Danish researchers finally solve the obesity riddle
• Obesity • Nov 25 10
Researchers at the Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), University of Copenhagen, can now unveil the results of the world’s largest diet study: If you…
Growth-factor gel shows promise as hearing-loss treatment
• Ear / Nose / Throat • Nov 25 10
A new treatment has been developed for sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL), a condition that causes deafness in 40,000 Americans each year, usually in…
Workplace asthma costs UK at least $158 million a year
• Asthma • • Public Health • Nov 25 10
Workplace asthma costs the UK at least £100 million a year, and may be as high as £135 million, reveals research published online in…
New study reveals how cannabis suppresses immune functions
• Immunology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 25 10
An international team of immunologists studying the effects of cannabis have discovered how smoking marijuana can trigger a suppression of the body’s immune functions.…
Female fish - and humans? - lose interest when their male loses a slugfest
• Brain • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Nov 24 10
You may think of your love for your mate as the noble emotion of a pure heart, but some primitive parts of your brain…
Study finds that the same face may look male or female
• Brain • • Neurology • Nov 24 10
Neuroscientists at MIT and Harvard have made the surprising discovery that the brain sees some faces as male when they appear in one area…
Expanding tuberculosis control in China: Combining domestic and foreign investment
• Public Health • • Tuberculosis • Nov 24 10
China had an estimated 1.3 million new cases of tuberculosis (TB) in 2008, of which 112,000 were multi-drug resistant (MDR-TB). Over the period 2001,…
Cholera-hit Haiti needs nurses, doctors: U.N.
• Public Health • Nov 24 10
Haiti needs a surge of foreign nurses and doctors to stem deaths from a raging cholera epidemic that an international aid operation is struggling…
Silent thyroid problems linked to fractures in men
• Endocrinology • • Gender: Male • • Trauma & Injuries • Nov 24 10
Elderly men with mild thyroid dysfunction - most of whom are unaware of it - are significantly more likely to develop hip fractures,…
Social medical sites need disclosures: U.S. complaint
• Public Health • Nov 24 10
Web sites offering a sense of community to people with diseases or ailments often are created by marketers who fail to disclose that they…
School lunch programs might break poverty cycle
• Dieting • • Public Health • Nov 24 10
Teens who live in households where food is scarce suffer academically, but a new study has found that government programs to provide meals in…
Eating orange and dark green vegetables linked to longer life
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Nov 24 10
Eating lots of orange and dark green veggies such as carrots, sweet potatoes and green beans may be tied to less disease and longer…
Prenatal Knowledge of Cleft Lip/Palate Shows Little Advantage Over Birth Discovery
• Children's Health • • Childbirth • • Surgery • Nov 24 10
Many expectant parents look forward to routine ultrasounds as their first opportunity to “see” their baby. But the ultrasound can reveal that the fetus…
For Your Teeth, Thanksgiving Dinner Is a Real Food Fight
• Dental Health • • Dieting • Nov 23 10
If you’re lucky, it will all be kisses and hugs around the Thanksgiving dinner table, with friends and family near and dear gathered about,…
Expecting? Don’t Neglect Your Teeth
• Dental Health • Nov 23 10
Even though most people are aware that good oral health is essential for the overall health of both mother and child, misunderstandings about…
Tobacco: Out of sight, out of mind?
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 23 10
Putting tobacco out of sight in shops can change the attitude of young people to smoking, while not hitting retailers in the pocket, researchers…
Early diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis crucial to positive outcomes for patients
• Arthritis • • Rheumatic Diseases • Nov 23 10
Positive outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are closely linked to early diagnosis and treatment with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). A study by researchers in…
Cigarette smoking increases rheumatoid arthritis risk in African-Americans
• Arthritis • • Rheumatic Diseases • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 23 10
A new study determined that African Americans who smoke cigarettes have a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RA risk is more pronounced…
World health officials take aim at tobacco additives
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 22 10
World health officials recommended on Saturday limiting additives that make cigarettes more palatable, but they postponed until 2012 a number of other issues after…
Cough and cold meds withdrawal is working: study
• Children's Health • • Emergencies / First Aid • Nov 22 10
The number of young children going to the emergency room after taking too much cough and cold medicine was cut in half after drug…
One billion people cannot afford healthcare: WHO
• Public Health • Nov 22 10
In a global report on financing health systems, the United Nations health body said all countries, rich and poor, could do more toward getting…
Study Ties Parental Divorce in Childhood to Stroke in Adulthood
• Children's Health • • Stroke • Nov 22 10
Children who experience a parental divorce are over twice as likely to suffer a stroke at some point in their lives, according to new…
Economic benefits of the global polio eradication initiative estimated at $40-50 billion
• Public Health • Nov 22 10
A new study released today estimates that the global initiative to eradicate polio could provide net benefits of at least US$40-50 billion if transmission…
Obesity weighs on wealthy in poor countries
• Obesity • Nov 22 10
The obesity epidemic has spread to poorer nations, where it almost entirely affects wealthy citizens, while the poor in the same nations still remain…
Nighttime delivery linked to brain problems
• Children's Health • • Brain • • Pregnancy • Nov 22 10
Babies born late at night or in the wee hours of the morning may have a slightly higher risk of rare brain problems compared…