Exercise plus psychological therapy benefits depressed heart failure patients
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Heart failure patients who suffer from depression may benefit from exercise combined with psychological therapy to improve their physical function, reduce their depressive symptoms and enhance quality of life, say US researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Consumer Health)
Source: MedWire News - Consumer Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Magazine preview: the uneven playing field
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Everyone wants girls to have as many opportunities in sports as boys. But can we live with the greater rate of injuries they suffer? (Source: NYT > Health)
Source: NYT > Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By MICHAEL SOKOLOVE Tags: College Athletics Women Colleges and Universities Children and Youth Medicine and Health Athletics and Sports Source Type: news
Dementia threat 'is greater for short people', say scientists
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Men and women with short arms and legs are more likely to develop Alzheimer's in later life, claim scientists. They believe every extra inch on a limb can help to protect against the disease. For women every additional inch of leg reduced the chances of developing any kind of dementia by 16 per cent and Alzheimer's by 22 per cent (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ectopic pregnancy test which could save women's fertility 'within a year'
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Doctors are developing a test for ectopic pregnancies that could help save a woman's fertility. The blood test could result in earlier diagnosis of the condition - where the egg implants in the wrong place - cutting the need for radical surgery (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Letter from bush administration indicates states have more flexibility to prove they enrolled 95% of currently eligible children in schip
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The Bush administration on Wednesday sent letters to state health officials to clarify a policy directive issued last year that restricts states' ability to expand their SCHIP programs, CQ HealthBeat reports (Carey, CQ HealthBeat, 5/7). According to guidelines issued in August 2007, before expanding SCHIP eligibility to children in families with incomes greater than 250% of the federal poverty level, states first must demonstrate they have enrolled at least 95% of eligible children with family incomes below 200% of the poverty level (Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, 4/21).According to the Wall Street Journal, most states...
Source: kaisernetwork.org: Health Policy Daily Report - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Daily Health Policy Report Source Type: news
Form of vitamin d lowers kidney-disease death risk
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Chronic kidney disease patients may see their risk of death drop by one quarter if they take a form of vitamin D, a new study says. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
High blood sugar in pregnant women increases risks
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Pregnant women with high blood sugar have a greater risk of giving birth to babies with health risks similar to those born to women with gestational diabetes. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Breast cancer tumours grow faster in younger women
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, a new Norwegian study says. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
More than 7,200 sask. nurses hold strike vote
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Saskatchewan's nurses went to the polls Wednesday to hold a strike vote after overwhelmingly rejecting their employer's latest contract offer. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Group hands out $8m for bse research
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A national group has handed out $8 million to 19 different projects across Canada working on research into prion diseases such as mad cow. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cancer patients may have received wrong treatment
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Three people with prostate cancer may have missed receiving radiation treatment based on tests from a Manitoba pathologist whose work is under review. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Wait times for chemo unchanged despite spending
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A new report on cancer care in Ontario says wait times for chemotherapy haven't budged even though the province has more than doubled its spending for the cancer treatment. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Death toll from viral disease up to 30 in china
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The death toll from a viral illness that is striking children across China has risen by two to 30, health officials said Thursday, as the number of reported cases jumped to nearly 20,000. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hackers' posts on epilepsy forum cause seizures
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In an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's website with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Low vitamin d levels linked to depression in elderly
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Researchers in Amsterdam found low levels of vitamin D among seniors who showed symptoms of depression. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Depressed people less receptive to 'happy' chemicals
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Some people suffering from depression have fewer receptors for mood-boosting chemicals, a new study says, which could explain why some patients respond to treatment better than others. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Having a drink during pregnancy is common for french women
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05/04/08 (Source: Health Behavior News Service)
Source: Health Behavior News Service - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Similar outcomes for minimally invasive, open surgery in colon cancer
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05/06/08 (Source: Health Behavior News Service)
Source: Health Behavior News Service - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Common drug eases leg cramping, enables farther walking
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05/06/08 (Source: Health Behavior News Service)
Source: Health Behavior News Service - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Blacks, hispanics less aware of when to call 911 for heart attack signs
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05/07/08 (Source: Health Behavior News Service)
Source: Health Behavior News Service - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Review determines most effective emergency contraception method
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05/08/08 (Source: Health Behavior News Service)
Source: Health Behavior News Service - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Culture-specific asthma education could improve quality of life
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05/08/08 (Source: Health Behavior News Service)
Source: Health Behavior News Service - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Group cites industry ties among psychiatric-manual reviewers
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Boston Globe Source Type: news
Trees help kids breathe easier
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Chicago Tribune Source Type: news
Psychiatric drug use soars in u.k. and u.s.
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Associated Press Source Type: news
Weight-loss drugs may harm developing brain: study
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Reuters Source Type: news
Abuse changes brains of suicide victims
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Reuters Source Type: news
Weighing blood sugar's pregnancy role
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Wall Street Journal Source Type: news
Iuds seen to reduce cancer risk
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Reuters Source Type: news
Alcoholism gender gap is closing
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: HealthDay Source Type: news
Chantix recommended to quit smoking despite safety concerns
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Associated Press Source Type: news
Sleep deficit linked to smoking, drinking, inactivity
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(Source: Health Behavior News Digest)
Source: Health Behavior News Digest - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Bloomberg Source Type: news
Lack of motivation in schizophrenia linked to brain chemical imbalance
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A study of patients with psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia suggests an alternative explanation for why many sufferers lack motivation. In addition to the hallucinations that often characterize schizophrenia, patients also have major problems with apathy and lack of motivation. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
University research contributes to global warming, professor discovers
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Add university research to the long list of human activities contributing to global warming. A biochemistry professor who is a committed environmentalist found that his own research produces 44 tons of carbon dioxide per year. The average American citizen produces 20 tons. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Gene that gives rise to neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer, located
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Using advanced gene-hunting technology, researchers have identified a chromosome region that is the source of genetic events that give rise to neuroblastoma, an often fatal childhood cancer. The investigators found that common DNA variations in a region of chromosome 6 raise the risk that a child will develop a particularly aggressive form of neuroblastoma. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hydrogen for fuel cells extracted from formic acid at room temperature
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Matthias Beller and his team at the Leibniz Institute of Catalysis in Rostock have succeeded in the controlled extraction of hydrogen from formic acid without the need for a high-temperature reforming process. This room-temperature hydrogen source can be directly introduced into fuel cells. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mothers' high normal blood sugar levels place infants at risk for birth problems
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Pregnant women with blood sugar levels in the higher range of normal -- but not high enough to be considered diabetes -- are more likely than women with lower blood sugar levels to give birth to babies at risk for many of the same problems seen in babies born to women with diabetes during pregnancy, according to a new study. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Climate models overheat antarctica, new study finds
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Computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica, new research concludes. The study can help scientists improve computer models and determine if Earth's southernmost continent will warm significantly this century, a major research question because of Antarctica's potential impact on global sea-level rise. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Speaking more than one language may slow the aging process in the mind
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Children who speak a second or third language may have an unexpected advantage later in life, a new study has found. Knowing and speaking many languages may protect the brain against the effects of aging. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Chemists measure chilli sauce hotness with nanotubes
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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen and into the lab -- chemists can now use carbon nanotubes to judge the heat of chilli sauces. The technology might soon be available commercially as a cheap, disposable sensor for use in the food industry. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Immune system pathway identified to fight allergens, asthma
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For the first time, researchers have identified genetic components of dendritic cells that are key to asthma and allergy-related immune response malfunction. Targeting these elements could result in more effective drugs to treat respiratory disorders. While dendritic cells are vital to immune response, the new study goes further to describe a pathway that allergens use to act directly on dendritic cells to initiate the allergic cascade. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Breast cancer tumors grow faster in younger women
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A new approach to estimating tumor growth has been developed based on breast screening results from almost 400,000 women. This new model can also estimate the proportion of breast cancers which are detected at screening (screen test sensitivity). It provides a new approach to simultaneously estimating the growth rate of breast cancer and the ability of mammography screening to detect tumors. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Exhaling for exploration: scientists test lunar breathing system
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Imagine yourself hip-to-hip, shoulder-to-shoulder, inside a room the size of a walk-in closet for eight hours with five people you just met. Does that make you sweat? Or maybe make your breathing a little more animated? For three weeks, 23 volunteers dedicated time to do just that -- sweat and breathe -- inside a test chamber so NASA scientists at Johnson Space Center in Houston could measure the amount of moisture and carbon dioxide absorbed by a new system being developed for future space vehicles. The system is designed to control carbon dioxide and humidity inside a crew capsule to make air breathable and living space ...
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Depression diversity: brain studies reveal big differences among individuals
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Depressed people may have far fewer of the receptors for some of the brain's "feel good" stress-response chemicals than non-depressed people, new research shows. And even among depressed people, the numbers of these receptors can vary greatly -- and may be linked with the severity of their symptoms and response to treatment. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Large reductions in agricultural chemical use can still result in high crop yields and profits
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Researchers investigated whether yield, weed suppression, and profit characteristics of low-external-input farming systems could match or exceed those of conventional farming systems. Yields and profits were similar or higher in the LEI systems as in the conventional system, and lower herbicide inputs did not lead to increased weed problems. The results suggest that large reductions in agrichemical use can be compatible with high crop yields and profits. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vitamin d linked to reduced mortality rate in chronic kidney disease
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For patients with moderate to severe chronic kidney disease, treatment with activated vitamin D may reduce the risk of death by approximately one-fourth, suggests a new study. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Undergrad has sweet success with invention of artificial golgi
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A graduating senior has put his basic knowledge of sugars to exceptional use by creating a lab-on-a-chip device that builds complex, highly specialized sugar molecules, mimicking one of the most important cellular structures in the human body -- the Golgi Apparatus. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cell's 'power plant' genes raise vision disorder risk
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Genetic variation in the DNA of mitochondria -- the "power plants" of cells -- contributes to a person's risk of developing age-related macular degeneration, investigators report. The study is the first to examine the mitochondrial genome for changes associated with AMD, the leading cause of blindness in Caucasians over age 50. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Group calls for birth control patch ban
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Public Citizen petitions the FDA, claiming the patch poses serious health risks. (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
U.s. manufacturers spend twice as much as foreign competitors on health care, report finds
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U.S. manufacturers that offer health insurance to employees spend an average of $2.38 per worker per hour on health care, substantially more than the amount spent by foreign competitors, according to a report released on Tuesday by the New America Foundation, the Los Angeles Times reports. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 8, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
