| Item | Summary |
| |
Drop Mouth-to-mouth When Doing CPR, Say Experts
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:00 PDT | Bystanders should focus on "hands only" chest compressions during CPR (a life saving procedure) and not bother with the mouth-to-mouth bit, says a leading expert who quoted two new studies from the USA and Europe. (CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation) You can read an editorial accompanying the study in the peer-reviewed academic journal, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)... |
Thirty Million Women Will Gain From Health Reform Law, Including About 15 Million Uninsured
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:00:00 PDT | Approximately thirty million American women will gain from the new health reform law over the next ten years, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation based in New York... |
Seven Influenza Vaccines For Coming Season Approved By FDA
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:00:00 PDT | The US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has approved vaccines for the 2010-2011 USA influenza season, protecting against three strains of influenza, including the H1N1 virus which caused the 2009 pandemic... |
Why Are UK Stroke Patients Still Not Getting Prompt Treatment?
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:00:00 PDT | The Lancet this week featured an Editorial discussing a recent report from the UK Vascular Society and Royal College of Physicians showing that the waiting time for vascular surgery after symptoms of stroke or transient ischemic attack is far too long... |
FDA Approves Embryonic Stem Cell-Based Therapy For Patients With Acute Spinal Cord Injury
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:00:00 PDT | The US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has lifted a clinical hold on Geron's Investigational New Drug (IND) application - the Phase I clinical trial of GRNOPC1 in patients with acute spinal cord injury may now go ahead. GRNOPC1 is the first ever clinical trial of a human embryonic stem cell based therapy in humans... |
Risk Of Febrile Convulsions For Under Fives Who Receive A Type Of Flu Vaccine
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:00:00 PDT | The Director of Immunization, Department of Health, UK has written a letter to UK doctors warning about the risk of febrile convulsions in children aged under five years and seasonal influenza vaccines marketed by Pfizer Vaccines (EnziraŽ and CSL Biotherapies generic influenza vaccine)... |
Study Examines Gender Stereotypes In Job Applications
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT | Macho, macho man. I've got to be, a macho man. Macho, macho man... |
Keep Busy To Stay Happy
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT | In Greek mythology, the gods punished Sisyphus by condemning him to roll a rock up a steep hill for eternity. But he was probably better off than if they'd condemned him to sit and stare into space until the end of time, conclude the authors of a new study on keeping busy. They found that people who have something to do, even something pointless, are happier than people who sit idly... |
Vaccine Scares May Do More Harm Than Previously Believed To A Population's 'Herd Immunity'
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT | Public immunization efforts may be much more sensitive than previously realized to small changes in the perceived costs or risks of vaccination, scientists at Harvard University report this week. In some cases, the spread of vaccine avoidance via social networks can make the difference between a minor, localized outbreak and an epidemic four times as large... |
Survey, 30 Percent On Gulf Coast Suffer From Mental Illness In Wake Of Oil Spill
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:00:00 PDT | The oil spill ravaging the Gulf of Mexico has inflicted widespread psychological distress among coastal residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, etching scars even deeper than those whipped by Hurricane Katrina, according to a survey by Ochsner Health System, a nonprofit, academic healthcare delivery system... |
Dengue Fever And Insect-Borne Infections Emerging As Public Health Problem In Areas Of The United States
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:00:00 PDT | Several cases of dengue fever, a potentially fatal viral disease transmitted by the bite of urban dwelling Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, have recently been reported in the continental United States. Prevalent in Central America and the Caribbean, dengue fever's most common symptoms include fever, chills, headache, and body aches lasting several days... |
Calcium Supplements May Increase Risk Of Heart Attacks
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:00:00 PDT | An international team of researchers that reviewed data from several trials found that taking calcium supplements was linked to a higher risk of heart attack and other cardiovascular events; the authors called for new research to re-assess the role of calcium supplements in the treatment of osteoporosis... |
A Breakthrough In Tuberculosis Research: Researcher Discovers Existing Drugs Can Potentially Target The Disease's Ability To Spread
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:00:00 PDT | Often causing no symptoms in carriers of the disease, worldwide tuberculosis (TB) infects eight to ten million people every year, kills two million, and it is highly contagious as it is spread through coughing and sneezing... |
CPR Without Mouth-To-Mouth Rescue Breathing May Be Better For Many Victims Of Cardiac Arrest
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:00:00 PDT | A leading expert in cardiopulmonary resuscitation says two new studies from U.S. and European researchers support the case for dropping mouth-to-mouth, or rescue breathing by bystanders and using "hands-only" chest compressions during the life-saving practice, better known as CPR... |
Link Between Western Diet And ADHD
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT | A new study from Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research shows an association between ADHD and a 'Western-style' diet in adolescents. The research findings have just been published online in the international Journal of Attention Disorders... |
Popular Diabetes Drugs Associated With Fractures In Type 2 Diabetic Patients
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT | Postmenopausal women with diabetes taking thiazolidinediones (TZDS), including rosiglitazone and pioglitazone, may be at increased risk for fractures according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). Men with diabetes taking both loop diuretics and TZDs may also be at increased risk of fractures... |
White Button Mushrooms Enhance Critical Cells In Immune System
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT | Mushrooms are among the many foods thought to play an important role in keeping the immune system healthy. Now, Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded scientists have conducted an animal-model and cell-culture study showing that white button mushrooms enhanced the activity of critical cells in the body's immune system... |
What Are Proteins? What Is A Protein? How Much Protein Do I Need?
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:00:00 PDT | Proteins are large molecules consisting of amino acids which our bodies and the cells in our bodies need to function properly. Our body structures, functions, the regulation of the body's cells, tissues and organs cannot exist without proteins. Our muscles, skin, bones and many other parts of the body contain significant amounts of protein. Protein accounts for 20% of total body weight... |
REM Sleep Disorder Could Be Early Warning Of Parkinson's, Dementia That Develops Decades Later
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:00:00 PDT | American neurologists and sleep experts suggest in a recent study that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder could be an early sign of Parkinson's disease or dementia that develops up to 50 years later. You can read how neurologist and sleep specialist Dr Bradley F... |
What Is Infection? What Causes Infections?
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:00:00 PDT | A human with an infection has another organism inside them which gets its sustenance (nourishment) from that person, it colonizes that person and reproduces inside them. The human with that organism (germ) inside is called the host, while the germ or pathogen is referred to as a parasitic organism. Another name for an organism that causes infection is an infectious agent... |
