Obese children more vulnerable to food advertising
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Nov 30 12
Rates of childhood obesity have tripled in the past 30 years, and food marketing has been implicated as one factor contributing to this trend.…
U.S. diets not up to U.S. standards: study
• Dieting • Nov 30 12
In a broad comparison of U.S. dietary standards and real Americans’ eating habits, researchers found that people fall short of nutritional recommendations overall, but…
Drug, alcohol abuse tied to early-life strokes: study
• Stroke • Nov 30 12
Younger adults who suffered a stroke were often smokers or had abused drugs or alcohol, according to a U.S. study that looked at over…
Health officials tell Greece to act fast to control HIV
• AIDS/HIV • • Public Health • Nov 30 12
A spiraling outbreak of HIV in debt-stricken Greece could run out of control if urgent action is not taken, European health officials said on…
Australia’s tobacco marketing laws give retailers a headache
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 30 12
James Yu, who runs the King of the Pack tobacconist in central Sydney, is indignant about Australia’s stringent anti-tobacco laws making manufactures package cigarettes…
Judge orders tobacco companies to admit deception
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 28 12
Major tobacco companies that spent decades denying they lied to the U.S. public about the dangers of cigarettes must spend their own money on…
Gene linked to respiratory distress in babies
• Children's Health • • Genetics • Nov 28 12
Some infants are more susceptible to potentially life-threatening breathing problems after birth, and rare, inherited DNA differences may explain why, according to research at…
New review associates vitamin D with lower rates of tooth decay
• Dental Health • Nov 27 12
A new review of existing studies points toward a potential role for vitamin D in helping to prevent dental caries, or tooth decay.
The…
NIH-funded researchers show possible trigger for MS nerve damage
• Neurology • Nov 27 12
High-resolution real-time images show in mice how nerves may be damaged during the earliest stages of multiple sclerosis. The results suggest that the critical…
Personal coaching app tracks sleep, diet, fitness
• Dieting • • Weight Loss • • Sleep Aid • Nov 27 12
Trying to get fit or lose weight but lacking the motivation and willpower? A new app that acts like a digital personal coach monitors…
Risk aversity visible in the brain
• Brain • Nov 27 12
Some people live their lives by the motto “no risk - no fun!” and avoid hardly any risks. Others are clearly more cautious and…
Doctors should consider hepatitis C testing: panel
• Emergencies / First Aid • • Infections • Nov 27 12
A government-backed panel advises doctors to “consider offering screening” for hepatitis C to adults born between 1945 and 1965, in a draft statement released…
The hidden disorder: Unique treatment proposed for children’s neurological disorder
• Neurology • Nov 26 12
An Indiana University study in the Journal of Child Neurology proposes an innovative treatment for developmental coordination disorder, a potentially debilitating neurological disorder in…
Too much or too little activity bad for knees
• Public Health • Nov 26 12
Both very high and very low levels of physical activity can accelerate the degeneration of knee cartilage in middle-aged adults, according to a new…
Imaging shows some brains compensate after traumatic injury
• Brain • • Trauma & Injuries • Nov 26 12
Using a special magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique to image patients with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), researchers have identified a biomarker that may…
Long-distance runners lap up miles for the love of it
• Public Health • Nov 26 12
Although many people begin running as a practical path to weight loss or fitness, for many it becomes a love affair as the miles…
Embryo survival gene may fight range of diseases: study
• Genetics • Nov 26 12
A gene that keeps embryos alive appears to control the immune system and determine how it fights chronic diseases like hepatitis and HIV, and…
Bounce house-related injuries on the rise in U.S
• Trauma & Injuries • Nov 26 12
The number of U.S. children hurt while using inflatable bouncers, such as bounce houses and moonwalks, is 15 times higher than in 1995, according…
Experts say Ireland should clarify abortion laws
• Public Health • Nov 26 12
Ireland should allow limited access to abortion by clarifying the conditions under which women can terminate pregnancies, experts have concluded in a report…
Medical marijuana for a child with leukemia
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 26 12
Mykayla Comstock’s family says marijuana helps her fight an especially aggressive form of leukemia, keeps infection at bay and lifts her weary spirit. Twice…
Flu could be cured forever as vaccine might give life-long protection
• Flu • Nov 26 12
A new flu vaccine being developed in Germany may be able to prevent the flu permanently through developing new cures more rapidly.
Researchers at…
Ranbaxy recalls generic Lipitor in United States
• Drug Abuse • Nov 25 12
Indian drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd has recalled its generic version of Pfizer Inc’s cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor in the United States after certain batches were…
Reading, writing and playing games may help aging brains stay healthy
• Brain • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Nov 25 12
Mental activities like reading and writing can preserve structural integrity in the brains of older people, according to a new study presented today at…
Fetal alcohol exposure affects brain structure in children
• Children's Health • • Brain • Nov 25 12
Children exposed to alcohol during fetal development exhibit changes in brain structure and metabolism that are visible using various imaging techniques, according to a…
Antibiotics in pregnancy tied to asthma in kids
• Asthma • • Pregnancy • Nov 20 12
Children whose mothers took antibiotics while they were pregnant were slightly more likely than other kids to develop asthma in a new Danish study.
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