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Medically Reviewed Some complementary therapies may help manage asthma symptoms (and the stressors that can make symptoms worse). But experts say never substitute alternative therapies for medications and treatments prescribed by your doctor. iStock If you have asthma, odds are you’ve come across products marketed as “natural remedies,” “complementary therapies,” or “alternative treatments” for asthma symptoms. According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative He...

Study highlights urgent shortage of evidence for safe withdrawal from antidepressants ANI | Updated: Apr 23, 2021 11:42 IST Southampton [UK], April 23 (ANI): The findings of a new study suggest that while much is known about the ever-increasing uptake of antidepressant medications around the world, there is very little evidence on safe and effective approaches to discontinuing treatment. The findings of the study were published in the journal Cochrane Datab...

Medically Reviewed Being up front with your doctor about how migraine is affecting you is an important step toward finding effective treatment. Getty Images If you have migraine and you’re running out of acute medication every month, or if you’re counting or rationing pills, that may be a sign that you’re developing chronic migraine, according to Carrie O. Dougherty, MD, an attending physician at the Headache Center and an assistant professor of neurology at Georgetown University Medical ...

Ankylosing Spondylitis. The disease you can’t pronounce and likely had never heard of—until you or a loved one got diagnosed. It’s relatively rare, but for the 300,000 people in the U.S. (less than one percent of the adult population) who have it, it can be a real pain—literally. The disease, which affects the joints primarily in the lower back, can cause pain, stiffness, and damage, and not because of wear and tear, but thanks to inflammation, says Martin Bergman, M.D., chief of the di...

Research Article Comparative effect of physical exercise versus statins on improving arterial stiffness in patients with high cardiometabolic risk: A network meta-analysis Iván Cavero-Redondo, Affiliation Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Health and Social Research Center, Cuenca, Spain Affiliation Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom ⨯ Celia Alvarez-Bueno , Affiliation Institute of Applied Health Research, University o...

4 Exercises for Lower Back Pain Laura Williams Bustos, MS, ACSM EP-C Understanding lower back pain Lower back pain can be a true nightmare. If youve ever been laid up with an acute low back injury, or youve been plagued with ongoing, chronic pain, you know how it can take over your life. It can prevent you from even standing up or sitting down without experiencing a jolt of agony. The thing about back pain, though, is that the source can be a bit elusive. There are a slew of cau...

A Biokineticist Shares 3 Tips for Working From Home Safely, Smartly and Productively Remote working used to be a perk. Now it’s a way of life. But swapping the office for your living room has its pitfalls. These workspace tweaks will save you a world of pain By MEGAN FLEMMIT 13/01/2021 photography: Rowan Fee I Prop stylist: Mandy Maker I Illustrations: Andrea Manzati at Synergy Art I Plants: The Little Botanical Air Purifying Bundle Join Men’s Health and the UK’s brigh...

 E-Mail A previous version of the Cochrane review, consisting of 63 trials, seemed to show probiotics were effective. In this update, the addition of new trials, including two large well-conducted trials; the finding of substantive publication bias; and the use of GRADE led to a change in the authors assessment of effectiveness. Authors from LSTM, the Philippines, and New Zealand undertook this extensive update of this Cochrane Review (link is external)looking at the effectiveness of treating ...

RELATED: Randomized Controlled Trial Suggests Metformin Offers Benefits During Pregnancy Researchers randomly assigned 502 pregnant women with type 2 diabetes who were using insulin to add metformin (1,000 milligrams twice daily) or a placebo to their treatment regimen. As women neared the end of pregnancy, at 34 weeks’ gestation, the participants on metformin had lower average fasting blood sugar levels than their counterparts who didn’t take metformin (41.0 versus 43.2 millimoles per mol...

The risk of developing serious complications following a knee replacement could be up to 73% higher when a tourniquet is used, compared to surgery without a tourniquet, according to a study from the University of Warwick published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.