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Yoga May Bring Better Sleep to Breast Cancer Patients

9:00 AM EST. As little as two times a week seemed to make a difference over long term Read article

APOE Allele Type Tied to Mortality Risk

7:00 PM EST. No racial difference in the association between these alleles and mortality

August 2017 Briefing - Neurology

September 01, 2017. The Monthly Journal Summary is a single article covering the most important journal articles published in the previous 30 days.

The Wrongly Famous in Medical History

M. Aroon Kamath, M.D..

In medical history, there have been instances wherein, one gained “name” and “fame” for “describing” a particular condition or “performing” a procedure, when in fact, someone else had already described or performed that procedure. Some conditions have been wrongly named after individuals…

Massive Recall of Tylenol in USA, UAE and Fiji

Tamer M. Fouad, M.D..

Johnson and Johnson is extending the voluntary recall of certain lots of OTC products in the Americas, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Fiji. This includes Tylenol, Motrin and St. Joseph’s aspirin.

Study links restless leg syndrome with erectile dysfunction in older men

Tamer M. Fouad, M.D..

A study in the journal Sleep shows that erectile dysfunction was more common in older men with restless leg syndrome (RLS) than in those without RLS, and the magnitude of this association increased with a higher frequency of RLS symptoms.