 | ||||||||
| health | ||||||||
| NEWS | ||||||||
Stem cells treat macular degeneration Stem cell-derived retinal pigmented epithelial cells. Cell borders are green and nuclei are red. Credit: University of California - Santa Barbara.
| ||||||||
American children are equating scientists with females more than ever before Children in the US are equating the jobs of scientists with women more than ever before, a study has found. Researchers at Northwestern University have concluded that children's stereotypical views linking men to scientists might have shrunk over the ...
| ||||||||
A Once-a-Day Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Human Trial Researchers from the University of Washington and UCLA think their daily experimental male birth control drug might be as safe and effective as the birth control pill available for women, seen above.
| ||||||||
New Attitudes Toward Pain Amid the Opioid Crisis To correct what they believe was an overly zealous approach to pain control that put patients at risk for opioid addiction, some physicians are now telling their patients to expect to have some pain.
| ||||||||
Male birth control pill one step closer to reality A safe and effective male birth control pill has been a longtime goal in medicine. (Source: CNN). (CNN) - Researchers say male birth control pills are moving closer to becoming a reality.
| ||||||||
Male birth control pill could be closer to becoming reality, study finds CBS NEWS - NEW YORK The birth control pill is nearly 60 years old. But there's never been one for men, and Dr. Stephanie Page, with the University of Washington, says it's about time.
| ||||||||
Alzheimer's costs Americans $277 billion a year -- and rising Sharp increases in Alzheimer's disease cases, deaths and costs are stressing the U.S. health care system and caregivers, a new report reveals.
| ||||||||
Kids Now Draw More Female Scientists In Experiment From 1966 to 1977, a group of scientists conducted a simple experiment: they asked 5,000 school-age children to "draw a scientist.
| ||||||||
Children more likely than before to draw scientists as women, study shows A scientist behind a beaker, usually with glasses, is often associated with men much more than women. But as more women enter into the sciences, researchers at Northwestern University uncovered in a surprising trend, more children are drawing ...
| ||||||||
Opioid epidemic: Patients who are caught in the middle "We feel like we have to keep proving we are disabled just to get some level of care to keep making it day to day," Janet Zureki says.
| ||||||||
Utah Family Sues Boy Scouts of America, Alleging Discrimination Against Their Son with Down Syndrome A Utah family is suing the Boy Scouts of America, claiming the organization discriminated against their 15-year-old son who has low functioning Down Syndrome and autism.
| ||||||||
Mississippi bans abortions at 15 weeks, earliest in the nation (CNN) With a swipe of a pen Monday, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed into law a bill that prevents women from getting abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
| ||||||||
Kids 50 years ago almost never drew scientists as women. Now they do almost a third of the time (CNN) If you had asked a young child 50 years ago to draw a picture of a scientist, about 99% of the drawings would be of men. Ask children to do the same drawing today, and close to a third of the pictures would be of women.
| ||||||||
Twins suffering from liver disease, transplant saves one but other dies Identical twin teenagers Devin and Nick Coats, described by their mother as "best friends," have now been separated forever.
| ||||||||
Once-Daily 'Male Pill' Shows Promise in Early Study CHICAGO, Illinois - An investigational oral synthetic androgen shows promise as a possible male contraceptive pill in a new month-long study.
| ||||||||
Kids see more women in science than five decades ago Fifty years back, asking a child to draw a scientist would have resulted in their drawing a male scientist 99 percent of the time.
| ||||||||
How to stay healthy on flights: Get a window seat, stay put Suspicious travel companions: Bacteria can survive for days on surfaces inside a plane. But that doesn't mean you have to take these critters home with you.
| ||||||||
'Most expensive disease in America': Alzheimer's report shows care costs rising in Oklahoma Thousands walk across the University of Tulsa campus for the 2017 Walk to End Alzheimer's. Tulsa World file. Jessie Wardarski.
| ||||||||
Twin Brothers Separated Forever After One Receives Life-Saving Transplant While the Other Dies Two twin brothers were torn apart by death after only one was able to receive a liver transplant while the other died. Nick and Devin Coats were inseparable twin brothers when they were diagnosed with stage four cirrhosis of the liver, which meant they ...
| ||||||||
Male birth control pill one step closer to reality (CNN) - Researchers say male birth control pills are moving closer to becoming a reality. The results of a study were presented Sunday at the annual Endocrine Society meeting in Chicago, IL.
| ||||||||
Experts warn vaping can be gateway to smoking for teenagers CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. - E-cigarettes are thought to be an option to help people stop smoking, but for teenagers, experts warn vaping can be a gateway into picking up the smoking habit.
| ||||||||
New Stem Cell Treatment Gives Blind Patients Ability To Read CBS Local - A revolutionary new stem cell treatment is giving doctors hope of developing a cure for blindness within the next five years.
| ||||||||
Children more likely than before to draw scientists as women, study shows iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) - A scientist behind a beaker, usually with glasses, is often associated with men much more than women.
| ||||||||
Coyote Mauls Woman and Leaves Her 'Drenched in Blood,' Police Say (BROOKVILLE, Pa.) - Authorities are on the hunt for a possibly rabid coyote that mauled a Pennsylvania woman, leaving her badly wounded and "drenched in blood.
| ||||||||
Bee Venom Acupuncture: A Therapy That Could Kill You Robert Glatter, MD , Contributor I cover breaking news in medicine, med tech and public health Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.
| ||||||||
Naloxone: What you need to know about this lifesaving drug The opioid crisis has been front and center this week thanks to President Donald Trump's visit to New Hampshire, a state that has been particularly plagued by opioid-related deaths.
| ||||||||
'We're failing some children:' Women struggling to put food on table may be less likely to keep breastfeeding Canadian women who worry about making ends meet are less likely to continue to breastfeed their baby compared with other women, say researchers who are calling for more supports for vulnerable families.
| ||||||||
New Stem Cells Treatment Reverses Blindness in 2 Patients Two people who were going blind can now see the world in much greater detail than before thanks to an experimental stem cell treatment for age-related macular degeneration, according to a new study.
| ||||||||
'It was truly a blessing': Car crash leads doctors to discover tumor in Sacramento woman's brain A car accident led doctors to discover a brain tumor the length of an index finger that had been growing in a Sacramento woman's brain for over a year.
| ||||||||
Drug laced with bug spray leads to spike in overdose calls in Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS, IN (WCMH) - Medics in Indianapolis say they are seeing a spike in overdoses involving a street dug mixed with bug spray.
| ||||||||
California Woman, 24, Learns of Brain Tumor After Horrific Car Crash: 'It Was Truly a Blessing' Aimee Green was driving on a Sacramento highway with her boyfriend, Gianni Westlake, on Feb. 20, when the car sped out of control and crashed, leaving her unconscious and the car totaled.
| ||||||||
US regulators renew scrutiny of menthol, tobacco flavors In Dec. 8, 2009 file photo, Newport cigarettes, a Lorillard Inc. brand, are displayed at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. Federal health officials are taking a closer look at flavors in tobacco products that appeal to young people, particularly menthol ...
| ||||||||
FDA takes first steps to limit flavorings in tobacco Camel and Newport cigarettes, both Reynolds American brands, are on display at a Smoker Friendly shop in Pittsburgh in 2015.Gene J. Puskar / AP file.
| ||||||||
Taste Buds Dull As People Gain Weight. Now Scientists Think They Know Why A color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph of the surface of the human tongue. Taste buds are shown in purple. Doctors have known that as people pack on the pounds, their sense of taste diminishes.
| ||||||||
Study finds obesity robs the tongue of taste buds in mice WASHINGTON - Packing on pounds seems to dull people's sense of taste, and puzzled researchers turned to mice to figure out why: Obesity, they found, can rob the tongue of taste buds.
| ||||||||
Is Bee-Sting Acupuncture Safe? Spanish Woman Dies After Apitherapy A woman in Spain died after undergoing apitherapy, an alternate form of acupuncture where bee stings are used instead of needles to perform the treatment, a recent report claimed.
| ||||||||
Police issue warning about smoking drug laced with heavy-duty bug spray INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Medics in some parts of the country are seeing a big spike in the number of people overdosing on a street drug that is mixed with heavy-duty bug spray.
| ||||||||
Study says to avoid getting sick on an airplane, pick a window seat Airplane window seats: They let you curl up a little easier, avoid getting hit by the beverage cart, keep an eye out for gremlins on the wing, and apparently cut your risk of catching the flu.
| ||||||||
How Obesity Kills Taste Buds In the long list of ways that obesity is bad for the body—hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, to name a few—a diminishing sense of taste can seem almost trivial.
| ||||||||
Anti-flu drug exploits weakness in H3N2 strain More than 65,000 Americans have been victims of influenza A H3N2 this season, according the Centers for Disease Control. And this particular strain of the flu virus has proven to be remarkably resistant to vaccination, because it frequently mutates ...
| ||||||||
FDA takes first step in regulating flavors in tobacco products The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took its first step Tuesday in trying to determine how it should regulate flavors in tobacco products, which appeal to children but may play a role in helping some adult smokers move to potentially less harmful ...
| ||||||||
'Prior authorization' insurance requirements may harm patients, doctors say "The issue of prior authorizations is getting worse, and the burden in terms of time consumption on paperwork has grown. And that's time I'm not getting to spend with patients," said Dr.
| ||||||||
Stem Cell Transplant for MS Shows Promise March 19, 2018 -- A stem cell transplant may be an effective treatment for multiple sclerosis, an international study suggests. The treatment involves using cancer drugs to decimate a patient's immune system and then restarting it with a stem cell ...
| ||||||||
How your skin care could protect you from pollution (CNN) Like many teenagers, Nicolas Travis struggled with severe acne. But he did something about it. "My experience with acne sparked off my passion for skin care," the 30-year-old said.
| ||||||||
Doctors Say They've Found a 'Game Changing' Stem Cell Treatment for MS Interim results from an international trial of a stem cell transplant treatment showed a much higher success rate than the control group, which received a drug treatment.
| ||||||||
Report: Woman dies after 'live bee acupuncture' treatment A woman from Spain died after having an allergic reaction to an acupuncture procedure where bee stings are used instead of needles.
| ||||||||
Colon cancer occurrence and deaths high in Louisiana Colon cancer is out-ranked only by lung cancer and people in Louisiana are even more at risk. Author: Meg Farris. Published: 5:02 PM CDT March 19, 2018.
| ||||||||
Bibb commission to consider lawsuit against drug companies for 'opioid epidemic' Bibb County commissioners will consider whether to join a lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies that make and distribute opiates.
| ||||||||
Indian doctors oppose new diabetes norms MUMBAI: A new set of global guidelines on managing diabetes that aim to replace those followed for over three decades has stirred up a row within the medical community.
| ||||||||
Insurers explore new ways to help employees suffering from mental illness Sun Life, Manulife and Green Shield Canada, for example, have been working on various projects, ranging from the growing field of pharmacogenetics - the study of the genetic interaction of medication - to mindfulness.
| ||||||||
| You have received this email because you have subscribed to Google Alerts. |
 Receive this alert as RSS feed |
| Send Feedback |
No comments:
Post a Comment