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Older Drivers Know Their Shortcomings, Except One
Many drivers over age 70 realize their reaction time is slower and compensate by driving more carefully, says Matthew Romoser, who studies human performance while using machines. The problem is...
Guided Care Reduces Cost Of Health Care For Older Persons With Chronic Conditions
The nation's sickest and most expensive patients need fewer health care resources and cost insurers less when they are closely supported by a nurse-physician primary care team that tracks their...
Link Between Over-indebtedness And Obesity Identified
Scientists in Germany have discovered a close correlation between over-indebtedness and obesity. According to a new study, over-indebted Germans are more likely to be overweight or obese than the population...
Vital Signs: Prevention: Diet and Exercise Lower Alzheimer’s Risk
A Mediterranean style diet along with regular activity reduced the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
Taking Dex Can Improve High Altitude Exercise Capacity In Certain Climbers, Study Finds
Taking dexamathasone prophlyactically may improve exercise capacity in some mountaineers, according to Swiss researchers. Dexamathasone, known popularly to climbers as "dex," has been used for years to treat altitude-related symptoms...
Synthetic Derivative Of Kudzu Vine Can Reduce Drinking And Prevent Relapse
Kudzu extracts have been used in Chinese folk medicine to treat alcoholism for about 1,000 years. Daidzin is an anti-drinking substance in kudzu. A synthetic form of daidzin, called CVT-10216,...
Antibodies To Strep Throat Bacteria Linked To Obsessive Compulsive Disorder In Mice
A new study indicates that pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Tourette syndrome and/or tic disorder may develop from an inappropriate immune response to the bacteria causing common throat infections. The mouse...
Patients Are Reminded of Aspirin’s Risks
With a new study suggesting that aspirin may increase survival chances for colorectal cancer patients, experts were quick to warn that the medicine cabinet staple also has its risks.
Past Flu Pandemics Studied For Clues To Future Course Of 2009 H1N1 Virus
A commonly held belief that severe influenza pandemics are preceded by a milder wave of illness arose because some accounts of the flu pandemic of 1918-19 suggested that it may...
Oxygen Treatment Hastens Memory Loss In Alzheimer's Mice
Researchers suspect the culprit precipitating Alzheimer's disease in some elderly patients may be high concentrations of oxygen administered during or after major surgery -- a hypothesis borne out in a...
New No-needle Approach To Prevent Blood Clots
Scientists have found a better way to prevent deadly blood clots after joint replacement surgery -- a major problem that results in thousands of unnecessary deaths each year.
Powerful new therapy for asthma possible
GALVESTON, Texas, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they have identified an enzyme that might lead to a new and powerful therapy for most allergen-caused asthma attacks.
Budesonide is not beneficial for the treatment of diarrhoea in metastatic melanoma patients
Patients with stage III or IV melanoma taking ipilimumab and the oral steroid budesonide to reduce side effects did not have less diarrhoea, a known side effect of ipilimumab, according...
Researchers successfully reverse multiple sclerosis in animals
A new experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) completely reverses the devastating autoimmune disorder in mice, and might work exactly the same way in humans, say researchers at the Jewish...
The public overestimates benefits of cancer screening, survey finds
A public survey conducted in Europe found that the vast majority of people overestimate the life-saving benefits of breast and prostate cancer screening, according to a new study published online...
Formal Education Lessens Impact Of Alzheimer’s Disease -- Even If Brain Volume Is Already Reduced
Researchers in Europe investigated the effects of formal education on the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. They were able to show that education diminishes the impact of Alzheimer's disease on cognition...
Exercise Is Healthy For Mom And Child During Pregnancy, Report States
Physicians should recommend low to moderate levels of exercise to their pregnant patients, even if they have not exercised prior to pregnancy, states a new article.
Britain's first swine-flu trials under way
Britain's first swine flu vaccine trials, led by the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, are taking place at the Leicester Royal Infirmary...
Study examines decrease in delivery-related rate of death of infants born at term
During about the last 20 years, the risk of delivery-related death at birth or shortly thereafter for term infants has decreased nearly 40 percent in Scotland, with the largest contributing...
Super-clinic finds super-need in L.A. region
Remote Area Medical Foundation provides free care with volunteer doctors and dentists for unemployed and poor people at an eight-day event at Inglewood's Forum arena. A homeless man spent the night camped outside...
Senator Goes Face to Face With Dissent
More than 1,000 people showed up for a Pennsylvania meeting with Senator Arlen Specter, and like many such events, it was punctuated with rowdy moments.
Heart transplant record holder dies of cancer
(AP) -- A heart transplant recipient who lived a record 31 years with a single donated organ has died at age 51 of cancer, his heart still going strong,...
Inuit fear Canadian flu plan won't work
The national Inuit committee on health is calling on Canadian health officials to develop a specific strategy for dealing with an H1N1 pandemic in northern Inuit communities.
N.L. orders flu vaccine for three-quarters of population
Newfoundland and Labrador has ordered enough doses of the H1N1 influenza vaccine to offer it to 75 per cent of the province's population. The province plans to carry out a...
More Is Needed than Quota Laws to Increase the Number of Women Legislators
Although women's representation in national legislatures around the globe has nearly doubled in the last 30 years, the average percentage of women legislators is only 18 percent worldwide. While many...
'Wounded Warriors' Learn Digital Forensics at Military Medical Facilities Through Mississippi State Program
Mississippi State teaches digital forensics courses at military medical facilities to injured soldiers, sailors and marines, providing them with career options that require limited mobility.
Swine flu spreads in Asia
Swine flu infections are increasing in India, Thailand and Vietnam, and appear to have peaked in the Southern Hemisphere, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
Abortion access at risk by new ministry rules: MDs
Quebec's college of physicians said Monday the provincial Health Ministry is putting access to abortions at risk with new standards it is setting for private clinics that perform surgeries.