Preparing Kids For School Includes Bathroom Tips
• Children's Health • Jul 19 06
Going back to school can be exciting - and stressful, especially for kids ages 5 to 7 who are at risk of having wetting…
Childbirth experience can be improved with the help of a trusted friend
• Childbirth • Jul 19 06
A recent study shows that women who received continuous support in labor by a female support person trained as a “lay doula” had significantly…
Drugs for Postoperative Nausea May Not Help Most Patients
• Bowel Problems • Jul 19 06
Patients coming out of anesthesia after surgery may experience nausea or vomiting, and are frequently given drugs to prevent this. But the majority of…
Expert Offers Tips on Avoiding Backpack Injuries in Children
• Backache • Jul 19 06
In the rush to buy back-to-school supplies for their children, parents may unknowingly purchase backpacks that do more harm than good, warns a University…
A look at Gynecomastia
• Gender: Male • Jul 19 06
Who would think an invitation to a beach, lake, or pool party could strike terror in a boy’s - or man’s - heart? Yet…
Plastic surgeons have new device for midface lifts
• Surgery • Jul 19 06
A device used to help plastic surgeons perform lifts of the midface area produces good results, according to the results of a pilot study.
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What motivates kids to do their homework?
• Children's Health • Jul 18 06
Why do some students work hard on their homework, while others do not? Results of a survey of students attending middle schools and high…
Knee Replacements Designed for Women
• Surgery • Jul 18 06
Orthopaedic surgeons at UT Southwestern Medial Center are the first in North Texas to use knee implants specifically designed to fit a woman’s anatomy.
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Drug industry laments G8 failure on vaccine plan
• Drug News • Jul 18 06
World leaders missed a major opportunity to boost basic health in poor countries this week when G8 leaders failed to adopt a lead vaccine…
Children with eczema have the same impaired quality of life as those with kidney disease
• Children's Health • Jul 18 06
Children with serious skin conditions feel their quality of life is impaired to the same extent as those with chronic illnesses such as epilepsy,…
IVIG Antibodies Provide Lasting Benefits to Alzheimer’s Patients
• Neurology • Jul 18 06
A purified mixture of human antibodies called intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) provides lasting benefits to patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), according to researchers at the…
S.Korea wants to strip stem cell scientist of medal
• Public Health • Jul 18 06
South Korea plans to strip disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk and six of his collaborators of state medals for their once heralded and now…
Airplane headaches may be caused by pressure changes
• Headaches • Jul 18 06
Severe headaches that develop during airplane travel appear to be the result of rapid changes in pressure, rather than the high altitude or other…
Growing spinal cord nerves after injury
• Neurology • Jul 18 06
In tests on rats, researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan have developed a treatment that helps spinal cord nerves regrow after…
New hope for women with Alzheimer’s disease
• Gender: Female • Jul 18 06
Leuprolide acetate helps women with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease maintain functional capabilities for a longer period of time, according to data presented Monday by Voyager…
Executive function and Alzheimer’s disease
• Neurology • Jul 18 06
A new Mayo Clinic study finds that after memory begins to decline, executive function is the next brain function to deteriorate in the progression…
Multiple Myeloma Oral Therapy REVLIMID Approved by FDA
• Drug News • Jul 18 06
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved REVLIMID® (lenalidomide) as a treatment for multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. The oral…
FDA approval for Gemzar for ovarian cancer
• Drug News • Jul 18 06
Eli Lilly and Company announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Gemzar (gemcitabine HCl) for use in the treatment…
FDA approves Implanon (etonogestrel implant) contraceptive
• Drug News • Jul 18 06
Organon announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Implanon (etonogestrel implant) 68mg, the first and only single-rod implantable contraceptive that…
New hope for patients with aggressive multiple sclerosis
• Neurology • Jul 18 06
A new combination treatment regime, for patients with aggressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), is offering new hope to a group of patients who…
Children Who Live with Smokers Have More Respiratory Complications During Surgery
• Children's Health • Jul 17 06
Children are especially vulnerable to the effects of secondhand smoking, both because they are small and still growing and because they’re often a “captive…
Smoking tied to excess deaths in disadvantaged men
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 17 06
Men of lower social class, income or education have twice the risk of dying during middle age compared with their counterparts with higher…
India says develops local bird flu vaccine
• Flu • Jul 17 06
India announced on Sunday it has successfully developed a vaccine against bird flu in poultry.
The country has culled hundreds of thousands of birds…
Tests confirm Indonesian child died of bird flu
• Flu • Jul 17 06
A three-year-old Indonesian girl who died this month has tested positive for bird flu according to tests by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…
Men and women respond very differently to working long hours
• Public Health • Jul 17 06
Researchers in the UK say that women who work long hours are more likely than men to snack, smoke, drink coffee and exercise less.
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