Fighter pilots’ brains are ‘more sensitive’
• Brain • Dec 15 10
Cognitive tests and MRI scans have shown significant differences in the brains of fighter pilots when compared to a control group, according to a…
Smoking bans may benefit kids with asthma
• Children's Health • • Asthma • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 14 10
Children with asthma who live in areas with “smoke-free” laws may suffer fewer bouts of coughing and wheezing as a result, a new study…
Could acupuncture be used to treat “lazy eye?”
• Alternative Medicine • • Eye / Vision Problems • Dec 14 10
Sticking acupuncture needles into points on the body classically associated with vision in Chinese medicine could prove to be an alternative to bothersome patches…
Special report: The cost of a malaria-free world
• Public Health • Dec 14 10
Joe Cohen, a scientist tantalizingly close to delivering the world’s first malaria vaccine, is on the stump.
After 23 years of painstaking laboratory work…
2 people receive kidney transplants in pilot program using CMU software
• Urine Problems • Dec 14 10
A man in St. Louis and a woman in New Hampshire have received the first kidney transplants made possible through a new national program…
Unique case study on Alzheimer’s disease
• Brain • • Neurology • Dec 14 10
A case study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet sheds light on the pathological course of Alzheimer’s disease. The brain of the first…
Go ahead, drink your milk
• Dieting • Dec 14 10
If you’re unsure about what foods to eat to maintain a healthy diet, you’re not alone. Increasing evidence continues to point people back to…
Fast food and sweets advertised when children watch television
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Dec 14 10
Children in Sweden are exposed to a huge number of TV advertisements. Food adverts – primarily for fast food and sweets – dominate the…
Many Brain Tumor Patients Use Homeopathy, Alternative Treatments
• Alternative Medicine • • Brain • • Cancer • Dec 14 10
Many people with incurable brain tumors use alternative therapies, such as taking vitamins and homeopathy, in addition to their conventional treatments, according to a…
Racial/Socioeconomic Disparities in Parkinson’s
• Brain • • Neurology • Dec 14 10
African American patients and those with lower socioeconomic status have more advanced disease and greater disability when they seek treatment from Parkinson’s disease specialists,…
Girls Who Start School Earlier Might Have Lower Obesity Risk
• Gender: Female • • Obesity • Dec 14 10
Effective strategies to fight the epidemic of childhood and adolescent obesity — one-third of kids under 20 weigh more than they should — have…
N.C. Tobacco Prevention Programs Are Saving Lives and Money
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 14 10
Tobacco prevention programs funded by the North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund continue to pay dividends — fewer youth continue to take up…
A benefit of flu: protection from asthma?
• Asthma • • Flu • Dec 13 10
The number of people with asthma has increased sharply over the past few decades. It has been suggested that this is a result of…
Children who don’t like fruit and vegetables are 13 times more likely to be constipated
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Dec 13 10
Primary school children who don’t like eating fruit and vegetables are 13 times more likely to develop functional constipation than children who do, according…
Guidance on preventing unintentional injuries to children
• Public Health • Dec 13 10
Researchers from the Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG) at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry have contributed to new National Institute for Health…
Research examines gender gaps in immigrant health
• Public Health • Dec 13 10
A key focus of the health care debate has involved immigrants and their impact on the U.S. health care system.
A new study shows…
Study shows how flu infections may prevent asthma
• Asthma • • Flu • Dec 13 10
In a paper that suggests a new strategy to prevent asthma, scientists at Children’s Hospital Boston and their colleagues report that the influenza virus…
Tracing microbes between individuals towards personalized oral health care
• Dental Health • Dec 13 10
The human body is home to a complex ecosystem of microbes increasingly recognized as having a critical role in both health and disease. Viruses…
Apartment-dwelling children in nonsmoking units still exposed
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 13 10
Children living in apartments are exposed to secondhand smoke even when no one smokes inside their own unit. This study, released online today by…
Experts call for vaccination, antibiotics in Haiti
• Public Health • Dec 13 10
Simply setting up clinics to treat Haitians with cholera is not doing anywhere near enough to tackle the epidemic there, health experts said on…
Ten dead as H1N1 flu returns to Britain
• Flu • Dec 13 10
The H1N1 swine flu virus which swept the globe last year has returned to Britain with 10 people dying in the last six weeks,…
Intercell kills diarrhea vaccine after study
• Drug Abuse • Dec 13 10
Austrian biotech company Intercell said it won’t develop its Travelers’ Diarrhea vaccine candidate and will post a much wider than expected 2010 loss, because…
Researchers establish new rule to predict risk of stroke, death from surgery that prevents it
• Stroke • Dec 11 10
It’s a medical Catch-22: carotid artery surgery can itself cause stroke, but so can asymptomatic carotid disease if left untreated.
UT Southwestern Medical Center…
Tobacco smoke causes immediate damage: U.S. report
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 09 10
Cigarette smoke causes immediate damage to a person’s lungs and their DNA even in small amounts, including from second-hand smoke, U.S. federal officials said…
U.S. life expectancy falls slightly in 2008: CDC
• Public Health • Dec 09 10
American life expectancy slipped slightly in 2008 to 77.8 years, the first dip since 2004, U.S. health experts said on Thursday.
Stroke has slipped…