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'Birth defect risk' for diabetics The risk of birth defects increases four-fold if the pregnant mother has diabetes, a study of 400,000 pregnancies in England suggests.
5 Feb 2012 at 6:10pm

Transplant jaw made by 3D printer An 83-year-old woman is fitted with a jaw made by a 3D printer in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind.
6 Feb 2012 at 6:07am

Campaign to cut smoking in cars A campaign to stop people smoking in cars when carrying children - and which could pave the way for a ban - is launched by the Welsh government.
5 Feb 2012 at 6:17pm

Malaria toll 'is twice as high' The number of deaths worldwide from malaria has been underestimated, according to data published in the medical journal the Lancet.
2 Feb 2012 at 4:07pm

Brains may be wired for addiction Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to scientists.
2 Feb 2012 at 11:03am

Weekend hospital admission fears Research which suggests that patients are more likely to die in hospital if they are admitted at the weekend is backed up by a major study.
3 Feb 2012 at 2:37am

Legionella Britons die in Spain Three British men die and three more people remain in hospital after contracting Legionnaires' disease while on holiday in Spain, a tour company says.
3 Feb 2012 at 12:58am

Record 'legal highs detected' A record number of potentially dangerous new legal highs were found in Europe last year, say doctors.
3 Feb 2012 at 2:46am

Euro MPs reject new food labels Euro MPs block changes to food labels that would have allowed claims such as "now contains 15% less sugar".
2 Feb 2012 at 9:10am

Sugar tax needed, say US experts Sugar added to processed foods is as damaging as alcohol and should be regulated, claim US health experts.
1 Feb 2012 at 4:00pm

New York Times: Health

Fallout From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Retraction Is Far and Wide As the published evidence for the source of chronic fatigue syndrome fell apart, a legal melodrama erupted, dismaying and demoralizing patients and many members of the scientific community.


by By DAVID TULLER
6 Feb 2012 at 4:07pm

Essay: Breast Cancer Screening Matters, but Prevention Is the Real Goal Perhaps too much emphasis is placed on looking for existing breast cancer when the search should focus on prevention and the possibility of finding a vaccine.


by By SUSAN LOVE, M.D.
6 Feb 2012 at 4:07pm

The Consumer: New Weight Watchers Plan Leaves Some Grumbling An overhaul to Weight Watchers' diet plan has caused many longtime members to complain about slow weight loss.


by By RONI CARYN RABIN
6 Feb 2012 at 1:40pm

Exemestane, Thought to Prevent Cancer, Also Causes Bone Loss A drug that scientists had hoped would help prevent breast cancer has a significant side effect.


by By ANDREW POLLACK
6 Feb 2012 at 4:06pm

G.E. Ends Bid to Create a Supply of Technetium 99m Continued obstacles plague the effort to provide a reliable supply of technetium 99m, a radioisotope crucial to identifying heart and kidney disease and assisting in breast cancer surgery.


by By MATTHEW L. WALD
6 Feb 2012 at 4:08pm

Global Update: Did Malaria Kill 655,000 People in 2011 or Twice That? The numbers are being quietly fought over in e-mails among malaria specialists at the World Health Organization and the University of Washington.


by By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
6 Feb 2012 at 4:08pm

Vital Signs: Low-Protein Diets May Be Costly to Lean Body Mass On a low-protein diet, the body is forced to get its protein from lean body mass, a study shows.


by By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
6 Feb 2012 at 4:08pm

Vital Signs: When Watched and Cheered On, I.C.U. Workers Wash Hands More After the installation of cameras and boards announcing compliance rates, hand washing at an I.C.U. soared, a study shows.


by By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
6 Feb 2012 at 4:07pm

Vital Signs: Fructose Consumption Increases Visceral Fat, Study Reports Fructose consumption may increase cardiovascular risk factors because it increases visceral fat, the kind that accumulates around internal organs.


by By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
6 Feb 2012 at 4:08pm

Recipes for Health: Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts and Red Beans With Lemon an... The season?s sturdy roots, squash and greens need little more than a few turns in a hot pan to become appealing partners for a variety of grains.


by By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN
6 Feb 2012 at 9:47am

Medical News Today

Breast Cancer Drug Exemestane Causes Substantial Bone Loss A recent study published in The Lancet Oncology shows how exemestane (Aromasin), a drug that prevents the development of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, may significantly worsen age-related bone loss. As an aromatase inhibitor, exemestane works by blocking the synthesis of estrogen, slowing down the growth of cancers that have estrogen receptors. Whilst the drug is effective at preventing the development of cancer, there has been an increasing concern about its effects on bone density and fracture risk...
6 Feb 2012 at 6:00pm

Finger Foods During Weaning Help Maintain Healthy Body Weight Later On A study published in BMJ Open reveals that infants tend to eat healthier and be a healthy weight as they get older if they are allowed to feed themselves with finger foods from the start of weaning (baby led weaning), compared to infants who are spoon fed. According to the researchers, findings from the study indicate that baby led weaning may help prevent childhood obesity. Findings from the study were based on 155 children aged between 20 months and 6.5 years, whose parents filled out a survey regarding their children's food preferences and weaning style...
6 Feb 2012 at 4:00pm

Not Completing Teen Education Raises Risk Of Being On Benefits Later On A study published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reveals that adolescents are nearly three times more likely to be on benefits in the future if they drop out of school than those who complete their education. The researchers examined the self-rated health of nearly 9,000 Norwegian adolescents between the ages of 13 to 19, who were already participating in the Young-HUNT study between 1995 and 1997...
6 Feb 2012 at 4:00pm

Children Who Move House A Lot Have Higher Risk Of Illnesses Later A study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health suggests that, moving house frequently during childhood appears to raise the risk of poor health in later life. The health of 850 individuals participating in the West of Scotland Twenty-07 study, which was based on postcodes, tracked the long term health of individuals aged 15, 35 and 55 in 1987-1988 over a period of two decades, was evaluated by the researchers...
6 Feb 2012 at 4:00pm

Bad Immunity Genes - Why do They Survive? New evidence has been discovered by biologists at the University of Utah as to why people, mice and other vertebrate animals carry thousands of different genes to create major histocompatibility complex (MHCs) proteins, despite the fact that some of those genes make humans vulnerable to autoimmune diseases and infections. Findings from the study will be published online the week of February 6, 2012, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. MHC proteins are found on the surface of most cells in vertebrates and define an individual's tissue type...
6 Feb 2012 at 1:00pm

Green Tea Protects Against Functional Disability Linked To Aging Regular green tea drinkers have a lower risk of developing functional disability, researchers from Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Functional disability refers to problems with daily chores and activities, such as bathing or dressing. As background information, the authors explained that prior studies had found that consuming green tea reduced the risk of diseases associated with functional disability, such as osteoporosis, cognitive impairment and stroke...
6 Feb 2012 at 1:00pm

Merck Has Positive Results With New Insomnia Drug Merck has announced positive results in a phase 3 trial of its insomnia drug. It's a key player in the companies up and coming products, especially considering the loss of patent protection on its top drugs for asthma and allergys. The experimental drug known as suvorexant, uses a new mechanism created to help people sleep, but at the same time aiming to mitigate side effects associated with popular sleep aids. Analysts think that annual sales of the drug could top $500 million within several years. Peter S...
6 Feb 2012 at 12:00pm

Child Abuse - 4,569 Hospitalizations And 300 Deaths In One Year, USA Child abuse injuries resulted in 4,500 hospitalizations and 300 fatalities in just one year in the USA, researchers from Yale School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. This is the first study that has quantified abuse severity and how many children ended up in hospital, the authors added. Child Protective Services had only tracked occurrence of child abuse at a national level. Dr. John M. Leventhal and team set out to find out what the incidence of hospitalizations due to child abuse among children under 18 years of age might be...
6 Feb 2012 at 11:00am

Lung Function At School Age Better Thanks To Breastfeeding A study by researchers in Switzerland and the UK reveals that breastfeeding is linked to enhanced lung function at school age, especially in children born to asthmatic mothers. The study is published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Claudia E. Kuehni, M.D...
6 Feb 2012 at 10:00am

Teen Secondhand Smoke Exposure Down, But Not Enough Secondhand Smoke (SHS) exposure among middle and high school students in the USA has dropped over the last ten years, researchers from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) reported in the March edition of Pediatrics. The authors explained that passengers in cars who accompany smokers run significant health risks, especially if they are children and teenagers. Even though exposure has gone down over the last decade, 22...
6 Feb 2012 at 9:00am

Yahoo News: Health

A push for family input to detect dementia earlier (AP)

AP - Alexis McKenzie's mother had mild dementia, but things sounded OK when she phoned home: Dad was with her, finishing his wife's sentences as they talked about puttering through the day and a drive to the store.

6 Feb 2012 at 5:01pm

Too many kids breathe others' smoke in cars: CDC (AP) AP - Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list.
5 Feb 2012 at 10:49pm

Some former Komen supporters can't forgive, forget (AP)

AP - When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer — "a sea of pink" traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich. — she was so moved she sat in her car and wept.

4 Feb 2012 at 6:35pm

Certain Cancer Drugs May Have Fatal Side Effects: Analysis (HealthDay) HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with three relatively new cancer drugs may be linked to a slightly increased risk of death, a new analysis suggests.
6 Feb 2012 at 4:07pm

Ovarian cancer screening popular despite guidelines (Reuters) Reuters - Despite expert guidelines and scientific evidence to the contrary, a third of U.S. primary care physicians believe ovarian cancer screening is effective and many would offer it to patients, according to a new survey.
6 Feb 2012 at 2:20pm

FDA questions Amgen drug for prostate cancer (AP) AP - Scientists for the Food and Drug Administration say that an Amgen drug slowed the spread of cancer to the bone in men with hard-to-treat prostate cancer, though the drug did not extend life and carried significant side effects.
6 Feb 2012 at 8:11am

Study: Family Intervention, Parent Education Reduce Childhood Obesity (C... ContributorNetwork - A study published in the February issue of Pediatrics shows family intervention aimed at improving parenting skills reduced behavior problems in kids and obesity and associated health problems. One-third of Americans, including children ages 2 to 17, are overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics. Here are details about parent-child interventions.
6 Feb 2012 at 2:38pm

Diet supplements recalled on unlabeled drug worries (Reuters) Reuters - Healthy People Co is recalling 15 lots of seven different dietary supplements because they contain appetite suppressants or a drug for male erectile dysfunction, the Long Beach, California, company said.
6 Feb 2012 at 1:50pm

DEA raids 2 CVS pharmacies in drug abuse probe (Reuters) Reuters - The Drug Enforcement Administration said on Monday it raided two CVS pharmacies over the weekend as part of an effort to curb the abuse of prescription painkillers and other potentially addictive substances.
6 Feb 2012 at 3:19pm

Thousands of U.S. Kids Hospitalized for Abuse (HealthDay) HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Close to 4,600 kids in the United States were hospitalized as a result of child abuse in one recent year, and 300 of them died, a new study shows.
6 Feb 2012 at 4:07pm