Boston Marathon bomb amputees offered prosthetics free of cost
• Public Health • May 01 13
A trade group representing makers of artificial limbs on Tuesday promised to provide prosthetics free of cost to the estimated 20 to 25 victims…
Optimal vitamin D dosage for infants uncertain
• Children's Health • May 01 13
In a comparison of the effect of different dosages of vitamin D supplementation in breastfed infants, no dosage raised and maintained plasma concentrations within…
Economics Influence Fertility Rates, Says MU Anthropologist
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • May 01 13
The world population could top 8 billion in the year 2023 if current growth rates remain constant, according to United Nations figures. However, if…
MU Discovery Helps Explain How Children Develop Rare, Fatal Disease
• Children's Health • • Genetics • May 01 13
One of 100,000 children is born with Menkes disease, a genetic disorder that affects the body’s ability to properly absorb copper from food and…
Changing lens type or lens care product may help
• Eye / Vision Problems • May 01 13
If your contact lenses are causing you discomfort, simply switching to a different type of contact lens or lens care product may bring improvement,…
One in three stroke emergencies don’t use EMS
• Emergencies / First Aid • • Stroke • Apr 30 13
More than a third of stroke patients don’t get to the hospital by ambulance, even though that’s the fastest way to get there, according…
Cleveland Clinic research shows Internet-based program effective in reducing stress
• Neurology • Apr 30 13
The use of Internet-based stress management programs (ISM) effectively reduce stress for a sustainable period, according to a Cleveland Clinic study published recently in…
Teenage Years in the Stroke Belt
• Stroke • Apr 29 13
The Southeastern United States has a rate of stroke higher than that of the rest of the country, but it is only partly explained…
New Doubts About Ginkgo Biloba
• Cancer • • Drug Abuse • Apr 29 13
Millions of Americans take ginkgo biloba supplements to boost memory and prevent dementia. Studies have never found any solid evidence that ginkgo does any…
Medication errors also happen at home: study
• Public Health • Apr 29 13
While doctors and nurses can make mistakes with medications in hospitals, a new study says drug errors often happen at home and can lead…
U.S.-born kids have more allergies, asthma
• Children's Health • • Allergies • • Asthma • Apr 29 13
Kids and teens who are born abroad and immigrate to the United States are about half as likely to have asthma and allergies as…
Emergency care cost estimates are too low
• Emergencies / First Aid • Apr 29 13
Alternately praised in the aftermath of horrible tragedies as a heroic service and lamented in policy debates as an expensive safety net for people…
Antidepressants linked with increased risks after surgery
• Surgery • Apr 29 13
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) – among the most widely prescribed antidepressant medications – are associated with increased risk of bleeding, transfusion, hospital readmission…
Merck, Pfizer to jointly develop diabetes drug
• Drug News • Apr 29 13
Drugmakers Pfizer Inc and Merck & Co Inc said they would jointly develop Pfizer’s experimental type 2 diabetes drug, ertugliflozin, and expect late-stage trials…
China reports latest bird flu death
• Flu • Apr 29 13
A man in Shanghai died from bird flu on Monday, the latest person to die from the H7N9 strain of the virus first discovered…
Why kids should avoid the ‘cinnamon challenge’
• Children's Health • • Food & Nutrition • Apr 29 13
Parents need to warn their kids against yet another stupid health risk that some are taking: a “cinnamon challenge” where a tablespoon of ground…
The Latest Tool for Tracking Obesity? Facebook Likes
• Obesity • Apr 28 13
Obesity is a big problem that needs big solutions, and Facebook may be coming to the rescue.
In a way that’s never been possible…
New Link Found Between Red Meat and Heart Disease: an Intestinal Bacteria
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Heart • Apr 28 13
In a new study published April 7 in the journal Nature Medicine, scientists from the Cleveland Clinic reported evidence suggesting that the long-known link…
Latin America ‘threatened by rising cancer cases’
• Cancer • Apr 28 13
Cancer is threatening to overwhelm Latin American countries, experts writing in Lancet Oncology warn.
There are far fewer cases of cancer in the region…
Conversion from bad fat to good fat
• Fat, Dietary • Apr 28 13
Scientists from ETH Zurich have shown for the first time that brown and white fat cells in a living organism can be converted from…
National survey highlights perceived importance of dietary protein to prevent weight gain
• Dieting • • Obesity • • Weight Loss • Apr 27 13
Atkins Diet, Zone Diet, South Beach Diet, etc., etc., etc. Chances are you have known someone who has tried a high protein diet. In…
Forthcoming study explores use of intermittent fasting in diabetes as cardiovascular disease
• Diabetes • • Heart • Apr 27 13
Intermittent fasting is all the rage, but scientific evidence showing how such regimes affect human health is not always clear cut. Now a scientific…
Discovery of a gene that controls 3 different diseases
• Genetics • Apr 27 13
An international research consortium led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the CIBERER and the University of Wurzburg (Germany) has discovered a gene…
Therapy Free of Side Effects of Other HCV Drugs
• Drug Abuse • Apr 26 13
An investigational protease inhibitor (PI) led to viral cures in about four out of five hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients, a researcher reported here.
…The Five Most Stressful Places to Live in the U.S.
• Neurology • • Public Health • Apr 26 13
If you want to take that vacation, go to Hawaii. But stay away from West Virginia. In a Gallup poll released yesterday, those two…