In a retrospective study, researchers from Saudi Arabia compared 194 ICU patients who received consistent statin therapy for 1 year prior to ICU admission with a control group of 1,188 patients who did not receive statin therapy. Researchers from Stanford Cancer Center in California compared disease characteristics and survival of lung cancer patients aged 15 to 39 years at diagnosis with patients aged ≥40 years at diagnosis. Researchers from the University of Kansas, Kansas City, MO, compared 700 critically ill patients 1 year prior to remote telemonitoring implementation with 4,592 critically ill patients 2 years after telemonitoring implementation. Compared with 20 patients in the matched control group, after 3 months, patients in the study group showed a statistically significant increase of muscle strength and covered distance during a 6-minute walk test, and a decrease of breathless degree. Researchers at Cough Center, Inc, in California treated 266 patients (ages 7 to 85 years) with seasonal allergic (3 percent), nonallergic (65 percent), or mixed rhinitis (32 percent) with open-label combinations of azelastine nasal spray, steroid nasal sprays, ipratropium nasal spray, or cromolyn nasal spray. read more

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New York’s Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine , who was not connected to the study. Earlier this year, a small study in the United States showed that in older men and women, daily doses of ibuprofen or acetaminophen over three months helped them increase their muscle mass during weightlifting sessions. While the drugs may alleviate the pain of minor injuries, athletes may be missing a warning signal from their body that their injuries are more serious than they think. Search Type All News Yahoo! Kobe Bryant’s injury not serious Lakers fans can rest easy. read more

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