2011

June

• Should babies be screened for untreatable diseases?

• Europe E.coli is toxic new strain, trade row grows

• Children eat more vegetables when allowed to choose

• Mechanism discovered for health benefit of green tea, new approach to autoimmune disease

• Study finds fire stations contaminated with MRSA

• Many migraine sufferers can predict their migraine attack—may create new treatment possibilities

• Noisy operations associated with increased infections after surgery

• Medicare payments to US hospitals not correct: study

• WHO says cell phone use “possibly carcinogenic”

May

• Study finds dangerous bacteria on cell phones of hospital patients

• Professor says ethicists working in hospitals need to have standards

• Fukushima workers may have passed radiation limit

• Stress doesn’t raise risk of MS: study

• Tough Australian anti-smoking laws to win parliament backing

• Killer bacteria claims victims in Germany, Sweden

• Smoking could kill 8 million a year by 2030: WHO

• Arrowing in on Alzheimer’s disease

• Can stress increase the risk of multiple sclerosis?

• Noncoding RNA may promote Alzheimer’s disease

• The use of placebo in rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials may negatively impact patients

• Undertreatment of cardiovascular disease in rheumatoid arthritis patients following a heart attack

• Drug may help overwrite bad memories

• Does Our Personality Affect Our Level of Attractiveness?

• Low Vitamin D Levels Seen as Multiple Sclerosis Risk for African Americans, UCSF Study Finds

• More Money, Better Health?

• New advances in lipid genetics lead to better detection and prevention of major diseases

• Why does flu trigger asthma?

• Acupuncture of benefit to those with unexplained symptoms

• TGen study identifies compounds that could slow down Alzheimer’s disease

• Republicans stick to plan to privatize Medicare

• Why do pro skiers get knee injuries?

• Researchers evaluate red wine compound for treating concussions in pro boxers

• Music therapy relieves fibromyalgia symptoms and improves patients’ quality of life

• Cognitive decline incidence higher in Southern stroke belt

• Stress may increase risk for Alzheimer’s disease

• More primary care tied to lower death rates

• Is carpal tunnel syndrome cultural?

• Five patients who died in Joplin hospital suffocated

• Studies show Vectra(TM) DA can track early response to rheumatoid arthritis therapy

• New protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease

• What makes an image memorable?

• Kids dependent on long-term ventilation require longer, more expensive hospital care

• No health card means no family doctor for many homeless people

• Beaches, parks off limits to New York smokers

• Bayer starts selling quick-release aspirin

• Asthma often elicits unneeded antibiotics for kids

• Poorer African states put children first: study

• Debt talks resume with focus on healthcare

• New study finds that violence doesn’t add to children’s enjoyment of TV shows, movies

• What doesn’t kill the brain makes it stronger

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