According to research, “Emotional Eating” may actually be physiological
• Dieting • Jan 12 06
Do you feel like the more stressed you are the more junk food you eat? It’s not just in your mind-new research indicates those…
Family Dinners Benefit children long after the meal is over
• Children's Health • Jan 12 06
Last month, millions of Americans spent the holidays gathered around the table, but are the holidays the only time that you eat dinner together…
Working long hours can actually make you sick
• Public Health • Jan 12 06
Do you work overtime? The answer may determine whether you get sick this cold and flu season. Millions of Americans work more than 60…
Vanderbilt Medical Experts Propose FDA Drug Approval Changes
• Drug News • Jan 12 06
Efforts to reform drug regulation in the wake of the Vioxx withdrawal do not go far enough, according to experts at Vanderbilt University Medical…
Centrally coordinated control campaign crucial to battle bird flu
• Flu • Jan 12 06
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned today that the highly pathogenic Avian Influenza virus H5N1 could become endemic in…
Face perception is mediated by a distributed neural system in the human brain
• Brain • Jan 12 06
New research indicates that an area of the brain thought to act in reward circuitry may represent a phase in visual processing during which…
New test could monitor bird flu virus mutations
• Flu • Jan 11 06
A new test may help provide a kind of early warning system for new and dangerous mutations of the avian flu virus, U.S. researchers…
Lives will be saved as early signs of meningitis now identified
• Emergencies / First Aid • Jan 11 06
Scientists in the UK say they have identified the early signs of meningitis and blood poisoning which should improve detection of the disease and…
Insect spray may lower testosterone levels in men
• Gender: Male • Jan 11 06
While infertility may be caused by a number of factors, new study findings suggest that exposure to nonpersistent, or short-lasting, insecticides may play…
More nurses improves the quality of hospital care
• Public Health • Jan 11 06
A study in the January/February 2006 issue of the journal Health Affairs concludes that increasing the number of registered nurses and hours of nursing…
Component in Soy Products Causes Reproductive Problems in Mice
• Gender: Male • Jan 11 06
Genistein, a major component of soy, was found to disrupt the development of the ovaries in newborn female mice that were given the product.…
Avian Flu - What Can We Do?
• Flu • Jan 11 06
The University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security is pulling together 23 national avian flu experts from avian flu research, public health…
Gene that increases risk for Alzheimer’s disease
• Neurology • Jan 11 06
An international team of researchers, led by investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, are zeroing in on a gene that…
Breastfed babies may become leaner kids
• Children's Health • Jan 10 06
A new study suggests that the longer infants are breastfed, the lower the likelihood they’ll be overweight as adolescents, a relationship that does not…
Taking a taxi could increase your exposure to pollution
• Respiratory Problems • Jan 10 06
Researchers have discovered that your level of exposure to pollution can vary according to what method of transport you use, with travelling by taxis…
FDA approves jaw joint prosthetic developed by University of Pennsylvania
• Dental Health • Jan 10 06
After a 10-year clinical trial of a jaw joint replacement developed by Peter Quinn of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, the…
British research says daughters turn parents to left, sons to right
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jan 10 06
New research by economists Professor Andrew Oswald at the University of Warwick, and Dr Nattavudh Powdthavee at London University’s Institute of Education, reveals that…
As Turks struggle with bird flu experts say it will be controlled
• Flu • Jan 10 06
As local officials were sealing off parts of the major cities of Ankara and Istanbul and thousands of birds were being culled, Guenael Rodier,…
Erectile dysfunction may be sign of coming heart disease
• Sexual Health • Jan 10 06
Most wives would say their husbands are notoriously bad about avoiding the doctor’s office. Erectile dysfunction (ED) might be the only problem that prompts…
Uterine fibroid embolization shows high rate of long-term symptom control
• Urine Problems • Jan 10 06
In the first long term study of patients receiving uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) for the relief of symptoms from fibroid tumors 73% report continued…
Avian Flu Transmission to Humans May Be Higher Than Thought
• Flu • Jan 09 06
A new study suggests that there is an association between direct contact with dead or sick poultry and flu-like illness in humans and that…
Kids learn about STD’s when they are getting diagnosed with them
• Sexual Health • Jan 09 06
Most sexually active teenage girls know relatively little about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) until it is too late, according to a paper by Carnegie…
Method Fosters Improved Oral Feeding in Infants with Robin Sequence
• Childbirth • Jan 09 06
In fewer than 11 days, infants with moderate to severe breathing problems significantly improved their oral feeding with the help of feeding-facilitating techniques…
Many Parents Unaware of RSV: Tips on This Winter-Borne Virus
• Children's Health • Jan 09 06
Although respiratory syncytial virus (commonly known as RSV) affects almost all children at least once before they are two years old, many parents may…
Raising alcohol prices does not always reduce sales
• Public Health • Jan 09 06
Both research and policy initiatives tend to support increasing the prices of alcohol beverages as a way of reducing alcohol sales and related problems.…