Recipes for Health: Rainbow Beef — Recipes for Health

A stir-fry classic with a little less beef than usual.

Using brain aneurysm treatment to stop irregular heart rhythms

For the first time, a UCLA team has used a technique normally employed in treating brain aneurysms to treat severe, life-threatening irregular heart rhythms in two patients. This unique use...

Medical records should follow patients, health staff say

Health-care providers in Thunder Bay say they often have to play detective to piece together new patients' medical histories.

Prenatal exposure to pesticide DDT linked to adult high blood pressure

Infant girls exposed to high levels of the pesticide DDT while still inside the womb are three times more likely to develop hypertension when they become adults, according to a...

Enhanced Fertilizers Could Cut Nutritional Deficiency In Africa

Enriching crops by adding a naturally-occurring soil mineral to fertilizers in Malawi could potentially help to reduce disease and premature death caused by a dietary deficiency of the mineral selenium...

Single Point Mutation In Listeria Monocytogenes Identified

The bacterial foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of listeriosis, a debilitating disease linked with about 2,500 illnesses and more than 500 deaths in the U.S.A. each year....

OPINION: Resveratrol in a red wine sauce: fountain of youth or snake-oil?

Is resveratrol the latest wonder drug that will add years to our lives? Stephen S. Holden explains.

Skin cancer on nose repair job — in one step

The skin cancer growing on Carolyn Bohlmann’s nose was not a very aggressive variety. But it was deep and located right on her nostril. The tricky part was not so...

Drug may improve outcomes after heart attack

The prescription drug eplerenone appears to reduce the risk of cardiovascular mortality and heart failure after a heart attack by more than one-third, according to new research.

Job burnout can severely compromise heart health

Dr. Sharon Toker of Tel Aviv University has found a link between job burnout and coronary heart disease (CHD), the buildup of plaque in the coronary arteries that leads to...

Men in same-sex marriages are living longer, according to new study

The mortality rate for men in same-sex marriages has dropped markedly since the 1990s, according to a Danish study. However, same-sex married women have emerged as the group of women...

Kid's consumption of sugared beverages linked to higher caloric intake of food

A new study reports that sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are primarily responsible for higher caloric intakes of children that consume SSBs as compared to children that do not (on a given...

What impact does a day of roller derby have on our skin microbiome? Skaters skin microbiomes get mixed up 'bouting'

The human skin is home to countless microorganisms that we can't see, but these microbes help define who we are. Our invisible passengers -- known as the skin microbiome --...

New survey reports low rate of patient awareness during anesthesia

A major study looked at how many patients experienced accidental awareness during general anesthesia and found the rate to be low.

Prediction of seasonal flu strains improves chances of universal vaccine

Researchers have determined a way to predict and protect against new strains of the flu virus, in the hope of improving immunity against the disease.

Japan's Methane Hydrate Breakthrough Must Be Pursued with Care, Says Biomolecular Expert

Exercise during gestation might affect future fertility

Researchers have found that exercising pregnant sows could affect ovarian development in their fetuses. Fetuses from exercised sows had greater cell proliferation in their ovaries.

The New Old Age Blog: Too Many Colonoscopies in the Elderly

Nearly a quarter of colonoscopies in patients over age 70 were “potentially inappropriate,” a new analysis finds.

Research links geochemistry, medicine

Groundbreaking work that straddles the fence between geochemistry and medicine was the subject of a recent article appearing on AZCentral. The March 6 article, written by Dianna M. Náñez, examined...

Intellectual property and development: beware the 'genome divide'

Policymakers need to understand the public health consequences of allowing intellectual property rights on DNAJane Parry wrote on this network in January about how genomics could help developing countries deal with disease. Her...

Sim City creators in damage control mode over technical problems

Videogame studio Maxis has been working feverishly to correct technical issues plaguing the latest version of its strategy game Sim City, and faced scathing criticism from gamers and the games...

India aborts testing of new cruise missile

The maiden flight of India's first domestically developed long-range cruise missile was aborted midway on Tuesday after it veered off course, defence scientists said.

Singapore in 'final stages' of evaluating F-35

Singapore is in the final stages of evaluating the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as a possible replacement for its F-15 and F-16 planes, the defence minister said in remarks published...

Arkansas Senator Jason Rapert’s Abortion Ban

An Arkansas bill to restrict abortions to early pregnancy, passed in spite of tough opposition to the lawmaker behind it, energized advocates of similar measures elsewhere.

Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, has died: From the archive, 12 Mar 1955

Biologist's great medical find happened by chanceSir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, died suddenly at his home in Chelsea, London, yesterday after a heart attack. He was 73.He joined the bacteriological department of...

America's new love: Water

NEW YORK (AP) -- It wasn't too long ago that America had a love affair with soda. Now, an old flame has the country's heart....

Take a Number: Putting a Value to ‘Real’ in Medical Research

A probability value, or p-value, below 0.05 provides medical researchers a degree of assurance that a test’s results are not just a random occurrence.

Well: Mental Illness and Vulnerability

A study of Swedish registries suggests that people with mental illness are at greater risk of being murdered, especially those with substance use disorders.