School-based interventions for obesity
• Obesity • Jan 07 11
Thanks to the Let’s Move initiative, society is becoming more aware of alarming statistics like 1 in 4 children are obese and childhood obesity…
A blood test for Alzheimer’s disease?
• Brain • • Neurology • Jan 07 11
Using a new technology that relies on thousands of synthetic molecules to fish for disease-specific antibodies, researchers have developed a potential method for detecting…
Lyme disease a rare cause of death: study
• Infections • Jan 07 11
While controversy still brews over the long-term effects of Lyme disease, a new government study concludes that the tick-borne illness is rarely a cause…
Drugs may level fertility playing field for obese
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Obesity • Jan 07 11
Heavy women often have a harder time getting pregnant than their slimmer peers, but new findings suggest weight may cease to matter when women…
Can diet protect against asthma?
• Allergies • • Asthma • • Dieting • Jan 07 11
What you eat might affect your risk of developing allergies or asthma, and possibly that of your kids, hints a new review of the…
Autism-vaccine researcher a “fraud”: medical journal
• Children's Health • • Drug Abuse • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jan 07 11
Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the-now disgraced British doctor who published studies linking vaccines with autism, committed an “elaborate fraud” by faking data, the British Medical…
Women’s tears send “no sex” message to men: study
• Cancer: Prostate • • Endocrinology • • Gender: Male • Jan 07 11
Women’s tears are a turnoff for men, Israeli researchers say.
The findings, in a study by the Weizmann Institute of Science and Wolfson Hospital…
China tobacco industry foils anti-smoking efforts
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 07 11
China’s tobacco industry is foiling efforts to control smoking and Chinese leaders must give stronger support to measures to control tobacco use, an international…
Newer tobacco products to face FDA review
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 05 11
Cigarette makers will have to provide U.S. regulators with detailed information about the ingredients and design of products they have introduced or changed since…
This new year, how motivated are you?
• Arthritis • • Rheumatic Diseases • • Surgery • • Trauma & Injuries • Jan 05 11
Personal motivation may be the biggest factor in determining the length of time it takes for a patient to return to work following a…
Extreme obesity associated with higher risk of death for 2009 H1N1 patients
• Flu • • Infections • • Obesity • Jan 05 11
For those infected with the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus, extreme obesity was a powerful risk factor for death, according to an analysis…
Yale researchers find double doses of chicken pox vaccine most effective
• Children's Health • • Immunology • • Infections • Jan 05 11
When vaccinating children against varicella (chicken pox), researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found, two doses are better than one. In fact, the…
Children in formal child care have better language skills
• Children's Health • Jan 05 11
Fewer children who attend regular formal centre- and family-based child care at 1.5 years and 3 years of age were late talkers compared with…
Mother’s milk improves the physical condition of future adolescents
• Children's Health • • Dieting • Jan 05 11
Enrique García Artero, the principal author of the study and researcher at the University of Granada pointed out that, “Our objective was to analyse…
Biological Joints Could Replace Artificial Joints Soon
• Arthritis • • Rheumatic Diseases • • Trauma & Injuries • Jan 05 11
Artificial joint replacements can drastically change a patient’s quality of life. Painful, arthritic knees, shoulders and hips can be replaced with state-of-the-art metal or…
The Effect of Diet on Mental Energy
• Brain • • Dieting • • Neurology • Jan 05 11
The Life Sciences Research Organization, Inc. (LSRO) has published a review article in the December 2010 issue of Nutrition Reviews entitled Do Specific Constituents…
Here’s How To Finally Give Up Cigarettes For Good
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 05 11
If you’re a smoker wanting to get off to a healthier start this new wear, Loyola University Health System will co-host a smoking-cessation clinic,…
Walking Speed Associated with Survival in Older Adults
• Aging and Gerontology • Jan 05 11
In an analysis that included data from 9 studies, having higher measures of walking speed among older adults was associated with increased length of…
Current smokers with early rheumatoid arthritis less responsive to TNF inhibitors, methotrexate
• Arthritis • • Rheumatic Diseases • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 04 11
Patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who are current smokers were less likely to achieve good response to methotrexate (MTX) and tumor necrosis factor…
Optimizing patient outcomes after therapeutic hypothermia for traumatic brain injury
• Brain • • Trauma & Injuries • Jan 04 11
Lowering the body temperature of patients soon after they have suffered a severe brain injury may reduce neurologic complications and improve outcomes. The safety…
Fishy diet comes with lower risk of stroke
• Dieting • • Stroke • Jan 04 11
Women who eat more than three servings of fish per week are less likely to experience a stroke, a new study suggests.
Online health info popular but often unchecked
• Public Health • Jan 04 11
The number of people looking for health information online is set to soar as workers return from holiday breaks, but few will check where…
Tonsillectomy in children
• Children's Health • • Ear / Nose / Throat • Jan 03 11
A multidisciplinary clinical practice guideline, “Tonsillectomy in Children” will be published in the January issue of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery (watch for a new…
Child and youth victimization less hidden from authorities
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Jan 03 11
Almost half of U.S. youth who experience violence, abuse or crime have had at least one of their victimizations known to school, police or…
Brain imaging studies examine how anti-smoking medications may curb cravings
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 03 11
The smoking cessation medications bupropion and varenicline may both be associated with changes in the way the brain reacts to smoking cues, making it…