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The chickenpox vaccine has nearly eliminated deaths from the disease in children, a new study shows. The death rate from chickenpox fell 97% among people under age 20 from 1990-1994 to 2005-2007, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in today's Pediatrics. "Chickenpox deaths in children are becoming a thing of the past," says the CDC's Jane Seward, the study's co-author....
July 25, 2011
A Nordic multicentre study, headed by researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, shows that pelvic organ prolapse surgery using synthetic mesh can be more effective than traditional surgery. The advantages indicated by the study mainly concern restored genital anatomy and more efficient symptom relief, although there is an associated greater risk of complications. The study is published in the...
July 23, 2011
Urinary incontinence is an awkward thing to talk about. It's an even more awkward thing to live with. To prevent an accident, women who suffer from it stop doing things they love, such as running or playing sports. Some stop drinking the water they need to live a healthful life. Some are even nervous about leaving the house. "There's a lot of shame, a lot of embarrassment," says Esther Dolowich, a...
July 23, 2011
April 18 - FRANKFURT - "I'd like to have your problem!" is a common remark made to underweight people, who tend to arouse more envy than sympathy. As doctors and nutrition experts well know, however, gaining weight healthily is just as hard as losing it, and maybe even harder because the causes of being underweight are more complex and a remedy is not as simple. "It wouldn't help to tell them to do...
July 23, 2011
Mosquitoes are more than just an annoyance for the itchy red bites they leave on our skin. They increasingly raise the prospect of spreading deadly diseases normally not found in the USA, experts warn. The risks include dengue fever, usually found in South and Central America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, but which was reported in Key West in May 2010, and in Hawaii earlier...
July 22, 2011
Urinary incontinence is an awkward thing to talk about. It's an even more awkward thing to live with. To prevent an accident, women who suffer from it stop doing things they love, such as running or playing sports. Some stop drinking the water they need to live a healthful life. Some are even nervous about leaving the house. "There's a lot of shame, a lot of embarrassment," says Esther Dolowich, a...
July 21, 2011
Helping terminally ill patients pass on their final thoughts may help give them a better quality of life, a new study suggests. Canadian researchers found that terminally ill patients reported higher quality of life and a greater will to live after participating in "dignity therapy." In dignity therapy, patients are guided through a conversation with a trained interviewer about their life, feelings,...
July 21, 2011
Urinary incontinence is an awkward thing to talk about. It's an even more awkward thing to live with. To prevent an accident, women who suffer from it stop doing things they love, such as running or playing sports. Some stop drinking the water they need to live a healthful life. Some are even nervous about leaving the house. "There's a lot of shame, a lot of embarrassment," says Esther Dolowich, a...
July 21, 2011
Nearly a quarter of all Americans have participated in binge drinking, and 8.4% have used an illicit drug in the past month, a new report says. Data released Thursday by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration suggest that North Dakota has the highest percentage of binge drinking (five or more drinks on one occasion), and 29.8% of those 12 and older reported binge drinking in...
July 21, 2011
A recent multi-center study determined that women with generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS) had a greater number of seizures during anovulatory cycles-menstrual cycles where an egg is not released-than in cycles where ovulation occurs. According to the study publishing today in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), reproductive steroids may play a role in GTCS...
July 21, 2011
A brain injury more than doubles the risk of dementia, according to new research. A large study of older war veterans suggests those who experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI) during their lives had more than two times the risk of developing dementia, according to scientists from the University of California-San Francisco. The researchers presented their findings today at the Alzheimer's Association's...
July 20, 2011
If you're watching your weight and eat out frequently, proceed cautiously. That healthful soup, sandwich or entree may have 100 to 275 more calories than the restaurant says, a new study shows. And those chips and salsa may pack 1,000 calories more than what is stated by the restaurant. "The calories on your plate may be quite different from what you think you are getting, and the trouble is you can't...
July 20, 2011
Hong Kong (dpa) - Sex hormones are to blame for men's higher susceptibility to liver cancer, according to a study by researchers at a Hong Kong university, a newspaper report said Wednesday. The Chinese University study found that liver cancer was exceptionally active when the protein receptor of the male sex hormone took control of one of the 17,000 genes in the body, the South China Morning Post...
July 20, 2011
A brain injury more than doubles the risk of dementia, according to new research. A large study of older war veterans suggests those who experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI) during their lives had more than two times the risk of developing dementia, according to scientists from the University of California-San Francisco. The researchers presented their findings today at the Alzheimer's Association's...
July 18, 2011
Falling may be an early sign of Alzheimer's, a new study suggests. Older people whose brain scans showed signs of amyloid, an early indicator of Alzheimer's disease, but who were otherwise healthy had twice the risk of falls as people without brain amyloid, a study reported Sunday at the Alzheimer's Association's annual International Conference in Paris. "To our knowledge, this is the first study to...
July 18, 2011
July 18 - Mike DeCicco has felt pain in his arm nearly as long as he's played baseball. Sometimes it's intense. Other times it just feels sore. He also has days when his arm feels good. Those days remind DeCicco what it was like to throw 100 pitches in a baseball game - he threw that many in a state tournament game when he was 13. Professional pitchers take days to recover from that high a pitch count....
July 18, 2011
Hong Kong (dpa) - A flesh-eating bacterial disease has already killed more people in Hong Kong this year than in the previous two years combined, a newspaper report said Friday. Five people have died so far this year from the disease, which mainly affects the elderly and chronically ill, compared with one death in all of 2010 and two in 2009, the South China Morning Post said. Sixteen people with the...
July 15, 2011
July 14 - It's rare that surgeons at Parkview Medical Center have to deal with the removal of a stomach, let alone when it was caused by an act of violence, but one thing is for sure: It's expensive. Michelle Peulen, spokeswoman for Parkview, cannot discuss the details of what has happened to Jesus Gutierrez, who police say was stabbed early Monday and may have torn his own stomach from his slashed...
July 14, 2011
Older breast cancer patients with certain other health problems have higher mortality rates than patients without these problems according to a study published online June 30 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The other health problems, or 'comorbidities', include heart attack and other heart-related problems, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and others (see also Breast...
July 14, 2011
Infants of human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) infected mothers who were treated before and after birth with the protease inhibitor lopinavir-ritonavir were more likely to experience adrenal dysfunction, including life-threatening adrenal insufficiency in premature infants, compared with a zidovudine-based regimen, according to a preliminary report in the July 6 issue of JAMA (see also HIV/AIDS)....
July 14, 2011
For the first time, fertility experts have shown that, from the time that a woman starts trying to conceive, poor oral health can have a significant effect on the time to pregnancy (see also Gum Disease). Professor Roger Hart told the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology that the negative effect of gum disease on conception was of the same order of magnitude as...
July 14, 2011
In the first study to consider the impact of gender on patient outcomes in major gastrointestinal surgeries, researchers at UC San Diego Health System have found that women are more likely to survive after the procedure than men. The pattern is even more pronounced when comparing women before menopause with men of the same age (see also Menopause). Results, now published online in the Journal of Surgical...
July 14, 2011
You already know that exercise can lead to weight loss, but what are the other benefits of exercising? Get better and easier sleep If you've ever walked in from a hard day's workout and wanted to go to sleep, then you know the power of good exercise. If you have trouble sleeping, exercise may do the trick but don't exercise too late at night. It takes time for your heart rate to come down so if you're...
July 13, 2011
A team of Harvard University researchers are warning Americans to put down their remote controls after discovering a new culprit in type 2 diabetes, heart disease and even premature death - watching too much television. The study, which was released in the Journal of the American Medical Association in June, is just the most recent to shed light on the dangers of sedentary lifestyles, but one that...
July 13, 2011
Budapest (dpa) - A rare virus strain was behind a mysterious outbreak of poisoning that saw dozens of children rushed to hospital from a Hungarian holiday camp, medical officials said Wednesday. A week after the outbreak, a hitherto little-known strain of calicivirus - a common source of food poisoning - was identified in lab tests, the local medical officer told the state news agency MTI. "This rare...
July 13, 2011
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