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Aug. 16 - SHANGHAI - Almost one in four students aged between 12 and 14 have tried smoking, according to the results of a survey released by the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control (CATC). The survey, carried out among 38,839 students and 6,503 teachers from middle and high schools in 11 provinces across the country between May and June, showed that 22.5 percent of students aged between 12 and 14...
August 16, 2011
Berlin (dpa) - Vaccinations are a blessing, boosting immunity to many infectious diseases, but they often come under criticism because they can have side effects. These are occasionally so serious that some people refuse to be vaccinated. "Vaccinations act on our immune system, which is necessary for them to work. This sometimes causes unwanted side effects, however, as does any effective medicine,"...
August 15, 2011
It's a heart-breaking reality that already has happened 22 times nationwide in this year of record-breaking heat: A child left in a hot automobile dies of heatstroke. The nation's top road safety official visits here today for the first in a series of listening sessions on the dangers of hyperthermia and how best to inform parents and caregivers of the potentially tragic consequences of leaving children...
August 15, 2011
Doctors have long known that autism can run in families. Studies have suggested that up to 10% of younger siblings of autistic kids will develop the condition. A new study, however, shows the risk is twice that high. In a study of 664 children - the largest of its kind - nearly 20% of younger siblings of autistic children were also diagnosed with autism. That means these younger siblings have a risk...
August 15, 2011
Scientists reported Wednesday a super-strain of salmonella resistant to antibiotics, notably ciprofloxacin, which is commonly used to treat infections caused by the bacteria. The reseachers called on national and international health authorities to take measures against the superbug "before it spreads globally," as did another another variant in the 1990s. Over the last decade, the virulent new strain,...
August 12, 2011
The therapy, which couples extensive abdominal surgery with blasts of heated chemotherapy, was once a niche procedure used mainly against rare cancers. This is cancer therapy at its most aggressive, a treatment patients liken to being filleted, disemboweled and then bathed in hot poison. The therapy, which couples extensive abdominal surgery with blasts of heated chemotherapy to the abdominal cavity...
August 12, 2011
US health care spending could be cut by billions a year if doctors spent the same amount of time and money dealing with insurance plans as their Canadian counterparts, a study found Thursday. Canada has a "single-payer" system for health care financing, under which doctors deal with just one paying agency, while American doctors have to interact with their patients' many different insurance plans....
August 12, 2011
Women who take antidepressants have something new to worry about: They could be at increased risk of having a stroke, Harvard researchers say. A study published Thursday in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association reports that women with a history of depression have a 29% greater risk of having a stroke than non-depressed women, and those who take antidepressants, particularly selective serotonin...
August 12, 2011
Skip the hot dogs, hold the bacon and forget the sausage. Eating processed meats and red meat regularly increases your risk of type 2 diabetes, a large study shows. Harvard School of Public Health researchers analyzed dietary-intake data from more than 200,000 people in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study and the Nurses' Health Studies. The participants have been tracked for a decade or more....
August 11, 2011
Back to school also means back to the doctor's office. While most athletes are required to get physical exams to compete on school sports teams, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends checkups annually for everyone up to age 21. "Sometimes parents think their child is healthy and they don't really need to come in," says pediatrician Wendy Sue Swanson of Seattle Children's Hospital and the Everett...
August 11, 2011
The ABCs of a nutritious breakfast are now backed by science. New research shows you'll feel full longer and may get less hungry throughout the day if your first meal has protein-rich foods, such as eggs, Greek yogurt, low-fat dairy products or lean meat, and fiber-filled fare, such whole-wheat bread, whole-grain cereal, fruit and vegetables. These foods appear to have more staying power than highly...
August 11, 2011
The ABCs of a nutritious breakfast are now backed by science. New research shows you'll feel full longer and may get less hungry throughout the day if your first meal has protein-rich foods, such as eggs, Greek yogurt, low-fat dairy products or lean meat, and fiber-filled fare, such whole-wheat bread, whole-grain cereal, fruit and vegetables. These foods appear to have more staying power than highly...
August 10, 2011
Two slices of bacon, a hot dog or a serving of deli meat daily has been found to significantly boost the risk of getting type 2 diabetes, said a major US study published on Wednesday. The research by experts at the Harvard School of Public Health represents the largest study of its kind to date and appears in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Eating 50 grams of processed red meat every day...
August 10, 2011
Aug. 08 - DURHAM - They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away, so what better time to develop a love of fresh fruits and vegetables than early in life? E. K. Powe and Y. E. Smith elementary schools have been chosen again to participate in the United States Department of Agriculture Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program for 2011-12 school year. More than a hundred elementary schools across the state...
August 8, 2011
Aug. 08 - HAMBURG - Inge is unlikely to ever get a solo part in the opera Aida, yet every week she goes to her choir group for rehearsals. The choir has members from over 10 different countries and more than half are aged between 40 and 60. "I,ve been singing since I was a school child," says the 67-year-old. What does singing mean for her? "It,s relaxing and I can switch off from the routine of daily...
August 8, 2011
Aug. 08 - For the whole first half of his 20-year practice, oral surgeon Dr. Eric Carlson saw one basic type of male mouth cancer patient. In file cabinet in his home office, he has thousands of slides: men in their 50s and 60s who were heavy smokers, heavy drinkers, hard livers. Many were war veterans; most all had "exposed himself to the classic carcinogens," Carlson said. Then, in 2000, a man in...
August 8, 2011
When it comes to placing family members into hospice care, experts say, it's critical for families to ask questions to help make more informed decisions. "It's not the patient who's getting the hard sell," said Dawna White, a hospice nurse who writes allabouthospice.org, a blog. "It's the hospitals and the doctors." Preparing for hospice - or the possibility of needing hospice - early can help because...
August 8, 2011
Medicare costs for hospice care have increased more than in any other health care sector as for-profit companies continue to gain a larger share of the end-of-life medical market, government records show. From 2005 through 2009, Medicare spending on hospice care rose 70% to $4.31 billion, according to Medicare records. A recent report by the inspector general for Health and Human Services, which oversees...
August 8, 2011
College students who served in the military have a suicide attempt rate six times higher than the average college student, suggests research presented Thursday at a meeting of the American Psychological Association. It found students who are veterans also report thinking about suicide or planning their death at significantly higher rates. Researchers with the National Center for Veterans' Studies at...
August 7, 2011
For the first time in years, doctors are making progress against pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest of all tumors, which kills all but 6% of patients. Although there is still no cure, a new drug combination can help patients live months longer than on standard therapy. And other studies already underway may soon offer even more options, researchers say. Patients taking Folfirinox, a novel combination...
August 6, 2011
What's the best way to protect teenage girls from sexually transmitted diseases? Some doctors say the answer is to vaccinate boys. More than 65 million Americans - that's one in five - carry a sexually transmitted disease. The most common one - the human papilloma virus, or HPV - affects more than half of sexually active Americans at some point, according to the federal government. Since 2007, health...
August 5, 2011
College students who served in the military have a suicide attempt rate six times higher than the average college student, suggests research presented Thursday at a meeting of the American Psychological Association. It found students who are veterans also report thinking about suicide or planning their death at significantly higher rates. Researchers with the National Center for Veterans' Studies at...
August 5, 2011
Forty years ago, Americans could expect to live slightly longer than Europeans. This has since reversed: in spite of similar levels of economic development, Americans now live about a year-and-a-half less, on average, than their Western European counterparts, and also less than people in most other developed nations. How did Americans fall behind? A study in the July 2011 issue of Social Science &...
August 4, 2011
The world's largest organization of psychologists took its strongest stand to date supporting full marriage equity, a move that observers say will have a far-reaching impact on the national debate. The policymaking body of the American Psychological Association (APA) unanimously approved the resolution 157-0 on the eve of the group's annual convention, which opens here today. The group, with more than...
August 4, 2011
Hard-to-match kidney transplant candidates who receive a treatment designed to make their bodies more accepting of incompatible organs are twice as likely to survive eight years after transplant surgery as those who stay on dialysis for years awaiting compatible organs, new Johns Hopkins research finds (see also Kidney Transplants). "The results of this study should be a game changer for health care...
August 4, 2011
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