Fewer than half of women attend recommended doctors visits after childbirth
• Childbirth • • Pregnancy • Feb 05 14
Medical associations widely recommend that women visit their obstetricians and primary care doctors shortly after giving birth, but slightly fewer than half make or…
Electronically controlled drugs could minimize side effects
• Drug Abuse • Feb 05 14
Potential side effects of many of today’s therapeutic drugs can be downright frightening - just listen carefully to a drug commercial on TV. These…
Rural primary care physicians offer insight into rural women’s health care
• Gender: Female • • Public Health • Feb 05 14
Women living in rural communities are less likely than urban-dwelling women to receive sufficient mental health care, in large part due to limited access…
Decriminalizing Pot May Land More Kids in the ER
• Children's Health • • Emergencies / First Aid • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 05 14
States that decriminalized marijuana saw dramatic increases in children requiring medical intervention, although the overall number of unintentional marijuana exposures among children remained…
Adolescents’ salt intake correlates with obesity, inflammation
• Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Feb 03 14
Most adolescents consume as much salt as adults – some more than twice the recommended daily allowance – and that high sodium intake correlates…
U.S. FDA approves Vanda’s circadian rhythm drug Hetlioz
• Drug News • Feb 01 14
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Friday that U.S. health regulators have approved its experimental drug to regulate the internal body clocks of blind…
All alcohol, even wine, raises risk of gout flare-ups: study
• Food & Nutrition • • Immunology • • Rheumatic Diseases • Feb 01 14
Bad news for gout sufferers who enjoy drinking the fruit of the vine - new research finds that all types of alcohol, even previously…
Massachusetts licenses its first medical marijuana dispensaries
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 01 14
Massachusetts has licensed 20 dispensaries to start growing and selling marijuana for medical use, the Department of Health said on Friday in the…
Could your relationship with your mom increase your child’s chances of obesity?
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Feb 01 14
Could the quality of your attachment to your parents affect your own child’s risk for obesity? A new University of Illinois study says it…
New study finds differences in concussion risk between football helmets
• Trauma & Injuries • Feb 01 14
Football helmets can be designed to reduce the risk of concussions, according to a new study by some of the nation’s leading concussion researchers…
New study finds no reason to replace fructose with glucose
• Dieting • • Obesity • Feb 01 14
Researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital have found there is no benefit in replacing fructose, the sugar most commonly blamed for obesity, with glucose…
Potential biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
• Brain • • Neurology • Feb 01 14
In a study published this week in Nature Neuroscience, Bess Frost, PhD, and co-authors, identify abnormal expression of genes, resulting from DNA relaxation, that…
Study Shows Autistic Brains Create More Information at Rest
• Brain • • Neurology • Feb 01 14
New research from Case Western Reserve University and University of Toronto neuroscientists finds that the brains of autistic children generate more information at rest…
Poor breakfast in youth linked to metabolic syndrome in adulthood
• Dieting • • Obesity • Jan 29 14
It is often said that breakfast is important for our health and a study conducted by Umeå University, published in Public Health Nutrition supports…
How does the brain create sequences?
• Brain • • Neurology • Jan 26 14
When you learn how to play the piano, first you have to learn notes, scales and chords and only then will you be able…
Music therapy’s positive effects on young cancer patients’ coping skills, social integration
• Alternative Medicine • • Cancer • Jan 26 14
A new study has found that adolescents and young adults undergoing cancer treatment gain coping skills and resilience-related outcomes when they participate in a…
Mother’s high-fat diet alters metabolism in offspring, leading to higher obesity risk
• Dieting • • Obesity • Jan 23 14
The offspring of obese mothers consuming a high-fat diet during pregnancy are at a higher risk than the children of thin mothers for lifelong…
Physical activity significantly extends lives of cancer survivors
• Physical activity -exercise • Jan 23 14
Physical activity significantly extends the lives of male cancer survivors, a new study of 1,021 men has found.
During the period while the men…
Researchers Discover Potential Drug Targets for Early Onset Glaucoma
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jan 23 14
Using a novel high-throughput screening process, scientists have for the first time identified molecules with the potential to block the accumulation of a toxic…
Deaths higher for heart attack patients at night and weekends
• Heart • • Mortality and Morbidity • Jan 21 14
Mortality is higher, and emergency treatment takes longer, for heart attack patients who arrive at hospital during the night or at weekends compared with…
Fast eye movements: A possible indicator of more impulsive decision-making
• Neurology • Jan 21 14
Using a simple study of eye movements, Johns Hopkins scientists report evidence that people who are less patient tend to move their eyes with…
Probability of blindness from glaucoma has nearly halved
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jan 21 14
The probability of blindness due to the serious eye disease glaucoma has decreased by nearly half since 1980, according to a study published this…
Researchers identify innate channel that protects against pain
• Neurology • • Pain • Jan 21 14
Scientists have identified a channel present in many pain detecting sensory neurons that acts as a ‘brake’, limiting spontaneous pain. It is hoped that…
Older brains slow due to greater experience, rather than cognitive decline
• Brain • • Aging and Gerontology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jan 21 14
What happens to our cognitive abilities as we age? Traditionally it is thought that age leads to a steady deterioration of brain function, but…
Study finds decreased life expectancy for multiple sclerosis patients
• Neurology • Jan 21 14
The first large scale study in the U.S. on the mortality of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) has been published and provides new information…