tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10702172502280601412012-01-20T03:15:42.493-08:00RKLnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-17959706995560476112010-02-18T03:46:00.003-08:002010-02-18T03:46:37.606-08:00

Congressional Republicans see a chance for political gain in President Barack Obama's televised health care summit next week, even though the president will be running the show. Obama and the Democrats are certain to highlight a crucial element of their health care plan — extending coverage to more than 30 million Americans — at the one-of-a-kind event. By comparison, a Republican plan would

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-60610336757407859052010-02-18T03:46:00.001-08:002010-02-18T03:46:17.256-08:00

Despite the hype, mega-doses of antioxidants have failed to deliver the promise of a long, healthy life. Quite to the contrary, too much vitamin E can increase the risk of stroke; too much beta-carotene can increase the risk of lung cancer in smokers; and so on down the line. The reason is that the antioxidant theory is way too simple, depicted as one of these battles between good and evil.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-86497781896662468562010-02-16T07:08:00.001-08:002010-02-16T07:08:20.218-08:00

Despite rising rates of obesity and diabetes, a new survey has found that a majority of Americans believe their health is just fine - it's everyone else who has the problem. More than 50 percent of respondents said that other people's health "was going in the wrong direction." In contrast, only 17 percent said their own health was going in the wrong direction. Commissioned by GE Healthcare, The

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-55675043305011311762010-02-16T07:07:00.001-08:002010-02-16T07:07:34.536-08:00

Poorly fitting condoms not only boost the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, they also reduce sexual pleasure during intercourse, a new study has found. The findings are based on a survey of 436 men, aged 18 to 67, who responded to an Internet survey after being recruited through newspaper ads and a blog on a condom sales company Web site. The survey asked the men about how a condom fit the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-17695626762461332672010-02-15T11:31:00.003-08:002010-02-15T11:31:59.989-08:00

Harvard researchers report what they say is a major advance toward the long-sought goal of a genetic test that can distinguish between aggressive prostate cancers that require urgent treatment and slow-growing tumors that can safely be left alone. Today, many men diagnosed with prostate cancer are treated with radiation or chemotherapy even though most of those cancers will grow so slowly that

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-62180969505782962712010-02-15T11:31:00.001-08:002010-02-15T11:31:33.832-08:00

A medication that allows hay fever sufferers to get allergy shots in the form of a pill seems to have lasting benefits, a new study finds. The drug, called Grazax, is a prescription medication approved in Europe for the treatment of allergies to grass pollen, one of the major triggers of springtime hay fever. The pill offers an alternative to allergy shots, which are typically recommended when

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-39928222415222679292010-02-15T11:30:00.001-08:002010-02-15T11:30:53.008-08:00

Women who take diabetes drugs known as thiazolidinediones, which include Avandia and Actos, are at a greater risk of bone fractures, a new study finds. Women who took a thiazolidinedione drug for a year were 50 percent more likely to suffer a bone fracture than patients who didn't take the drug, the researchers found. Women older than 65 were most vulnerable, with a 70 percent higher risk. "

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-89423653547800106772010-02-15T11:29:00.003-08:002010-02-15T11:29:49.374-08:00

A widely available rapid influenza diagnostic test is good, but not perfect, in determining whether a child has the flu, a new study shows. The findings are applicable to both the seasonal flu and the H1N1 flu that recently swept across the globe, said Dr. Andrea T. Cruz, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and lead author of a report published online

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-51027223853675387422010-02-15T11:29:00.001-08:002010-02-15T11:29:15.690-08:00

New research suggests that people who are infected with both HIV-1, a strain of the AIDS virus, and herpes simplex virus type 2 could benefit in more than one way by taking a herpes drug called acyclovir. In addition to treating herpes, the medication appears to also slow the progression of HIV. "While the HIV-disease ameliorating effect we have observed is modest, it could add one more tool to

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-56598328431591793952010-02-11T10:45:00.003-08:002010-02-11T10:45:53.727-08:00

Cabernet and chocolate are potent medicine for killing cancer, according to research presented here Wednesday. Red grapes and dark chocolate join blueberries, garlic, soy, and teas as ingredients that starve cancer while feeding bodies, Angiogenesis Foundation head William Li said at a prestigious TED Conference. "We are rating foods based on their cancer-fighting qualities," Li said. "What we

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-69975409266389604432010-02-11T10:45:00.001-08:002010-02-11T10:45:22.753-08:00

Children born extremely preterm may face a much higher-than-average risk of developing autism later in childhood, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of 219 children born before the 26th week of pregnancy, 8 percent met the criteria for an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at age 11. That compared with none of 153 classmates who were born full-term and included in a comparison group. The

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-79614929495445940302010-02-10T07:52:00.001-08:002010-02-10T07:52:21.269-08:00

Lap-band surgery for severely overweight teenagers on Wednesday won support from Australian researchers after a study found the procedure helped them lose 80 percent of their excess fat. The study, conducted at Monash University and the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, showed dramatically better results among adolescents who had the surgery, compared with those on a strict diet and

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-74144283444750379462010-02-10T07:51:00.001-08:002010-02-10T07:51:51.700-08:00

Can you really be bored to death? In a commentary to be published in the International Journal of Epidemiology in April, experts say there's a possibility that the more bored you are, the more likely you are to die early. Annie Britton and Martin Shipley of University College London caution that boredom alone isn't likely to kill you — but it could be a symptom of other risky behavior like

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-41783097136755718382010-02-10T03:46:00.000-08:002010-02-10T03:46:05.548-08:00

Don't say "mental retardation" — the new term is "intellectual disability." No more diagnoses of Asperger's syndrome — call it a mild version of autism instead. And while "behavioral addictions" will be new to doctors' dictionaries, "Internet addiction" didn't make the cut. The American Psychiatric Association is proposing major changes Wednesday to its diagnostic bible, the manual that doctors,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-32988644909509380592010-02-09T07:52:00.001-08:002010-02-09T07:52:30.581-08:00

Old tobacco smoke does more than simply make a room smell stale -- it can leave cancer-causing toxins behind, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. They found cancer-causing agents called tobacco-specific nitrosamines stick to a variety of surfaces, where they can get into dust or be picked up on the fingers. Children and infants are the most likely to pick them up, the team at Lawrence Berkeley

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-9323338998621990162010-02-09T07:49:00.001-08:002010-02-09T07:49:19.587-08:00

After Medicare sweetened payments for simple office-based endoscopic procedures, doctors in one New York City practice performed many more in-office bladder biopsies, but the volume of hospital procedures stayed roughly the same, a new study finds. So, instead of saving money, Medicare expenditures rose 50 percent after the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) increased

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-82700205515218009552010-02-08T03:55:00.001-08:002010-02-08T03:55:23.777-08:00

Medicare's move in 2005 to pay doctors to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices rather than in hospitals dramatically raised the number of procedures and overall health costs, U.S. researchers said on Monday. The findings reflect the complexity of cutting health costs in the United States, showing how in some cases Medicare -- the insurance program for the elderly and disabled -- gives

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-51169419398475325572010-02-08T03:54:00.001-08:002010-02-08T03:54:32.033-08:00

People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer, an unusual but deadly cancer, researchers reported on Monday. People who drank mostly fruit juice instead of sodas did not have the same risk, the study of 60,000 people in Singapore found. Sugar may be to blame but people who drink sweetened sodas regularly often have other poor health

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-15894355491570118242010-02-05T07:40:00.000-08:002010-02-05T07:40:02.900-08:00

It's not cost-effective to screen couples genetically to determine if they're at risk of having children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), says a U.S. study. There is ongoing controversy about whether screening for SMA -- the most common genetic cause of infant death -- should be routinely offered to couples. In this study, researchers created an analytical model to compare a policy of

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-17379719901024917142010-02-05T07:39:00.001-08:002010-02-05T07:39:26.516-08:00

New research suggests that young children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes could benefit by using an artificial pancreas device to lower the risk of dangerously low blood sugar levels during sleep and help them control their disease. The findings, which appear in the Feb. 5 issue of The Lancet, examined use of an artificial pancreas by people aged 5 to 18 in a hospital setting. The device,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-74112607544894923712010-02-05T06:05:00.002-08:002010-02-05T06:05:52.499-08:00

Women who are depressed while pregnant may be more likely than other expecting moms to have kids who are physically aggressive as teens, a new study finds. In addition, women in the study who were themselves aggressive as teens were more likely to get depressed during pregnancy. The findings don't mean a woman who suffers from the blues while pregnant is doomed to misbehaving children, who

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-18939307387564891082010-02-05T06:05:00.000-08:002010-02-05T06:05:08.168-08:00

Australian researchers said on Friday they had debunked the myth that a women's ability to think was impaired by pregnancy and mothering a newborn -- a condition commonly referred to as "baby brain". An Australian National University team conducting a 20-year population study on health and ageing analysed the mental function of a group of women before and during pregnancy and in the early stages

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-1176447629925087872010-02-05T06:04:00.001-08:002010-02-05T06:04:38.356-08:00

Most health stores are tainted with the irony that so few of their products are actually healthy, from herbal potions of unknown purity and utility to dietary supplements capitalizing on recent trends in weight loss or hair gain. Now, two more studies question a longstanding staple at the health store, protein supplements, usually sold as a powder with testosterone-fueled names like Muscle Max

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-37833221714096740012010-02-03T01:57:00.001-08:002010-02-03T01:57:50.616-08:00

Roche Holding AG missed full-year profit forecasts due to disappointing sales of key cancer drugs and gave a Lackluster outlook for 2010, pointing up the wider challenges facing global drugmakers. Roche has focused on developing promising new drugs rather than cutting costs as a way to combat looming patent losses, but still faces some of the same problems as rivals, which also include the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-83460603599080411232010-02-02T09:32:00.001-08:002010-02-02T09:32:27.923-08:00

Parents who make regular visits to the dentist are more likely to take their children to the dentist, a new study shows. Using data from a recent National Health Interview Study on 6,107 children aged 2 to 17, and their parents, researchers found that 77 percent of children and 64 percent of parents had seen a dentist in the previous year. Kids whose parents saw a dentist were more likely to

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-69633937793326558472010-02-02T09:31:00.003-08:002010-02-02T09:31:56.484-08:00

Obesity causes later onset of puberty in boys, new research indicates. ""Our study shows that the relationship between body fat and timing of puberty is not the same in boys as it is in girls," study author Dr. Joyce M. Lee, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Michigan, said in a university news release. "We found that increased body fatness is associated with a later onset of

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-42847637739793860742010-02-02T09:31:00.001-08:002010-02-02T09:31:23.342-08:00

A major British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease. The retraction by The Lancet comes a day after a competing medical journal, BMJ, issued an embargoed commentary calling for The Lancet to formally retract the study. The commentary was to have been published on Wednesday. The BMJ commentary said once

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-10337914112932259462010-02-02T03:43:00.000-08:002010-02-02T03:43:00.182-08:00

A pill to ease a type of mental retardation? An experiment is under way to develop one, aimed at a genetic disorder that might unravel some of the mysteries of autism along the way. Chances are you've never heard of the target — Fragile X syndrome — even though it's the most common inherited form of intellectual impairment, estimated to affect almost 100,000 Americans. It's also the most common

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-3503603273833000852010-01-29T10:43:00.000-08:002010-01-29T10:43:10.905-08:00

The first complete genomic sequencing of a brain cancer cell line has been performed by U.S. scientists. The achievement may help identify new molecular targets for the development of more effective and less toxic drugs and lead to personalized treatments based on the unique biological signatures of a patient's cancer, according to the team at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-83377272775752248482010-01-29T10:42:00.000-08:002010-01-29T10:42:04.182-08:00

People who buy prescription medications over the Internet, especially drugs purporting to treat erectile dysfunction, are playing Russian roulette with their lives, a new study contends. At best the drugs won't help you and at worst they could kill you, the review article said. "You may be wasting your money or you may actually be hurting yourself," said Dr. Margaret E. Wierman, professor of

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-15317746925050003332010-01-28T08:03:00.002-08:002010-01-28T08:03:52.555-08:00

Almost 12 percent of children and adolescents in the United States use complementary or alternative medicines, known as CAM, according to Harvard Medical School researchers. Most of these children have serious chronic diseases, but little is known about the safety or effectiveness of the alternative remedies, especially when they are combined with traditional treatment, the researchers say. The

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-10346119959620373772010-01-28T08:03:00.000-08:002010-01-28T08:03:18.001-08:00

Despite the warnings that being overweight will kill you, a new Australian study finds that overweight adults over the age of 70 are less likely to die over a 10-year period than their normal-weight peers. The study, published Jan. 28 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, conflicts with research that suggests that being overweight contributes to a long list of health problems,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-71461387331079606902010-01-27T06:20:00.000-08:002010-01-27T06:20:06.954-08:00

Very tight blood sugar control may raise the risk of premature death in people with type 2 diabetes, with the risk even higher among patients taking insulin, a new study reveals. The study authors, from Cardiff University School of Medicine in Wales, suggest revising diabetes guidelines to include a low threshold for blood sugar levels in addition to the well-known upper thresholds. But other

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-54670513902511527382010-01-27T06:19:00.000-08:002010-01-27T06:19:17.249-08:00

Same-sex couples are as good at raising well-adjusted, healthy children as heterosexual couples are, a review of 20 years of social science research finds. "There's a deeply held and widespread view out there that children need both a mother and a father to do well," said study author Judith Stacey, a professor of sociology and of social and cultural analysis at New York University in New York

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-88274702022198050352010-01-26T07:45:00.001-08:002010-01-26T07:45:14.100-08:00

Sweet news for baby boomers: Despite all those warnings that loud rock music would damage their ears, their generation appears to have better hearing than their parents did. In fact, a new study suggests that the rate of hearing problems at ages ranging from 45 to 75 has been dropping for years, at least among white Americans. "I'm less likely to have a hearing loss when I get to be 70 years

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-15141115876075946052010-01-26T06:09:00.000-08:002010-01-26T06:09:39.605-08:00

After more than a decade of decline, the U.S. teen pregnancy rate increased 3 percent in 2006, which led to a 4 percent rise in teen births and a 1 percent increase in teen abortions, a new study shows. Between 1990 and 2005, there was a 41 percent decline in pregnancies among females aged 15 to 19 -- from a peak of 116.9 pregnancies per 1,000 girls to 69.5 per 1,000. Between 1991 and 2005,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-65386750989902292652010-01-25T13:32:00.001-08:002010-01-25T13:32:28.437-08:00

Taking regular exercise helps you to stay physically healthier and mentally sharper into old age, four studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed Monday. One of the studies found that women who exercised more during middle age -- defined as an average age of 60 by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School --

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-83769100646032846652010-01-25T12:03:00.001-08:002010-01-25T12:03:23.789-08:00

Researchers have identified four regions of the human genome that predict a heightened risk of pancreatic cancer as a result of what they describe as the biggest-ever sweep of the genome for genes related to the disease. Though some of the locations had been linked to other cancers, the discovery of others apparently surprised the researchers. "This lets us go places we had never thought of

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-9865337847606125102010-01-25T12:02:00.001-08:002010-01-25T12:02:50.645-08:00

Researchers announced a new project on Monday to sequence all the genes in childhood tumors to try to discover previously unknown causes of cancer. They also hope they can use the research to help tailor treatments for children, to spare them radiation and chemotherapy that may do them little good. The collaboration between St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and Washington

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-65139614900595615212010-01-25T05:42:00.001-08:002010-01-25T05:42:45.405-08:00

Melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday. The announcement calls into question the effectiveness of a crackdown launched by Chinese officials to improve product safety after a number of scandals,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-47886757029792503822010-01-21T11:27:00.003-08:002010-01-21T11:27:49.504-08:00

The ability to detect early-stage ovarian cancer may be improved by using contrast-enhanced ultrasound combined with proteomic analyses of blood samples, a new study shows. Proteomics is the study of proteins, particularly their structure and function. Hundreds of proteins have been identified that may serve as biomarkers for ovarian cancer and help detect it in its early stages, the researchers

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-81216505966770631332010-01-21T11:27:00.001-08:002010-01-21T11:27:15.296-08:00

Researchers report they've developed a test that detects early-stage pancreatic cancer by measuring levels of a protein that's present in 90 percent of cancerous and precancerous lesions. "Most patients with pancreatic cancer are diagnosed when the disease is advanced and more difficult to cure," study author David V. Gold, a member of the Garden State Cancer Center in New Jersey, said in a news

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-6339156973504398162010-01-21T11:26:00.001-08:002010-01-21T11:26:40.395-08:00

Twenty percent of U.S. children and teens have abnormal lipid levels, an indication of too much bad cholesterol, too little good cholesterol or high triglycerides, federal health officials report. These abnormal levels can raise the risk for heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Obesity may be

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-31270124997966258272010-01-21T11:25:00.001-08:002010-01-21T11:25:49.691-08:00

The weight-loss pill Meridia should not be used by people with a history of heart problems because the drug can increase the risk of heart attack and stroke in such people, U.S. drug regulators said Thursday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the drug's manufacturer, Abbott Laboratories, has agreed to revise Meridia's label to add the new warning. Specifically, the drug should not be

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-42704892320748284382010-01-21T04:59:00.001-08:002010-01-21T04:59:29.719-08:00

Roche's cancer drug Xeloda enabled elderly patients being treated for colorectal cancer to live free of the disease for longer, the world's largest maker of cancer drugs said on Thursday. A study showed that patients above the age of 65 or 70 years who took Xeloda, or capecitabine, with Xelox, or oxaliplatin, immediately after surgery lived disease-free for longer compared with those treated

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-70791566665570937332010-01-20T13:35:00.001-08:002010-01-20T13:35:31.795-08:00

Here's a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly. Scientists are increasingly warning that sitting for prolonged periods — even if you also exercise regularly — could be bad for your health. And it doesn't matter where the sitting takes place — at the office, at school, in the car or before a computer or TV — just the overall number of hours it occurs. Research is preliminary, but

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-26345849711200367072010-01-20T05:46:00.001-08:002010-01-20T05:46:52.725-08:00

A steel mailbox-sized bin in the lobby of a police department in northern Utah was full again, crammed with half-full prescription bottles, over-the-counter cold meds and even an odd topical cream from 1983. "It's anything and everything," Layton police evidence supervisor Holly Plotnick said as she and a co-worker transferred 28 pounds of medications into a garbage bag and readied it for the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-91933638229390139812010-01-20T02:42:00.001-08:002010-01-20T02:42:54.409-08:00

Here are the seven secrets to a long life: Stay away from cigarettes. Keep a slender physique. Get some exercise. Eat a healthy diet and keep your cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar in check. Research shows that most 50-year-olds who do that can live another 40 years free of stroke and heart disease, two of the most common killers, says Dr. Clyde Yancy, president of the American Heart

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-63402985473434337202010-01-19T11:27:00.001-08:002010-01-19T11:27:14.758-08:00

For people with a strong family history of pancreatic cancer, having a relative who was diagnosed before the age of 50 may further raise the risk of developing the deadly disease, a new study finds. About 3 percent of all cases of pancreatic cancer are what's known as familial pancreatic cancer, where the disease has affected two or more first-degree relatives -- siblings or a parent and child.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-60126888161849104032010-01-19T11:26:00.001-08:002010-01-19T11:26:25.631-08:00

Not only does cigarette smoke cause lung cancer, it worsens the disease by increasing lung inflammation, U.S. researchers have found. The team at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine conducted tests on mice with early lung cancer lesions and found that those repeatedly exposed to tobacco smoke developed larger tumors -- and developed tumors more quickly -- than those that

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-89338876231059765692010-01-19T11:25:00.001-08:002010-01-19T11:25:34.819-08:00

Researchers report that they've developed a new way to find compounds that could become treatments for degenerative nerve disorders such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases. The diseases cause proteins in nerve cells known as neurons to "misfold." In the new research, scientists say they've found molecules that play a role in the body's efforts to "chaperone" the molecules that

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-29843963656075873752010-01-19T11:24:00.001-08:002010-01-19T11:24:59.706-08:00

The more complex a person's diet plan, the sooner the person will abandon it, a new study finds. The finding came from a study of 390 German women who were using one of two diet plans. The simpler plan provided shopping lists for dieters and a meal plan they were to follow. The more complex plan assigned point values to every food and instructed participants to eat only a certain number of

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-29596567235905665422010-01-18T09:04:00.000-08:002010-01-18T09:04:00.603-08:00

Researchers have identified 10 new gene variants associated with blood sugar or insulin levels, which they believe could lead to new treatments for type 2 diabetes. "Only four gene variants had previously been associated with glucose metabolism, and just one of them was known to affect type 2 diabetes. With more genes identified, we can see patterns emerge," study co-lead author Dr. Jose Florez,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-88463993486947310452010-01-18T09:03:00.001-08:002010-01-18T09:03:19.621-08:00

Children who suffer a concussion don't just have a minor head bump, but a brain injury that parents, coaches and teachers need to take more seriously, Canadian researchers warn. Parents often believe that concussion injury is mild and doesn't involve damage to the brain, said lead researcher Dr. Carol DeMatteo, an associate clinical professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-71011902405931971302010-01-18T09:02:00.000-08:002010-01-18T09:02:43.362-08:00

A federal panel of health experts has issued new recommendations encouraging U.S. doctors to screen children aged 6 and older for obesity, and to offer them a referral to intensive weight management programs when necessary. The recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) update those issued in 2005. At that time, the group said there was insufficient evidence to

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-73436673335123610092010-01-18T09:01:00.001-08:002010-01-18T09:01:09.606-08:00

Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk. Yes, sunburns are particularly dangerous. But there's increasing scientific consensus that there's no such thing as a safe tan, either. This is a message that Katie Donnar, 18, dismissed until a year ago when,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-80372193062437794312010-01-18T09:00:00.001-08:002010-01-18T09:00:47.198-08:00

The Food and Drug Administration is working to lift the smokescreen clouding the ingredients used in cigarettes and other tobacco products. In June, tobacco companies must tell the FDA their formulas for the first time, just as drugmakers have for decades. Manufacturers also will have to turn over any studies they've done on the effects of the ingredients. It's an early step for an agency just

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-66515803917287225992010-01-18T01:31:00.000-08:002010-01-18T01:31:01.093-08:00

An influential advisory panel says school-aged youngsters and teens should be screened for obesity and sent to intensive behavior treatment if they need to lose weight — a move that could transform how doctors deal with overweight children. Treating obese kids can help them lose weight, the panel of doctors said in issuing new guidelines Monday. But that's only if it involves rigorous diet,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-27968743521799522042010-01-11T07:11:00.000-08:002010-01-11T07:11:09.763-08:00

New research shows that PET brain scans can diagnose which type of Parkinson's-related disease a person has. Between 1998 and 2006, researchers scanned the brains of 167 patients who had signs of Parkinsonism but hadn't been specifically diagnosed. They used PET (positron emission tomography) technology. The researchers found that the scans allowed them to differentiate between idiopathic

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-70593536207668194262010-01-11T03:17:00.002-08:002010-01-11T03:17:31.641-08:00

Cadmium is a soft, whitish metal that occurs naturally in soil. It's perhaps best known as one half of rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, but also is used in pigments, electroplating and plastic. Lab testing organized by The Associated Press shows that it also is present in children's jewelry — sometimes at eye-popping levels exceeding 90 percent of the item's total weight. Most people get

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-68517552548987717222010-01-11T03:17:00.000-08:002010-01-11T03:17:00.576-08:00

A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues than youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era. The findings, culled from responses to a popular psychological questionnaire used as far back as 1938, confirm what counselors on campuses nationwide have long suspected as more students

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-59858300602422673092010-01-05T14:29:00.001-08:002010-01-05T14:29:48.557-08:00

New drugs cleared by the Food and Drug Administration last year kept pace with 2008, suggesting a much-touted push for drug safety has not slowed down approvals. The FDA's new leaders did step up early warnings about potential drug safety issues and citations to companies that violate safety regulations. Drug approvals inched higher to 26 first-of-a-kind prescription medicines last year, from

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-78572297907192267882010-01-05T07:44:00.001-08:002010-01-05T07:44:28.225-08:00

Many computer users lunge for the delete key when they get unsolicited e-mails about weight-loss products. But some respond, and new research suggests that almost one in five young, overweight people have fallen prey to the hard sell that shows up in their spam. "Believe it or not, a whole bunch of them not only read it, but actually buy these products, which can range from the potentially

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-64210958941156052852010-01-05T07:43:00.001-08:002010-01-05T07:43:44.645-08:00

At his first birthday, John Klor couldn't sit up on his own. A few months later, he was cruising like any healthy toddler — thanks to a special diet that's treating the North Carolina boy's mysterious disease. What doctors initially called cerebral palsy instead was a rare metabolic disorder assaulting his brain and muscles, yet one that's treatable if caught in time. Urged by John's family,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-3885841374334953422010-01-04T09:16:00.000-08:002010-01-04T09:16:10.647-08:00

Inherited genetic variations could explain why blacks develop type 2 diabetes at a higher rate than whites, new research suggests. "We found gene expression profiles that suggest that carbohydrate metabolism should be different in the African-Americans in our population compared to Caucasians," Dr. Cam Patterson, chief of cardiology and director of the McAllister Heart Institute at the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-5333386874664820272010-01-04T09:15:00.001-08:002010-01-04T09:15:19.772-08:00

Taking a cocktail of powerful AIDS drugs appears to have cut the average death rate by half in a group of people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, who were followed for an average of more than three years. In absolute terms, the reduction in death rate translated into a 5 percent increase in 5-year survival for those who started combination HIV therapy compared with those who did

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-55294105058379780312010-01-04T09:14:00.000-08:002010-01-04T09:14:37.986-08:00

Boys should get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to protect them against genital warts, and all children should receive the H1N1 vaccine to guard against swine flu, according to updated guidelines on childhood and teen vaccines. The new vaccine schedules -- issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Family

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-86039508504307954582010-01-04T09:11:00.000-08:002010-01-04T09:11:12.823-08:00

Two disorders that seem completely unrelated except that each is the focus of massive drug company ad campaigns may actually have something in common: Older men who suffer from restless legs syndrome at night are almost twice as likely to have erectile dysfunction as those without restless legs, researchers report. Dr. Xiang Gao, of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and his colleagues

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-40286786234483187112010-01-04T09:10:00.001-08:002010-01-04T09:10:15.337-08:00

An expert panel says there's no rigorous evidence that digestive problems are more common in children with autism compared to other children, or that special diets work, contrary to claims by celebrities and vaccine naysayers. Painful digestive problems can trigger problem behavior in children with autism and should be treated medically, according to the panel's report published in the January

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-70005914261041841592009-12-29T11:27:00.001-08:002009-12-29T11:27:27.143-08:00

Many more people could become sick with swine flu this winter even though it has peaked in North America and some European countries, the head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday. The worst of the swine flu outbreak is over in the United States, Canada, Britain and some other countries in the northern hemisphere, said Dr. Margaret Chan. But there is still intensive flu activity in

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-35564347835504884772009-12-29T11:22:00.000-08:002009-12-29T11:22:09.045-08:00

The incidence of end-stage kidney disease, one of the most serious complications of diabetes, rose steadily in people with diabetes for decades. But, in 1996, the rate of diabetes-related end-stage kidney disease finally began to decline. Since that time, the incidence has dropped steadily -- about 3.9 percent a year, a new government study finds. "The incidence had decreased for all age groups

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-54984945009497415592009-12-29T11:20:00.001-08:002009-12-29T11:20:51.396-08:00

Winter's icy sidewalks and frigid temperatures can be challenging for anyone, but they pose extra hazards for elderly people, experts say. Falls are the leading cause of injury-related deaths for adults over age 65 in the United States. Some 1.8 million people aged 65 and older were treated in emergency departments for falls in 2005, and 15,800 died from their injuries, according to the U.S.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-90008580631338035632009-12-29T11:19:00.002-08:002009-12-29T11:19:41.576-08:00

Johnson & Johnson is expanding a voluntary recall of Tylenol Arthritis Caplets due to consumer reports of a moldy smell that can cause nausea and sickness. According to a statement posted to the Food and Drug Administration Web site late Monday, the New Brunswick, N.J., company is now recalling all product lots of the Arthritis Pain Caplet 100 count bottles with the red EZ-Open Cap. Johnson &

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-35088382669247235472009-12-29T11:19:00.000-08:002009-12-29T11:19:01.348-08:00

The first box that arrived at Shirley Shupp's door was filled with braces to help with her arthritis. Then came a motorized scooter, just like the one the 69-year-old already owned. She hadn't asked for any of it — but Medicare was apparently footing the bill. "There was just something that wasn't right about it," the Houston woman said. So Shupp contacted her local Senior Medicare Patrol,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-42945403086313460972009-12-28T11:54:00.001-08:002009-12-28T11:54:32.853-08:00

Low levels of a thyroid hormone in healthy pregnant women shortly before childbirth may be linked with fetal position problems that could require special care during delivery, new research finds. "The link between thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy and difficulties during labor is well established," the lead author of the new study, Victor Pop, a research professor at the University of Tilburg

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-31070872850893770322009-12-28T11:49:00.001-08:002009-12-28T11:49:07.093-08:00

Most people don't buy long-term care insurance. They simply don't want to think about moving into an assisted living center or hiring a stranger to bathe them. Seven years ago, Robert Myers of suburban Chicago did buy long-term care insurance. Myers' wife, who died in December 2008, needed care as she fought cancer. "It was a godsend," Myers, 64, an Episcopal priest, says of the insurance. "It

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-80530035370883007782009-12-28T07:50:00.003-08:002009-12-28T07:50:41.718-08:00

Insurers constantly caution seniors that their Medicare Advantage perks such as hearing aids, dental payments and even gym memberships will fizzle if Democrats get their way and cut government subsidies for them. But tens of billions of Medicare dollars funneled through insurers also pay for extras that never reach beneficiaries: multimillion-dollar salaries, executive retreats in Hawaii,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-81853424546995625422009-12-28T07:50:00.001-08:002009-12-28T07:50:12.591-08:00

O'treng village doesn't look like the epicenter of anything. Just off a muddy rutted-out road, it is nothing more than a handful of Khmer-style bamboo huts perched crookedly on stilts, tucked among a tangle of cornfields once littered with deadly land mines. Yet this spot on the Thai-Cambodian border is home to a form of malaria that keeps rendering one powerful drug after another useless. This

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-62730388334109849022009-12-24T15:10:00.001-08:002009-12-24T15:10:13.149-08:00

Fluzone High-Dose, a seasonal flu vaccine for people 65 and older, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency said in a news release. Seniors are at highest risk for complications of seasonal flu, including hospitalization and death. The Fluzone High-Dose vaccine, designed to prevent infection with influenza subtypes A and B, was given accelerated approval as a

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-56602361040141213252009-12-24T15:09:00.001-08:002009-12-24T15:09:56.162-08:00

An analysis of breast cancer genomes has provided insight into how the human genome is rearranged when the disease strikes, researchers report. "We have looked at the level of the DNA sequence at just how splintered and reorganized the genome is in many breast cancers. We were, frankly, astounded at the number and complexity of rearrangements in some cancers," Mike Stratton of the Wellcome Trust

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-16198132147772573992009-12-18T10:23:00.001-08:002009-12-18T10:23:18.349-08:00

Elderly men and women who sip on several cups of green tea a day may be less likely to have the blues, hint findings of a study from Japan. Dr. Kaijun Niu, at Tohoku University Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering in Sendai, and colleagues found men and women aged 70 and older who drank four or more, versus one or fewer, cups of green tea daily were 44 percent less likely to have symptoms

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-87078932396557631762009-12-18T10:22:00.001-08:002009-12-18T10:22:24.014-08:00

Health officials now estimate that 1 in 110 children have autism. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the new estimate Friday. It's a small change from a 1 in 100 estimate that CDC officials made in October. CDC officials said that estimate was preliminary and the new number comes from a completed analysis of reports from 11 states. Previously, the CDC had been saying autism

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-73950417425643053212009-12-16T09:50:00.001-08:002009-12-16T09:50:06.545-08:00

Small particles from traffic and heating oil combustion may cause children younger than two to wheeze and cough, according to a new study. High air pollution levels have previously been linked to asthma symptoms in children living in urban areas with heavy traffic, but this study is one of the first to investigate the types of particles that may be the most harmful, the researchers point out in

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-23671312672808640942009-12-16T09:49:00.000-08:002009-12-16T09:49:35.695-08:00

If that little bundle of joy has had such a profound impact on your life that you just can't wait to have another, take a breath. A new study suggests that you might want to wait at least six months before getting pregnant again, and that more than 11 months could be even better. The study found that when the interval between pregnancies was less than six months, the chances of the baby dying,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-15849026254668688872009-12-16T09:48:00.001-08:002009-12-16T09:48:29.675-08:00

Sex researchers who tracked teenage girls in Indianapolis found that half of those studied had at least one sexually transmitted infection within two years of first having sex. The Indiana University School of Medicine researchers followed 381 girls who mostly lived in lower-income neighborhoods and ranged in age from 14 to 17 when the study began. IU professor J. Dennis Fortenberry says about

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-16481895723181499342009-12-15T13:33:00.000-08:002009-12-15T13:33:11.792-08:00

Tight blood sugar control needn't be the end-all factor for people with type 2 diabetes who have other medical problems, a new study indicates. The degree of blood sugar control in type 2 diabetes "has been a subject of controversy for a decade," said Dr. Sheldon Greenfield, a professor of medicine at the University of California at Irvine, and lead author of a report in the Dec. 15 issue of the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-62268617601976387282009-12-15T13:32:00.000-08:002009-12-15T13:32:07.705-08:00

When it comes to diagnosing breast cancer, women and their doctors have some options, but new research suggests that the less invasive "core needle biopsy" procedure is nearly as effective in diagnosing breast cancer as an open surgical procedure is, with fewer complications than the surgical version. The new analysis, scheduled to published in the Jan. 5 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-76114188259800744462009-12-15T11:55:00.002-08:002009-12-15T11:55:43.664-08:00

Emotional stress can put newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients at increased risk for cardiovascular events and suicide, a new study has found. Researchers analyzed data on 168,584 Swedish men diagnosed with prostate cancer between 1961 and 2004. Of those men, 10,126 (6 percent) experienced a cardiovascular event within a year of cancer diagnosis and 136 (0.08 percent) committed suicide.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-847878554113652102009-12-15T11:55:00.000-08:002009-12-15T11:55:07.115-08:00

Among teenagers, being overweight or obese increases the risk of obstructive sleep apnea, but the same does not appear to be true for younger children, Australian researchers have found. In sleep tests conducted on 234 white children, aged 2 to 18, who were referred for evaluation of snoring and possible obstructive sleep apnea, the researchers found that among those aged 12 and older the risk

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-13811710487314087352009-12-15T11:54:00.001-08:002009-12-15T11:54:31.391-08:00

Hundreds of thousands of swine flu shots for children have been recalled because tests indicate the vaccine doses lost some strength, government health officials said Tuesday. The shots, made by Sanofi Pasteur, were distributed across the country last month and most have already been used, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 800,000 pre-filled syringes that were

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-89762196035623480952009-12-10T11:09:00.003-08:002009-12-10T11:09:56.845-08:00

Overeating and drinking even moderate amounts of alcohol may be bad news for women with breast cancer, new research suggests. Drinking alcohol is already known to boost breast cancer risk, and a new study finds even moderate drinking may increase the odds of breast cancer recurrence. Another study confirms that overweight or obese women with breast cancer have a worse prognosis over time than

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-12515178381503542912009-12-10T11:09:00.001-08:002009-12-10T11:09:14.356-08:00

Women who took a commonly used class of osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates had significantly fewer invasive breast cancers than women not using the bone-strengthening pills, according to a new analysis of data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). The analysis from a segment of the more than 150,000 generally healthy post-menopausal women in the WHI study found that those taking Merck

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-58239001536545476442009-12-10T11:08:00.001-08:002009-12-10T11:08:26.859-08:00

Drugs used to treat substance addictions could prove effective in treating pathological gambling, U.S. researchers say. They tested medications designed to decrease urges and increase inhibitions in two groups of male and female pathological gamblers: those driven by urge (they gamble when the desire becomes too strong to control) and those who don't have normal inhibition of impulsive behaviors

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-36716593148348718892009-12-10T11:07:00.001-08:002009-12-10T11:07:41.965-08:00

New results from a large women's health study suggest that bone-building drugs such as Fosamax and Actonel might help prevent breast cancer. Women who already were taking these medicines when the study began were nearly one-third less likely to develop breast cancer over the next seven years. That's compared to women who were not on such pills. The study by itself is not proof that these drugs

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-59419515293832637152009-12-07T15:31:00.001-08:002009-12-07T15:31:41.811-08:00

Taking an antidepressant can lead to significant personality changes, likely for the better, a new study finds. The study looked at the effects of taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which are widely used to treat depression today, and found that those who took these antidepressants experienced more positive emotions, were more outgoing and more emotionally stable in the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-73396710941599309602009-12-07T15:30:00.002-08:002009-12-07T15:30:54.461-08:00

Within 2 years of having sex for the first time, half of teenage girls may be at least one of three common sexually transmitted infections (STIs), according to results of a study published today. Often, those girls are infected by the age of 15. Researchers followed 386 urban adolescent girls aged 14 to 17 for up to 8 years. Within 2 years of becoming sexually active, half of the girls were

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-24907343827245224222009-12-07T15:30:00.000-08:002009-12-07T15:30:11.309-08:00

Colon cancer deaths could drop dramatically in the next decade because of better screening and treatment, according to an optimistic new prediction by top researchers. The estimate was made in an annual report that shows that, overall, the U.S. cancer death rate is continuing to decline, as it has since the 1990s. The report released Monday focuses largely on cancers of the colon and rectum,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-34550330096628488812009-12-07T10:19:00.001-08:002009-12-07T10:19:10.438-08:00

Swine flu is more likely than seasonal flu to cause life-threatening complications in children with sickle cell disease, a new study has found. Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers analyzed the medical records of 118 children with sickle cell disease treated for any kind of flu between September 1993 and November 2009. Of those patients, 28 were infected with the H1N1 (swine flu) virus,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-57468006971689095262009-12-07T10:18:00.001-08:002009-12-07T10:18:30.647-08:00

Hot flashes caused by androgen suppression therapy for prostate cancer are best controlled by the hormonal treatments cyproterone acetate and medroxyprogesterone acetate, according to a new study. Androgen suppression is considered the gold standard treatment for advanced prostate cancer, but about 80 percent of patients undergoing the treatment experience hot flashes. A number of hormonal and

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070217250228060141.post-14598425136433227382009-12-07T10:17:00.001-08:002009-12-07T10:17:34.796-08:00

A simple urine test could be developed to detect whether a child has obstructive sleep apnea, U.S. researchers say. Such a test "would alleviate the need for costly and inconvenient sleep studies in children who snore, only about 20 to 30 percent of whom actually have OSA," or obstructive sleep apnea, Dr. David Gozal, a professor and chairman of pediatrics at the University of Chicago, said in a

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0