Britain considers plain packaging for cigarettes
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 30 10
The British government will consider whether to force tobacco companies to adopt plain packaging to try to reduce the attraction of smoking, according to…
Source of protection against saturated fat found
• Fat, Dietary • Nov 30 10
A new report in the December Cell Metabolism identifies a protein without which diets high in saturated fat lead to a massive inflammatory response…
Surgeon-physician marriages can place stress on careers, emotional health
• Public Health • Nov 30 10
Surgeons married to physicians face more challenges in balancing their personal and professional lives than do surgeons whose partners work in a non-physician field…
Alternative therapies may leave asthmatics gasping
• Alternative Medicine • • Asthma • Nov 30 10
Approximately 13 percent of parents turn to alternative therapies to treat their children’s asthma, according to a new study from the Université de Montréal.…
North Americans get plenty of calcium, D: report
• Public Health • Nov 30 10
Most people in the United States and Canada get plenty of vitamin D and calcium, and may damage their health by taking too many…
Acupuncture changes brain’s perception and processing of pain
• Alternative Medicine • • Brain • • Pain • Nov 30 10
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have captured pictures of the brain while patients experienced a pain stimulus with and without acupuncture to…
New genomic technique reveals obesity gene variants
• Genetics • • Obesity • Nov 30 10
Obesity is highly heritable, but so far genetic association studies have only explained a small fraction of this heritability. Now, in a study published…
Study suggests that being too clean can make people sick
• Public Health • Nov 29 10
Young people who are overexposed to antibacterial soaps containing triclosan may suffer more allergies, and exposure to higher levels of Bisphenol A among adults…
Prescriptions for teens and young adults on the rise
• Drug Abuse • Nov 29 10
Adolescents and young adults are most likely to abuse prescription medications. Yet prescription rates for controlled medications, or drugs the Drug Enforcement Administration deems…
Walking slows progression of Alzheimer’s
• Brain • • Neurology • Nov 29 10
Walking may slow cognitive decline in adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as in healthy adults, according to a…
Light exercise may prevent osteoarthritis
• Arthritis • Nov 29 10
People at risk for osteoarthritis may be able to delay the onset of the disease or even prevent it with simple changes to…
Skipping breakfast may not enlarge a kid’s lunch
• Children's Health • • Dieting • Nov 29 10
Skipping breakfast may not change how much food a kid eats during the rest of the day, suggests a new study.
But missing the…
Fish health benefits may outweigh mercury concerns
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Nov 28 10
It may be a red herring to worry over whether people who eat lots of fish may lose whatever heart benefits they might have…
Researchers identify a molecular switch that controls neuronal migration in the developing brain
• Brain • • Neurology • Nov 28 10
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators have identified key components of a signaling pathway that controls the departure of neurons from the brain niche…
A high BMI in childhood linked to greater heart disease risk in adolescence
• Children's Health • • Heart • • Obesity • Nov 26 10
Children who have a high body mass index (BMI) between 9 and 12 years of age are more likely to have high blood pressure,…
Second-hand smoke kills 600,000 a year: WHO study
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 26 10
Around one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking, which kills an estimated 600,000 people a year, World Health Organization (WHO)…
Getting married may also get you a kidney
• Urine Problems • Nov 25 10
People who get married appear to enjoy better health overall - and may even be more likely to receive a kidney transplant when they…
Beware E. coli when drinking raw milk: study
• Food & Nutrition • • Infections • Nov 25 10
A government investigation published this month has tied raw milk consumption to a 2008 outbreak of E. coli in Connecticut, which landed four people…
Harmful errors still common in U.S. hospitals: study
• Public Health • Nov 25 10
Harmful errors and accidents remain common in U.S. hospitals despite a decade of efforts to improve patient safety, a study found.
According to the…
Danish researchers finally solve the obesity riddle
• Obesity • Nov 25 10
Researchers at the Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), University of Copenhagen, can now unveil the results of the world’s largest diet study: If you…
Growth-factor gel shows promise as hearing-loss treatment
• Ear / Nose / Throat • Nov 25 10
A new treatment has been developed for sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL), a condition that causes deafness in 40,000 Americans each year, usually in…
Workplace asthma costs UK at least $158 million a year
• Asthma • • Public Health • Nov 25 10
Workplace asthma costs the UK at least £100 million a year, and may be as high as £135 million, reveals research published online in…
New study reveals how cannabis suppresses immune functions
• Immunology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 25 10
An international team of immunologists studying the effects of cannabis have discovered how smoking marijuana can trigger a suppression of the body’s immune functions.…
Female fish - and humans? - lose interest when their male loses a slugfest
• Brain • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Nov 24 10
You may think of your love for your mate as the noble emotion of a pure heart, but some primitive parts of your brain…
Study finds that the same face may look male or female
• Brain • • Neurology • Nov 24 10
Neuroscientists at MIT and Harvard have made the surprising discovery that the brain sees some faces as male when they appear in one area…