I smoke, but I’m not a smoker
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 11 14
While smoking among California adults has dramatically declined in recent decades, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report there…
Minimum alcohol price would save UK lives, cut healthcare costs
• Food & Nutrition • • Public Health • Feb 11 14
Setting a minimum alcohol price of 45 pence ($0.73) a unit in Britain would cut deaths and hospital time among heavy drinkers yet have…
Tweaking an exercise routine to stay strong after 50
• Physical activity -exercise • Feb 11 14
People turning 50 may want to consider tweaking their exercise routines because as they age stiffer joints, slower recovery from injury and the loss…
Breast cancer drug fights fungal disease
• Drug News • • Infections • Feb 11 14
Tamoxifen, a drug currently used to treat breast cancer, also kills a fungus that causes a deadly brain infection in immunocompromised patients. The findings,…
How our brain networks: Research reveals white matter ‘scaffold’ of human brain
• Brain • Feb 11 14
For the first time, neuroscientists have systematically identified the white matter “scaffold” of the human brain, the critical communications network that supports brain function.
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Manga comics may help promote fruit consumption among youth
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Feb 11 14
A recent pilot study in Brooklyn, New York, with minority students found that exposure to Manga comics (Japanese comic art) promoting fruit intake significantly…
Long distance signals protect brain from viral infections
• Infections • Feb 11 14
The brain contains a defense system that prevents at least two unrelated viruses—and possibly many more—from invading the brain at large. The research is…
Cars, computers, TVs spark obesity in developing countries
• Obesity • Feb 11 14
The spread of obesity and type-2 diabetes could become epidemic in low-income countries, as more individuals are able to own higher priced items such…
EU rules “mean children can’t get life-saving cancer drugs”
• Children's Health • • Cancer • Feb 10 14
Children with cancer are being denied access to potentially life-saving medicines because European Union rules allow drug firms to waive the need to test…
Smoking linked with increased risk of most common type of breast cancer
• Cancer: Breast • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 10 14
Young women who smoke and have been smoking a pack a day for a decade or more have a significantly increased risk of developing…
Obese Children More Likely to Have Complex Elbow Fractures and Further Complications
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Trauma & Injuries • Feb 10 14
Pediatric obesity is currently an epidemic, with the prevalence having quadruped over the last 25 years. Children diagnosed with obesity can be at risk…
U.S. group issues stroke prevention guidelines just for women
• Stroke • Feb 07 14
While stroke is common in both men and women, guidelines released on Thursday for the first time address factors such as pregnancy, birth control…
Tests to show water safety after coal ash spill in North Carolina
• Public Health • Feb 07 14
As many as 82,000 tons of ash have spilled into a river after a pipe break at a retired coal plant in North Carolina,…
Fortified foods make up for some missing nutrients: study
• Food & Nutrition • Feb 07 14
Fortification of foods with additional nutrients does have an impact on kids’ intake of vitamins and minerals, but many children and teens are…
Flavor-pairing may teach kids to like vegetables
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Feb 07 14
Parents have long poured on cheese sauce, peanut butter and the like to coax kids to eat their vegetables, but a new study suggests…
Rett syndrome genetic variants now available for advance testing, diagnosis & research
• Children's Health • • Genetics • • Neurology • Feb 06 14
Despite the identification of gene mutations in methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) being linked to Rett syndrome (RS), research has been hindered by…
Scientific Review Points to Dietary Supplement Users Engaging in a Pattern of Healthy Habits
• Dieting • Feb 06 14
Dietary supplement users take these products as just one component of a larger effort to develop a healthier lifestyle, according to a newly published…
Columbia study finds hospitals don’t follow infection prevention rules
• Infections • • Public Health • Feb 06 14
While most hospitals have polices in place to prevent health care-associated infections, clinicians often fail to follow evidence-based guidelines established to prevent these infections,…
Intervention in first 1,000 days vital to fulfilling childhood potential
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Feb 06 14
Safeguarding the healthy development of the next generation is vital for the long term success of the United Nation’s Millennium Development goals. New research…
Nutritional supplement improves cognitive performance in older adults, USF researchers find
• Brain • • Food & Nutrition • • Aging and Gerontology • Feb 06 14
Declines in the underlying brain skills needed to think, remember and learn are normal in aging. In fact, this cognitive decline is a…
Early treatment with AED reduces duration of febrile seizures
• Children's Health • • Epilepsy • • Neurology • Feb 05 14
New research shows that children with febrile status epilepticus (FSE) who receive earlier treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) experience a reduction in the duration…
Stem cells to treat lung disease in preterm infants
• Children's Health • Feb 05 14
Advances in neonatal care for very preterm infants have greatly increased the chances of survival for these fragile infants. However, preterm infants have…
Monkeys that eat omega-3 rich diet show more developed brain networks
• Brain • • Dieting • Feb 05 14
Monkeys that ate a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids had brains with highly connected and well organized neural networks - in some ways…
New evidence shows increase in obesity may be slowing, but not by much
• Obesity • Feb 05 14
In his 2014 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama referred to an August 2013 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that…
Will your child be a slim adult?
• Children's Health • • Dieting To Lose Weight • • Obesity • Feb 05 14
Will your child be a slim adult? A novel new study published in PLOS ONE asked 532 international English speaking adults to submit or…