This week American specialists issued several guidelines in order to help primary care physicians diagnose and treat venous thromboembolisms (VTEs), which include deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.

According to  neurologists, they have created a fast test to evaluate the risk that a person suffering a transient ischaemic attack (TIA), or "mini stroke," will have a major stroke in the subsequent forty eight hours.

According to the latest study, the investigational antihypertensive medication called clevidipine may be able to control blood pressure for heart surgery patients more effectively than ordinary treatments.

Nausea is a universal term that describes a sick stomach. Sometimes you feel like vomiting and sometimes not. From time to time almost everybody suffers from nausea. This is why it is one of the most frequent problems occurring in medicine. Nausea is not an illness, but a symptom of many different diseases. It can result from problems in any of the three parts of the body, such as:

The researchers have cracked the genome of the parasite that leads to trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted disease striking 170 million people all over the world every year.

According to the latest research by British scientists, low-dose, slow-release morphine can offer chronic coughers considerable relief.

According to American scientists, a synthetic composite that is a distant chemical relative of a component of curcumin - a spice used for producing curry - demonstrates promise against an inherited neurodegenerative condition known as Kennedy’s disease.

The illness, that strikes only men, resembles a slowly progressive form of Lou Gehrig’s illness. The treatment for Kennedy’s disease does not exist, which results from a mutant gene.

According to a review in the January issue of the journal Health Psychology, psychological methods of treatment like hypnosis, biofeedback, relaxation and counselling may be helpful in alleviating chronic low back pain.

According to American experts, whilst media coverage may indicate that researchers are concentrated on how environmental factors - especially childhood vaccines - contribute to autism, brain and behavior research are the main focus of autism studies.

According to American research presented at the American College of Cardiology’s conference in New Orleans, patients experiencing heart attack may profit from eating a Mediterranean-style diet, with such foods as fish, olive oil and other sources of healthy fats.