Exposure to Snot-Nosed Kids Ups Severity of Cold Infections
• Children's Health • • Flu • Sep 27 12
Exposure to school-age children raises the odds that a person with lung disease who catches a cold will actually suffer symptoms like a runny…
Women twice as likely to suffer infection with kidney stones and other urinary blockages
• Urine Problems • Sep 27 12
While more men than women develop kidney stones and other obstructions in the urinary tract, women are more than twice as likely to…
Chocolate makes snails smarter
• Dermatology • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 27 12
Type the word ‘superfood,’ into a web browser and you’ll be overwhelmed: some websites even maintain that dark chocolate can have beneficial effects. But…
Are Antibiotics Overprescribed In The South?
• Drug Abuse • • Aging and Gerontology • Sep 26 12
Elderly people in the South use more antibiotics than the rest of their peers in the U.S., leading researchers to believe that doctors in…
First Successful Treatment for Progeria, Rare Childhood Disease
• Children's Health • • Genetics • Sep 26 12
Results of the first clinical drug trial for children with a rare rapid-aging disease, known as Progeria, has shown successfulness with a farnesyltransferase inhibitor…
Moffitt Cancer Center researchers say smoking relapse prevention a healthy step for mothers, babies
• Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 26 12
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, concerned that women who quit smoking during their pregnancies often resume smoking after they deliver their baby, tested self-help…
Learning requires rhythmical activity of neurons
• Neurology • • Rheumatic Diseases • Sep 26 12
The hippocampus represents an important brain structure for learning. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich discovered how it filters electrical…
Child obesity: Why do parents let their kids get fat?
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Sep 25 12
The health risks for obese children may be even greater than previously estimated, new research suggests. So why do parents let their kids get…
Exercise Does a Body - and a Mind - Good
• Brain • • Public Health • Sep 25 12
We’ve heard it time and time again: exercise is good for us. And it’s not just good for physical health - research shows that…
Lebanon smoking ban takes effect, sparking anger
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 25 12
A smoking ban in all closed public spaces, including coffee shops, restaurants and bars, went into force in Lebanon on Monday under new legislation…
Can Personal Technology Stop the Obesity Epidemic?
• Obesity • • Public Health • Sep 25 12
So much of our information from and interaction with the world is now mediated by computers, cell phones and tablets that health experts have…
Cancer Deaths Expected To Drop 17% By 2030
• Cancer • • Public Health • Sep 25 12
Cancer death rates are predicted to drop by 17% (16.8) in the UK by 2030, according to Cancer Research UK’s new report.
Military leaders point to schools in U.S. fat fight
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • Sep 25 12
Former U.S. military leaders have identified a latent threat to the potential for a leaner, more agile fighting force: the school vending machine.
Kids’ prescriptions often going unfilled
• Children's Health • Sep 25 12
A large share of medication prescriptions to children on Medicaid may go unfilled, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that of nearly 17,000 prescriptions…
New SARS-like virus found, man critically ill in UK
• Infections • Sep 25 12
A Qatari man struck down with a previously unknown virus related to the deadly SARS infection and the common cold is critically ill in…
Long-Term Study of Cigarette and Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking Shows Knowledge Gap in Perceived Health Risks
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 25 12
People who smoke both cigarettes and waterpipes - dual users - lack sufficient knowledge about the risks of tobacco smoking and are at considerable…
Could viruses be used to treat acne?
• Infections • • Skin Care • Sep 24 12
Scientists have isolated and studied the genomes of 11 viruses, known as phage, that can infect and kill the acne-causing bacterium Propionibacterium acnes, potentially…
Study examines delayed, misdiagnosis of sporadic Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease
• Brain • • Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 24 12
A medical record review study of 97 patients with the fatal, degenerative brain disorder sporadic Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease (sCJD) suggests that a correct diagnosis of…
Study links active video gaming with higher energy expenditure in children
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 24 12
Compared with rest and sedentary video game play, active video gaming with dancing and boxing were associated with increased heart rate, oxygen uptake and…
Pacific Islanders have high obesity, smoking rates
• Obesity • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 24 12
In the first study to detail the health of Pacific Islanders living in the United States, University of Michigan researchers have found alarmingly high…
Vitamin D deficiency increases risk of heart disease
• Heart • Sep 24 12
New research from the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital shows that low levels of vitamin D are associated with a markedly higher…
New back pain gene identified
• Backache • Sep 24 12
Researchers at King’s College London have for the first time identified a gene linked to age-related degeneration of the intervertebral discs in the…
New ‘Sars-like’ coronavirus identified in the UK
• Infections • Sep 24 12
A new respiratory illness similar to the Sars virus that spread globally in 2002 and killed hundreds of people has been identified in a…
Swiss reject full ban on smoking in public spaces
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 24 12
Voters in Switzerland have rejected a total ban on smoking in enclosed public places at a referendum.
Although Geneva voted slightly in favour, results…
Studies expand on soda’s role in growing obesity
• Dieting • • Obesity • Sep 24 12
As public health leaders step up their efforts to temper Americans’ thirst for sugar-sweetened beverages, a new set of published studies has found that…