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Well: Latke Recipes for Health
In this week's Recipes for Health, Martha Rose Shulman provides five exciting new ways to make latkes.
Mapping lead hot spots to protect children
A new study in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization shows how hot spots of lead contamination in soil can be pinpointed in order to safeguard children against drastic...
"Fiscal cliff" threatens to impede biomedical discoveries
Scientists fear that automatic cuts in funding for the National Institutes of Health, set to kick in at the start of 2013, will harm research and patients.Nature News ...
Researchers find high estrogen-mimicking chemical concentrations in dog training batons
(Phys.org)—Sometimes orange, sometimes white, dog trainers often use plastic fetching batons called bumpers to teach dogs how to retrieve. But researchers at Texas Tech University have discovered that the dogs...
Drug combo acts against aggressive chronic lymphocytic leukemia
A two-prong approach combining ibrutinib and rituximab (Rituxin®) to treat aggressive chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) produced profound responses with minor [...]
Extra chemo could be answer
Young patients with an aggressive form of leukemia who are likely to relapse after chemotherapy treatment can significantly reduce those odds by receiving additional courses of chemotherapy, suggest the findings of a clinical...
Vital Signs: Patterns: Want to Live Longer? Breathe Clean Air
Researchers estimated that about 18 percent of the increase in life span in rural and metropolitan counties around the world can be attributed to reduced air pollution.
Vital Signs: Smoking Tied to Less Dense Bones for Girls
After tracking teenage girls over three years, a study found that those who smoked showed slower development of bone mineral density, but more research is needed.
Vital Signs: Prevention: Efficacy of Tobacco Taxes Tied to Gene Type
A study found that smokers with a variant of a gene connected to nicotine addiction are more likely to respond to higher taxes on cigarettes.
News Analysis: A Debate on Coated Aspirins and Aspirin Resistance
Disputes over a study that found no evidence of aspirin resistance, attributing it to a common coating meant to protect the stomach lining.
Mind: A Compromise on Defining and Diagnosing Mental Disorders
The American Psychiatric Association’s board has approved the fifth edition of the association’s diagnostic manual, ending more than five years of controversy.
Childhood Obesity Drops in New York and Philadelphia
The small declines are significant because they offer the first indication that the obesity epidemic, one of the nation’s most intractable health problems, may be reversing course.
Novel drug therapy targets aggressive form of non-hodgkin's lymphoma
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common subtype of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and the seventh most frequently diagnosed cancer. The most chemotherapy resistant form of DLBCL, called activated B-cell...
Inspiration from a porcupine’s quills
Anyone unfortunate enough to encounter a porcupine’s quills knows that once they go in, they are extremely difficult to remove. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital now hope to exploit the...
Blood levels of immune protein predict risk in Hodgkin disease
Researchers found levels galectin-1, an immunity-related protein, could be the basis of a test and potentially a targeted treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma.
Toxic interaction in neurons that leads to dementia and ALS discovered
Researchers have uncovered a toxic cellular process by which a protein that maintains the health of neurons becomes deficient and can lead to dementia. The findings shed new light on...
How our nerves regulate insulin secretion
Researchers have managed to graft beta cells into the eyes of mice in order to study them in a living organism over a prolonged period of time. As a result,...
Pre-diabetic patients respond to self-directed lifestyle interventions, researcher says
Efforts to help overweight patients avoid diabetes through lifestyle changes need not rely on intensive, one-on-one focused programs, a new clinical study has found.
Experimental graft-versus-host disease treatment equivalent to standard care in phase 3 trial
Researchers found an experimental drug combination for preventing graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) was not significantly better than the standard regimen of care, but that the new combination could provide an alternative...
LCD contact lenses could display text messages in your eye
Belgian scientists have developed a spherical liquid crystal display (LCD) that can be inserted into a contact lens to display letters and symbols.
New Mass. Eye and Ear Outpatient Surgical Center Now Open in Longwood/Mission Hill
Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Longwood, a new outpatient surgical center at 800 Huntington Avenue in the Longwood/Mission Hill area of Boston, opened today to patients.
UMDNJ Professor Receives N.J. Public Health Association's Highest Honor
The New Jersey Public Health Association (NJPHA) has announced that Stanley H. Weiss, MD, a professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Medicine...
University of Utah Health Care Posts Online Physician Reviews and Comments
Health care consumers considering a physician at University of Utah Health Care now have an additional tool-- online access to the system's patient satisfaction scores and comments. The rankings are...
Weight-Loss App Works — With Coaching
A mobile app can help people lose weight, but only when paired with diet and exercise education, a new study suggests.
Should Doctors Warn Pregnant Women about Environmental Risks?
SAN FRANCISCO – When Dr. Darragh Flynn sits down with her pregnant patients, she preaches healthy habits: Don’t smoke or drink, eat nutritious foods and take vitamins. [More]
Disabled Calgarian can't find family doctor
A Calgary man says his brother has been turned away by two family doctors because he has a developmental disability.
Most popular weight-loss drug strongly alters other drug therapies, study suggests
A researcher has discovered that the weight-loss drug orlistat, known by the brand names Xenical and Alli, inhibits a key enzyme that may lead to "severe toxicity of internal organs...
Surprise: New insurance fee in health overhaul law
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Your medical plan is facing an unexpected new fee. It's to help cover people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obama's health care...