Brain imaging confirms that some individuals really are more sensitive to pain than others, report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have discovered that a relatively common treatment for a diverse group of diseases may induce stroke in a small percentage of the population.
Older women who take the most common form of hormone replacement therapy (combined estrogen plus progestin) may double their risk of developing dementia according to research.
Researchers at Brenner Children"šs Hospital are working on a novel gene therapy to help new moms and their babies who suffer from genetic defects, according to findings.
Scientists at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University have developed a colony of mice that successfully fight off virulent transplanted cancers.
An enzyme that helps disease-causing bacteria withstand attacks by the body's natural defenses turns out to be a key to human cell survival and growth and may help explain why cancer cells can multiply unchecked.
Women who were interviewed after mammography reported only mild pain, less intense than pain from a mild headache or shoes that are a little too tight, report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
The majority of people who suffer from migraine headaches, characterized as painful, disabling and recurring headaches, may not be receiving the most effective treatments, according to a study published this month.
People who have had "silent strokes," which have no symptoms, are 8 to 12 percent more likely to have a major debilitating stroke within the following year, researchers have discovered.
A national study of adult day centers found that 56 percent of U.S. counties did not have enough adult day centers to meet the need, according to the national director of Partners in Caregiving.
Almost half (47 percent) of Latino migrant and seasonal farm workers in North Carolina can't afford enough food for their families and 15 percent have to resort to measures such as cutting the size of their child's meals or not eating for a whole day.
Spring safety tips for children: 1) scooter and bicycle safety; 2) lawnmower injury prevention; 3) gun safety tips; 4) kitchen burns; 5) bicycle helmet safety.
The timing of treatment may be a key factor in whether hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can slow heart vessel disease, report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and Tufts-New England Medical Center in the winter issue of Menopausal Medicine.
The U.S. Patent Office has issued a broad patent to Wake Forest University covering a new vaccine technology that may contribute directly to development of vaccines against various types of cancer, chronic viral infections and even autoimmune diseases.
Scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and the Medical University of South Carolina may be on the trail of a new treatment for systemic lupus, a disease that affects more than 1 million Americans, mostly women.
Kristy Freeman Woods, M.D., M.P.H., has been named director of the Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health of Wake Forest University Health Sciences.
Injections of a progesterone-type hormone may be able to prevent more than a third of pre-term births in women with a history of giving birth early, reported Paul J. Meis, M.D., of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, today (Feb. 6).
Drinking water can help you in your efforts to lose weight, says a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center nutritionist.
Helping employees successfully balance work and home life may require that current "family-friendly" policies be refocused, suggests research by Joseph G. Grzywacz, Ph.D., of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
An enzyme found only in the liver and intestines may play a crucial role in the development of hardening of the arteries -- or atherosclerosis, a research team from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center report that surgery combined with inserting heated chemotherapy drugs directly into the abdomen can improve survival rates in patients with disseminated cancer of the abdominal cavity.
A major clinical trial of blood pressure medications has concluded that an inexpensive diuretic (water pill) is more effective in treating high blood pressure and preventing cardiovascular disease than newer more expensive medications.
A pediatrician at Brenner Children's Hospital recommends acupuncture as part of a treatment plan for children with chronic pain or nausea, according to a study.
Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh report that they have found defects in the gene that produces a common protein in urine and that these defects are linked to two inherited kidney diseases.
How do you fit in at holiday parties when you're on a special diet or are simply trying to eat healthy? How do you avoid putting a damper on the party?
Eating out doesn't have to mean unhealthy eating, says a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center nutritionist.
Parents who are trying to make healthy eating a lifelong habit for their children face particular challenges at the holidays as they attempt to set a festive table as well as a good example, says Alice Baker a registered dietitian at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Investigators at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have demonstrated for the first time that screening newborn infants for a particular genetic defect can be lifesaving when their mothers develop a rare complication of pregnancy.
New evidence supports the existence of a second type of congestive heart failure in which the heart contracts normally but doesn't fill with enough blood, report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
A recently recognized form of congestive heart failure -- in which the heart contracts normally but doesn't fill with enough blood -- results in more deaths nationwide than the more widely known form of the disorder, report researchers.
A pediatric heart surgeon at Brenner Children's Hospital will use video-assisted surgery to repair a heart defect in a one-year-old boy during a live Webcast from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center at 5 p.m. Oct. 23.
Symptoms of depression, irritability, and apathy are common among people with mild memory loss, known to doctors as "mild cognitive impairment," and often can be successfully treated, according to researchers who analyzed data from the massive Cardiovascular Health Study.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant by the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to coordinate a worldwide effort to identify the genes that determine susceptibility to Type 1 diabetes.
A pediatrician at Brenner Children's Hospital has developed an efficient way to help educate health care professionals on herbal and dietary supplements via the Internet.
Scientists in the Center for Human Genomics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions have discovered a gene that "may play an important role in prostate cancer susceptibility in both African-American men and men of European descent."
Genes play a significant role in heart function, and may partly determine who develops the most common form of heart failure, report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Though tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, medical schools are not doing enough to train medical students to help their patients quit smoking, a Wake Forest University School of Medicine research team reports.
Women in one major study group of the massive Women's Health Initiative -- those who are taking a combination of estrogen plus progestin as hormone replacement therapy -- are being told to stop taking their study drugs.
Monkeys that choose to drink alcohol heavily develop early signs of alterations in the liver, according to research by a team of investigators from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine scientists are closing in on why drinking alcohol before bedtime paradoxically improves sleep that evening, but disrupts sleep during the early morning hours.
A Wake Forest University School of Medicine researcher today challenged a commonly accepted view on how alcohol acts in the brain in a plenary session presentation at a meeting in San Francisco.
Small amounts of the most deadly toxin known to man are proving effective at preventing debilitating headaches. Success rates as high as 92 percent using injections of botulinum toxin to treat patients who didn't respond to headache medications.
People with the most common types of multiple sclerosis who don't respond to traditional therapy may benefit from a combination drug therapy, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher reported at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Denver, Colo.
Patients of health maintenance organizations that pay their doctors a fixed amount for each "covered life" are more likely to get health counseling and preventive services, according to a Wake Forest University School of Medicine study.
A genetic variant seems to determine how well women's good cholesterol responds to estrogen therapy. The finding could help doctors identify women most likely to gain a heart benefit from hormone therapy.
Stopping hormone replacement therapy does not appear to accelerate loss of bone in postmenopausal women, according to a long-term follow-up of the national Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Intervention study
Wake Forest University School of Medicine has licensed three soy-related technologies to Physicians Laboratories of Kernersville, which will use the technologies to develop "medical foods."
When it comes to protection against heart disease, women with the healthiest blood vessels may have the most to gain from estrogen replacement therapy.
A group of commonly prescribed hypertension drugs shows promise for delaying muscle loss and disability in older adults, report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Contrary to popular belief, patient trust of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) increases when patients are told that their physicians are rewarded for saving money, according to a Wake Forest University study.
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