Low-income families with sick children often enrolled in high-deductible health care plans
• Public Health • Mar 30 09
High-deductible health plans are increasingly used by healthy people who are unlikely to incur high medical expenses. But they also end up enrolling many…
Too many kids spend little time outdoors
• Children's Health • Mar 28 09
Many children spend too little time outdoors and too much time in front of the TV - and a lack of suitable outdoor spaces…
Meningitis kills over 1,100 West Africans - WHO
• Infections • • Public Health • Mar 28 09
One third of the world’s stockpiled meningitis vaccine doses have been dispatched to West Africa where an outbreak has killed more than 1,100…
United co-parenting may deter kids’ “acting out”
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Mar 28 09
When mothers and fathers support each other as parents, their preschool children are less likely to develop “acting out” behaviors.
“Supportive co-parenting involves warmth…
Sugar eases pain, and more, for newborns
• Children's Health • • Pain • Mar 28 09
Giving newborn babies sugar water during a needlestick or other painful procedures is known to ease the pain they feel, and now it seems…
Red meat diet tied to early eye problems
• Dieting • • Eye / Vision Problems • Mar 28 09
People whose diet includes a lot of red meat are more likely to develop the early stages of an eye condition known as age-related…
Clinic-Owner Urologists Perform More Surgeries Than Peers
• Surgery • • Urine Problems • Mar 28 09
A new study finds that Florida urologists who own outpatient surgery clinics perform more kidney-stone surgeries than their colleagues do, raising questions about whether…
Naltrexone improves smoking quit rates among heavy social drinkers
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 27 09
Naltrexone, approved for the treatment of alcohol dependence, also helps heavy social drinkers who aren’t alcoholics to quit smoking, as well as to reduce…
Americans eat too much salt, CDC says
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Mar 27 09
People in the United States consume more than twice the recommended amount of salt, raising their risk for high blood pressure, heart attacks and…
Calcium plus vitamin D may help shed body fat
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • • Weight Loss • Mar 27 09
Taking calcium and vitamin D supplements may help overweight women to lose body fat, but only if their calcium intake from food is…
Fast-food diners don’t check calorie content
• Dieting • Mar 27 09
Ever wonder how often people take time to find out how many calories are in their large order of fries?
Almost never.
Out…
Pot-smokers may take more risks on the road
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 27 09
Young men who are impulsive thrill-seekers are more likely to admit to driving while high on marijuana, Canadian researchers report.
Men who drove under…
Gene Variants May Determine Lung Function and Susceptibility to Maternal Smoking
• Genetics • • Respiratory Problems • Mar 26 09
A tiny variation within a single gene can determine not only how quickly and well lungs grow and function in children and adolescents, but…
Many US middle school kids physically unfit: study
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Mar 26 09
US kids are not only too heavy; they’re also out of shape, according to a new study of 5th and 7th grade students in…
Obesity not apt to affect outcome of knee surgery
• Arthritis • • Obesity • Mar 26 09
How fat or thin a person is doesn’t seem to have much bearing on the rate of failure of knee implants, and the…
Where Asian-Americans Live Might Affect Whether They Smoke
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 25 09
Does the neighborhood where you live play a role in whether you become a smoker? According to a new study, certain neighborhood traits might…
Program Helps Improve Management of Chronic Pain
• Pain • Mar 25 09
Patients with chronic pain who took part in a collaborative care intervention that included patient and clinician education and symptom monitoring and feedback to…
Even Young People Are Vulnerable to Stroke
• Stroke • Mar 25 09
Contrary to conventional thinking, it’s not just senior citizens who suffer strokes. One-third of the estimated 780,000 Americans who have strokes each year…
Red and processed meat increases risk of death
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Mar 24 09
Consumption of red and processed meat modestly increases the death rate from cancer and cardiovascular disease, according to a report in the Archives…
Smokers may have increased risk of pancreatitis
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 24 09
Smoking appears to be associated with an increased risk of acute and chronic pancreatitis, according to a report in the March 23 issue of…
Vertigo Linked to Osteoporosis
• Ear / Nose / Throat • • Neurology • Mar 24 09
People who have osteoporosis are more likely to also have vertigo, according to a study published in the March 24, 2009, print issue…
Surgery Safe for Babies & Toddlers Suffering from Seizures
• Children's Health • • Epilepsy • Mar 23 09
A new study published in Epilepsia reveals surgery for babies and toddlers suffering from epilepsy is relatively safe and is effective in controlling seizures.…
Stroke Survivors Improve Balance with Tai Chi
• Alternative Medicine • • Stroke • Mar 23 09
Stroke can impair balance, heightening the risk of a debilitating fall. But a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher has found that stroke survivors…
Physical Abuse Raises Women’s Health Costs Over 40 Percent
• Gender: Female • • Public Health • Mar 23 09
Women experiencing physical abuse from intimate partners spent 42 percent more on health care per year than non-abused women, according to a long-term study…
Can You Hear Me Now? Hearing Loss Not Well Documented in Electronic Medical Records
• Ear / Nose / Throat • Mar 23 09
Hearing loss is a common disorder that can cause significant communication difficulties and directly affect the accurate transfer of information during a medical encounter.…