Body vibration therapy fails test in MS patients
• Neurology • Oct 08 10
Whole-body vibration is pitched as a solution to everything from low bone density in astronauts to a better golf swing for weekend duffers and…
Most US doctors plan to get flu shots - survey
• Flu • • Public Health • Oct 08 10
Almost all U.S. doctors in a survey released on Thursday said they plan to get vaccinated against flu this season, a finding that heartened…
One fifth of Americans have arthritis, survey shows
• Arthritis • Oct 08 10
More than 22 percent of Americans have arthritis, with a million new cases being diagnosed every year, according to a new government estimate released…
High levels of heavy metals found in China tobacco
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 08 10
Some Chinese cigarettes contain amounts of lead, arsenic and cadmium that are three times higher than levels found in Canadian cigarettes, a study has…
Most Greeks flouting new smoking ban: minister
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 08 10
Most Greeks violate a new ban on smoking in indoor public places, the health ministry said, in another sign of the difficulty of…
Prenatal arsenic exposure quintuples infant death risk
• Children's Health • • Mortality and Morbidity • • Public Health • Oct 08 10
Babies born to mothers with high levels of arsenic exposure are five times more likely to die before their first birthday than infants whose…
From eye to brain
• Brain • • Eye / Vision Problems • Oct 07 10
-By comparing a clearly defined visual input with the electrical output of the retina, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies were able…
Stressed-out mums may worsen their child’s asthma
• Children's Health • • Asthma • Oct 07 10
Mums who are often angry or irritated and those who suppress their emotional expressions can worsen the severity of their children’s asthma symptoms, especially…
One lock, many keys
• Immunology • Oct 07 10
In order to track down pathogens and render them harmless, the immune system must be able to recognize myriad different foreign substances and react…
New Study Identifies Risk Factors That Lead to Bicycling Injuries in City Traffic
• Trauma & Injuries • Oct 07 10
The streets of New York City can be dangerous for bicyclists, but they can be especially risky for young adult male bicyclists who don’t…
Gene Therapy Reveals Unexpected Immunity to Dystrophin in Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
• Neurology • Oct 07 10
An immune reaction to dystrophin, the muscle protein that is defective in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, may pose a new challenge to…
Kids With Chronic Illness, Disability More Apt to Be Bullied
• Children's Health • Oct 07 10
On top of all the other hardships they face daily, adolescent students living with a disability or chronic illness are more likely to be…
Advanced imaging use in US emergency rooms triples
• Emergencies / First Aid • Oct 06 10
Use of advanced imaging machines in hospital emergency departments tripled between 1998 and 2007, resulting in higher costs and longer emergency room stays, U.S.…
Gorging study shows with fat, location matters
• Fat, Dietary • Oct 05 10
Researchers who persuaded slender volunteers to gorge themselves on sweets to gain weight said on Monday they have overturned the common wisdom that…
Can Vigorous Exercise Curb Drug Abuse? Researchers Want to Find Out
• Drug Abuse • Oct 05 10
Can exercise reduce cravings for drugs? UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators are conducting a research study to find out.
A $15.7 million award from…
New way to explain the leading cause of kidney failure
• Urine Problems • Oct 05 10
Evidence reported in the October issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, offers a completely new explanation for why people with diabetes account…
Is your job making you fat?
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Oct 05 10
Working nine-to-five may be the way to make a living, but it may be padding more than the wallet. According to a new…
World Is Full of Darkness, Reflected in the Physiology of the Human Retina, Penn Researchers Say
• Eye / Vision Problems • Oct 05 10
Physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania have linked the cell structure of the retina to the light and dark contrasts of the…
Meat diets pose environmental danger - report
• Dieting • Oct 05 10
People will have to cut meat from their diets if the world is to stay within safer limits of planet-warming greenhouse gases, nitrate pollution…
MRI may predict continued decline in patients with mild cognitive impairment
• Emergencies / First Aid • • Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 05 10
Using advanced MRI and an artificial intelligence technique, researchers in Geneva, Switzerland, have identified a method that may help identify which individuals with mild…
Malaria funding short, but some get what they need
• Public Health • Oct 05 10
Global funding for malaria is less than half the $4.9 billion needed in 2010 to prevent and treat the disease that kills around 850,000…
IVF pioneer wins medicine Nobel Prize
• Public Health • Oct 05 10
British physiologist Robert Edwards, whose work led to the first “test-tube baby”, won the 2010 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology, the prize-awarding…
Drunkenness rising in teen girls, Eastern Europeans
• Children's Health • • Food & Nutrition • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 05 10
Eastern European adolescents used to drink less than their counterparts in Western Europe and North America, but over the past decade, they’ve been…
Russia eyes cigarette ad ban, public smoking curbs
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 04 10
Tobacco advertising in Russia, where more than half of adults smoke, should be outlawed by 2012 and smoking in public places banned by 2015,…
Employer wellness programs could benefit families
• Public Health • Oct 04 10
Employers are in a potentially powerful position to help employees and their families make healthier choices, hints a new study conducted by the IBM…