Tropical oils don’t boost some heart risk markers
• Heart • Nov 20 11
Tropical oils may be sources of saturated fat, but a small study suggests that they do not boost certain markers of trouble in the…
Overweight people eat fewer meals than others
• Dieting To Lose Weight • • Obesity • Nov 20 11
Normal weight adults, including those who had lost a lot of weight and kept it off, ate more often than overweight people in a…
Eating Fish During Pregnancy
• Dieting • • Pregnancy • Nov 18 11
How Eating Fish During Pregnancy, Genes And Omega-3 Fatty Acids Impact On “Brain Power” In Children
The statement that ‘fish is good for the…
Smoking In Your Own Car - APPG Inquiry, UK
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 18 11
In parliament, a cross party group called for the Department of Health to carry out a public consultation regarding policy options in order to…
Soy eaters may have lower rates of lung cancer
• Cancer: Lung • Nov 18 11
People who eat a lot of unfermented soy products like tofu may have a smaller chance of getting lung cancer, a fresh look at…
U.S. teen birth rate drops to record low in 2010
• Childbirth • Nov 18 11
The teen birth rate in the United States reached an all-time low last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday.
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Ranks of people reaching age 90 tripled since 1980: report
• Aging and Gerontology • Nov 18 11
The ranks of the nation’s oldest residents are growing quickly now that people who reach age 90 are expected to live longer than ever…
House protects pizza as a vegetable
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Nov 18 11
The House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors on Thursday by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end…
Hemoglobin and Blood Pressure Levels, Male Gender Linked to “Silent” Strokes in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia
• Children's Health • • Anemia • • Stroke • Nov 18 11
Factors such as low hemoglobin levels, increased systolic blood pressure, and male gender are linked to a higher risk of silent cerebral infarcts (SCIs),…
Canadian health system too expensive: report
• Public Health • Nov 17 11
Canada’s public healthcare system is becoming too expensive but could offer better value without drastic cuts or abandoning its state-funded structure, one of the…
One in eight Americans hard of hearing: study
• Ear / Nose / Throat • Nov 17 11
One out of every eight Americans has hearing loss in both ears, according to a new study - and as many as one in…
Results in ‘Science’ could identify new ways to design vaccines, antibiotics
• Infections • Nov 17 11
A University of Louisville scientist has determined for the first time how the bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ disease manipulates our cells to generate the…
Garlic oil component may form treatment to protect heart
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Heart • Nov 16 11
A component of garlic oil may help release protective compounds to the heart after heart attack, during cardiac surgery, or as a treatment for…
Childhood obesity - what are the health risks?
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Nov 16 11
It is widely suspected that the current wave of obesity among children will result in greater rates of cardiovascular disease and diabetes over the…
Research Reveals When and Why Students Smoke
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 16 11
Discovering when and why students smoke might lead to the development of better intervention methods, according to researchers at the University of Missouri. In…
Doctors back “open market” insurance exchanges
• Public Health • Nov 16 11
The American Medical Association added pressure on U.S. states to steer toward the system that opens doors to all insurers who meet minimum standards…
Keen video-gamers’ brains may reward them more
• Brain • • Neurology • Nov 16 11
Teenagers who spend a lot of time on video-games have different structures and activity levels in areas of the brain that are linked to…
Catholic bishops to expand post-abortion counseling
• Public Health • Nov 16 11
U.S. Catholic bishops plan to expand efforts to provide professional and spiritual counseling to women who have had abortions and to their families.
Officials…
Children experience differing changes one year after a sibling’s death from cancer
• Children's Health • • Cancer • Nov 16 11
The majority of children experience personal changes and changes in relationships one year after their sibling has died from cancer; however, positive and negative…
Brain, repair thyself: Studies highlight brain’s resiliency to damage
• Brain • • Neurology • Nov 16 11
New research released today demonstrates the brain’s remarkable capacity to repair itself. The animal studies, which propose ways to prevent or limit damage after…
Blood disorders are a public health issue
• Public Health • Nov 16 11
Public health should focus not only on reducing the burden of common diseases but also address the needs of people with blood disorders ,…
Pneumonia most common infection after heart surgery
• Infections • • Surgery • Nov 16 11
Pneumonia - not a deep incision surgical site infection - is the most common serious infection after heart surgery, according to new research (Abstract…
Evidence supports ban on growth promotion use of antibiotics in farming
• Drug Abuse • Nov 16 11
In a review study, researchers from Tufts University School of Medicine zero in on the controversial, non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in food animals and…
Research provides clues to neurodevelopemental disorders
• Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Nov 16 11
Research released today shows that scientists are finding new tools to help understand neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and fragile X syndrome. These studies show…
New test for coronary artery disease linked to higher rates of cardiac procedures and greater costs
• Heart • Nov 15 11
A new, noninvasive diagnostic test for coronary artery disease is associated with a higher rate of subsequent invasive cardiac procedures and higher health-care spending.…