Diving face first into 'safe cosmetics'
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Beauty can also mean helping the planet.
Our beauty regimens may be poison -- and I don't mean the expensive perfume of that name. Revelations of toxic ingredients in cosmetics, lotions, nail polishes, shampoos: They lead women to wonder about the safety of stunning. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Exercise needn't make you sick, but listen to your body
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Extreme workouts might lessen the immunity benefits that come with a more moderate pace. Switch out training days and if you're sick, rest up.
Does exercise increase the chance of getting sick? It seems that, whenever I ramp up my exercise program, I get colds and sinus infections more often. I was wondering if you could shed some light on this. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Track your workout in a diary, trainers recommend
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Logging your activities shouldn't be laborious. It's a way to monitor progress and keep motivation up.
KEEPING A workout journal is an easy way to track exercise progress. Maybe that's why many personal trainers suggest (or insist) their clients keep one. After all, it is difficult to recall exactly how many minutes at what intensity you did on the elliptical trainer last time. Without those details, workouts blend into one another with no real progress measured. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Leg stretch can build flexibility and strength
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Here's a dynamic exercise to help you develop flexibility and strength without risking injury or building bulk. You'll increase your upper body strength while stretching the backs of your legs. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cost estimates vary on mental health parity law
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Agencies predict that health insurance costs could increase from 0.2% to 5%, depending on the type of plan.
Will the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 increase the cost of health insurance? (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lawful boost to mental health coverage
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Under the just-passed legislation, plans can no longer make enrollees pay more for mental health and substance abuse coverage than for physical issues.
Advocates battling for more than a decade for improved mental healthcare coverage saw their labor rewarded this month when federal legislation was passed requiring group health plans to provide equal coverage for mental and physical illnesses. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bottled water versus tap: which is safer to drink?
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Both have their risks, but your home's water is subject to broader scrutiny.
Those ubiquitous plastic water bottles have been increasingly vilified in recent years. Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Barbara, among others, have banned them from purchase with city funds. A few trendsetting restaurants, and even some markets and hotels, have banned them too. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Do food dyes affect kids' behavior?
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Studies suggest a link between artificial food coloring and hyperactive behavior in children. Some experts are skeptical.
Almost every parent has a story about their kid bouncing off the walls after downing a package of jelly beans or eating a neon blue-frosted cupcake at school. Most blame the sugar. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Energy drinks: a dangerous, edgy buzz?
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Consumption of the highly caffeinated beverages may increase the risk of later substance abuse, researchers say.
ENERGY drinks are the target of many complaints: too much sugar, too much caffeine and too many herbal extracts with dubious claims. Now, researchers say the drinks may lead to drug abuse. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
B.c. boy may be the youngest to get heart pump
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A 13-year-old boy from the Vancouver-area has survived a potentially fatal heart condition by receiving the world's smallest heart pump. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Catholic schools opt out of hpv vaccine in alberta
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Alberta is scrambling to come up with a backup plan to vaccinate girls against a virus that causes cervical cancer as more Catholic school boards opt out, saying it condones premarital sex. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Economic crisis affecting americans' mental health
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More than 18 million Americans are affected by depression yearly, and our economic crisis is only making matters worse. But knowing the warning signs and what to do about them can make all the difference. (Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire)
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: consumer
Small intestine can sense and react to bitter toxins in food
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Toxins in food often have a bad, bitter taste that makes people want to spit them out. New UC Irvine research finds that bitterness also slows the digestive process, keeping bad food in the stomach longer and increasing the chances that it will be expelled. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Source Type: news
Clue to genetic cause of fatal birth defect
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A novel enzyme may play a major role in anencephaly, offering hope for a genetic test or even therapy for the rare fatal birth defect in which the brain fails to develop, according to a study from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. The study appears in the October issue of the journal of Molecular Endocrinology. In the U.S. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
Unc receives $8.5 million for new public health preparedness research center
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The North Carolina Institute for Public Health has been awarded an $8.5 million, five-year grant to create a new research center focused on helping protect the state from a wide range to disasters and threats. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Aid / Disasters Source Type: news
Ncar launches intensive study into future hurricane risk
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), working with federal agencies and universities as well as the insurance and energy industries, has launched an intensive study to examine how global warming will influence hurricanes in the next few decades. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Biological alternatives to chemical pesticides
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With increasing consumer pressure on both farmers and supermarkets to minimise the use of chemical pesticides in fruit and vegetables, a new study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), looks at why there is currently little use of biological alternatives in the UK. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Natural fingerprints in coal used to track mercury emissions
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University of Michigan researchers have developed a new tool that uses natural "fingerprints" in coal to track down sources of mercury polluting the environment. The research is published in the online issue of the journal Environmental Science & Technology. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Body contouring: selecting appropriate massive weight loss patients critical
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The importance of pre-operative screening for patients seeking body contouring after massive weight loss will be assessed in three studies presented at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Plastic Surgery 2008 conference, Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, in Chicago. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery Source Type: news
Urban earthquakes, nuclear bombs and 9/11: new york seismologist honored for work local and global
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Won-Young Kim, a senior scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has won the Jesuit Seismological Association Award from the Seismological Society of America for his work on wide-ranging questions both local and global. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Aid / Disasters Source Type: news
Is ct-colonoscopy valuable tool to detect colorectal cancer?
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CTC (virtual colonoscopy) is a thin slice CT scan of the abdomen after adequate bowel preparation and colon insufflation in which data are reconstructed providing axial, multiplanar, and endoluminal views, in order to visualize internal colonic wall. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health colorectal cancer CT colonoscopy Source Type: news
New alternative in treating short bowel syndrome
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SBS is a clinical condition characterized by diarrhea, dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, malabsorption, and progressive malnutrition related to a wide resection of the small intestine. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health bowel health bowel syndrome Source Type: news
Risk factors of abdominal venous thrombosis
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Abdominal venous thrombosis may present as BCS or SVT. Hereditary and acquired risk factors have been implicated in the etiopathogenesis of abdominal venous thrombosis. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health chronic thrombosis Venous thrombosis Source Type: news
How to differentiate macro-regenerative nodules from hepato-carcinoma?
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BA, the congenital absence or destruction of intra- or extra-hepatic biliary system, affects about 5 - 10/100 000 live births. End stage liver cirrhosis developed in some BA patients later in life. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health carcinoma hepatocellular carcinoma lung nodules Source Type: news
Why could ethyl pyruvate attenuate severe acute pancreatitis?
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Excessive activation of inflammatory mediator cascade during SAP is a major cause of distant organ injury and the high mortality. Cytokines such as TNF- alpha and IL-1 beta are released early in the development of systemic inflammatory response. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health pancreatic disorders pancreatitis Source Type: news
Sensitive nanowire disease detectors made by yale scientists
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Yale scientists have created nanowire sensors coupled with simple microprocessor electronics that are both sensitive and specific enough to be used for point-of-care (POC) disease detection, according to a report in Nano Letters. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health Nanowires point-of-care Source Type: news
Controversial injections examined at asps annual meeting
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Injecting fat after breast reconstruction to correct implant wrinkling or dimpling may be safe and effective to improve breast shape, according to a study to be presented at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Plastic Surgery 2008 conference, Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, in Chicago. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery Source Type: news
On trail of targeted therapy for blood cancers
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Investigators from the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine are focusing on a family of blood proteins that they hope holds a key to decreasing the toxic effects of chemotherapy in children and adults. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health blood cancers cancer therapy Source Type: news
Link between mitochondria and tumor formation in stem cells
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Researchers report on a previously unknown relationship between stem cell potency and the metabolic rate of their mitochondria –a cell's energy makers. Stem cells with more active mitochondria also have a greater capacity to differentiate and are more likely to form tumors. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health mitochondria stem cell Source Type: news
Statins may prevent miscarriages
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Hospital for Special Surgery researchers have found that statins may be able to prevent miscarriages in women who are suffering from pregnancy complications caused by antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), according to a study in mice. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health pregnancy Pregnancy complications Source Type: news
Landmark study unlocks stem cell, dna secrets to speed therapies
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In a groundbreaking study led by an eminent molecular biologist at Florida State University, researchers have discovered that as embryonic stem cells turn into different cell types, there are dramatic corresponding changes to the order in which DNA is replicated and reorganized. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health embryonic stem cells Source Type: news
Fat-regenerating stem cells found in mice
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Researchers have identified stem cells with the capacity to build fat, according to a report in the October 17th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. Although they have yet to show that the cells can renew themselves, transplants of the progenitor cells isolated from the fat tissue of normal mice can restore normal fat tissue in animals that are otherwise lacking it. (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health fat tissue stem cells Source Type: news
Angry feelings, fear exceeds terrorism risk
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In the first three days of the country's economic meltdown that began Sept. 29, 81 percent of Americans surveyed in a national poll agreed or strongly agreed that the financial crisis "poses a greater threat to the quality of my life than does the threat of terrorism." (Source: Huliq Health News)
Source: Huliq Health News - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: harminka Tags: Health financial crisis Terrorism Source Type: news
Scientists to explore chemical reactions in extreme conditions
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A new research center combining the tools of chemistry and astronomy will use the unique laboratory of interstellar space to free the study of basic chemistry from the restrictive bonds of Earth. The Center for Chemistry of the Universe will allow scientists to explore new types of chemical reactions that occur under the extreme conditions of space. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Biology / Biochemistry Source Type: news
Heart transplantation programme at harefield hospital to undergo review
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Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust will be working with the National Specialised Commissioning Team (NSC Team) and the Healthcare Commission over the next month on a review of Harefield Hospital's heart transplantation programme. As part of the Trust's routine monitoring and audit of its transplant operations, data is collected on post-operative survival including 30-day survival rates. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Transplants / Organ Donations Source Type: news
Maple leaf foods update on its bartor road facility and positive test results for listeria
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Maple Leaf Foods (TSX/MFI) has posted the background materials distributed at a news conference. Documents provided with this advisory are: -- Listeria Fact Sheet -- Media Backgrounder on Positive Test Results at Bartor Road Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is a leading food processing company, headquartered in Toronto, Canada. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nutrition / Diet Source Type: news
High risk offender charged with assaulting a women in her home, calgary, canada
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The Calgary Police Service has charged a local man in connection with a daytime aggravated assault in the downtown in September. On Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, at approximately 12:30 p.m., a man burst into a home in the 500 block of 15 Avenue S.W., and confronted a woman who was home alone. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news
Pregnancy does not affect mother's cognitive function, new study
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Pregnancy and motherhood may make us all go a little gooey, but it's not turning mums' brains into mush according to mental health researchers at The Australian National University. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Source Type: news
Risk factors outside of aap guidelines identify more preemies needing rsv prophylaxis
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New data have emerged regarding three risk factors which may help pediatricians better identify which preterm infants are at high risk of severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease and may thus benefit from palivizumab (Synagis®) prophylaxis, investigators reported at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 2008 National Conference and Exhibition. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics / Children's Health Source Type: news
Statement on our icelandic deposits
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We can confirm that we have a deposit of £7.5 million with the Icelandic bank - Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander. £1 million of this is NHS money and £6.5 million charity money. This is money we have put aside to fund future service developments and research for cancer patients over the next 5 years (Source: Christie Appeals)
Source: Christie Appeals - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Organisation Source Type: organizations
Nobel prize for discovery of green fluorescent protein won by mbl scientist osamu shimomura
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Osamu Shimomura, a senior scientist emeritus and Corporation member at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP), one of the most important tools in contemporary science and medicine for illuminating life at the microscopic level. Dr. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Biology / Biochemistry Source Type: news
At asps annual meeting: innovative 'no breast implant' procedure
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Women who desire a mommy-makeover, have had major weight loss, or are unhappy with the toll age has taken on their breasts can breathe easier. An innovative procedure to correct severely deflated, sagging breasts left looking like "pancakes" will be presented at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Plastic Surgery 2008 conference, Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, in Chicago. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery Source Type: news
Patients who recover from coma but cannot communicate feel pain
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Do patients who survive a severe brain injury but fail to recover speech or non-verbal communication perceive pain ? After their remarkable publication where they showed that a patient in a vegetative state in reality was conscious, scientists at the University of Liège (ULg) were able to tackle the very difficult issue of pain perception in coma survivors. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
A new improved gene therapy can be the first treatment for machado-joseph disease
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Portuguese, Swiss and French researchers show, for the first time, that is possible to inhibit, in a living organism, the mutated copies of a gene without affecting any existing normal copies of the same gene. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
Phase iii study showed rituxan in combination with chemotherapy improved progression-free survival in patients with relapsed chronic leukemia
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Genentech, Inc. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lymphoma / Leukemia Source Type: news
Early data show potential for imatinib to treat life-threatening form of pulmonary artery disease
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An early proof-of-concept study presented shows promising results for imatinib in the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a severe, incurable blood vessel disorder. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hypertension Source Type: news
Us controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.... (Source: AP Top Health News)
Source: AP Top Health News - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bipolar disorder also afflicts children, study finds
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One key to a proper diagnosis, researchers say, is recognizing grandiose behavior. Their study finds that 44% of those who had manic episodes as children continued having them as adults.
A study of 54 people with bipolar disorder found that the illness, long considered an adult affliction, also affects children. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Asteroid arrival is successfully predicted for first time
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The object burned up over Sudan, posing no threat to people. The prediction shows that an alert system is working, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory expert says.
Scientists for the first time were able to predict the arrival of an asteroid before it entered Earth's atmosphere. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ranolazine safe and effective for angina
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Researchers from Syracuse Preventive Medicine, NY, USA discuss a new drug called ranolazine that has been deemed a safe and effective treatment for chronic stable angina. Drs Stephen Nash and David Nash discuss this new treatment option in a New Drug Class paper published in The Lancet. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Source Type: news
