Why Have Americans Become More Obese?
• Obesity • Apr 24 12
In the early 1960s, the average American adult male weighed 168 pounds.
Today, he weighs nearly 180 pounds. Over the same time period, the…
Migraine Headaches: New Guidelines Focus on Prevention
• Headaches • Apr 24 12
From prescription pills to poisonous plants, plenty of treatments can help prevent migraines, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology.
The…
Fight Obesity With Soy
• Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Apr 24 12
With so many American’s suffering from Obesity, a new discovery with soy protein could help thousands.
A University of Illinois study shows how soy…
Gut Organisms Could Be Clue in Controlling Obesity Risk
• Dental Health • • Obesity • Apr 24 12
The international obesity epidemic is widespread, nondiscriminatory, and deadly. But do we really understand all of the factors underlying this alarming trend? The concept…
Obesity rates declining among Massachusetts infants and toddlers
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Apr 24 12
Researchers at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute found a drop in obesity rates among Massachusetts infants and preschoolers, reports the Boston Globe.
The…
Appendix removal: Huge sticker shock in study
• Surgery • Apr 24 12
What do hospitals charge to remove an appendix? The startling answer is that it could be the same as the price of a refrigerator…
Doctors share 5 symptoms that need your immediate attention
• Emergencies / First Aid • Apr 24 12
It might be a caffeine headache, but it might be an aneurysm. Great. Now, at the very least, it’s a stress headache.
We asked…
New research connects obesity and cancer
• Cancer • • Obesity • Apr 24 12
New research suggests people who are obese and lacking physical activity in their daily lives are at higher risk of developing common forms of…
Obesity study focuses on healthy nutrition in group homes
• Dieting • • Obesity • Apr 24 12
For people with developmental disabilities, particularly those who live in a community group home, the prevalence of obesity can be significantly higher than in…
Avastin Works Well Against Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• Eye / Vision Problems • Apr 24 12
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health researchers call it “wonderful news” that a much less expensive cancer drug seems to work…
Avastin Eye Injection Treatment for Macular Degeneration
• Eye / Vision Problems • Apr 24 12
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in people over 50 years of age. It is caused by the breakdown of…
Avastin Injections Are Reported to Cause Blindness
• Eye / Vision Problems • Apr 24 12
At least 16 people in two states have gotten severe eye infections, and some have been blinded, from injections of the drug Avastin, according…
Novartis tries to make UK hospitals use $1000 drug
• Drug News • • Eye / Vision Problems • Apr 24 12
Drug maker Novartis is taking legal action in Britain to make state-run hospitals use an eye drug that costs about 700 pounds ($1,130) per…
Sneak peak in Oakland of HBO “Weight of the Nation” series Wednesday
• Obesity • • Public Health • Apr 24 12
U.S. citizens stubbornly remain obese despite decades of efforts by movie stars, fitness gurus, educators and even religious leaders to get Americans into shape.…
Brain Surgery Touted for Epilepsy
• Brain • • Epilepsy • • Surgery • Apr 23 12
In a new study, researchers say brain surgery for a common type of epilepsy is seven times as effective as drug regimens currently used.
…
Brain surgery for epilepsy underutilized
• Epilepsy • • Neurology • • Surgery • Apr 23 12
Ten years ago, a landmark clinical trial in Canada demonstrated the unequivocal effectiveness of brain surgeries for treating uncontrolled epilepsy, but since then the…
Emergency room CT exams have increased in children with abdominal pain
• Children's Health • • Emergencies / First Aid • • Pain • Apr 23 12
Computed tomography (CT) utilization in pediatric patients with non-traumatic abdominal pain increased in emergency departments each year between 1999 and 2007, according to a…
Letting go can boost quality of life
• Public Health • Apr 23 12
Most people go through life setting goals for themselves. But what happens when a life-altering experience makes those goals become unachievable or even unhealthy?
…
A physician’s guide for anti-vaccine parents
• Children's Health • • Immunology • Apr 23 12
In the limited time of an office visit, how can a primary care physician make the case to parents that their child should be…
Study suggests smoking, but not nicotine, reduces risk for rare tumor
• Cancer • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 23 12
New research confirms an association between smoking and a reduced risk for a rare benign tumor near the brain, but the addition of smokeless…
Olympic boxing may damage the brain
• Brain • • Neurology • Apr 23 12
Olympic boxers can exhibit changes in brain fluids after bouts, which indicates nerve cell damage. This is shown in a study of 30 top-level…
Estrogen Hormone Reveals Protective Ability after Traumatic Brain Injury
• Brain • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 23 12
With more than 1.7 million people sustaining a traumatic brain injury each year, the need to identify processes to limit inflammation and subsequent damage…
Hyperbaric Oxygen Could Provide Relief of Chronic Pain
• Pain • Apr 23 12
Chronic pain affects about 76 million people in the U.S. and carries an economic burden of nearly $100 billion annually. The most frequently used…
Avocado oil: The ‘olive oil of the Americas’?
• Food & Nutrition • Apr 23 12
Atmospheric oxygen facilitated the evolution and complexity of terrestrial organisms, including human beings, because it allowed nutrients to be used more efficiently by those…
Treatment to benefit African infants at risk of endemic fever
• Infections • • Parasitic diseases • Apr 23 12
Thousands of pre-school children in Africa could benefit from access to treatment for an endemic disease, after tests showed infants to be at high…