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April 13 - PEABODY - Much has been made lately of the dangers of sports-related head injuries, but a lot of it misses the point, says Kathey Moskal, the head athletic trainer at Peabody High School. "Parents are so focused on 'When will they return to play?' but (their children) can't even make it through a full day of school," Moskal said. "It's a huge issue." It's not just parents, but guidance councilors,...
April 12, 2011
CHICAGO - Financial stress can have long-lasting ill effects on families and set in motion patterns of verbal aggression that cross generations, finds research based on more than 20 years of interviews with rural families reeling from the 1980s farm crisis. Many of these families either lost their farms or faced financial ruin after major drops in land values. That period of uncertainty prompted a...
April 12, 2011
Brian Scalabrine was guarding Dirk Nowitzki closely in a 2009 NBA game when Nowitzki's right elbow caught him square in the jaw. Scalabrine stayed in the game, like a boxer out on his feet, unaware he'd suffered a concussion. The 6-9 Chicago Bulls forward, who was then with the Boston Celtics, sat out the next day's practice. At practice a day after that, he got knocked lightly in the head in what...
April 12, 2011
April 13 - In the course of 12 weeks, more than 2,500 participants sweated out more than 12,000 pounds during a healthy lifestyle challenge. The 2011 Pound Plunge finale celebration was hosted Tuesday night at East Hills Shopping Center to honor the top weight-loss winners, as well as encourage participants to continue on with the healthy lifestyles they've worked so hard to achieve since January....
April 12, 2011
Asthma is often overlooked in older patients, but why? We asked two leading experts to weigh in. Dr. Charles E. Reed is a former head of the division of allergic diseases at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Dr. Monroe King is an associate professor of medicine in the division of allergy and immunology at the University of South Florida and a consultant to the National Institute on Aging for asthma...
April 12, 2011
Hardee's, which has built a testosterone-rich image around serving "young, hungry guys" ever bigger thickburgers, shocked many when it became the first major fast-food chain to roll out a turkey burger last month. The move came on the heels of McDonald's recent introduction of fruit and maple oatmeal. Not to mention the fact that Burger King trotted out apple fries a couple of years ago. After years...
April 12, 2011
About one in 10 cancers in men and one in 33 in women in western European countries are caused by current and past alcohol consumption, according to a study released Friday. For some types of cancer, the rates are significantly higher, it said. In 2008, for men, 44, 25 and 33 percent of upper digestive track, liver and colon cancers respectively were caused by alcohol in six of the countries examined,...
April 8, 2011
April 07 - Tired of taking pain pills? New research shows you can lessen your pain with a meditation technique that doesn't take much skill. The study was conducted by Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. He suspected that 'mindfullness meditation' curbs pain by teaching the brain to prioritize what's most important; breathing, and not pain. He conducted...
April 7, 2011
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Most women face only a small risk of breast cancer coming back after they complete their treatment. Yet a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center finds that nearly half of Latinas who speak little English expressed a great deal of worry about recurrence (see also Breast Cancer). "Some worry about cancer recurrence is understandable. But for some women,...
April 7, 2011
New research documenting changes in the incidence and outcomes of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the U.S. between 1995 and 2006, found a significant increase in incidence rates among patients 5 to 39 years of age and in African Americans. A second related study-the largest pediatric lupus nephritis-associated ESRD study to date-revealed high rates of adverse outcomes among children with ESRD due...
April 7, 2011
(PHILADELPHIA) Giving girls with Turner syndrome low doses of estrogen, as well as growth hormone, years before the onset of puberty, increases their height and offers a wealth of other benefits, say a team of researchers led by Thomas Jefferson University. Their report is published in the March 31st issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) (see also Hormones). The study, which took more...
April 7, 2011
Uterine fibroid embolization-an interventional radiology treatment for the noncancerous yet very common growths that develop in the muscular wall of the uterus-improves a number of women's lower urinary tract problems that are specifically caused by those fibroids, confirm researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 36th Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago, Ill (see also Clinical Trials...
April 7, 2011
April 06 - As the world watches Japan after it announced that contaminated water from its crippled nuclear plants would be released into the sea, experts are talking about a touchy topic: Is radiation from medical devices harmful? Medical scans have emerged as the final diagnostic answer for many diseases such as cancer. Nuclear medicine scans and treatment are considered as the most underutilized...
April 6, 2011
April 06 - Just a couple months before Ohio strawberries hit the farmers markets, Ohio State University's Dr. Tong Chen might have one more reason for you to load up. Chen led a small study in China looking at the effects of strawberry powder on people with precancerous lesions of the esophagus. Esophageal cancer is more common in China. Her study looked at 36 people who ate about 2 ounces of freeze-dried...
April 6, 2011
April 05 - Dr. Sylvia Firary usually doesn't see much of dengue fever, the mosquito-borne viral illness that emerged as a worldwide problem in the 1950s. Dengue fever rarely occurs in the continental United States, but it is prevalent in Puerto Rico and in many popular Latin America and Southeast Asia tourist destinations. Firary, a Gundersen Lutheran physician specializing in infectious diseases,...
April 5, 2011
April 05 - Doctors might rethink their advice to heart-failure patients because of a new study that found no overall survival benefit among patients who undergo bypass surgery compared with those who only take medication. A second study on the same group of patients found that some imaging tests aren't useful in predicting who will benefit from surgery. Researchers at the Ohio State University Medical...
April 5, 2011
April 04 - BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ANN) - Chinese scientists have succeeded in the first phase of a clinical trial of an HIV vaccine and will launch the second stage in a few months, according to the country's leading disease control expert. Shao Yiming, chief expert of the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, told China Daily that the second phase of experiments on the vaccine, which...
April 4, 2011
April 04 - Two major studies looking at medication versus medication plus surgery - a coronary artery bypass graft - for heart disease are calling the surgical intervention into question. The research, shared this morning at the American College of Cardiology meeting in New Orleans, might make doctors rethink their advice to heart patients. In the main study, more than 1,200 patients were randomly...
April 4, 2011
April 04 - People at risk of developing diabetes may be able to fight off the disease by taking the drug Actos, a new study suggested. But Owensboro endocrinologist Dr. Zouhair Bibi said lifestyle changes should be the first step before using medication. "People who are prediabetic should try diet, exercise and weight loss, and if they can't achieve a lifestyle change, then probably medical treatment...
April 4, 2011
March 01 - Childhood obesity in the Gulf has reached epidemic proportions with levels of obesity being doubled in the last 30 years. Alarmingly, more than 10 per cent of children are now overweight or obese in the GCC. These findings were revealed at the two-day 'Childhood and Adolescent Obesity: A Whole System, Strategic Approach' conference in Abu Dhabi which began on Monday. Organised by Medineo,...
April 1, 2011
Primary care doctors are less likely to refer short girls than short boys for diagnostic testing that can reveal underlying medical reasons for their short stature, according to a new study of an urban pediatric population in Philadelphia. Girls with medical conditions causing their short stature may go undiagnosed, or may be diagnosed later than boys, limiting timely treatment (see also Clinical Trials...
March 31, 2011
March 31 - A widely used drug that prevents preterm labor won't surge in cost after all. The Food and Drug Administration announced on Wednesday that it won't prevent compounding pharmacists from producing the drug at a cost to patients of $10 to $20 per injection. In February, KV Pharmaceutical Co. of suburban St. Louis acquired FDA approval for the drug and exclusive rights to sell it under the name...
March 31, 2011
When overweight children feel left out or ostracized, they tend to eat more and exercise less, new research shows. The findings come at a time when about one-third of children are overweight or obese, which increases their risk for type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, sleep apnea and other health problems. Scientists at the University of Buffalo have been studying the effects of different situations...
March 31, 2011
About one third of Americans are not getting enough vitamin D, a government report says. The report, out Wednesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), parallels what many other studies have suggested in recent years: that a large chunk of the population is at risk for low vitamin D levels. About two-thirds had sufficient levels, but about a third were in ranges suggesting risk...
March 31, 2011
March 26 - An immune-enhancing drug that can stop advanced cases of melanoma skin cancer gained regulatory approval Friday. Cancer specialists expect it to make a big difference for patients who until now faced limited treatment options and low chances of surviving. "This is the first new drug for melanoma in 13 years, and the first ever to improve survival in advanced melanoma," said Dr. Walter Urba,...
March 30, 2011
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