Another child dies from suspected bird flu in Turkey
• Flu • Jan 16 06
Health officials in Turkey say a girl who has has died in the eastern region of Turkey is suspected to have had bird flu.
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Indonesian girl dies of bird flu
• Flu • Jan 16 06
A 13-year-old Indonesian girl died of bird flu at the weekend while two of her siblings have tested positive for the H5N1 virus, a…
TV in the bedroom halves your sex life - study
• Sexual Health • Jan 16 06
Thinking of buying a TV for the bedroom? Think again - it could ruin your sex life.
A study by an Italian sexologist has…
Early Drinking in Teens Linked to Alcohol Use in Films
• Children's Health • Jan 13 06
Seeing movies that feature characters drinking alcohol can predispose young adolescents to experiment with alcohol at an early age, concludes a study led by…
Loud aircraft noise may affect children’s reading
• Children's Health • Jan 13 06
Children who live or attend schools near airports - within hearing range of loud takeoffs and landings - tend to show impaired reading comprehension,…
World Bank approves first bird flu funding
• Public Health • Jan 13 06
World Bank member countries on Thursday endorsed $500 million in aid to help countries deal with bird flu, ahead of next week’s meeting in…
Cutting calories, portion sizes may really work
• Food & Nutrition • Jan 13 06
Though countless fad diets promise a trimmer physique, the old-fashioned route of portion control and calorie consciousness may be the way to go after…
Prenatal factors may help predict SIDS risk
• Children's Health • Jan 12 06
Several prenatal factors can be used to help predict the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), according to a report in the current…
According to research, “Emotional Eating” may actually be physiological
• Dieting • Jan 12 06
Do you feel like the more stressed you are the more junk food you eat? It’s not just in your mind-new research indicates those…
Family Dinners Benefit children long after the meal is over
• Children's Health • Jan 12 06
Last month, millions of Americans spent the holidays gathered around the table, but are the holidays the only time that you eat dinner together…
Working long hours can actually make you sick
• Public Health • Jan 12 06
Do you work overtime? The answer may determine whether you get sick this cold and flu season. Millions of Americans work more than 60…
Vanderbilt Medical Experts Propose FDA Drug Approval Changes
• Drug News • Jan 12 06
Efforts to reform drug regulation in the wake of the Vioxx withdrawal do not go far enough, according to experts at Vanderbilt University Medical…
Centrally coordinated control campaign crucial to battle bird flu
• Flu • Jan 12 06
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned today that the highly pathogenic Avian Influenza virus H5N1 could become endemic in…
Face perception is mediated by a distributed neural system in the human brain
• Brain • Jan 12 06
New research indicates that an area of the brain thought to act in reward circuitry may represent a phase in visual processing during which…
New test could monitor bird flu virus mutations
• Flu • Jan 11 06
A new test may help provide a kind of early warning system for new and dangerous mutations of the avian flu virus, U.S. researchers…
Lives will be saved as early signs of meningitis now identified
• Emergencies / First Aid • Jan 11 06
Scientists in the UK say they have identified the early signs of meningitis and blood poisoning which should improve detection of the disease and…
Insect spray may lower testosterone levels in men
• Gender: Male • Jan 11 06
While infertility may be caused by a number of factors, new study findings suggest that exposure to nonpersistent, or short-lasting, insecticides may play…
More nurses improves the quality of hospital care
• Public Health • Jan 11 06
A study in the January/February 2006 issue of the journal Health Affairs concludes that increasing the number of registered nurses and hours of nursing…
Component in Soy Products Causes Reproductive Problems in Mice
• Gender: Male • Jan 11 06
Genistein, a major component of soy, was found to disrupt the development of the ovaries in newborn female mice that were given the product.…
Avian Flu - What Can We Do?
• Flu • Jan 11 06
The University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security is pulling together 23 national avian flu experts from avian flu research, public health…
Gene that increases risk for Alzheimer’s disease
• Neurology • Jan 11 06
An international team of researchers, led by investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, are zeroing in on a gene that…
Breastfed babies may become leaner kids
• Children's Health • Jan 10 06
A new study suggests that the longer infants are breastfed, the lower the likelihood they’ll be overweight as adolescents, a relationship that does not…
Taking a taxi could increase your exposure to pollution
• Respiratory Problems • Jan 10 06
Researchers have discovered that your level of exposure to pollution can vary according to what method of transport you use, with travelling by taxis…
FDA approves jaw joint prosthetic developed by University of Pennsylvania
• Dental Health • Jan 10 06
After a 10-year clinical trial of a jaw joint replacement developed by Peter Quinn of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, the…
British research says daughters turn parents to left, sons to right
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jan 10 06
New research by economists Professor Andrew Oswald at the University of Warwick, and Dr Nattavudh Powdthavee at London University’s Institute of Education, reveals that…