Understanding causes of obesity in Aboriginal children
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jan 24 12
To fully understand the causes of the obesity epidemic in Aboriginal children requires an understanding of the unique social and historical factors that shape…
Kids seek tans, use less sunscreen as they age: survey
• Children's Health • Jan 24 12
As kids go from elementary to junior high school ages, the desire to tan gets stronger while the habit of using sun protection gets…
Several countries allow fungicide found in US orange juice
• Public Health • • Nutrition and Food Safety • Jan 24 12
U.S. regulators may ban orange juice shipments from Brazil after finding a fungicide prohibited in the United States, which sent orange juice futures to…
Brain scans spot early signs of dyslexia
• Children's Health • • Brain • Jan 24 12
Instead of waiting for a child to experience reading delays, scientists now say they can identify the reading problem even before children start school,…
First patients shown to improve with embryonic stem cells
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jan 24 12
Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from…
Emergency room visits risky for elderly residents from long-term care facilities
• Emergencies / First Aid • • Infections • Jan 24 12
Elderly patients who have visited an emergency department (ED) are three times more likely to develop respiratory or gastrointestinal infections in the week following…
Diets high in fiber won’t protect against diverticulosis
• Bowel Problems • • Dieting • Jan 24 12
For more than 40 years, scientists and physicians have thought eating a high-fiber diet lowered a person’s risk of diverticulosis, a disease of the…
How young adults deal with influenza
• Flu • • Public Health • Jan 24 12
Only about one in five young adults in their late 30s received a flu shot during the 2009-2010 swine flu epidemic, according to a…
Genes and timing of menopause
• Genetics • • Menopause • Jan 23 12
An international team of researchers has discovered 13 new regions of the genome associated with the timing of menopause. These genes shed light on…
Women report feeling pain more intensely than men, says Stanford study of electronic medical records
• Gender: Female • • Pain • Jan 23 12
Women report more-intense pain than men in virtually every disease category, according to Stanford University School of Medicine investigators who mined a huge collection…
U.S. gives church groups a year on birth control rule
• Gender: Female • • Public Health • Jan 23 12
The Obama administration on Friday ruled that religiously affiliated nonprofit organizations, including hospitals and universities, will have to offer birth-control coverage to women employees…
FDA clears more orange juice imports
• Food & Nutrition • Jan 23 12
Health regulators cleared more orange juice imports from five countries after testing for the fungicide carbendazim, but made no mention of samples from top…
Many people continue to smoke after being diagnosed with cancer
• Cancer • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 23 12
A new analysis has found that a substantial number of lung and colorectal cancer patients continue to smoke after being diagnosed. Published early online…
Exposure to chemical found in personal care products may contribute to childhood obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jan 21 12
Researchers from the Children’s Environmental Health Center at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York have found an association between exposure to the…
A new way to stimulate the immune system and fight infection
• Immunology • • Infections • Jan 21 12
These new data are an essential step towards understanding the operation of these key cells in the immune system, and they could provide a…
Many strategies to increase physical activity for kids lack injury prevention measures
• Children's Health • • Physical activity -exercise • Jan 21 12
A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
FDA Rejects New Diabetes Drug for Now
• Drug Abuse • Jan 20 12
It has been recently revealed that the drug for diabetes which was under trial by the FDA is not passed for authenticity for now.…
Drug lobby wants clearer FDA rules for diet pills
• Drug News • Jan 20 12
The pharmaceutical industry may stop investing in medicines to treat diseases like diabetes or obesity without more explicit guidelines from U.S. regulators, the chairman…
Looking younger may be nose-job bonus
• Cosmetics • • Ear / Nose / Throat • • Surgery • Jan 20 12
In a new study of people who’d had surgery to reshape their sniffers, observers looking at before and after shots decided the patients looked…
More labs close to deadly bird flu mutations: researcher
• Flu • • Infections • Jan 20 12
An international debate over whether to censor new research on bird flu may soon prove academic, as other laboratories close in on similar findings…
U.S. indoor tanning tax having mixed effects
• Public Health • • Skin Care • Jan 20 12
Although a 2010 federal excise tax was meant to deter customers from using indoor tanning salons, only a minority of the businesses taking part…
Study finds delirium after stroke linked to poorer outcomes for patients
• Stroke • Jan 20 12
Up to 30 per cent of patients hospitalized after a stroke develop delirium, according to a new study from St. Michael’s Hospital.
Researchers found…
Anti-infective drug shortages pose threat to public health and patient care
• Infections • • Public Health • Jan 20 12
Shortages of key drugs used to fight infections represent a public health emergency and can put patients at risk, according to a review published…
Quebec ban on fast-food ads reduced consumption of junk food
• Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Jan 19 12
With mounting concerns over childhood obesity and its associated health risks in the U.S., would a ban on junk-food advertising aimed at children be…
Many high-risk Americans don’t get hepatitis B vaccine
• Infections • Jan 19 12
Although there is an effective vaccine for hepatitis B and public health officials have a strong sense of who is at highest risk for…