2011

March

• More Reasons to Be Nice: It’s Less Work for Everyone

• UK to ban displays of cigarettes, tobacco in shops

• Obama administration appeals healthcare ruling

• New study proves the brain has 3 layers of working memory

• How do we combine faces and voices?

• Michigan Tech Students, Staff Belly Up to Healthy Eating

• Gene Therapy Treatment to Combat Parkinson’s Disease

• The safety of daily magnesium oxide treatment for children with chronic constipation

• Sildenafil reduces Raynaud’s frequency in patients with systemic sclerosis

• Homeless patients cost $2,500 more than the average patient for each hospital stay

• Right-handers, but not left-handers, are biased to select their dominant hand

• Body mass index and risk of death in Chinese population

• Older parents are happier with more children

• Helicobacter pylori Infection Linked to Decreased Iron Levels in Otherwise Healthy Children

• New Perspective Diminishes Racial Bias in Pain Treatment

• Better than a BMI? New obesity scale proposed

• Some overweight adolescents may be at risk for weak bones

• The Tooth About Zinc

• Bone-creating protein could improve dental implant success

• Stigma weighs heavily on obese people, contributing to greater health problems

• Better brain wiring linked to family genes

• Ibuprofen May Lower Risk of Parkinson’s Disease

• Computerized Tomography Scanning Offers New Uses in Oral Surgery Recovery

• Portable, Less Costly Peritoneal Dialysis Shows No Additional Catheter Risk Factors

• $1 Million USDA Grant Aims to Reduce Obesity in Preschoolers

• Boxing Injuries on the Rise; Youth Head Injury Rates Also Concerning

• Polishing the apple’s popular image as a healthy food

• Rising status of women linked to more smoking

• Program cuts cavities in low-income toddlers

• Potassium-rich diet tied to lower stroke risk

• Spontaneous smoking cessation may be an early symptom of lung cancer, research suggests

• Answers to a rare and tragic form of epilepsy

• For some kids, corneal transplant improves vision and daily life

• New cell therapy a promising atherosclerosis treatment

• More Evidence That Alzheimer’s Disease May Be Inherited from Your Mother

• Gene variant affects stroke prognosis in humans

• High-cost hospitals do not appear to have better survival rates for sepsis patients

• Low health literacy associated with greater variability in following prescription drug instructions

• Research opens door to vaccines that can circumvent maternal antibodies

• Older patients confused about multiple drug dosing

• Clinicians important influencers in weight and related health issues for overweight patients

February

• New York state may cap Medicaid costs at $15.1 billion

• Treat kids’ discomfort, not fevers: Pediatricians

• Viral infection not responsible for exacerbation of lung disease in most patients

• Brain imaging provides window into consciousness

• Listening to music is biological

• First aid for the under 5s

• Fish oil fights weight loss due to chemotherapy

• Hearing loss rate in older adults climbs to more than 60 percent in national survey

• Forsyth team gains new insight on childhood dental disease

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