2010

December

• Placebos help, even when patients know about them

• Calorie Control Council Predicts Top 5 Dieting Trends in 2011

• Eating less healthy fish may contribute to America’s stroke belt

• Eating healthier means living longer

• KISSing a theory goodbye in the link between puberty and nutrition status

• Mortality rates are an unreliable metric for assessing hospital quality, study finds

• Designer probiotics could reduce obesity

• UT Southwestern researchers identify site in brain where leptin may trigger puberty

• Brain gene makes a female develop as a male

• Complementary medicines can be dangerous for children

• Obesity increases risk of death in severe vehicle crashes, study shows

• Smoking may worsen pain for cancer patients

• Lab Contamination, XMRV Virus Is Not Chronic Fatigue Cause

• Runners Who Lose The Most Weight During A Marathon Finish Quicker

• New Test Shows Promise For Accurate Early Diagnosis Of Turner Syndrome

• Many Children Lack Access To Primary Care Physicians

• Common Method For Smoking Cessation May Not Be Best Option

• How To Drink Less During The Holidays

• Quitting menthol cigarettes may be harder for some smokers

• Transferring trauma patients may take longer than 2 hours—but not for the most serious injuries

• Brain imaging predicts future reading progress in children with dyslexia

• Many ignore indoor tanning risks

• 15 Loyola Doctors Named to Chicago Magazine’s ‘Top Doctors for Women’ List

• Spinal ‘Botox’ Injection May Have Useful Pain-Reducing Effect

• Genetic Trait Could Triple Odds of Whites’ Susceptibility to Heavy Cocaine Abuse

• Common Method for Smoking Cessation May Not be Best Option

• Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

• Exome Sequencing Provides New Approach to Diagnosis of Rare Genetic Disorders

• Researchers discover human immune system has emergency backup plan

• Study finds food in early life affects fertility

• Genome-wide hunt reveals links to abnormal rhythms behind sudden death, heart damage

• Scientists and physicians use genetic sequencing to identify and treat unknown disease

• Massachusetts physician groups improving patient experience, study finds

• Ion Channel Responsible for Pain Identified

• Kroger recalls pet foods at some stores

• Age doesn’t matter: New genes are as essential as ancient ones

• Most Medicare stroke patients die or are rehospitalized within year after discharge

• Ben-Gurion U. researchers: High resistance rates among acute otitis media pathogens in children

• Beetroot juice could help people live more active lives

• Study Reveals Major Shift in How Eczema Develops

• Don’t trouble your heart: Naturally high hemoglobin OK in dialysis patients

• Health organization to pursue cholera vaccination in Haiti

• U.N. chief launches probe of Haiti cholera epidemic

• MRI scans reveal brain changes in people at genetic risk for Alzheimer’s

• Evidence Suggests E-Cigs Safer than Cigarettes, Researcher Claims

• It’s a pain to take care of pain

• Study shows caffeine negatively affects children

• Immune cell plays unexpected role in autoimmune disease

• When the brain knows no fear

• Feast, famine and the genetics of obesity: You can’t have it both ways

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