Tainted food sickens 48 mln each year: CDC
• Public Health • Dec 15 10
Foodborne illnesses kill 3,000 Americans every year and make 48 million sick, and most are never identified, U.S. health officials reported on Wednesday as…
Healthy lifestyle, healthy eyes in old age
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Aging and Gerontology • Dec 15 10
People who lead overall healthy lives - getting exercise, eating right, and not smoking - are significantly more likely to keep their aging eyes…
Does fluoride really fight cavities by ‘the skin of the teeth?’
• Dental Health • Dec 15 10
In a study that the authors describe as lending credence to the idiom, “by the skin of your teeth,” scientists are reporting that the…
Goodbye to folic acid deficiency?
• Public Health • Dec 15 10
A scan of the Canadian population reveals that, thanks largely to fortified foods, almost no one is deficient in folic acid, and forty percent…
40 years later, Nagasaki bomb still causes disease
• Cancer • • Public Health • Dec 15 10
Survivors of the World War II atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki continue to fall ill today as a result of the radiation they received,…
Marijuana, cigarettes neck-and-neck for U.S. teens
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 15 10
More U.S. teens may be smoking marijuana than cigarettes but fewer are binge-drinking, federal health officials said Tuesday.
An annual survey on drug use…
Poverty equals obesity? Study bucks common wisdom
• Gender: Female • • Obesity • Dec 15 10
Women who are poor are much more likely to be obese but men are not, U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday in a report…
Fighter pilots’ brains are ‘more sensitive’
• Brain • Dec 15 10
Cognitive tests and MRI scans have shown significant differences in the brains of fighter pilots when compared to a control group, according to a…
Smoking bans may benefit kids with asthma
• Children's Health • • Asthma • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 14 10
Children with asthma who live in areas with “smoke-free” laws may suffer fewer bouts of coughing and wheezing as a result, a new study…
Could acupuncture be used to treat “lazy eye?”
• Alternative Medicine • • Eye / Vision Problems • Dec 14 10
Sticking acupuncture needles into points on the body classically associated with vision in Chinese medicine could prove to be an alternative to bothersome patches…
Special report: The cost of a malaria-free world
• Public Health • Dec 14 10
Joe Cohen, a scientist tantalizingly close to delivering the world’s first malaria vaccine, is on the stump.
After 23 years of painstaking laboratory work…
2 people receive kidney transplants in pilot program using CMU software
• Urine Problems • Dec 14 10
A man in St. Louis and a woman in New Hampshire have received the first kidney transplants made possible through a new national program…
Unique case study on Alzheimer’s disease
• Brain • • Neurology • Dec 14 10
A case study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet sheds light on the pathological course of Alzheimer’s disease. The brain of the first…
Go ahead, drink your milk
• Dieting • Dec 14 10
If you’re unsure about what foods to eat to maintain a healthy diet, you’re not alone. Increasing evidence continues to point people back to…
Fast food and sweets advertised when children watch television
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Dec 14 10
Children in Sweden are exposed to a huge number of TV advertisements. Food adverts – primarily for fast food and sweets – dominate the…
Many Brain Tumor Patients Use Homeopathy, Alternative Treatments
• Alternative Medicine • • Brain • • Cancer • Dec 14 10
Many people with incurable brain tumors use alternative therapies, such as taking vitamins and homeopathy, in addition to their conventional treatments, according to a…
Racial/Socioeconomic Disparities in Parkinson’s
• Brain • • Neurology • Dec 14 10
African American patients and those with lower socioeconomic status have more advanced disease and greater disability when they seek treatment from Parkinson’s disease specialists,…
Girls Who Start School Earlier Might Have Lower Obesity Risk
• Gender: Female • • Obesity • Dec 14 10
Effective strategies to fight the epidemic of childhood and adolescent obesity — one-third of kids under 20 weigh more than they should — have…
N.C. Tobacco Prevention Programs Are Saving Lives and Money
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 14 10
Tobacco prevention programs funded by the North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund continue to pay dividends — fewer youth continue to take up…
A benefit of flu: protection from asthma?
• Asthma • • Flu • Dec 13 10
The number of people with asthma has increased sharply over the past few decades. It has been suggested that this is a result of…
Children who don’t like fruit and vegetables are 13 times more likely to be constipated
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Dec 13 10
Primary school children who don’t like eating fruit and vegetables are 13 times more likely to develop functional constipation than children who do, according…
Guidance on preventing unintentional injuries to children
• Public Health • Dec 13 10
Researchers from the Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG) at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry have contributed to new National Institute for Health…
Research examines gender gaps in immigrant health
• Public Health • Dec 13 10
A key focus of the health care debate has involved immigrants and their impact on the U.S. health care system.
A new study shows…
Study shows how flu infections may prevent asthma
• Asthma • • Flu • Dec 13 10
In a paper that suggests a new strategy to prevent asthma, scientists at Children’s Hospital Boston and their colleagues report that the influenza virus…
Tracing microbes between individuals towards personalized oral health care
• Dental Health • Dec 13 10
The human body is home to a complex ecosystem of microbes increasingly recognized as having a critical role in both health and disease. Viruses…