Children as young as five suffering from depression
• Children's Health • • Depression • Sep 30 13
Experts said modern childhoods had become increasingly stressful, with pressures from social media and cyber-bullying, school testing and rising family breakdowns among the factors…
World not ready for aging population
• Aging and Gerontology • • Public Health • Sep 30 13
The world is aging so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global…
Florida Man Dies of Bacterial Infection After Crabbing in River
• Infections • • Public Health • Sep 30 13
Florida health officials have warned beach-goers to avoid wading into the water with open wounds and eating raw or undercooked seafood after a man…
FDA approves first pre-surgical breast cancer drug
• Cancer: Breast • • Drug News • Sep 30 13
A biotech drug from Roche has become the first medicine approved to treat breast cancer before surgery, offering an earlier approach against one of…
How Much Will Obamacare Subsidies Save You?
• Public Health • Sep 30 13
One big question about the Affordable Care Act has been how much the government will pay in subsidies. A recent report from the Department…
Teen health program fights obesity, depression
• Children's Health • • Depression • • Obesity • Sep 29 13
A skills-building program offered as part of high school health classes may help prevent obesity, depression and drinking among teenagers, a new study suggests.
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Yoga in menopause may help insomnia - but not hot flashes
• Alternative Medicine • • Gender: Female • • Menopause • Sep 28 13
Taking a 12-week yoga class and practicing at home was linked to less insomnia - but not to fewer or less bothersome hot flashes…
Study finds socio-economic status impact mortality rates for certain stroke in US
• Mortality and Morbidity • • Surgery • Sep 27 13
Americans in the highest socio-economic groups have a 13 per cent greater chance of surviving a kind of stroke known as a subarachnoid hemorrhage…
Study reveals differences in post-operative complications
• Surgery • Sep 27 13
Older black and Hispanic patients have a greater risk than white patients of developing complications following surgery, a difference that can be explained by…
Early intervention by infectious diseases specialists saves lives, reduces costs
• Infections • • Public Health • Sep 27 13
In a first-of-its-kind study to evaluate the impact of a medical specialty on patient outcomes, researchers found that hospitalized patients with severe infections such…
IU research attributes high rates of smoking among mentally ill to addiction vulnerability
• Psychiatry / Psychology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 27 13
People with mental illness smoke at much higher rates than the overall population. But the popular belief that they are self-medicating is most likely…
Mouse studies reveal promising vitamin D-based treatment for MS
• Neurology • Sep 27 13
A diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) is a hard lot. Patients typically get the diagnosis around age 30 after experiencing a series of neurological…
New research helps fight against motor neurone disease
• Neurology • Sep 27 13
Scientists from the University of Sheffield’s Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) conducted pioneering research assessing how the devastating debilitating disease affects individual patients.
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Colorectal surgeons develop a novel tool for measuring quality and outcomes
• Surgery • Sep 27 13
Since the publication in 2000 of a report titled “To Err is Human” by the Institute of Medicine which called for a reduction in…
Quitting smoking easier for social media users
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 26 13
Smoking is a major public health problem, killing approximately 443,000 people every year in the United States. Quitting smoking can have a profound…
Aphasia and bilingualism: Using one language to relearn another
• Neurology • Sep 26 13
In the era of globalization, bilingualism is becoming more and more frequent, and it is considered a plus. However, can this skill turn into…
Can Traumatic Brain Injury Impair a Child’s Working Memory?
• Brain • • Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • • Trauma & Injuries • Sep 26 13
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) during childhood can have long-term effects on cognitive and psychosocial functioning, including poor academic achievement. Pediatric TBI can cause significant…
Chronic Kidney Disease on Rise Among U.S. Seniors, Study Shows
• Urine Problems • Sep 26 13
The rate of chronic kidney disease in Americans aged 80 and older is increasing, a new study finds.
Previous research showed that the rate…
Drivers who test positive for drugs have triple the risk of a fatal car crash
• Public Health • Sep 26 13
Drugged driving has been a safety issue of increasing public concern in the United States and many other countries but its role in motor…
Fat and obesity gene also affects hip fracture
• Fat, Dietary • • Genetics • • Obesity • • Trauma & Injuries • Sep 25 13
Australian researchers have demonstrated a strong association between the FTO (fat and obesity) gene and hip fracture in women. While the gene is already…
How the gut got its villi
• Public Health • Sep 25 13
Comparing species, researchers at Harvard SEAS and Harvard Medical School investigate a process they dub “villification”
“You are not just a ball of cells,”…
Living better with heart failure by changing what you eat
• Dieting • • Heart • Sep 24 13
Diet can dramatically lower hypertension and improve heart function in patients with a common type of heart failure, according to research presented at…
China launches juice probe after rotten fruit report
• Public Health • • Nutrition and Food Safety • Sep 24 13
China’s food safety watchdog has launched an investigation into local juice makers after a media report said they used rotten fruit to make their…
Americans say they’re creatures of simple, solo exercise habits
• Physical activity -exercise • • Public Health • Sep 24 13
Exercise trends come and go as step aerobics yield to interval training, weight machines are tossed for medicine balls and Pilates falls in and…
Some heart birth defects may increase children’s heart infection risk
• Children's Health • • Childbirth • • Heart • • Infections • Sep 24 13
Children with certain heart birth defects may have an increased risk for bacterial infection of their heart’s lining and valves, according to new research…