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An apple a day does not keep the doctor away - really Sorry, apple lovers (and doctor haters). An apple a day does not keep the doctor away, at least according to a new study. The study, published Monday in an April Fools edition of the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, was done for fun and "is very tongue in ...
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Experts caution against random drug testing in schools (Reuters Health) - Schools should not be using random drug tests to catch or deter drug abusers, the American Academy of Pediatrics advises in an updated policy statement.
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Navajo Nation sees tax on junk food as way to combat health problems On a weekday shopping trip to the only real grocery store for 30 miles, Ann Neagle paused before a bag of Red Delicious apples, $7 for a dozen, plus a new discount - the Navajo Nation lifted the 5% sales tax on fresh fruits and vegetables.
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Liberia Urges Ebola Survivors to Stop Having Sex Liberia is urging Ebola survivors to temporarily stop having sex, a move prompted by a new case that may have resulted from sexual transmission.
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Ken Burns tackles history of cancer Ken Burns ' new documentary, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, marks a contrast to the historical documentaries for which he's best known.
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Sizing Up Your Genes Once again Angelina Jolie Pitt made headlines with her New York Times op-ed article "Diary of a Surgery" addressing her decision to undergo prophylactic surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes.
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Can You Tell If Your Child Is Overweight? Most Parents Can't, Study Finds It's hard to be objective about your own kid's weight, and a new study in the British Journal of General Practice shows just how off-target parents can be.
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GNC reaches deal with NY AG over Herbal Plus products NEW YORK - GNC Holdings Inc. said Monday that it has reached a deal with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman over its Herbal Plus products.
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Patient monitored for Ebola develops different health issue OMAHA, Neb. -- One of the five American aid workers being monitored in Nebraska for exposure to Ebola developed a heart problem while jogging Saturday and needed CPR from a bystander.
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Battling Nightmare Infections: US CDC's Plan to Beat Supberbugs CHICAGO/NEW YORK—. With painstaking effort, a group of Chicago hospitals has managed to cut by half the number of infections caused by an especially deadly type of superbug.
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Sugar-seeking MRI may detect cancer, improve biopsies Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to detect sugar molecule biomarkers may improve cancer detection, Medical News Today reported.
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Why getting patients on their feet may speed recovery in ICU WASHINGTON (AP) - The intensive care unit is a last frontier for physical therapy: It's hard to exercise patients hooked to ventilators so they can breathe.
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Nebraska health care worker being monitored for Ebola has unrelated health ... March 29 (Reuters) - One of five people being monitored by an Omaha, Nebraska medical center after possible exposure to the Ebola virus in West Africa has been hospitalized for a health problem unrelated to Ebola, health officials said on Sunday.
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Cancer preventive surgery possible in India? International celebs opt for cancer preventive surgery. But is it viable in India? Angelina Jolie has flipped open her diary to the page in which she discloses that she has, once again, undergone surgery to ward off a potential cancer.
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Ken Burns traces history of cancer in new PBS documentary Counterclockwise from top: Dr. Sidney Farber, considered the father of modern chemotherapy, at left with colleagues, circa 1950; Dr.
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GNC Reaches Agreement With New York State on Herbal Supplements GNC Holdings Inc. and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Monday that a test of the company's herbal supplements found that they are in full compliance with the Food and Drug Administration, contrary to reports from Mr. Schneiderman early ...
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Piers Morgan Is Wrong: Don't Blame Depression For Germanwings Plane Crash Many pundits quickly blamed the horrific plane crash on depression, noting that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz - who took control of the Germanwings airliner and steadily, deliberately flew it and his 149 fellow passengers into the Alps - was reportedly treated for ...
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Sierra Leone ends anti-Ebola lockdown after three days FREETOWN: Sierra Leoneans were once again allowed to leave their homes Sunday evening after the government announced the end of a three-day nationwide lockdown aimed at preventing a resurgence of the deadly Ebola virus.
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Dog learns to walk on four artificial limbs Brutus, a 2-year-old rottweiler from Loveland, Colo., is only the second pup to receive four prosthetics, and he is back on his feet after a few months of training and therapy.
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Los Angeles company to halt seafood distribution over listeria Red Snapper seafood is seen on display at the Safeway store in Wheaton, Maryland February 13, 2015. REUTERS/Gary Cameron (UNITED STATES) - RTR4PJ5V.
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Waves of Emotion, Understanding After PBS Cancer This is John Marshall for Medscape. A few days from now (on March 30), public television is going to begin airing the WETA series Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.
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Can coffee help undo the damage of alcohol? Each cup may reduce the risk of ... A new study shows the hot drink can protect against liver cancer, which is often associated with alcohol abuse. For each cup consumed a day, there is about a 14 per cent decreased risk of liver cancer, found the study by the World Cancer Research Fund.
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Many parents may not recognize child obesity New research says many parents in the UK many not be aware that their children have a weight problem unless they are extremely obese.
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Daily Talker: Letter 'Fat Shames' 7 Year Old Girl A mother in Missouri is furious after receiving a letter from her 7 year old daughter's school. After having their body mass index calculated in gym class earlier this month, students at Hillcrest Elementary School in Belton, Mo.
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Now babies WILL get £20 meningitis jab: After year-long row over cost, NHS ... All babies will be offered an injection against deadly meningitis B - ending a year-long delay, the Health Secretary said yesterday.
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United Kingdom to offer all infants a meningitis B vaccine LONDON - Britain says it will become the first country to offer all babies a vaccine for potentially fatal meningitis B after it reached a price deal with GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
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Ken Burns' cancer film highlights Pittsburgh research Ken Burns was 11 when his mother died of breast cancer, so the topic has been churning in his mind since childhood. But it took Siddhartha Mukherjee's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," to inspire his latest ...
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A third of parents underestimate their child's weight and 1% realise they're obese Many parents are afflicted by 'weight-blindness', unable to recognise their child is overweight unless they are extremely obese, new research has found.
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AAP Pushes for Metric Dosing of Oral Liquid Meds in Children Some 70,000 children are seen in emergency departments each year in the United States as a result of unintentional medication overdoses, sparking a push by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to move to all metric units for pediatric dosing.
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Most parents can't tell if their kid is obese Parents of obese children may not be able to recognise that their kid is overweight unless they are at very extreme levels of obesity, new research led by an Indian-origin scientist shows.
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Study: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria from American cattle have become airborne A new study to be published in next month's issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that DNA from antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Texan cattle have become airborne.
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Battlefield lessons transform US emergency care GAITHERSBURG, Md. (Reuters) - Paramedic Dean Elliott rummaged through the ambulance's emergency kit and pulled out a pint-sized red power drill, a tool whose use was honed on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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What to Watch on Monday: Ken Burns traces biography of cancer Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (9 p.m., UNC-TV) - The first episode in a new 3-part documentary series from Ken Burns that traces the "biography" of cancer based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Siddartha Mukherjee.
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Ken Burns tackles the toughest documentary of all Ken Burns may best be known for documentaries on topics like the Civil War or presidencies, but Monday night he takes on a bigger challenge.
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PBS' &aposCancer' documentary cuts to the heart of the matter Barak Goodman's three-component documentary, "Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies," is prefaced with the sort of "not appropriate for all viewers" warning far a lot more standard of a difficult-R cable series than a PBS documentary that is... Paylaş ...
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Higher coffee consumption may protect against liver cancer Coffee is the morning pick-me-up of the millions every day to increase wakefulness and improve concentration and focus. A new report has shown that regular coffee intake could also reduce liver cancer risk caused by daily alcohol consumption.
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'Jolie effect:' More women likely to remove ovaries Angelina Jolie, mother of six, whipped the Internet into a frenzy last week after announcing her decision to have her ovaries removed in an elective surgery meant to prevent cancer.
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Milliliter-Only Dosing Recommended for Kids' Meds MONDAY, March 30, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Time to toss out the teaspoon and tablespoon when it comes to sick kids: The best way to measure liquid medications for children is in metric milliliters, a leading group of U.S.
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'Cancer' gets its dreadful story told on PBS TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: "Cancer" opener, 9-11 p.m., PBS. Two master filmmakers - Barak Goodman ("Clinton," "My Lai") and Ken Burns ("Civil War") link, backed by the rich research of Dr.
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Studies Show Weight Loss Surgery Helps Joint Replacement and Asthma Obesity is often associated with a high prevalence of psychopathological conditions such as depression and anxiety. Thus, it is no wonder that weight loss surgery can improve a person's mental health including his or her body image, self-esteem and ...
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Alcohol Lovers Should Drink Coffee to Lower Risk of Hepatic Cancer Coffee is known to provide high levels of caffeine that supply the body with enough energy which will keep anyone awake for hours.
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What's on TV tonight? 'Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,' 'The Comedy ... A scientist labels each protein in the radio nucleotide sequence of human genes to create a unique DNA profile, from 'Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.
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Liver Cancer Could Be Prevented By Drinking Coffee, But Obesity And Alcohol ... A new report from an ongoing systematic review of global research determined that coffee can significantly reduce one's risk of liver disease.
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Sugar-seeking MRI could be used to detect early-stage cancer A new study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, MD, suggests that detecting sugar molecule biomarkers by magnetic resonance imaging may make biopsies more effective.
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New Study Shows Coffee Reduces The Risk Of Cancer In Alcohol Drinkers New Study Shows Coffee Reduces Risk Of Cancer In Alcohol Drinkers A new study shows coffee reduces the risk of cancer in alcohol drinkers.
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Daily intake of coffee cuts the risks of liver cancer in moderate drinkers Coffee A team of researchers from the American Institute for Cancer Research Continuous Update project and the World Cancer Research Fund International have published a paper in the journal Diet, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Liver Cancer that ...
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One Cup of Coffee Could Offset Three Drinks a Day On top of waking you up in the morning, a new study suggests that one cup of coffee can actually offset the negative physical effects of three alcoholic drinks a day.
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Here's CDC's plan to fight superbugs 3 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a group of Chicago hospitals has cut superbug infections by half through its careful management, something that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants to apply on all national ...
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Bionic Eye Transplant Succesfully Performed in Hawaii A revolutionary bionic retinal implant procedure has been performed in Hawaii by a team at the Eye Surgery Center of Honolulu. The surgery is the first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region and will help restore vision for the blind.
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"Bionic eye" the first implant for restoring vision performed in Hawaii – A ray of ... For the first time ever in the Asia Pacific region, a groundbreaking bionic retinal implant surgery was performed in Honolulu at the Eye Surgery Center of Hawaii by a team of surgeons.
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