2012

April

• Secondhand smoke permeates many apartment buildings

• Black Children Less Likely to Get Pain Meds in ER

• Magnetic resonance imaging with side effects

• Drinking tea and coffee didn’t too much increase the risk of urinary incontinence, in fact somewhat decrease the risk

• TV Ads Linked to Unhealthy Diets in Young Adults

• Study supports allowing family members in ED during critical care

• Racial differences found in care of children in ED

• Fear of not having enough food may lead to obesity

• Low-income moms under stress may overfeed infants

• Better health in adulthood starts with early prevention in childhood

• Children Today Face Reduced Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplantation

• Study explores links between smoking during pregnancy, autism

• Why do the different people’s bodies react differently to a high-fat diet?

• Women have bigger pupils than men

• Fetal membrane transplantation prevents blindness

• Weight Training Aids Memory in Older Women

• Is the obesity tide turning among preschoolers?

• Worm turns sheep clone to “good” fat: China scientists

• Mad cow disease found in California; no human threat seen

• Oral Steroids Effective in MS

• PET/CT Helps Diagnose Cardiac Device Infection

• Why Have Americans Become More Obese?

• Migraine Headaches: New Guidelines Focus on Prevention

• Fight Obesity With Soy

• Gut Organisms Could Be Clue in Controlling Obesity Risk

• Obesity rates declining among Massachusetts infants and toddlers

• Appendix removal: Huge sticker shock in study

• Doctors share 5 symptoms that need your immediate attention

• New research connects obesity and cancer

• Obesity study focuses on healthy nutrition in group homes

• Avastin Works Well Against Age-Related Macular Degeneration

• Avastin Eye Injection Treatment for Macular Degeneration

• Avastin Injections Are Reported to Cause Blindness

• Novartis tries to make UK hospitals use $1000 drug

• Sneak peak in Oakland of HBO “Weight of the Nation” series Wednesday

• Brain Surgery Touted for Epilepsy

• Brain surgery for epilepsy underutilized

• Emergency room CT exams have increased in children with abdominal pain

• Letting go can boost quality of life

• A physician’s guide for anti-vaccine parents

• Study suggests smoking, but not nicotine, reduces risk for rare tumor

• Olympic boxing may damage the brain

• Estrogen Hormone Reveals Protective Ability after Traumatic Brain Injury

• Hyperbaric Oxygen Could Provide Relief of Chronic Pain

• Avocado oil: The ‘olive oil of the Americas’?

• Treatment to benefit African infants at risk of endemic fever

• ‘Housekeeping’ mechanism for brain stem cells discovered

• Tax on salt could reduce cardiovascular disease deaths by 3 percent

• Rheumatic heart disease is significantly under-treated in Africa and India

• Doctors find cochlear implants restore hearing in rare disorder

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