Making Healthy Food Choices on a Budget
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Public Health • Jan 08 10
The current economic climate has impacted every aspect of our lives, even our health. Many turn to fast food or unhealthy selections because it…
Drinking shows little effect on stroke outcome
• Stroke • Jan 06 10
While some research has suggested that moderate drinking may lower a person’s odds of suffering a stroke, a new study finds that it may…
Even with fewer risk factors, heavy men die earlier
• Diabetes • • Heart • • Obesity • • Stroke • Jan 06 10
Overweight middle-aged men may have a higher risk of heart problems and strokes and die earlier than their thinner peers - even in the…
Coughing smokers get more antibiotics, to no avail
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 06 10
Doctors are more likely to prescribe antibiotics to treat cough in patients who smoke, but smokers get no more benefit from the drugs than…
One in 10 births around world premature, WHO says
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Jan 06 10
One in 10 of the some 130 million births around the world each year is premature, the vast majority in poorer countries where chances…
Why men and women respond differently to stress
• Neurology • Jan 06 10
Neuroscientists, using fMRIs to scan subjects’ brains, have been able to demonstrate how brains are affected under stress. In men, increased blood flowed to…
A new ally in the battle against cocaine addiction
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jan 03 10
A recent study shows that a bacterial protein may help cocaine addicts break the habit.
Cocaine esterase (CocE) is a naturally-occurring bacterial enzyme that…
Study links restless leg syndrome with erectile dysfunction in older men
• Neurology • • Sexual Health • Jan 03 10
A study in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that erectile dysfunction was more common in older men with restless leg…
Russian vodka drinkers get New Year price headache
• Public Health • Jan 03 10
Minimum prices for vodka took effect in Russia on Friday as part of President Dmitry Medvedev’s campaign to combat alcoholism at a time when…
Preparing for Successful Aging
• Aging and Gerontology • • Public Health • Dec 31 09
It’s never too early or too late to start working toward the goal of improving brain health.
So perhaps the New Year is…
It’s Never Too Late to Quit Smoking and Save Your Vision, Finds Study of AMD in Elderly Women
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Gender: Female • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 31 09
Need a little extra incentive to kick the habit?
Just in time for New Year’s resolutions, a UCLA study finds that even after…
Don’t Let Arthritis Put the Kibosh on All Exercise (It Hurts More When You Stop)
• Arthritis • Dec 29 09
Achy knees and joints caused by arthritis are not reasons to stop exercising.
Regular, modest exercise improves joint stability and strengthens muscles, according…
Acupuncture reduces hot flashes, improves sex drive for breast cancer patients
• Alternative Medicine • • Cancer: Breast • • Sexual Health • Dec 29 09
Not only is acupuncture as effective as drug therapy at reducing hot flashes in breast cancer patients, it has the added benefit of potentially…
Exposure to tobacco smoke in childhood home associated with early emphysema in adulthood
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 28 09
Children regularly exposed to tobacco smoke at home were more likely to develop early emphysema in adulthood. This finding by researchers at Columbia University’s…
Researchers find clues to why some continue to eat when full
• Dieting • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Dec 28 09
The premise that hunger makes food look more appealing is a widely held belief – just ask those who cruise grocery store aisles on…
Drug-resistant urinary tract infections spreading worldwide
• Infections • • Public Health • • Urine Problems • Dec 28 09
A sudden worldwide increase in an antibiotic-resistant bacterium is cause for concern, according to a review in f1000 Medicine Reports.
Faculty of 1000 member…
Lack of sleep a headache for moms-to-be
• Headaches • • Migraine • • Pregnancy • Dec 25 09
Here’s another reason for pregnant women to get a good night’s sleep. In a study, researchers found a link between too little sleep each…
Do multivitamins curb kids’ allergy risk?
• Children's Health • • Allergies • • Food & Nutrition • Dec 25 09
Giving multivitamins to kids 5 to 8 years old does not seem to alter their overall likelihood of having allergies, hint findings of a…
Differences Between Ischemic Stroke Subtypes in Vascular Outcomes
• Stroke • Dec 25 09
Differences Between Ischemic Stroke Subtypes in Vascular Outcomes Support a Distinct Lacunar Ischemic Stroke Arteriopathy
Background and Purpose - Whether and how the arterial…
Smoking ups men’s rheumatoid arthritis risk most
• Arthritis • • Rheumatic Diseases • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 24 09
Smoking is a risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a new analysis of 16 studies confirms.
The effect is especially strong in men and…
Alzheimer’s Disease May Protect Against Cancer and Vice Versa
• Brain • • Cancer • • Neurology • Dec 24 09
People who have Alzheimer’s disease may be less likely to develop cancer, and people who have cancer may be less likely to develop Alzheimer’s…
A Novel Gene Found for Childhood-Onset Asthma
• Children's Health • • Asthma • Dec 24 09
Pediatric researchers have identified a novel gene involved in childhood asthma, in one of the largest gene studies to date of the common respiratory…
Steroid Injections May Slow Diabetes-Related Eye Disease
• Diabetes • • Eye / Vision Problems • Dec 24 09
Researchers led by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute have found that injecting a corticosteroid, triamcinolone, directly into the eye may slow…
Researchers find new patterns in H1N1 deaths
• Public Health • • Swine Flu • Dec 23 09
Brazilian researchers have performed the first-ever autopsy study to examine the precise causes of death in victims of the H1N1 swine flu.
“The lack…
New study shows rise in drug resistance of dangerous infection in US hospitals
• Infections • • Public Health • Dec 23 09
A new study in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology reports a surge in drug-resistant strains of Acinetobacter, a dangerous type of bacteria…