A Sonata a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
• Children's Health • • Alternative Medicine • Jan 08 10
The music they listen to doesn’t have any lyrics that tell them to grow, but new research from Tel Aviv University finds that premature…
Making Healthy Food Choices on a Budget
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Public Health • Jan 08 10
The current economic climate has impacted every aspect of our lives, even our health. Many turn to fast food or unhealthy selections because it…
Drinking shows little effect on stroke outcome
• Stroke • Jan 06 10
While some research has suggested that moderate drinking may lower a person’s odds of suffering a stroke, a new study finds that it may…
Even with fewer risk factors, heavy men die earlier
• Diabetes • • Heart • • Obesity • • Stroke • Jan 06 10
Overweight middle-aged men may have a higher risk of heart problems and strokes and die earlier than their thinner peers - even in the…
Coughing smokers get more antibiotics, to no avail
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 06 10
Doctors are more likely to prescribe antibiotics to treat cough in patients who smoke, but smokers get no more benefit from the drugs than…
One in 10 births around world premature, WHO says
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Jan 06 10
One in 10 of the some 130 million births around the world each year is premature, the vast majority in poorer countries where chances…
Why men and women respond differently to stress
• Neurology • Jan 06 10
Neuroscientists, using fMRIs to scan subjects’ brains, have been able to demonstrate how brains are affected under stress. In men, increased blood flowed to…
A new ally in the battle against cocaine addiction
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jan 03 10
A recent study shows that a bacterial protein may help cocaine addicts break the habit.
Cocaine esterase (CocE) is a naturally-occurring bacterial enzyme that…
Study links restless leg syndrome with erectile dysfunction in older men
• Neurology • • Sexual Health • Jan 03 10
A study in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that erectile dysfunction was more common in older men with restless leg…
Russian vodka drinkers get New Year price headache
• Public Health • Jan 03 10
Minimum prices for vodka took effect in Russia on Friday as part of President Dmitry Medvedev’s campaign to combat alcoholism at a time when…