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Could a Few Beers a Week Cut a Woman's RA Risk? WEDNESDAY, May 7, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Having a beer a few times a week might help women avoid painful rheumatoid arthritis, a new study suggests. The disease, which affects women more than men, is a form of arthritis linked to immune system ...
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| Task force to doctors: paint fluoride on baby teeth NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pediatricians and other primary care doctors should apply fluoride varnish to infants' teeth soon after they erupt, according to new cavity-fighting guidelines. The recommendations come from the U.S. Preventive Services Task ...
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| Cherry Cigars Entice Teens With Candy Flavors, Researchers Say Flavored cigars that are popular with teens contain the same additives found in Jolly Rancher candies and Kool-Aid drink mixes, lending weight to the argument that tobacco companies take aim at youth, researchers said. Almost every flavor chemical found in ...
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| Roadside saliva testing for drugged-driving suspects dropped from bill A provision in a bill pending in Lansing that would let police give roadside saliva tests to drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs is to be removed from the legislation today, according to a cosponsor of the bill. Critics, including university ...
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Ireland's smoking ban, 10 years later Dublin, Ireland (CNN) -- Visualize an Irish pub: there's likely fiddles, pints, and smoke -- and lots of it. While that may be a reality in some Irish pubs abroad, that hasn't been entirely the case in Ireland for the last decade. March 29 marked the 10-year ...
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Medications Cut Violence Among Mentally Ill in Study Mentally ill people are substantially less likely to commit a violent crime if they are taking psychiatric medication, according to a large new study of the mentally ill in Sweden. The study, published in the journal The Lancet, comes amid persistent concern about ...
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| Viagra, Cialis for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy? WEDNESDAY, May 7, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Drugs normally prescribed to treat erectile dysfunction in adult males may help boys who have a muscle disease called Duchenne muscular dystrophy, according to a new study. In the small study including just ...
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Disconnected in Massachusetts The FBI is reportedly investigating criminal fraud by the architects of Oregon's ObamaCare program, but maybe the G-men should take a look on the East Coast too. Like Oregon two weeks ago, Massachusetts announced on Monday that it is dumping its ...
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Black Death skeletons give up secrets of life and death The medieval Black Death led to better health for future generations, according to an analysis of skeletons in London cemeteries. Tens of millions of people died in the epidemic, but their descendants lived longer and had better health than ever before, ...
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Arts & Entertainment : Film Review Within the first five minutes of Fed Up, a documentary about obesity from a producer of An Inconvenient Truth, you want to tell narrator Katie Couric: “Stop saying 'epidemic' already!” Yet there are still nearly 90 minutes left. Apparently that's how long it takes to ...
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Jimmy Kimmel proves people who are gluten-free don't know what gluten is It seems you can't throw a rock without hitting someone who's gluten-free. But does the anti-gluten group actually know what gluten is? Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel decided to find out. Kimmel sent a camera crew to a popular exercise park in Los ...
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Actress Valerie Harper goes before Congress to ask for money for cancer ... She's a TV icon who has lived long after doctors told her to say her final goodbyes. Not only is 74-year-old Valerie Harper living, she's testifying before Congress in an effort to get funding that could save lives. That's in spite of the fact that a year ago doctors ...
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| Doctor hopes to ease meth-blast victim's scars NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The distance between Winchester and Nashville is about 90 miles, but the road stretches longer for Selena Humphrey. She has no car, no money and no face for hitchhiking. Severely burned by a meth lab explosion in December 2000 ...
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Saudi Arabia finds another 18 MERS cases as disease spreads RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has identified 18 new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), it said late on Wednesday, pushing the total number of infections in the country so far to 449. Four people died from the disease on Wednesday, ...
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RPT--WHO finds Indian cities have dirtiest air; Chinese data foggy (Repeats to widen distribution, no change to text). GENEVA, May 7 - An effort by the World Health Organization to measure pollution in cities around the world has found New Delhi admits to having the dirtiest air, while Beijing's measurements, like its skies, ...
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Home trampoline danger: 1M visits to ER, study says INDIANAPOLIS — Boing, boing, boing ... OWW! could be the anthem of the trampoline jumper — and that's a good reason to ban the things, said an Indiana University researcher. A new study from an Indiana University School of Medicine researcher finds ...
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RPT-In AstraZeneca fight, valuing drugs as much art as science (Repeats Wednesday story with no changes). * AstraZeneca forecasts show variables in drug modelling. * $45 bln sales prediction widely seen as over-optimistic. By Ben Hirschler. LONDON, May 7 (Reuters) - Ten-year sales forecasts from AstraZeneca - a ...
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Burden of dementia on working life revealed More than 50,000 Britons have quit their jobs to care for relatives with dementia, according to landmark research which discloses that the condition is now costing businesses £1.6bn a year. Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, last night warned that the “fabric ...
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Humans yawn to cool their brains as it boosts mental ability Humans yawn to cool down their brains as it boosts their mental ability, say scientists. How often we yawn is down to the temperature – and 20C (68F) was the optimum amount of heat to provoke the most yawns. A common belief was that yawning helps to ...
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China reports first death from H5N6 bird flu strain BEIJING: A Chinese man has died from the H5N6 strain of bird flu, in what is believed to be the world's first case of human infection from the virus subtype, state media and experts said. Tests showed the 49-year-old man, from Nanchong in the southwestern ...
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Gluten-free diet reduces risk of type 1 diabetes in mice New experiments on mice show, that mouse mothers can protect their pups from developing type 1 diabetes by eating a gluten-free diet. According to preliminary studies by reseachers at the University of Copenhagen, the findings may apply to humans.
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Now, some carbon research even climate deniers can get bummed over Even climate-change deniers agree that humans are burning a lot of fossil fuels and increasing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. They just dispute that this increase in carbon is causing the global climate to change via the greenhouse effect. (Most of ...
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