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TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) - Breast cancer risk in women may be tied to the rate at which their breast-tissue density changes as they age, a new study suggests. Researchers examined 282 breast cancer patients and 317 women without the disease who underwent both mammography and an automated breast-density test. Breast cancer patients under age 50 tended to have greater breast density than...
December 3, 2013
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) - Men and women with mild heart disease share the same risks, at least over the short term, a new study suggests. Doctors have thought that women with mild heart disease do worse than men. This study, however, suggests that the rate of heart attacks and death among men and women with heart disease is similar. Meanwhile, both men and women who don't have buildup...
December 3, 2013
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) - The number of U.S. teens who wind up in the emergency room after taking the club drug Ecstasy has more than doubled in recent years, raising concerns that the hallucinogen is back in vogue, federal officials report. Emergency room visits related to MDMA - known as Ecstasy in pill form and Molly in the newer powder form - increased 128 percent between 2005 and...
December 3, 2013
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: - Anti-Seizure Drug Can Cause Serious Skin Reactions: FDA - In rare cases, the anti-seizure drug Onfi (clobazam) can cause serious skin reactions that can result in serious injury and death, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says. The drug is used in combination with other medications to treat...
December 3, 2013
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) - A new study from Australia sheds more light on what environmental factors might raise the risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). "Compared with mothers whose children did not have ADHD, mothers of children with ADHD were more likely to be younger, single, smoked in pregnancy, had some complications of pregnancy and labor, and were more likely...
December 3, 2013
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) - Rheumatoid arthritis patients can generally look forward to a much better quality of life today than they did 20 years ago, new research suggests. The observation is based on a comparative multi-year tracking of more than 1,100 rheumatoid arthritis patients. All had been diagnosed with the often severely debilitating autoimmune disease at some point between...
December 3, 2013
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) - A recently discovered, aggressive strain of HIV leads to faster development of AIDS than other HIV strains, according to a new study. More than 60 epidemic strains of HIV-1 exist. This new strain has the shortest period from infection to the development of AIDS, at about five years, according to researchers at Lund University, in Sweden. The new strain is a...
December 3, 2013
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) - Your voice might help listeners determine your approximate height without seeing you, according to a new study. Researchers had men and women listen to recordings of identical sentences read by men and women of different heights. The listeners were asked to rank the speakers from tallest to shortest. The results showed that the listeners were about 62 percent...
December 3, 2013
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) - A safe and effective male birth control pill may be inching closer to reality, according to researchers. In laboratory experiments, mouse sperm was blocked from semen while still allowing for normal sexual activity. Without sperm in the ejaculated semen, there is no chance of fertilizing an egg and achieving pregnancy. But women shouldn't plan to abandon their...
December 3, 2013
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) - Poor children get intellectual and behavioral benefits from home visits by nurses and other skilled caregivers, new research suggests. The study included more than 700 poor women and their children in Denver who enrolled in a non-profit program called the Nurse-Family Partnership. This national program tries to improve outcomes for first-born children of first-time...
December 3, 2013
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) - Stroke deaths in the United States have been dropping for more than 100 years and have declined 30 percent in the past 11 years, a new report reveals. Sometimes called a brain attack, stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability. Stroke, however, has slipped from the third-leading cause of death in the United States to the fourth-leading cause. This, and...
December 3, 2013
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) - Despite diversity initiatives, there still are too few minority faculty members at U.S. medical schools and those minorities are less likely to be promoted, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data gathered from medical schools across the country between 2000 and 2010. During that time, the percentage of minority faculty members increased from 6.8...
December 3, 2013
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) - Slightly less than 1 percent of U.S. anesthesiology residents who began their training between 1975 and 2009 had a substance abuse disorder during their residency, a new study reveals. Researchers examined data gathered from nearly 45,000 anesthesiology residents during that time and found that the overall rate of substance abuse during the study period was...
December 3, 2013
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) - People in rural areas are nearly three times more likely to drown than those who live in cities, a new Canadian study finds. This may be because rural residents are more likely to be around open water and less likely to have taken swimming lessons, according to the researchers at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Their findings - from an analysis of drowning...
December 3, 2013
SUNDAY, Dec. 1, 2013 (HealthDay News) - The race to repair the U.S. government's troubled health insurance website by Nov. 30 has yielded a number of important fixes, but health officials on Sunday acknowledged that more work is needed to improve consumers' experience with the online marketplace. "As we've said, with any web project there is not a magic moment but a process of continual improvement...
December 2, 2013
(HealthDay News) - Selecting the appropriate walking shoes is particularly important for seniors, because feet change as you age. The AARP suggests how to choose walking shoes: - Your feet tend to widen as you age because ligaments, muscles and tendons stretch and the fatty pads on your feet thin out. Make sure your shoes are wide enough and offer enough cushioning. Figure out which type of feet you...
December 2, 2013
(HealthDay News) - An injury or sleeping the wrong way can lead to a major pain in the neck. The American College of Rheumatology suggests these ways to ease neck pain: - Stay as mobile as possible, and limit the use of a neck brace. Avoid regular exercise, but try to move the neck gradually and slowly in all directions. Stretch neck muscles during a shower with the heated water running over your neck....
December 2, 2013
MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2013 (HealthDay News) - A newer MRI method can detect low iron levels in the brains of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The method could help doctors and parents make better informed decisions about medication, a new study says. Psychostimulant drugs used to treat ADHD affect levels of the brain chemical dopamine. Because iron is required to process dopamine,...
December 2, 2013
MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2013 (HealthDay News) - Soldiers who suffer mild brain injuries from blasts have long-term changes in their brains, a small new study suggests. Diagnosing mild brain injuries caused by explosions can be challenging using standard CT or MRI scans, the researchers said. For their study, they turned to a special type of MRI called diffusion tensor imaging. The technology was used to assess...
December 2, 2013
MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2013 (HealthDay News) - Energy drinks may provide a bit too much of a boost to your heart, creating additional strain on the organ and causing it to contract more rapidly than usual, German researchers report. Healthy people who drank energy drinks high in caffeine and taurine experienced significantly increased heart contraction rates an hour later, according to research scheduled...
December 2, 2013
MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2013 (HealthDay News) - Scientists are testing a new thought-controlled device that may one day help people move limbs again after they've been paralyzed by a stroke. The device combines a high-tech brain-computer interface with electrical stimulation of the damaged muscles to help patients relearn how to move frozen limbs. So far, eight patients who had lost movement in one hand have...
December 2, 2013
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: - Possible TB Scare on Passenger Jet - Health responders briefly kept about 70 passengers on an airliner after it landed in Phoenix, Ariz. Saturday and removed a man who was asked to put on a medical mask. Some of the passengers said they were advised to get tuberculosis tests and vaccinations. An...
December 2, 2013
MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2013 (HealthDay News) - Parents' concern about their children's online safety might vary according to their race, ethnicity and other factors, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed data from a 2011 online survey of more than 1,000 parents across the United States who were asked how worried they were about five potential online dangers faced by their children. The parents rated...
December 2, 2013
MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2013 (HealthDay News) - Pictures of diseased lungs and other types of graphic warning labels on cigarette packs could cut the number of smokers in the United States by as much as 8.6 million people and save millions of lives, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at the effect that graphic warning labels on cigarette packs had in Canada and concluded that they resulted in a 12 percent...
December 2, 2013
MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2013 (HealthDay News) - A genetic mutation associated with an increased risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and other health problems is common in Africans and people of African descent worldwide, according to a new study. The findings may help explain why Africans and people of African descent are more likely to develop heart disease and diabetes than many other racial groups, the...
December 2, 2013
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