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Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that exposure during pregnancy to a family of pesticides called organophosphates may impair child cognitive development. The findings are published online in Environmental Health Perspectives. From 1998 to 2002, the Mount Sinai Children's Environmental Health Study enrolled a multiethnic population of more than 400 women in their third trimester...
April 28, 2011
Drospirenone, the top-selling oral contraceptive marketed as Yaz or Yasmin in the U.S. and Canada, doesn't carry any more risk of gall bladder disease than the older generation of birth control pills, despite claims by some consumers and lawyers in both countries, according to a new study by University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute researcher Mahyar Etminan (see...
April 28, 2011
April 27 - A shortage of stimulants to treat ADHD - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - has forced some Minnesota patients to pay more for expensive brand-name medications or make a frustrating switch to short-acting versions of their drugs, according to local physicians. While generic versions of Ritalin, Methlyn, Concerta and Metadate are in short supply, according to the U.S. Food and Drug...
April 27, 2011
April 27 - Community health center officials said yesterday they fear lengthy hospitalizations and an increase in emergency room visits for Medicaid patients if a proposed $150 million in Medicaid cuts is made over the next two years. "It's going to be an unmitigated social disaster if this happens," said Matthew Nagato, spokesman for the Hawaii Primary Care Association, at a news conference with other...
April 27, 2011
Heart attacks that occur in the morning are likely to be more serious than attacks at other times of the day, a specialist journal reported on Wednesday. Spanish researchers looked at data from 811 patients who had been admitted to a Madrid clinic with a myocardial infarction between 2003 and 2009. They used levels of an enzyme in the blood to measure the extent of dead tissue, known as an infarct,...
April 26, 2011
April 26 - A Wisconsin company that makes first-aid kits used by outdoor enthusiasts is telling people to immediately destroy the Triad Group iodine prep pads in the kits because the pads could be contaminated with life-threatening bacteria and have been the subject of a national product recall. Wisconsin Pharmacal Co., of Jackson, said the Povidone iodine pads were included in various Atwater Carey...
April 26, 2011
April 22 - TAMPA - Every year, Medicare pays Tampa Bay-area hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars to treat critically ill seniors. The care those patients receive - and the amount taxpayers spend - hinges on where they are treated, according to a recent study comparing end-of-life care at hospitals nationwide. Those patients absorb about a quarter of Medicare spending nationally, making their care...
April 25, 2011
April 21 - SILVER SPRING, Md. Some hand sanitizer producers are making fraudulent claims and the U.S. Food and Drug Aministration has warned them to stop. The claims violate federal law, the FDA says. The claims in question say that hand sanitizers prevent MRSA infections, or resistant staph infections. The bacteria from MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) are resistant to antibiotics...
April 22, 2011
April 22 - CHARLESTON, W.Va. The average West Virginia smoker should expect to spend nearly $119,000 to support that habit over the next three decades, according to a new study. The Health Statistics Center at the state Department of Health and Human Resources released a study Thursday detailing how much the average West Virginia smoker could spend on cigarettes over a lifetime. It found that between...
April 22, 2011
Sentinel-lymph-node (SLN) biopsy can accurately diagnose lymph node status in patients with early stage endometrial cancer and provide vital information on the most effective adjuvant (additional) treatment without the need for complete lymphadenectomy (removal of all the pelvic lymph nodes), thereby reducing the risk of surgical complications. These findings published Online First in The Lancet Oncology,...
April 21, 2011
Oestrogen treatment for osteoporosis has often been associated with serious side-effects. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now, in mice, found a way of utilising the positive effects of oestrogen in mice so that only the skeleton is acted on, current research at the Academy shows (see also Osteoporosis). The study is presented in the respected journal PNAS...
April 21, 2011
The World Health Organization has amended its recommendation for malaria treatment, saying that artemisinin is preferred to quinine in treating severe cases among children, a WHO official said Thursday. "Intravenous artesunate should be used in preference to quinine for the treatment of severe P. falciparum malaria in children," said the UN health agency. The recommendation promoting artemisinin use...
April 21, 2011
April 14 - Acknowledging that some people don't support the federal Affordable Care Act, the regional director of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services said Wednesday in Wyomissing that discussing the issue should be done with the intent to help Americans be healthier. Since the act became law a little more than a year ago, the number of uninsured Americans has increased from 46 million to...
April 20, 2011
April 20 - New guidelines for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease will include people with early signs of the condition and eventually could allow doctors to identify those who are likely to develop the mind-robbing disease, experts said Tuesday. The guidelines, issued by the Alzheimer's Association and the National Institute of Aging, redefine the illness as a long process that starts with plaque buildup...
April 20, 2011
Haitian health officials on Wednesday said they have found new cases of cholera in rural areas of the country, but said the epidemic, which has killed thousands since last year, remains on the decline. "Residual outbreaks" have appeared in the north, the central plateau, and the southeast, "but they do not constitute a spike in the disease," the country's public health general director Gabriel Timothe...
April 20, 2011
Brussels (dpa) - European researchers have found that chemotherapy drugs used to treat cancer also kill the parasite that causes malaria, in what the European Commission on Tuesday hailed as a breakthrough in the fight against the deadly mosquito-borne disease. "This discovery could lead to an effective anti-malaria treatment that would save millions of lives and transform countless others," the European...
April 19, 2011
From sushi to pizza or spicy chicken curry, favourite meals are being transformed into cash for school dinners to feed the world's hungry in a new social networking scheme from the World Food Programme. The wefeedback campaign, which launched in March, has already provided 110,000 meals to hungry children in 60 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, WFP's web representative Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski...
April 19, 2011
If you've ever skimped on your 7.5 hours of slumber, pushed yourself too hard during a midday workout, or spent the day camped out in a swivel chair with your eyes glued to a computer screen, you've surely encountered the infamous energy crash. And while reaching for Red Bull or scrounging for sugar may seem like the panacea, the effects of your quick fix may be short-lived. Here's your all-day guide...
April 18, 2011
Aging Out of Allergies: Sensitivities Can Fall Away, Some Treatment Involves Cozying Up to the Enemy
Two years after outgrowing a peanut allergy, Holly Sweenie finally took a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to school. "It took me a long time to get up the courage to pack one," said Sweenie's mom, Susan, of Canton, Mass. "I assumed allergies were something she'd always have." Happily, allergies aren't always life sentences. But it can be difficult to tell when children have aged out of an allergy,...
April 18, 2011
April 18 - With warmer temperatures come the urge to spend more time outside - and the need to take precautions against sun exposure and heat exhaustion. As weather forecasts continue to improve, those who go out in the sun should take care to protect their skin and stay cool, medical professionals say. "The main things are just staying hydrated and making sure you're getting plenty of fluids," said...
April 18, 2011
April 16 - Dallas - A new study released today by a professor at Northern Kentucky University shows that drinking beverages containing caffeine and alcohol can be more dangerous than consuming alcohol alone. Many of these energy drinks contain two to three times more caffeine than soda. Red Bull is an everyday drink for many, both for energy, and mixed with alcohol for a reviving cocktail. "I like...
April 18, 2011
US researchers have recreated the process by which ovarian cancer forms in the lab, providing solid evidence that the tumors start in the fallopian tubes, not the ovaries, a study said Monday. The finding could provide clues on how to attack ovarian cancer, which often causes no early symptoms and by the time it is found has spread so much that the tumors are impossible to stop. Ovarian cancer is the...
April 18, 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...
April 18, 2011
A sampling of grocery store meat in five US cities has shown a type of drug-resistant bacteria is contained in about one quarter of beef, chicken, pork and turkey for sale, a study said Friday. Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that can cause skin infections, pneumonia, sepsis or endocarditis in people with weak hearts, was found in 47 percent of samples, said the study in the journal Clinical Infectious...
April 14, 2011
CHICAGO - Illinois restaurants may soon have to find a way to cut artificial trans fats from French fries, onion rings, popcorn shrimp, pies, cakes and fried chicken. Legislation that passed the Illinois House on Wednesday would ban artery-clogging trans fats in food served in restaurants, movie theaters, cafes and bakeries or sold in school vending machines, starting in 2013. If the Senate approves...
April 14, 2011
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