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The General Public Support Legal Interventions To Fight Obesity, Noncommunicable Diseases: Survey
Date: Mar-06-2013The public is very supportive of government action aimed at changing lifestyle choices that can lead to obesity, diabetes, and other noncommunicable diseases - but they're less likely to support such interventions if they're viewed as intrusive or coercive, according to a new Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) study...
Vaccine That May Help Protect Newborn Babies
Date: Mar-06-2013The underdeveloped immune systems of newborns don't respond to most vaccines, leaving them at high risk for infections like rotavirus, pertussis (whooping cough) and pneumococcus. Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital have identified a potent compound that activates immune responses in newborns' white blood cells substantially better than anything previously tested, and that could potentially make vaccines effective right at birth. The ability to immunize babies at birth - rather than two months of age, when most current vaccination series begin - would be a triumph for global health...
New Moms Suffer More Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms Than General Population
Date: Mar-06-2013A new mother may constantly worry and check to see if her baby is still breathing. Or she may fret about germs, obsessing whether she's properly sterilized the bottles, then wash and rewash them. A new Northwestern Medicine® study found that women who have recently given birth have a much higher rate of obsessive-compulsive symptoms than the general population. The study found 11 percent of women at two weeks and six months postpartum experience significant obsessive-compulsive symptoms compared to 2 to 3 percent in the general population...
Detection Of Parkinson's Disease Brain Rhythms May Lead To Better Way To Monitor, Treat Disease
Date: Mar-06-2013A team of scientists and clinicians at UC San Francisco has discovered how to detect abnormal brain rhythms associated with Parkinson's by implanting electrodes within the brains of people with the disease. The work may lead to developing the next generation of brain stimulation devices to alleviate symptoms for people with the disease...
The Brain Adds New Cells During Puberty To Help Navigate The Complex Social World Of Adulthood
Date: Mar-06-2013Two Michigan State University neuroscientists report in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Scientists used to think the brain cells you're born with are all you get. After studies revealed the birth of new brain cells in adults, conventional wisdom held that such growth was limited to two brain regions associated with memory and smell...
Two Genes Linked To Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
Date: Mar-05-2013Two mutated genes lead to the destruction of nerve cells in ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease or Motor Neuron Disease in the United Kingdom, researchers from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital reported in the journal Nature. They added that the mutations are also linked to the development of other related degenerative diseases. Both genes have the same mutation, which leads to an excessive accumulation of protein within cells, and play a vital role in normal RNA functioning...
One-Third Of Doctors Miss Electronic Test Results
Date: Mar-05-2013Electronic medical test results have turned out to be much like email: doctors receive a large volume of them, therefore some get lost by the wayside. The new finding came from a study conducted by a group of researchers at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston and was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Sleeping Pills Raise Hip Fracture Risk In Nursing Home Residents
Date: Mar-05-2013Certain sleeping pills raise the risk for hip fractures in nursing home residents. The medications associated with this elevated risk are known as nonbenzodiazepine hypnotic drugs, a class of sleeping medications that includes Lunesta, Sonata, and Ambien. The finding came from new research conducted by experts from Harvard Medical School, led by Sarah D. Berry, M.D., M.P.H. "It is important to understand the relationship between sleep medication use and injurious falls in nursing home residents," the experts wrote...
Inappropriate Use Of Opioids, FDA Extremely Concerned
Date: Mar-05-2013Overdosing on narcotic pain relievers resulted in over 15,500 deaths in the USA in 2009, the FDA informed, a 300% rise over the last two decades. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it has joined other health professional organizations in encouraging doctors to seek training in how to safely prescribe opioid pain medications. For each person who dies from an opioid pain medication, there are: ten more treatment admissions 32 emergency department visits, and . . . . 825 users of these drugs for non-medical reasons Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D...
HIV Infection Linked To Heart Attack Risk
Date: Mar-05-2013HIV infection is linked to a 50% increased risk of heart attack. The finding came from a new study that involved data from over 82,000 veterans and was published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. People infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) have a longer lifespan and are at risk for cardiovascular disease because of the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to the study background. Previous research said that giving patients Abacavir for HIV treatment may significantly raise their likelihood of having a heart attack...
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