Demographics cloud optimism on black violent crime decrease
• Public Health • Mar 28 11
Optimism about studies that show a drop in the black percentage of crime may be dampened by demographic trends and statistical aberrations, according to…
More boys than girls wet their beds
• Children's Health • • Urine Problems • Mar 28 11
About five in 100 kids wet the bed at night, but boys are more than twice as likely to do it than girls, a…
Surprising Ways Smoking Affects Your Looks and Life
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 27 11
Maybe there is no fountain of youth, but there is a surefire way to make yourself look older. Smoking changes the skin, teeth, and…
Tobacco Coalition: 27-cent hike on cigarettes isn’t enough
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 27 11
A coalition of public health organizations today said it’s good that the cigarette tax is now on the table before the Legislature, but the…
You are never too old to quit smoking, say King’s Lynn couple
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 27 11
When Trish Coe decided to give up her 20 year smoking habit, she not only helped to improve her health but also inspired her…
“Smoking-ban murder”
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 27 11
A restaurant owner in southwest Turkey was shot dead after he tried to prevent his customers from smoking to comply with a new law…
Secondhand smoke raises the stakes in America’s casinos
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 27 11
Millions of Americans visit casinos to unwind and test their luck against the hands of fate, but lurking in the shadows is a gamble…
How to Stop Smoking Once and for All
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 27 11
Smoking can be defined as the inhalation of a smoked substance. When folks use the word ‘smoking’, they frequently think of cigarettes. But it…
Airport smoking lounges: Here to stay?
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 27 11
You’ve probably seen the smoke-filled, glass-encased fishbowls that play host to smokers if you’ve passed through some of the nation’s largest airports in recent…
17 Creative Anti-Smoking Ads
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 27 11
Clever anti-smoking campaigns and creative advertising designed to get people to quit smoking.
Most of us know that smoking is bad for our health,…
Your Sex Life Up in Smoke
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 27 11
There was a time when nothing went together like sex and a cigarette. But today we know that cigarettes are the nation’s largest killer,…
Smoking is Murder!
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 27 11
More and more states are calling for a no-smoking policy in public buildings. This commentary puts forth a biting argument in favor of this…
Research at Marshall University may lead to new treatments for Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders
• Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Mar 25 11
A group of scientists at Marshall University is conducting research that may someday lead to new treatments for repair of the central nervous system.
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Inadequate diet can lead to anemia in postmenopausal women
• Anemia • • Dieting • • Gender: Female • Mar 25 11
A new study published in the April 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association indicates that inadequate nutrition is linked to…
Nearly 1 in 4 postmenopausal women with fractures is obese
• Gender: Female • • Menopause • • Obesity • Mar 25 11
Although less likely to suffer a hip or wrist fracture, obese women suffer from fragility fractures at other sites, partly due to poor mobility…
‘Can you hear me now?’ Researchers detail how neurons decide how to transmit information
• Brain • • Neurology • Mar 25 11
There are billions of neurons in the brain and at any given time tens of thousands of these neurons might be trying to send…
Asthma drug could help control or treat Alzheimer’s disease
• Brain • • Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Mar 25 11
A drug used to treat asthma has been shown to help reduce the formation of amyloid beta, a peptide in the brain that is…
Researchers unlock new secret to how smells are detected
• Brain • • Neurology • Mar 25 11
Researchers seeking to unravel the most ancient yet least understood of the five senses – smell – have discovered a previously unknown step in…
Acupuncture is equally effective with simulated needles
• Alternative Medicine • Mar 24 11
Simulated acupuncture - sometimes referred to as placebo - is just as beneficial as real acupuncture for treating nausea in cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy,…
Researchers find eye development error causing cataracts, glaucoma
• Eye / Vision Problems • Mar 24 11
A Jackson Laboratory research team, working in collaboration with researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, show that RNA…
Stem cell therapy for age-related macular degeneration—a step closer to reality
• Eye / Vision Problems • Mar 24 11
The notion of transplanting adult stem cells to treat or even cure age-related macular degeneration has taken a significant step toward becoming a reality.…
Mother’s obesity may lead to infertility in the next generation
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Obesity • Mar 23 11
Levels of the hormone ghrelin are low in obese women and a recent study accepted for publication in Endocrinology, a publication of The Endocrine…
Newly discovered virus implicated in deadly Chinese outbreaks
• Infections • • Public Health • Mar 22 11
Five years ago, large numbers of farmers in central China began falling victim to an mysterious disease marked by high fever, gastrointestinal disorder and…
For back, neck pain, artificial disc replacement has cost, outcome advantages over fusion surgery
• Pain • • Surgery • Mar 22 11
When physical therapy and drugs fail to relieve back or neck pain, patients often turn to spinal fusion surgery as a last resort, but…
Most ready-to-eat meat products contain very few cancerous compounds
• Cancer • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Mar 22 11
If given the choice between eating a hot dog or enjoying some rotisserie chicken, consider the hot dog.
That’s because hot dogs, as well…