Latinos and African Americans Live Longer with Alzheimer’s Disease
• Brain • • Neurology • Nov 15 07
Latinos and African Americans with Alzheimer’s disease live longer than white people who have the disease, according to a study published November 14, 2007,…
Nicotine byproduct found in babies of smokers
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 14 07
Babies of smokers have levels of the nicotine byproduct cotinine in their urine that are five times higher than babies of non-smokers, researchers report.
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Experts Report Progress in Food Allergy Prevention and Diet Restrictions
• Children's Health • • Allergies • • Dieting • • Immunology • Nov 14 07
Progress has been made in food allergy prevention and management according to investigators presenting the latest research at the Annual Meeting of the American…
Nicotine addiction slashed in test of new cigarette smoking strategy
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 14 07
Scientists are reporting the first successful strategy to reduce smokers’ nicotine dependence while allowing them to continue smoking. The study provides strong support for…
A New Reason to Quit for the Great American Smoke Out
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 13 07
Most people are well aware of the risk of cancer from smoking, but few realize the damage smoking causes throughout the body’s vascular system.…
New Drug May Restore Memory with Alzheimer’s Disease
• Brain • • Neurology • Nov 13 07
A 2006 study by MetLife found that adults over age 55 fear Alzheimer’s disease more than cancer, and with good reason. Alzheimer’s creeps up…
Research Highlights Potential Benefits of Telemedicine in Treating Eye Disease
• Eye / Vision Problems • Nov 12 07
Two studies being presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s 2007 Annual Meeting suggest that telemedicine may have a significant role to play in…
Emergency response
• Emergencies / First Aid • Nov 12 07
Disasters are getting worse it seems but the federal government’s preparedness has been limited to helping after a disaster has occurred. On the other…
A Look at the Future of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Treatment
• Eye / Vision Problems • Nov 12 07
Two particularly notable research presentations at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Annual Meeting described new approaches to the treatment of “wet” Age-Related Macular Degeneration…
Looking at Glaucoma as a Systemic Disease
• Eye / Vision Problems • Nov 12 07
Glaucoma has long been considered a disease of the eye. For most of the 20th century, it was equated with elevated intraocular pressure. Yet,…
Green Tea Proves Powerful Medicine Against Sepsis
• Food & Nutrition • • Immunology • • Infections • Nov 10 07
A major component of green tea could prove the perfect elixir for severe sepsis, an abnormal immune system response to a bacterial infection. In…
Video game may lower stress levels
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Nov 10 07
A video game that asks players to find the smile in a sea of frowns may help ease people’s stress, researchers have found.
The…
Interferon Does Not Slow or Stop Progression of Hepatitis C in Certain Patients
• Infections • Nov 10 07
Interferon does not slow or halt the progression of chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease in patients who haven’t responded to previous attempts…
Spinal manipulation ineffective for low back pain
• Backache • Nov 10 07
Going to a chiropractor for spinal manipulation or taking the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac probably won’t speed recovery from acute low back pain, a…
Nicotine vaccine helps some people quit smoking
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 10 07
A vaccine aimed at helping people quit smoking by blunting the effects of nicotine doubled the number who could kick the habit but overall…
High-fat Diet Disrupts Body Clock
• Dieting • Nov 07 07
Our body’s 24-hour internal clock, or circadian clock, regulates the time we go to sleep, wake up and become hungry as well as the…
Antibiotic That Appears To Control Phobias May Also Be Useful In Treating Addiction
• Drug News • • Psychiatry / Psychology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 07 07
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory provide further evidence that a drug known as D-cycloserine could play a role in…
Understanding The Nervous System To Improve Treatment For Multiple Sclerosis
• Neurology • Nov 07 07
Uncover the neural communication links involved in myelination, the process of protecting a nerve’s axon, and it may become possible to reverse the breakdown…
‘Tweens’ double use of diabetes drugs
• Children's Health • • Diabetes • • Drug Abuse • • Obesity • Nov 07 07
America’s tweens more than doubled their use of type-2 diabetes medications between 2002 and 2005, with girls between 10 and 14 years of age…
Chronic kidney disease common in the United States
• Urine Problems • Nov 07 07
There is a high prevalence of chronic kidney disease in the United States, which has risen over the past decade, according to a study…
Worms take the sniff test to reveal sex differences in brain
• Brain • • Neurology • Nov 05 07
Buttery popcorn or fresh green vegetables? Your answer tells a lot about you.
Now, scientists say that the way that thousands of tiny worms…
Not Sure How to Treat Your Child’s Cough Or Cold This Year?
• Children's Health • Nov 05 07
It’s been a few weeks since the FDA recommended that all infant cold and cough medications be pulled from shelves. But as cold and…
Older Adults Not More Distractible
• Brain • • Neurology • Nov 05 07
Despite previous research suggesting that older adults are more distractible, new research shows they are no more distractible than younger adults when asked to…
How to avoid a stroke
• Stroke • Nov 03 07
Gym’ll fix it
Another reason to pump iron: an eight-year study of 8000 men at Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands found men…
Restless legs may be associated with migraine
• Headaches • • Migraine • Nov 02 07
Restless legs syndrome occurs more often in people who suffer migraines than in those free of these debilitating headaches, according to results of…