Secondhand smoke permeates many apartment buildings
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 30 12
A new survey of American apartment dwellers reveals that upwards of a third of nonsmoking residents sniff the stench of secondhand smoke in their…
Black Children Less Likely to Get Pain Meds in ER
• Children's Health • • Emergencies / First Aid • Apr 30 12
Black children seen in the emergency department for abdominal pain are less likely to receive pain medication than white children, according to a new…
Magnetic resonance imaging with side effects
• Emergencies / First Aid • • Public Health • Apr 30 12
Great care should be taken when performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with a cardiac pacemaker. Henning Bovenschulte and his co-authors review recent…
Drinking tea and coffee didn’t too much increase the risk of urinary incontinence, in fact somewhat decrease the risk
• Dieting • • Urine Problems • Apr 30 12
Several studies has suggested that drinking coffee can causes or worsening the urinary incontinence or bladder leakage or overactive bladder, despite the results itself…
TV Ads Linked to Unhealthy Diets in Young Adults
• Dieting • Apr 30 12
Fast food and alcohol advertising on television have a negative influence on young people’s weight and underage drinking, researchers affirmed in a survey.
Study supports allowing family members in ED during critical care
• Emergencies / First Aid • • Public Health • Apr 28 12
Contrary to what many trauma teams believe, the presence of family members does not impede the care of injured children in the emergency department,…
Racial differences found in care of children in ED
• Children's Health • • Emergencies / First Aid • Apr 28 12
Black children are less likely than white children to receive medication for abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED) even when they report severe…
Fear of not having enough food may lead to obesity
• Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Apr 28 12
While eating too much food can cause obesity, the fear of not having enough food may lead to the same result, according to a…
Low-income moms under stress may overfeed infants
• Children's Health • • Dieting • Apr 28 12
Efforts to prevent obesity among low-income infants should focus not only on what babies are being fed but also the reasons behind unhealthy feeding…
Better health in adulthood starts with early prevention in childhood
• Children's Health • Apr 28 12
Preventing chronic diseases and disorders that begin in infancy will improve the health of children and adults, according to research being presented on Saturday,…
Children Today Face Reduced Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplantation
• Urine Problems • Apr 27 12
A policy instituted in 2005 has reduced racial disparities in kidney transplantation among children, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of…
Study explores links between smoking during pregnancy, autism
• Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 27 12
Women who smoke in pregnancy may be more likely to have a child with high-functioning autism, such as Asperger’s Disorder, according to preliminary findings…
Why do the different people’s bodies react differently to a high-fat diet?
• Dieting • Apr 26 12
A diet rich in greasy foods causes an imbalance in our gut flora. The composition of the gut flora seems to determine the way…
Women have bigger pupils than men
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Gender: Female • Apr 26 12
From an anatomical point of view, a normal, non-pathological eye is known as an emmetropic eye, and has been studied very little until now…
Fetal membrane transplantation prevents blindness
• Eye / Vision Problems • Apr 26 12
Transplanting tissue from newborn fetal membranes prevents blindness in patients with a devastating disease called Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a Loyola University Medical Center study has…
Weight Training Aids Memory in Older Women
• Brain • • Neurology • • Weight Loss • Apr 25 12
Pumping iron also pumps up the memory of older women with mild cognitive impairment, researchers reported.
In a randomized, single-blind trial, women who lifted…
Is the obesity tide turning among preschoolers?
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Apr 25 12
In eastern Massachusetts, the number of kids under age six who are obese declined significantly in recent years - a trend that might be…
Worm turns sheep clone to “good” fat: China scientists
• Fat, Dietary • Apr 25 12
Chinese scientists have cloned a genetically modified sheep containing a “good” type of fat found naturally in nuts, seeds, fish and leafy greens that…
Mad cow disease found in California; no human threat seen
• Infections • Apr 25 12
Authorities reported the country’s first case of mad cow disease in six years on Tuesday, swiftly assuring consumers and global importers that there was…
Oral Steroids Effective in MS
• Neurology • Apr 24 12
Outcomes for multiple sclerosis patients in relapse who were treated with oral methylprednisolone were no different than those of similar patients who received intravenous…
PET/CT Helps Diagnose Cardiac Device Infection
• Heart • • Infections • Apr 24 12
PET/CT imaging can help distinguish between active infection of a cardiac electronic device and normal residual post-implant inflammation, a small study found.
Why Have Americans Become More Obese?
• Obesity • Apr 24 12
In the early 1960s, the average American adult male weighed 168 pounds.
Today, he weighs nearly 180 pounds. Over the same time period, the…
Migraine Headaches: New Guidelines Focus on Prevention
• Headaches • Apr 24 12
From prescription pills to poisonous plants, plenty of treatments can help prevent migraines, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology.
Fight Obesity With Soy
• Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Apr 24 12
With so many American’s suffering from Obesity, a new discovery with soy protein could help thousands.
A University of Illinois study shows how soy…
Gut Organisms Could Be Clue in Controlling Obesity Risk
• Dental Health • • Obesity • Apr 24 12
The international obesity epidemic is widespread, nondiscriminatory, and deadly. But do we really understand all of the factors underlying this alarming trend? The concept…