syndrome
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
Transverse myelitis
Trigeminal neuralgia
Unverricht-Lundborg disease
Vasovagal syncope
Viral encephalitis
Viral meningitis
Visceral neuropathy
Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome
West syndrome
X-linked cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy

Removing 'zombie' cells deters Alzheimer's in mice

20 Sept 2018 • 4 comments

Eliminating dead-but-toxic cells occurring naturally in the brains of mice designed to mimic Alzheimer's slowed neuron damage and memory loss associated with the disease, according to a...

Read the article
Cancer cases climb but mortality rates decline

Cancer

Cancer cases climb but mortality rates decline

12 Sept 2018

The number of cancer cases has continued to rise across Europe, however mortality rates from the disease have fallen, according to the World Health Organization's "European Health Report", published...

Read the article
Electronic Cigarette Use May Reverse the Harm Resulting From Tobacco Smoking in COPD Patients

Brittle asthma
COPD

Electronic Cigarette Use May Reverse the Harm Resulting From Tobacco Smoking in COPD Patients

6 Sept 2018 • 1 comment

A new study that was recently published in the International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, led by Riccardo Polosa, MD, PhD (Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the...

Read the article
New asthma treatment set for wider NHS distribution

Asthma

New asthma treatment set for wider NHS distribution

3 Sept 2018 • 3 comments

A new treatment for severe asthma is set to be made more widely available on the NHS in the UK by the end of 2018. The procedure, bronchial thermoplasty, "melts" away excess muscle tissue in the...

Read the article