Immunotherapy Helps ID Epilepsy Type
• Epilepsy • • Immunology • Oct 15 13
A few weeks of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) or methylprednisolone was useful in determining whether epilepsy not responding to conventional drugs had an autoimmune…
Weight Watchers better than self-help for weight loss
• Dieting • • Dieting To Lose Weight • • Weight Loss • Oct 15 13
Compared to going it alone, using the Weight Watchers diet program helps people shed extra pounds, says a new study.
What’s more, the company-sponsored…
Lessons about traumatic brain injury
• Brain • • Trauma & Injuries • Oct 14 13
Faced with news of suicides and brain damage in former professional football players, geneticist Barry Ganetzky bemoaned the lack of model systems for studying…
Portly Taft helped usher in modern obesity care
• Obesity • • Public Health • Oct 14 13
Way before Weight Watchers or “The Biggest Loser,” a president known for his girth was helping to usher in a modern approach to treating…
Therapy helps relieve stomach aches for some kids
• Children's Health • • Alternative Medicine • • Pain • Oct 14 13
Talk therapy may help some children with frequent and unexplained stomach pain, a new study suggests.
More than half of kids and teenagers who…
Go to bed! Irregular bedtimes linked to behavioral problems in children
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • • Sleep Aid • Oct 14 13
Researchers from UCL have found that children with irregular bedtimes are more likely to have behavioural difficulties.
The study, which is published in the…
Football-shaped particles bolster the body’s defense against cancer
• Cancer • • Immunology • Oct 14 13
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have succeeded in making flattened, football-shaped artificial particles that impersonate immune cells. These football-shaped particles seem to be better than…
Adolescent’s weight, socioeconomic status may affect cancer later in life
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Oct 14 13
Overweight adolescents were twice as likely as their normal weight peers to later develop esophageal cancer in a recent study from Israel. The study,…
Are e-cigarettes the perfect disguise for smoking pot in public?
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 13 13
Twenty states and Washington, D.C., have legalized the medicinal use of marijuana, and two states (Colorado and Washington) have legalized the substance for recreational…
Salmonella Outbreak: 5 Tips for Cooking Chicken Safely
• Food & Nutrition • • Infections • Oct 13 13
While the current salmonella outbreak may have people concerned about eating chicken, experts point out that raw meat products always carry risk.
“Chicken…
Behavioral therapy provided during dialysis sessions may combat depression among kidney failure patients
• Psychiatry / Psychology • • Urine Problems • Oct 12 13
Behavioral therapy provided chair-side to kidney failure patients while they’re undergoing dialysis may help fight depression and improve patients’ quality of life, according…
Psychological interventions halve deaths and CV events in heart disease patients
• Heart • • Neurology • Oct 12 13
Psychological interventions halve deaths and cardiovascular events in heart disease patients, according to research from Athens, Greece, presented at the Acute Cardiac Care Congress…
Brain development differs in children who stutter
• Children's Health • • Brain • • Neurology • Oct 10 13
A new study by a University of Alberta researcher shows that children who stutter have less grey matter in key regions of the brain…
Well-child visits more likely when parents use online health tools
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Oct 10 13
Young children whose parents used an integrated personal health record were more likely to attend six or more of the nationally recommended well-child care…
Healthier diets possible in low-income, rural communities in America
• Dieting • • Public Health • Oct 10 13
In the United States, children don’t eat enough fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Instead, their diets typically include excessive amounts of sugars and…
EU Goes Light on E-Cigarettes
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 10 13
Electronic cigarettes won’t be tightly regulated as medical devices in Europe, lawmakers there decided.
Officials had proposed restricting direct sales to consumers, classifying the…
Opioid Use Common After Spine Surgery
• Backache • • Pain • Oct 10 13
One year after surgery to relieve back pain, about of third of patients still were using narcotic painkillers, according to a study that raised…
Researchers identify likely causes, treatment strategies for systemic scleroderma
• Immunology • • Rheumatic Diseases • Oct 10 13
Using mice, lab-grown cells and clues from a related disorder, Johns Hopkins researchers have greatly increased understanding of the causes of systemic sclerosis, showing…
Osteoporosis is a major threat to women and their future independence, new report warns
• Gender: Female • Oct 10 13
According to a new report published today by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), women may expect to live longer but their quality of life…
Depression linked in mothers, teenage kids
• Children's Health • • Depression • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 09 13
Teenagers are more likely to be depressed if their mothers were depressed while pregnant, according to a new study.
Mothers’ depression after giving birth…
Poetry is like music to the mind, scientists prove
• Brain • Oct 09 13
New brain imaging technology is helping researchers to bridge the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain…
Football players suffer more injuries when their team is ahead
• Trauma & Injuries • Oct 09 13
Male football players are at a greater risk of injury five minutes after a card has been given or after a goal has been…
Did Modern Jews Originate in Italy?
• Genetics • Oct 09 13
Modern Jews may traditionally trace their ancestry to the Holy Land, but a new genetic study finds otherwise. A detailed look at thousands of…
Study shows snacking on almonds decreased appetite without increasing body weight
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Oct 09 13
A new study published in the October issue of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that study participants eating 1.5 ounces of…
New urine test could diagnose eye disease
• Eye / Vision Problems • Oct 09 13
You might not think to look to a urine test to diagnose an eye disease.
But a new Duke University study says it can…