This Month in Pediatric Urology
• Urine Problems • Mar 23 10
Testicular Microlithiasis in Patients With Congenital and Acquired Ascending Testes
Testicular microlithiasis continues to attract interest particularly due to its association with testicular…
We are how we eat, and the problem of fast-food culture
• Dieting • Mar 23 10
Dr. Valerie Taylor doesn’t believe that most people with a weight problem would say, “This is not my fault,” or, “This is because of…
Magazine makes cooking a tool in fight against child obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Mar 23 10
As any parent of a finicky eater knows, children are more likely to eat something they made themselves. Yet until now, no one has…
Baby Fat May Not Be So Cute After All
• Children's Health • • Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Mar 23 10
Schools have banned cupcakes, issued obesity report cards and cleared space in cafeterias for salad bars. Just last month, Michelle Obama’s campaign to end…
Researchers: Seaweed Holds Key to Fighting Obesity
• Obesity • Mar 23 10
Seaweed could be the answer to the obesity epidemic, potentially reducing the body’s fat retention by more than 75 percent.
A fibrous material…
A Dangerously Tasty Treat: the Hot Dog Is a Choking Hazard
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Mar 22 10
Hot dogs, those ubiquitous and savory symbols of the American diet, have caught the attention of pediatricians at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and…
Study Explores Link Between Sunlight, Multiple Sclerosis
• Neurology • Mar 22 10
For more than 30 years, scientists have known that multiple sclerosis (MS) is much more common in higher latitudes than in the tropics. Because…
Eye Exercise to Improve Vision
• Eye / Vision Problems • Mar 22 10
We have a lot of methods and processes which you can apply to aid to improve your vision naturally. Poor eye vision is a…
Prader-Willi syndrome: a form of obesity that can be explained
• Genetics • • Obesity • Mar 21 10
Prader-Willi syndrome, also known as PWS is an uncommon genetic disorder (present at birth) in which seven genes (or subsets) on chromosome 15 are…
Public Health receives grants to fight obesity, tobacco use
• Obesity • • Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 21 10
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today that Public Health - Seattle…
Stimulus money to help build healthier Hub
• Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 21 10
Boston has received $12.5 million in federal stimulus funding for a sweeping new effort to combat obesity and reduce smoking, Mayor Thomas M. Menino…
Omaha Gets Money to Fight Childhood Obesity
• Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 21 10
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is trying to combat the obesity problem by distributing over 372 million dollars in grants. Some…
Mediterranean diet tied to fertility treatment success
• Dieting • • Fertility and pregnancy • Mar 19 10
Women who closely adhere to a Mediterranean-style diet rich in vegetables, vegetable oils and fish may have a higher likelihood of becoming pregnant after…
FDA issues warning for high doses of Zocor
• Drug Abuse • Mar 19 10
Patients on the highest approved dose of the cholesterol-lowering drug Zocor may be at increased risk of muscle injury, U.S. regulators warned on Friday.
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Acupuncture can spread serious diseases: experts
• Alternative Medicine • • Infections • Mar 19 10
Bacterial infections, hepatitis B and C, and possibly even HIV are being transmitted via acupuncture through the use of contaminated needles, cotton swabs and…
US child obesity problem worse than thought
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 19 10
Extreme obesity among American children is much worse than previously believed, putting them at greater risk of serious health problems as they age,…
Vitamin D helps fend off flu, asthma attacks: study
• Asthma • • Flu • Mar 19 10
In a study of Japanese schoolchildren, vitamin D supplements taken during the winter and early spring helped prevent seasonal flu and asthma attacks.
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Supplement may slow overweight kids’ fat gain
• Children's Health • • Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Mar 18 10
Supplements containing the dietary fat conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) may help overweight kids curb the amount of fat they gain over time, a small…
Drug-resistant TB killed 150,000 in 2008
• Infections • • Tuberculosis • Mar 18 10
Multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis killed 150,000 people in 2008 and infects between 400,000 and 500,000 people globally, according to World Health Organization estimates released on…
U.S. FDA restricts tobacco marketing to kids
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 18 10
U.S. health officials on Thursday sought to clamp down on the marketing of cigarettes to children and teenagers, issuing national limits on vending machine…
Asian Smokers Use Quitlines
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 18 10
Telephone counseling programs for smoking cessation, popularly known as “quitlines,” are an increasingly common way for smokers to quit. Every state in the…
Obesity Boot Camps Not the Answer; but Gym Class Is.
• Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 18 10
Obesity boot camps are not the answer to the nation’s waistline problem, says Deborah J. Wray, associate professor in the department of kinesiology…
Severe obesity raises risk of poor H1N1 outcome
• Obesity • Mar 18 10
Severe obesity makes it almost five times more likely that adults infected with the H1N1 pandemic influenza virus will be ill enough to…
Obesity challenge begins
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 18 10
The national campaign to reduce the childhood obesity rate that’s tripled in size during the past 30 years has inspired a local challenge…
Strokes strike younger adults as diabetes and obesity raise the risks
• Diabetes • • Obesity • • Stroke • Mar 18 10
Diabetes due to obesity may be increasing the risk of strokes among younger adults, recent research indicates.
This attack on the brain is striking…