Improving medicine acceptance in kids: A matter of taste
• Children's Health • Jul 24 13
Despite major advances in the pharmaceutical treatment of disease, many children reject medicines due to an aversion to bitter taste. As such, bitterness presents…
Univ. of MD finds that marijuana use in adolescence may cause permanent brain abnormalities
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 24 13
Regular marijuana use in adolescence, but not adulthood, may permanently impair brain function and cognition, and may increase the risk of developing serious psychiatric…
Better healthcare for less money, if you can find it
• Public Health • Jul 24 13
Consumers intrigued by the new model of accountable healthcare - which promises better-coordinated care that could save lots of money - are going to…
Physical inactivity, poor diet and smoking linked to disability in older population
• Dieting • • Aging and Gerontology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 24 13
Disability is commonly defined as “difficulty or dependency in carrying out activities essential to independent living”. With the number of disabled people expected to…
Athletes need to be careful to monitor diet, weight to maintain muscle mass
• Dieting • • Obesity • Jul 23 13
Athletes seeking a healthy performance weight should eat high fiber, low-fat food balanced with their training regimen in order to maintain muscle while still…
Optimists are better at regulating stress
• Neurology • Jul 23 13
It’s no surprise that those who tend to see a rose’s blooms before its thorns are also better at handling stress. But science has…
Faster, simpler diagnosis for fibromyalgia may be on the horizon
• Arthritis • • Pain • • Rheumatic Diseases • Jul 23 13
Researchers have developed a reliable way to use a finger-stick blood sample to detect fibromyalgia syndrome, a complicated pain disorder that often is difficult…
A new player in brain disease and stroke
• Brain • • Stroke • Jul 23 13
In degenerative brain diseases and after stroke, nerve cells die while their support cells activate the brain’s immune system to cause further damage. Now…
Cannabis constituent has no effect on MS progression, study shows
• Neurology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 23 13
The first large non-commercial clinical study to investigate whether the main active constituent of cannabis (tetrahydrocannabinol or THC) is effective in slowing the course…
A new weapon against stroke
• Stroke • Jul 23 13
One of regenerative medicine’s greatest goals is to develop new treatments for stroke. So far, stem cell research for the disease has focused on…
Plain packaging seems to make cigarettes less appealing and increase urgency to quit smoking
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 23 13
Plain packaging for cigarettes seems to make tobacco less appealing and increase the urgency to quit smoking, suggest early findings from Australia, published in…
Antioxidants - too much of a good thing?
• Food & Nutrition • • Heart • Jul 22 13
In older men, a natural antioxidant compound found in red grapes and other plants - called resveratrol - blocks many of the cardiovascular benefits…
Generic Lipitor Recall
• Drug News • Jul 21 13
Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc., a major maker of generic Lipitor, has issued a massive recall of the cholesterol-cutting tablets, which may be contaminated with tiny…
Mexico could legalize marijuana in five years: former president
• Addiction • • Psychiatry / Psychology • • Public Health • Jul 21 13
Mexico could legalize marijuana within the next five years, stripping brutal drug cartels of a major source of income, former President Vicente Fox said…
Hobby Lobby wins a stay against birth control mandate
• Public Health • Jul 21 13
A federal judge has temporarily exempted Hobby Lobby Stores Inc from a requirement in the 2010 healthcare law that it offer workers insurance coverage…
Calcium Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Disease and Death in Patients With Kidney Disease
• Heart • • Urine Problems • Jul 21 13
Kidney patients who take calcium supplements to lower their phosphorus levels may be at a 22 per cent higher risk of death than those…
Why many abortion clinics in Texas may stay open despite new law
• Public Health • Jul 21 13
Most of the Texas clinics that abortion rights advocates predict will close because of a new law requiring tighter health and safety standards likely…
Longer Duration of Obesity Associated With Subclinical Coronary Heart Disease
• Heart • • Obesity • Jul 18 13
In a study of adults recruited and followed up over the past 3 decades in the United States, longer duration of overall and abdominal…
Personality May Predict If You Like Spicy Foods
• Food & Nutrition • Jul 18 13
Certain aspects of an individual’s personality may be a determining factor in whether they like their food plain and bland or spicy and…
Digital health records may save some money: study
• Public Health • Jul 17 13
Switching to electronic health records may lead to a small reduction in spending per patient at doctors’ offices, according to a new study.
Researchers…
FDA grants emergency approval for test to detect MERS
• Infections • • Public Health • Jul 17 13
The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization on Tuesday for a diagnostic test to detect the presence of the Middle East coronavirus…
Timing of first solid food tied to child diabetes risk
• Children's Health • • Diabetes • Jul 14 13
When babies already at increased risk for type 1 diabetes had their first solid foods before four months of age or after six months,…
Undiagnosed pre-diabetes highly prevalent in early Alzheimer’s disease study
• Brain • • Diabetes • • Neurology • Jul 14 13
When Georgetown University neurologist R. Scott Turner, MD, PhD, began enrolling people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease into a nationwide study last…
Eating fruits and vegetables tied to longer life
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Jul 12 13
Eating fewer than five servings of fruit and vegetables each day is linked with a higher chance of dying early, according to a large…
Texas abortion restrictions headed for approval in state Senate
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Jul 12 13
A Republican proposal that would ban most abortions in Texas after 20 weeks of pregnancy moved toward a possible final vote in the state…