Developing technologies to improve the treatment of craniosynostosis in children
• Children's Health • • Childbirth • Sep 06 11
Engineers and surgeons are working together to improve the treatment of babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the bone plates in the…
McDonald’s New Menu Includes Calorie Information, UK
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 06 11
The Department of Health announced today that starting this Wednesday, McDonald’s will be introducing calorie information to all of its menus in all of…
Study finds payment for pediatric obesity services now can save money later
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Sep 06 11
Pediatric obesity ends up costing $3 billion annually in the U.S., but a significant amount of that could be saved by streamlining medical coverage…
Lifetime ‘dose’ of excess weight linked to risk of diabetes, according to U-M study
• Diabetes • • Weight Loss • Sep 06 11
Obesity is a known risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes. But it hasn’t been clear whether the “dose” of obesity—how much excess weight…
Role of alcohol intake and smoking on upper aerodigestive cancers
• Cancer • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 06 11
This paper provides an extensive analysis of the proportion of the risk of upper aero-digestive tract (UADT) cancers in the population (the population attributable…
Black race, African ancestry tied to food allergies
• Children's Health • • Allergies • Sep 06 11
In a new study of two-year-olds in Boston, black kids were twice as likely as white kids to have an immune response to foods…
Non-epileptic seizures may be misdiagnosed longer in veterans
• Epilepsy • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 06 11
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures may go undiagnosed for much longer in veterans compared to civilians, according to a new study published in the September 6,…
Even mild cognitive impairment appears to substantially increase risk for death
• Public Health • Sep 06 11
Cognitive impairment, even when detected at an early, mild stage, is a significant predictor of decreased life expectancy.
According to a new, long-term study…
Study confirms that living with a smoker increases absenteeism in school children
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 05 11
Children who live in households where they are exposed to tobacco smoke miss more days of school than do children living in smoke-free homes,…
Pharmacists need to provide better information to teenagers on risks and benefits of medicines
• Public Health • Sep 05 11
Hyderabad, India: A large proportion of teenagers regularly and frequently take some form of medication without receiving targeted information about the risks and benefits,…
Researchers investigate new mechanism for predicting how diseases spread
• Public Health • Sep 05 11
Northwestern University professor Dirk Brockmann and his group at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science have investigated the outcomes of a previously…
Space missions may damage eyes
• Eye / Vision Problems • Sep 04 11
Astronauts experience bone and muscle loss in the weightlessness of space, and now the first study of returning space travelers’ eyes suggests that prolonged…
Obese kids have more asthma flare-ups
• Children's Health • • Asthma • • Obesity • Sep 04 11
Shaving off extra pounds might help asthmatic kids prevent flare-ups of the disease, according to a study that found obese children have a harder…
Two U.S. children develop flu from pigs: CDC
• Flu • • Infections • Sep 04 11
Two U.S. children were infected with flu viruses that originated in pigs in the past two months, and an analysis of both viruses showed…
22,000 Members Of Czech Army Are Overweight
• Obesity • • Public Health • Sep 03 11
The Czech army has shrunk to just a quarter of its size since Prague shrugged off the yoke of Communism two decades ago, but…
Low-dose naltrexone (LDN): Tricking the body to heal itself
• Cancer • • Immunology • Sep 02 11
Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania have discovered the mechanism by which a low dose of the opioid antagonist…
FDA warns of allergy risk with Merck antipsychotic
• Allergies • • Drug Abuse • Sep 02 11
The Food and Drug Administration warned on Thursday that serious allergic reactions have been reported with the use of Merck & Co Inc’s antipsychotic…
Five VA patients blinded by Avastin injections: report
• Drug Abuse • • Eye / Vision Problems • Sep 02 11
Five patients being treated for eye disease were blinded after being injected with Roche Holding AG’s Avastin at the Los Angeles Veterans Affairs medical…
A pinch of doubt over salt
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 02 11
In Britain it started with Sid, the “giant slug with a message”, who slicked his way onto television screens back in 2004 as part…
Gut bacteria picky about what we eat: study
• Dieting • • Rheumatic Diseases • Sep 02 11
Gut bacteria - colonies of bacteria that live in the human digestive tract - appear to have fairly picky dining habits, with one type…
Venus Williams: What Is Sjögren’s Syndrome?
• Immunology • Sep 01 11
Tennis superstar Venus Williams’ announcement Wednesday that she was withdrawing from the U.S. Open due to a medical condition shook the sports world. Williams…
U.S. Newborn Death Rate Ranked Behind 40 Other Nations
• Childbirth • • Public Health • Sep 01 11
Although newborn death rates have decreased over the last 20 years, a new study shows that the U.S. neonatal mortality rankings have plummeted by…
Obesity in America Projected to Affect 164 Million by 2030
• Obesity • • Public Health • Sep 01 11
If rates of obesity continue to follow the current trends, half of the United States population will suffer from obesity within the next two…
Smoking May Raise Disease Risk by Increasing Hormones
• Endocrinology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 01 11
Older women who smoke have higher levels of sex hormones than nonsmoking women, which may increase their risk for breast cancer, diabetes, and other…
The Face Is a Mirror Image of Childhood Development
• Children's Health • • Neurology • Sep 01 11
The shape of your face provides not only clues to your childhood, but also may also redefine the phrase “Pretty is as pretty does,”…