It pays to quit smoking before surgery
• Surgery • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 03 09
People who start nicotine replacement therapy at least four weeks before surgery can halve their risk of poor wound healing. This is what the…
Study Uncovers How Tuberculosis Agent Survives on Fatty Acids
• Infections • • Tuberculosis • Sep 03 09
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered a key mechanism behind the survival instinct of tuberculosis. TB is the…
UAB Experts on H1N1 Swine Flu
• Swine Flu • Sep 03 09
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has several experts who can address the spread of the novel H1N1 influenza virus, also called swine…
Waist-hip Ratio Better than BMI for Gauging Obesity in Elderly
• Obesity • Sep 02 09
Body mass index (BMI) readings may not be the best gauge of obesity in older adults, according to new research from UCLA endocrinologists and…
Yoga Benefits Back-pain Patients
• Alternative Medicine • • Backache • Sep 02 09
People with chronic low-back problems who do yoga also do better at overcoming pain and depression than people treated conventionally for back pain, a…
Tax junk food, drinks to fight child obesity: report
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Sep 02 09
A strongly worded report on child obesity released on Tuesday recommends that state and local governments tax junk food and soft drinks, give tax…
Swine flu gets more active as schools open: CDC
• Public Health • • Swine Flu • Sep 02 09
Swine flu is spreading more quickly in the U.S. Southeast, where schools started back earlier than in other areas after the summer break, a…
Universal health care cuts stroke inequalities
• Neurology • • Stroke • Sep 02 09
A person’s risk of having a stroke or dying from a stroke varies by social and economic status. Men and women who are less…
Hosts National Summit on Latino Childhood Obesity Prevention
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Sep 02 09
U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S., will call for greater research and policy action to help prevent obesity among Latino…
Hospital infections cost $1 billion in lost bed days
• Public Health • Sep 02 09
Infections caught in hospital are costing the Australian healthcare system more than 850,000 lost bed days, according to a new study by Queensland University…
Vitamin C deficiency impairs early brain development
• Brain • • Neurology • Sep 02 09
Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen shows that vitamin C deficiency may impair the mental development of new-born babies.
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Mediterranean diet tops low-fat diet for diabetics
• Diabetes • • Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • Sep 01 09
A low-carbohydrate, Mediterranean-style diet is more effective than a typical low-fat, calorie-restricted diet for diabetes management, according to a study released Monday.
Not only…
For heart health: avoid tobacco smoke, pollution
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 01 09
If you want to dramatically lower the odds that you’ll die of heart disease, go live someplace where public smoking is banned.
In…
U.S. Drivers Take Wheel After Binge Drinking in Bars, Clubs
• Public Health • Sep 01 09
More than one in 10 people who binge drinks gets behind the wheel of a car during or just after their binge. Of those…
Cigarettes, Not Swedish Snuff Linked to Increased Risk of MS
• Neurology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 01 09
While smoking cigarettes appears to significantly increase a person’s risk of developing multiple sclerosis, using Swedish snuff does not, according to a study published…