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Heavy Loads On The Shoulders Can Cause Nerve Damage In The Hands And Fingers
Trudging from place to place with heavy weights on our backs is an everyday reality, from schoolchildren toting textbooks in backpacks to firefighters and soldiers carrying occupational gear. Muscle and skeletal damage are very real concerns. Now Tel Aviv University researchers say that nerve damage, specifically to the nerves that travel through the neck and shoulders to animate our hands and fingers, is also a serious risk. Prof. Amit Gefen of TAU's Department of Biomedical Engineering and Prof. Yoram Epstein of TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, along with PhD student Amir Hadid and Dr...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Bones / Orthopedics Source Type: news

Resources And Barriers To Physical Activity Studied In Texas Border Towns
Obesity, diabetes and other ailments plague impoverished communities at higher rates than the general United States population. In rural Texas border towns, or colonias, Mexican-American residents are at an even greater risk for chronic health problems. Physical activity has shown to reduce the risks for chronic health problems, but "few Mexican-American and lower-income Americans, including children, engage in physical activity that bring about health benefits," according to a study conducted by Baylor University and Texas A&M University researchers...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Source Type: news

Linguistics And Biology Researchers Propose A New Theory On The Deep Roots Of Human Speech
"The sounds uttered by birds offer in several respects the nearest analogy to language," Charles Darwin wrote in "The Descent of Man" (1871), while contemplating how humans learned to speak. Language, he speculated, might have had its origins in singing, which "might have given rise to words expressive of various complex emotions." Now researchers from MIT, along with a scholar from the University of Tokyo, say that Darwin was on the right path...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news

Learning To Use Facebook May Give Adults Older Than 65 A Cognitive Boost
For older adults looking to sharpen their mental abilities, it might be time to log on to Facebook. Preliminary research findings from the University of Arizona suggest that men and women older than 65 who learn to use Facebook could see a boost in cognitive function. Janelle Wohltmann, a graduate student in the UA department of psychology, set out to see whether teaching older adults to use the popular social networking site could help improve their cognitive performance and make them feel more socially connected...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Seniors / Aging Source Type: news

Distraction Learning Helps Older Adults Perform Better In Memory Tests
Scientists at Baycrest Health Sciences' Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and the University of Toronto's Psychology Department have found compelling evidence that older adults can eliminate forgetfulness and perform as well as younger adults on memory tests. Scientists used a distraction learning strategy to help older adults overcome age-related forgetting and boost their performance to that of younger adults...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Seniors / Aging Source Type: news

Soldiers And PTSD: Why Some Develop It While Others Don't
Pre-war vulnerability is just as important as combat-related trauma in predicting whether veterans' symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) will be long-lasting, according to new research published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Researcher Bruce Dohrenwend and colleagues at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and the New York State Psychiatric Institute found that traumatic experiences during combat predicted the onset of the full complement of symptoms, known as the PTSD "syndrome," in Vietnam veterans...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Anxiety / Stress Source Type: news

New Compounds Will Lead To A New Generation Of Anti-Influenza Drugs That The Virus' Strains Can't Adapt To
Simon Fraser University virologist Masahiro Niikura and his doctoral student Nicole Bance are among an international group of scientists that has discovered a new class of molecular compounds capable of killing the influenza virus. Working on the premise that too much of a good thing can be a killer, the scientists have advanced previous researchers' methods of manipulating an enzyme that is key to how influenza replicates and spreads...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news

Researchers Believew Clot-Busting Drug Is Worth The Risk For Embolism Patients
When doctors encounter a patient with a massive pulmonary embolism, they face a difficult choice: Is it wise to administer a drug that could save the patient's life, even though many people suffer life-threatening bleeding as a result? Based on new findings published in the American Journal of Medicine, Michigan State University researchers are answering that question in no uncertain terms. "The message to doctors is clear: Take the chance," said Paul D. Stein, a professor in MSU's Department of Osteopathic Medical Specialties...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Vascular Source Type: news

Advances In IPSC Technology Lead To Improved Modeling Of Alzheimer's Disease
Working with a group from Nagasaki University, a research group at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Japan's Kyoto University has announced in the online publication of Cell Stem Cell that it has successfully modeled Alzheimer's disease (AD) using both familial and sporadic patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and revealed stress phenotypes and differential drug responsiveness associated with intracellular amyloid beta oligomers in AD neurons and astrocytes...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news

New Tests To Gage A Young Child's Motor Skills
Motor development in children under five years of age can now be tested reliably: Together with colleagues from Lausanne, researchers from the University Children's Hospital Zurich and the University of Zurich have determined normative data for different exercises such as hopping or running. This enables parents and experts to gage the motor skills of young children for the first time objectively and thus identify abnormalities at an early stage. My child still can't stand on one leg or walk down the stairs in alternating steps while all the other children already can...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics / Children's Health Source Type: news

Mouse Model Developed To Aid In Stem Cell Research
Cell therapy is a promising alternative to tissue and organ transplantation for diseases that are caused by death or poor functioning of cells. Considering the ethical discussions surrounding human embryonic stem cells, a lot is expected of the so-called 'induced pluripotent stem cells' (iPS cells). However, before this technique can be applied effectively, a lot of research is required into the safety and efficacy of such iPS cells. VIB scientists associated to the UGent have developed a mouse model that can advance this research to the next step...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stem Cell Research Source Type: news

The Effects Of Early Life Stress On Heart Function In Later Life
Early life stress like that experienced by ill newborns appears to take an early toll of the heart, affecting its ability to relax and refill with oxygen-rich blood, researchers report. Rat pups separated from their mothers a few hours each day, experienced a significant decrease in this basic heart function when - as life tends to do - an extra stressor was added to raise blood pressure, said Dr. Catalina Bazacliu, neonatologist at the Medical College of Georgia and Children's Hospital of Georgia at Georgia Regents University. Bazacliu worked under the mentorship of Dr...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart Disease Source Type: news

Gene Mutation Discovered That Causes Schnyder Corneal Dystrophy
Research conducted by Dr. Jayne S. Weiss, Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and colleagues has discovered a new mutation in a gene that causes Schnyder corneal dystrophy (SCD.) The gene was found to be involved in vitamin K metabolism suggesting the possibility that vitamin K may eventually be found useful in its treatment. The findings are published in the February 2013 issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Human Mutation...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / Blindness Source Type: news

New Research Using Information Technology To Improve Quality Of Health Care
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is aiming to become a leader in using health information technology (HIT) to change the way patients experience medical care, to decrease medical mistakes, and to improve health outcomes. A special March supplement of Medical Care highlights new research into the many and varied types of HIT projects being explored to improve the quality of patient care throughout the VHA system. Medical Care is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news

Breast Cancer Tumour Growth Inhibited By OMEGA-3s
A lifelong diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids can inhibit growth of breast cancer tumours by 30 per cent, according to new research from the University of Guelph. The study, published recently in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, is believed to be the first to provide unequivocal evidence that omega-3s reduce cancer risk. "It's a significant finding," said David Ma, a professor in Guelph's Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, and one of the study's authors...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: news

Accidental Inhalation Of Betadine During Surgery Leads To Rare Complication
A routine step in preparing for cleft palate surgery in a child led to an unusual - but not unprecedented - case of lung inflammation (pneumonitis), according to a report in the The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. The journal, edited by Mutaz B. Habal, MD, FRCSC, is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The complication resulted from accidental inhalation of povidone-iodine (PI), or Betadine - an antiseptic widely used before surgery...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Respiratory / Asthma Source Type: news

In Future It May Be Possible To Sniff Out The Side Effects Of Radiotherapy
Researchers at the University of Warwick and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust have completed a study that may lead to clinicians being able to more accurately predict which patients will suffer from the side effects of radiotherapy. Gastrointestinal side effects are commonplace in radiotherapy patients and occasionally severe, yet there is no existing means of predicting which patients will suffer from them...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Radiology / Nuclear Medicine Source Type: news

Mental health risk increased in children with atopic dermatitis
Results from a US study suggest that children with atopic dermatitis (AD) are at significantly increased risk for mental health disorders.
Source: MedWire News - Dermatology - February 25, 2013 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news

Reckitt loses bid to change U.S. drug packaging rules
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. drugs regulator has rejected goods manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser's call for stricter packaging for its heroin addiction treatment, instead approving generic production for the drug.
Source: Reuters: Health - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

AUDIO: Men 'need support' in relationships
Relate's chief executive Ruth Sutherland, outlines the findings of a report published by Relate, in partnership with the Men's Health Forum, that states men are often in the dark about relationship difficulties.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pediatricians Urged To Treat Ear Infections More Cautiously
The new guidelines for treating childhood ear infections are intended to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use. They say doctors should look at the ear drum to make sure a kid really has an ear infection, instead of relying on symptoms. And if the child doesn't have severe symptoms, see if they get better on their own.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Prostate Cancer Treated With High Dose Radioactive Pellets
A new form of radiotherapy to treat prostate cancer is being used by doctors in Southampton, UK. Implanting radioactive pellets in prostate cancer patients which specifically target and eradicate the cancerous cells at the tumor site has proved to be very effective treatment. There are close to 36,000 new cases of prostate cancer every year in the UK - accounting for nearly a quarter of all newly diagnosed cancer cases...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Prostate / Prostate Cancer Source Type: news

Reprogramming Alpha Cells To Fight Diabetes
Rather than trying to reactivate the insulin-producing beta cells, researchers say that reprogramming the alpha cells into beta cells may be a better route to take in order to treat type 2 diabetes. The scientists, from the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, explained in the Journal of Clinical Investigation that they managed to treat human and mouse cells with compounds that altered the chromatin (cell nuclear material) in alpha cells so that they induced the expression of beta cell genes...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes Source Type: news

Omontys, Anemia Drug For Kidney Dialysis Patients, Recalled
Omontys (peginesatide) Injection, a drug used for anemia treatment in kidney dialysis patients, has been recalled because of "serious, life-threatening or fatal hypersensitivity reactions", including anaphylaxis. The voluntary recall has been announced by Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Affymax Inc. The two companies have recalled all Omontys lots which are sold in 20mg and 10mg vials. Doctors have been told not to administer the medication to patients...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Urology / Nephrology Source Type: news

Could An Antibiotic From Human Sweat Fight Hospital Superbugs And TB?
An antibiotic created from human sweat might fight off hospital superbugs and deadly strains of tuberculosis, scientists reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers, from Scotland, Germany, France and Spain explained that a protein found on human skin - Dermcidin - is activated in sweat (slightly acidic and salty environments) and kills harmful microbes by perforating their cell membranes. Dermcidin is a natural protein, part of our natural defences, that is present on our skin when we sweat...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: MRSA / Drug Resistance Source Type: news

Screening Could Avert 12,000 Lung Cancer Deaths Each Year In The United States
Screening for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) in all screening-eligible current and former smokers has the potential to avert approximately 12,000 lung cancer deaths each year in the United States. That is the conclusion of a new analysis published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. By providing a national estimate of potentially avertable lung cancer deaths, the study will help policy makers better understand the possible benefits of LDCT lung cancer screening...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lung Cancer Source Type: news

Protein 'Passport' Developed That Allows Access For Therapeutics Through Body's Immune Defence
The body's immune system exists to identify and destroy foreign objects, whether they are bacteria, viruses, flecks of dirt or splinters. Unfortunately, nanoparticles designed to deliver drugs, and implanted devices like pacemakers or artificial joints, are just as foreign and subject to the same response. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science and Penn's Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics have figured out a way to provide a "passport" for such therapeutic devices, enabling them to get past the body's security system...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Immune System / Vaccines Source Type: news

Tackling Inflammation With Aspirin And Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Experts tout the health benefits of low-dose aspirin and omega-3 fatty acids found in foods like flax seeds and salmon, but the detailed mechanisms involved in their effects are not fully known. Now researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Chemistry & Biology show that aspirin helps trigger the production of molecules called resolvins that are naturally made by the body from omega-3 fatty acids. These resolvins shut off, or "resolve," the inflammation that underlies destructive conditions such as inflammatory lung disease, heart disease, and arthritis...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Immune System / Vaccines Source Type: news

Modern Lifestyles Can Put Your Health At Risk
Living against the clock - working late-night shifts or eating at inappropriate times, for example - can come with real health risks, metabolic syndrome, obesity, and diabetes among them. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have new evidence to explain why it matters not just what mice (or by extension, people) eat, but also when they eat it. Insulin action rises and falls according to a 24-hour, circadian rhythm, the researchers found...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Source Type: news

Use Of Catheters In Dialysis Linked With High Risk Of Infections, Heart Problems, And Death
Review examines safety of different dialysis procedures to access the blood Highlights Dialysis patients using catheters to access the blood have the highest risks for death, infections, and cardiovascular events compared with patients using other types of vascular access. Higher quality studies are needed to determine the true safety of different types of vascular access used for hemodialysis. Worldwide, more than 1.5 million people are treated with hemodialysis...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Urology / Nephrology Source Type: news

Gene Mutations Affect Kidney Disease Risk And Prognosis
Screening could help in the diagnosis and treatment of affected individuals Highlights Certain mutations and combinations of mutations in immune-related genes affect individuals' risk of developing a rare but serious kidney condition. These mutations also affect patient prognosis following different treatments. About half of patients with the condition, called atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, develop kidney failure...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Urology / Nephrology Source Type: news

Gene Therapy Has The Potential To Help People Heal Their Own Hearts
In the first human study of its kind, researchers activated heart failure patients' stem cells with gene therapy to improve their symptoms, heart function and quality of life, according to a study in the American Heart Association journal Circulation Research. Researchers delivered a gene that encodes a factor called SDF-1 to activate stem cells like a "homing" signal. The study is unique because researchers introduced the "homing" factor to draw stem cells to the site of injury and enhance the body's stem cell-based repair process...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart Disease Source Type: news

Study Of Life's Tiniest Architects Could Lead To New Opportunity To Treat Cancers
If a genome is the blueprint for life, then the chief architects are tiny slices of genetic material that orchestrate how we are assembled and function, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the journal Developmental Cell. The study pinpoints the molecular regulators of epigenetics - the process by which unchanging genes along our DNA are switched on and off at precisely the right time and place...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Genetics Source Type: news

Stopping Flu Virus In Its Tracks
A new class of influenza drug has been shown effective against drug-resistant strains of the flu virus, according to a study led by University of British Columbia researchers. Published online in the journal Science Express, the study details the development of a new drug candidate that prevents the flu virus from spreading from one cell to the next. The drug is shown to successfully treat mice with lethal strains of the flu virus. In order to spread in the body, the flu virus first uses a protein, called hemagglutinin, to bind to the healthy cell's receptors...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news

New Method For Next-Generation Live-Attenuated Viral Vaccines Against Chikungunya Virus Shows Promise
Researchers have successfully applied a novel method of vaccine creation for Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) using a technique called large scale random codon re-encoding. Using this approach, a group from the UMR_D 190, Emerging viruses Department in Marseille, France in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Australia, demonstrated that the engineered viruses exhibit a stable phenotype with a significantly decreased viral fitness (i.e., replication capacity), making it a new vaccine candidate for this emerging viral disease...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news

Total Eradication Of Malaria Has Longlasting Benefits For Many Countries
Many nations battling malaria face an economic dilemma: spend money indefinitely to control malaria transmission or commit additional resources to eliminate transmission completely. A review of malaria elimination conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and other institutions suggests stopping malaria transmission completely has longlasting benefits for many countries and that once eliminated, the disease is unlikely to reemerge over time...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news

Adult Life Expectancy Dramatically Increased By Scale-Up Of HIV Treatment In Rural South Africa
The large antiretroviral treatment (ART) scale-up in a rural community in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, has led to a rapid and dramatic increase in population adult life expectancy - a gain of 11.3 years over eight calendar years (2004-2011) - and the benefit of providing ART far outweighs the cost, according to new research from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: HIV / AIDS Source Type: news

Molecular System Identified That Could Help Develop Treatments For Alzheimer's Disease
Scientists from the University of Southampton have identified the molecular system that contributes to the harmful inflammatory reaction in the brain during neurodegenerative diseases. An important aspect of chronic neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's or prion disease, is the generation of an innate inflammatory reaction within the brain...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news

Novel Ultrasound Method Improves Myocardial Remodelling After Heart Attack
Scientists from the Bonn University Hospital successfully tested a method in mice allowing the morphological and functional sequelae of a myocardial infarction to be reduced. Tiny gas bubbles are made to oscillate within the heart via focused ultrasound - this improves microcirculation and decreases the size of the scar tissue. The results show that the mice, following myocardial infarction, have improved cardiac output as a result of this method, as compared to untreated animals. The study is now being presented in the professional journal PLOS ONE...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart Disease Source Type: news

How Different Genes For Schizophrenia Affect Brain Function, IQ Over Time
People who are at greater genetic risk of schizophrenia are more likely to see a fall in IQ as they age, even if they do not develop the condition. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh say the findings could lead to new research into how different genes for schizophrenia affect brain function over time. They also show that genes associated with schizophrenia influence people in other important ways besides causing the illness itself. The researchers used the latest genetic analysis techniques to reach their conclusion on how thinking skills change with age...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Schizophrenia Source Type: news

HIV-Related Research And Programming Has Excluded Homosexuals In Africa For Three Decades
HIV-related research and programming has excluded same-sex attracted men in Africa for three decades. Their exclusion cannot be accounted for by the assertion that they are unreachable, says Norwegian researcher. 'The first HIV-related study among African men who are attracted to men was carried out in 2005, fully 25 years into the HIV epidemic. Seven years later there is still very limited research and programming focusing on this group of men,' says KÃ¥re Moen, a physician and post-doctoral fellow in medical anthropology at the University of Oslo...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: HIV / AIDS Source Type: news

Publication Of First Comprehensive Literature Review On The Burden Of Liver Disease In Europe: EASL
Major progress has been made in the past 30 years in the knowledge and management of liver disease, yet approximately 29 million Europeans still suffer from a chronic liver condition. The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) has unveiled its new publication The burden of liver disease in Europe: a review of available epidemiological data. Key findings in the report suggest that alcohol consumption, viral hepatitis B and C and metabolic syndromes related to overweight and obesity are the leading causes of cirrhosis and primary liver cancer in Europe...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Liver Disease / Hepatitis Source Type: news

Neuroblastomas With Sensitivity To BET Bromodomain Inhibitors May Be Identified By Biomarker
Neuroblastoma, the most common malignant tumor of early childhood, is frequently associated with the presence of MYCN amplification, a genetic biomarker associated with poor prognosis. Researchers have determined that tumors containing MYCN amplification are sensitive to a new class of drugs, BET bromodomain inhibitors. The researchers made this discovery in a preclinical study, which was funded in part by a Stand Up To Cancer Innovative Research Grant and was published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news

Trauma-Induced Epilepsy May Be Prevented By Cooling The Brain Following Injury
In the weeks, months and years after a severe head injury, patients often experience epileptic seizures that are difficult to control. A new study in rats suggests that gently cooling the brain after injury may prevent these seizures. "Traumatic head injury is the leading cause of acquired epilepsy in young adults, and in many cases the seizures can't be controlled with medication," says senior author Matthew Smyth, MD, associate professor of neurological surgery and of pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Epilepsy Source Type: news

Avocado Consumption May Be Associated With Better Diet Quality
New analysis of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) , a program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), indicates that consuming avocados may be associated with better diet quality and nutrient intake level, lower intake of added sugars, lower body weight, BMI and waist circumferences, higher "good cholesterol" levels and lower metabolic syndrome risk. These results were published in the January 2013 issue of Nutrition Journal. Specifically, the survey data (NHANES 2001-2008, 17,567 U.S...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nutrition / Diet Source Type: news

Kenya: Hospital Seeks Support On Safe Motherhood
[The Star]Maternal Health Care Royal Gardens Hospital has partnered with religious leaders to enhance safe motherhood and reach vulnerable mothers across all economic divides. The hospital hopes to raise cash from donors to subsidize maternity charges to increase hospital deliveries.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - February 25, 2013 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news

Zimbabwe: Govt Reduces Student Nurse Enrolment
[The Herald]GOVERNMENT has reduced the number of student nurses enrolled per training intake. According to Health and Child Welfare Deputy Minister Douglas Mombeshora the nurses student intake has been reduced to not more than 30 students per semester. Nurse training institutions were enrolling on average 100 students.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 25, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: Nigeria Takes a Stand Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
[Vanguard]NINETY-year-old Professor Adetokunbo Lucas, former lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health, and front line researcher and high profile board member of the world’s most respected health agencies was one of Nigeria’s youngest professors. His commitment to the eradication of tropical infectious diseases such as guinea worm, polio, as well as the Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTDs, is legendary. In this piece, the renowned medical practitioner writes about the giant strides Niger
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - February 25, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

My hysterectomy: 'This op is tough on women'
After having a hysterectomy, Victoria Lambert understands why fewer are being performed
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - February 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news