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July 05 - A new study led by a Johns Hopkins researcher says the popular anti-smoking drug Chantix significantly increases the risk for a heart attack or other serious heart problem in healthy, middle-aged smokers. Dr. Sonal Singh, the study's lead author, is calling for warnings on the drug to be stronger than those currently required by the Food and Drug Administration. "People want to quit smoking...
July 5, 2011
If you want to quit smoking, check your cellphone. Smokers are twice as likely to succeed in quitting if they receive supportive text messages, British researchers have found. The study, published June 30 online in the British medical journal The Lancet, followed 5,800 smokers as they attempted to quit. Only 10.7% of smokers receiving messages were still abstaining at six months, but that rate is still...
July 5, 2011
Lazy Americans, you are not off the hook, but health experts are cutting you some slack. "It's very clear that a little bit of exercise makes a big difference," says Carol Ewing Garber, author of the American College of Sports Medicine's new guidelines on quantity and quality of exercise for adults. "The recommendation to get 150 minutes a week of moderate-intensity exercise is still one of the goals,...
July 5, 2011
(MCT) Keeping our children safe is the top priority for all parents, and it takes on more urgency during summertime. Fortunately, there are many ways to keep your children safe this season, no matter where your family chooses to have fun. In the water: Pools, hot tubs, water parks, lakes, rivers and oceans present a fatal risk. Drowning is the second leading cause of injury-related death among children...
July 1, 2011
Kids flocked to two redesigned New York City playgrounds last year to check out the shiny, stainless-steel climbing domes. But they reacted with more than squeals of delight. On sunny days, the climbing domes quickly got hotter than a frying pan. Children scalded their hands, which prompted park officials to install a tent over the dome in Union Square and to remove the domes in Brooklyn Bridge Park....
June 30, 2011
For the second time, a federal expert panel has decided that the drug Avastin the top-selling cancer drug in the world doesn't help women with advanced breast cancer and may even harm them. A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 6-0 Wednesday to withdraw Avastin's approval for treatment of breast cancer. The drug remains on the market for now, however, and agency Commissioner Margaret...
June 30, 2011
Infants born to mothers who received the influenza (flu) vaccine while pregnant are nearly 50 percent less likely to be hospitalized for the flu than infants born to mothers who did not receive the vaccine while pregnant, according to a new collaborative study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and colleagues. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends influenza...
June 30, 2011
New Delhi (dpa) - The deaths of 17 newborn babies at a state hospital in India sparked protests, with angry relatives smashing furniture and allegedly attacking doctors on Thursday, officials said. The deaths, which the parents of the infants say was as a result of negligence by hospital staff, have occurred at the BC Roy hospital in the eastern metropolis of Kolkata since Tuesday. "Seventeen children...
June 30, 2011
Patients pay as much as 683% more for the same medical procedures, such as MRIs or CT scans, in the same town, depending on which doctor they choose, according to a new study by a national health care group. That means patients who pay for a percentage of their care, instead of a co-payment, may end up spending hundreds of dollars more for a certain procedure than they would if they chose treatment...
June 30, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio - More than half of the women in a recently published survey reported that near the end of their pregnancies, they took it upon themselves to try to induce labor, mostly by walking, having sex, eating spicy food or stimulating their nipples (see also Pregnancy). Of the 201 women who responded to the survey at a Midwestern hospital, 102, or 50.7 percent, used these or other unprescribed...
June 30, 2011
If you work in an office, keeping neck and shoulder pain away may take only two minutes a day. A new study presented at the World Congress of the American College of Sports Medicine in Denver found that office workers doing two minutes of exercise a day reported lower levels of neck and shoulder pain after 10 weeks. The study by Danish researchers involved 198 office workers who had frequent neck and...
June 29, 2011
Potato marketers resent a recent Harvard weight-loss study that encourages Americans to bag the spuds, but pistachio growers are nuts about the study's findings. The study, released last Thursday by the Harvard School of Public Health, linked eating potatoes with gaining weight. Yogurt and nuts, on the other hand, were associated with losing weight. Western Pistachio, a pistachio growers association,...
June 29, 2011
More than a dozen states are considering requiring a test for newborns that would help identify congenital heart disease, a birth defect that affects about one of every 100 babies and can cause physical and mental disabilities, or even death. The test, painless and costing as little as $1 per child, measures the percent of oxygen in the blood, allowing doctors to determine whether to do further testing....
June 29, 2011
June 29 - SEBRING - Every generation of Americans has lived longer than the one before, until this one. In 313 American counties - including Hardee County - the life expectancy for women has declined. In Polk County, the average age at death rose only 0.3 of a year, as opposed to 1.3 years for most U.S. women. While life expectancy in Highlands County and America as a whole has continued to rise steadily...
June 29, 2011
After winning the Nobel for helping to discover HIV, Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi say they are targeting the "reservoirs" where the AIDS virus lurks after it has been rolled back by drugs. Montagnier, 78 and Barre-Sinoussi, 63, shared in the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work at the Pasteur Institute in isolating the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The French researchers...
June 28, 2011
In a clinical trial that included nearly 80,000 women, those who received ovarian cancer screening did not have a reduced risk of death from ovarian cancer compared to women who received usual care, but did have an increase in invasive medical procedures and associated harms as a result of being screened, according to a study in the June 8 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on cancer. The study is being...
June 28, 2011
April 15 - Mira Loma High School's drill team captain is trying to develop a new treatment for liver cancer. Selena Li, 17, has completed research that could offer an alternative to chemotherapy or transplant for liver cancer patients. She found that by combining chloroquine - generally used against malaria - and a cancer drug, cancer cells in the liver are less likely to survive. The findings are...
June 28, 2011
Anti-oxidant supplements can significantly reduce the symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome, suffered by tens of thousands of veterans, according to research to be presented today to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The study by Beatrice Golomb of the medical school at the University of California-San Diego tested the value of giving doses of the coenzyme Q10 to veterans of the Persian Gulf War. "Every...
June 27, 2011
Anti-oxidant supplements can significantly reduce the symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome, suffered by tens of thousands of veterans, according to research to be presented today to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The study by Beatrice Golomb of the medical school at the University of California-San Diego tested the value of giving doses of the coenzyme Q10 to veterans of the Persian Gulf War. "Every...
June 27, 2011
Jan. 10 - Chromium-3 is an essential nutrient. Its evil twin, chromium- 6, is believed to cause ca ncer. But consumer confidence reports that aim to educate the public about tap water quality do not distinguish between chromium-3 and chromium-6 - the same pollutant made famous by Erin Brockovich in the desert town of Hinkley, the same pollutant that has been detected in public drinking water in San...
June 24, 2011
As many women know, the Women's Health Initiative Study from 2002 showed that estrogen was not the dream treatment for menopausal symptoms that we once thought it was; estrogen treatment after menopause, especially when combined with a progesterone (needed for women with an intact uterus), increases a woman's risk of several diseases, including breast cancer, stroke, dementia, blood clots, and possibly...
June 24, 2011
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Using a combination of hypnosis and local anaesthesia (LA) for certain types of surgery can aid the healing process and reduce drug use and time spent in hospital, anaesthesiologists have found. The combination could also help avoid cancer recurrence and metastases, according to new research to be presented today (Sunday) at the European Anaesthesiology Congress in Amsterdam...
June 23, 2011
June 23 - They can't smoke in bars, restaurants or even public parks in some cities. And when they go to buy a pack of cigarettes, increased taxes are pushing the price sky-high. And now the labels on their smokes will graphically show the horrors of their habit. Some smokers say they feel as if they are under attack. "If (cigarettes) are that dangerous, they should be classified with the other drugs...
June 23, 2011
Adults gain an average of almost a pound a year as they age, and much of that weight gain is caused by changes in diet such as extra servings of foods like potato chips, french fries, sugar-sweetened drinks, white bread and low-fiber breakfast cereals, says the largest, most comprehensive study of diet and weight gain in adults. Other contributors: decreased intake of fruits, vegetables, whole grains...
June 23, 2011
In the longest running U.S. study of premature infants who are now 23 years old, University of Rhode Island Professor of Nursing Mary C. Sullivan has found that premature infants are less healthy, have more social and school struggles and face a greater risk of heart-health problems in adulthood (see also Premature Birth). Sullivan has also found that supportive, loving parents and nurturing school...
June 23, 2011
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