Panel recommends against ECG tests for heart disease
• Heart • Jul 30 12
Using electrodes to test the electrical activity of the heart is unlikely to help doctors figure out who is at risk of coronary heart…
Driving sobriety tests likely to miss medical pot
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 30 12
A new, small study suggests medicinal marijuana may impair users’ driving skills - but might be missed by typical sobriety tests.
Catholic business owners win temporary halt to Obama birth control mandate
• Public Health • Jul 30 12
A Colorado business owned by a Catholic family does not have to comply with President Barack Obama’s new healthcare mandate that private employers provide…
Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers discover elusive gene that causes a form of blindness from birth
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Genetics • Jul 30 12
Researchers from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Division and their collaborators have isolated…
Surgical patient safety program lowers SSIs by one-third following colorectal operations
• Infections • • Surgery • Jul 30 12
A surgical patient safety program that combines three components-accurate outcome measurement, support of hospital leadership, and engaged frontline providers-reduces surgical site infections (SSIs) by…
Study finds novel therapy that may prevent damage to the retina in diabetic eye diseases
• Diabetes • • Eye / Vision Problems • Jul 28 12
Researchers at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center have identified a compound that could interrupt the chain of events that cause damage to…
In-utero exposure to magnetic fields associated with increased risk of obesity in childhood
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jul 28 12
In-utero exposure to relatively high magnetic field levels was associated with a 69 percent increased risk of being obese or overweight during childhood compared…
Petition to waive ethanol mandate may come next week
• Public Health • Jul 28 12
At least one of four states hoping to ease requirements on adding grain-based ethanol to gasoline is expected to petition the federal government as…
New stroke treatments becoming a reality
• Stroke • Jul 26 12
Scientists led by the President of The University of Manchester have demonstrated a drug which can dramatically limit the amount of brain damage in…
Solving the mystery of how cigarette smoking weakens bones
• Endocrinology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 26 12
Almost 20 years after scientists first identified cigarette smoking as a risk factor for osteoporosis and bone fractures, a new study is shedding light…
New Hampshire hepatitis C outbreak triggers fears
• Infections • Jul 26 12
Hospitals in several U.S. states are scrambling to check if patients were exposed to the hepatitis C virus by an itinerant medical technician charged…
BUSM study identifies receptor’s role in regulating obesity, type 2 diabetes
• Diabetes • • Obesity • Jul 26 12
A recent study led by Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) demonstrates that the A2b-type adenosine receptor, A2bAR, plays a significant role in the…
Doctors call for new U.S. painkiller labels to stop abuse
• Drug Abuse • Jul 26 12
U.S. health regulators should change the prescription guidelines for opioid painkillers to prevent more people abusing the powerful and addictive medicines, urged a group…
Widespread use of prescription steroids draws worry
• Public Health • Jul 26 12
Many Americans are on oral steroids for years without getting therapy to minimize the extra fracture risk that accompanies the potent drugs, according to…
Steroid stanozolol mimics testosterone, boosts muscle
• Public Health • Jul 26 12
Greek high jumper Dimitris Chondrokoukis has tested positive for doping with an anabolic steroid which has featured in several Olympic positive dope tests in…
Medicaid expansion in U.S. states found to cut death rates
• Public Health • Jul 26 12
State expansions of the Medicaid health insurance program for poor Americans reduced adult mortality rates by more than 6 percent compared to states that…
Yoga reduces stress; now it’s known why
• Alternative Medicine • • Neurology • Jul 24 12
Six months ago, researchers at UCLA published a study that showed using a specific type of yoga to engage in a brief, simple daily…
Understand Childhood Obesity, Researchers Look to Inactive, Fat Rats
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jul 24 12
Childhood obesity has nearly tripled in the past three decades, and by 2009, 17 percent of those 2-19 years of age were classified as…
How a Common Fungus Knows When to Attack
• Infections • Jul 24 12
The opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida albicans inconspicuously lives in our bodies until it senses that we are weak, when it quickly adapts to go…
Western fast food tied to heart risks in Asia
• Dieting • • Heart • Jul 22 12
Even relatively clean-living Singaporeans who regularly eat burgers, fries and other staples of U.S.-style fast food are at raised risk of diabetes and significantly…
Inactivity ‘killing as many as smoking’
• Public Health • Jul 19 12
A lack of exercise is now causing as many deaths as smoking across the world, a study suggests.
The report, published in the Lancet…
Too Much Water Bigger Threat Than Too Little
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Jul 18 12
Hyperhydration, rather than dehydration, may pose a greater health risk to athletes, according to two articles in a British medical journal.
Heat-induced dehydration rarely…
A stronger doctor-patient relationship for the costliest patients
• Public Health • Jul 18 12
Patients who are frequently hospitalized account for a disproportionate amount of health care spending in the United States. Working with a $6.1 million grant,…
Are cardiac risk factors linked to less blood flow to the brain?
• Brain • • Heart • Jul 18 12
Metabolic syndrome, a term used to describe a combination of risk factors that often lead to heart disease and type 2 diabetes, seems to…
Fighting obesity with thermal imaging
• Obesity • Jul 18 12
Scientists at The University of Nottingham believe they’ve found a way of fighting obesity — with a pioneering technique which uses thermal imaging. This…