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Gulf Oil Spill: Officials Want to Minimize Toxic Health Effects, Researcher Says
Some of the short-term health effects of the April accident are known - watery and irritated eyes, skin itching and redness, coughing and shortness or breath or wheezing - there also are many unknown health effects, says a UAB School of Public Health ...
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Fighting to survive
Afghanistan has been described as 'the most dangerous place to be born'
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What Is Sickle Cell Disease?
Learn all about sickle cell anemia
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Kids Toxic Chemical Exposure Costs Michigan Billions
We know that all of the toxins and pollutants we and our families are exposed to every day can have high costs when it comes to our health. Now the Michigan Network for Childrens Environmental Health is examining the financial costs of children
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Calcium Supplements May Increase Heart Attack Risk
Calcium supplements are widely prescribed, particularly among women over 50, as a way to reduce fractures and increase bone density. But a new study suggests those pills carry some potential risks for your heart.
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Calcium Pills Tied to Jump in Heart Attack Risk: Study
Calcium supplements may make heart attacks more likely in older patients, a new study suggests. Researchers looking to confirm calcium supplements' ability to prevent bone fractures instead found the patients taking the supplements were 30% more likely ...
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Mayo Clinic starts social media center
Social media tools aren't just about sharing links or chatting with friends; they can also be a valuable tool in health care. Hospitals are starting to harness that potential to better assist patients in making informed choices, and doctors in ...
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (the disease commonly referred to as pancreatic cancer) carries the worst prognosis of any cancer. As current treatments offer minimal benefit, entirely new approaches are needed. Given the success of local therapies, ...
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Recommended: The Changing Arctic Landscape
The Changing Arctic Landscape by Ken D. Tape. University of Alaska Press, 2010 [More] University of Alaska Press - Alaska - United States - Education - Colleges and Universities
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Investing For The Diabetes Epidemic (at Investopedia)
Sadly, diabetes is quickly becoming a global epidemic. Nearly 300 million people suffer from the disease worldwide.
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Dense bones linked to raised risk for prostate cancer
Men who develop prostate cancer, especially the more aggressive and dangerous forms that spread throughout the body, tend to retain denser bones as they age than men who stay free of the disease, suggests new research from Johns Hopkins and the ...
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Genetic Adaptations to High Altitude
Tibetans possess genetic variations that may protect against altitude sickness.
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Study finds diet and alcohol alter epigenetics of breast cancer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Researchers from Brown University and the University of California San Francisco have found that epigenetic changes to DNA in breast cancers are related to environmental risk factors and tumor size, providing a ...
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Scientists Investigate Possible 'Fear Drug'
A brain chemical involved in both learning to be afraid and curbing existing fear might one day serve as a drug to help prevent anxiety and the after-effects of trauma.
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Mainstream media slants cancer articles toward unrealistically positive outcomes
(NaturalNews) Mainstream media coverage of cancer treatments disproportionately covers positive outcomes and aggressive treatments while underreporting on palliative care and death, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of ...
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Efforts to curb repeat cesareans
By Denise Grady, NYT: Most women who have had cesarean sections can safely give birth the normal way later, studies have shown, but in recent years hospitals, doctors and insurers have been refusing to let them even try, insisting on repeat cesareans ...
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Popular diabetes drugs associated with fractures in type 2 diabetic patients
Postmenopausal women with diabetes taking thiazolidinediones (TZDS), including rosiglitazone and pioglitazone, may be at increased risk for fractures according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical ...
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COR-I: Combo drug leads to significant weight loss, but CV effects questioned
UPDATED // New randomized trial results suggest the combination of two "old" drugs might help obese patients lose weight, but one expert worries the blood-pressure effects of the two agents combined...For complete story visit theheart.org.
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F.D.A. Clears Way for Embryonic Stem Cell Trial Using Patients
Using human embryonic stem cells, the trial will be tested in patients with new spinal cord injuries.
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Oral Contraceptives and Hormone Replacement Therapy May Protect Women Against Brain Aneurysms
Results from a new study suggest that oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may yield additional benefit of protecting against the formation and rupture of brain aneurysms in women. The findings from this first-of-its-kind study by ...
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Alberta ponders paying for new MS treatment
CBC - Alberta Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky is putting together a committee to look at whether to pay for studies of a controversial experimental treatment for people with multiple sclerosis.
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Pilot Study Supports Adolescent Diabetes Patients through Personalized Text Messages
Jennifer Dyer, MD, MPH, an endocrinologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital, has developed and completed a pilot study that uses weekly, customized text messages to remind adolescent diabetes patients about their personal treatment activities. At the ...
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Air travel no threat to cardiovascular health
Air travel poses no significant threat to cardiovascular health, according to guidance published by the British Cardiac Society. The guidance, published
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Just drop it: The one-size-fits-all approach to blood sugar control, that is
Aggressive blood sugar control does not improve survival in diabetic patients with kidney failure, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology ( CJASN ). The results suggest that ...
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Think Twice About Those Home Genetics Tests
The government puts home genetics tests to the test, and warns that they don't live up to the hype.
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Millions of Americans in early stages of kidney disease need stroke monitoring
Millions of Americans in the early stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at an increased risk of having atrial fibrillation (AF) - a major risk factor for stroke - according to new research by investigators at Wake Forest University Baptist ...
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Recommended Weekend Reading
The New Yorker examines end-of-life care while Foreign Affairs reports on Castrocare, health-care under the Castro brothers.
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New studies on staying fit, living long
Staying fit in summertime -- you know, those steamy days when lying on a raft in the middle of the lake seems a proper choice for the strenuous life -- isn't always easy. But as it turns out, new studies indicate it's both doable and critical. Plus, it ...
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Torso Implants for Diabetes Patients?
The days of pricking your finger every meal may just be over for the 23.6 million diabetics living in America: scientists have produced a non-invasive blood glucose monitor that is to be implanted into the patient's torso. The sealed monitor has two ...
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Protease associated with damage after stroke implicated in Huntington's toxicity
A new study reveals that an enzyme linked with multiple disorders is also involved in the generation of toxic, neurone-killing protein fragments in Huntington's disease (HD). The research, published by Cell Press in the July 29 issue of Neuron, ...
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