Harsh Northeast Winter No Hindrance To Hungry Ticks
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_1604201522190500000AA.mp4 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Think you’re safe from ticks because the harsh winter froze them or because you haven’t been trekking through the woods? Think again. Researchers focused on ticks and the debilitating diseases they spread say the heavy snow that blanketed the Northeast this winter was like a cozy quilt for baby blacklegged ticks that are now questing for blood as the weather warms up. And a researcher at New York’s Binghamton University said Lyme disease-infected ticks aren’t just in forests and fields. “We’...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - April 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: nealjriley Tags: Everyday Earth Health Local News LYME DISEASE tick season ticks Source Type: news

Warning About New ‘Hormone Reset Diet’
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_1304201517184300000AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – There’s a newcomer to the diet scene. It’s called the Hormone Reset Diet and it promises to help women lose weight, but Dr. Mallika Marshall says before you sign on, there are some things you should know. This new method was conceived by a doctor, a gynecologist in California. She claims women can lose 15 pounds in 21 days if they follow seven dietary guidelines, each designed to address a specific hormonal imbalance. For example, for estrogen, go meatless and eliminate alcohol. Get rid of fruit to reset the hunge...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - April 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Local Syndicated Local Diet Dr. Mallika Marshall hormone reset diet hormones Source Type: news

Simmons College President Battles Breast Cancer
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_1004201518303800000AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – Breast cancer is a very personal diagnosis. When a woman with breast cancer holds a powerful leadership position, the decision to talk about battling the disease involves more than just herself. Simmons College President Helen Drinan has spent the academic year sharing her private struggle with the entire campus community. “(My doctor) said they were right to bring you back (because) we think you have breast cancer,” Drinan said. That was late August and almost immediately Drinan decided she wouldn’t keep it ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - April 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: mouellette2015 Tags: Breast Cancer Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Cancer Screening Chemotherapy Massachusetts Paula Ebben Simmons College Source Type: news

Worst Allergy Season In Years Possible After Brutal Winter
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_20150410000657073AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – After our harsh winter, the spring allergy season could be one of the worst in recent memory. Jake van den Herick, a 12-year-old from Lexington, is already seeing his allergist to try and prevent an onslaught of the usual symptoms. “I get a stuffy nose, runny nose, sometimes headaches,” he said. So what is setting up this season to be so bad? The cold weather has stunted the growth of all kinds of vegetation. Read: Shorter, More Severe Allergy Season Predicted WBZ-TV Chief Meteorologist Eric Fisher added this perspective on ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - April 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: miketoole Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Allergies Dr. John Saryan Dr. Mallika Marshall Jake van den Herick Lahey Hospital And Medical Center WBZ TV Source Type: news

Brigham & Women’s Hospital Finds New Way To Treat Brain Aneurysms
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_20150403192847407AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – There is a new therapy to stop deadly aneurysms from bursting. Up to five percent of the population has brain aneurysms and often many go undetected, but can rupture with devastating consequences. They also affect more women than men. Fall River’s Donna Murphy had a hidden danger lurking inside her head. “I woke up and I felt dizzy and they did an MRI and thank God they did because they found out that I had a brain aneurysm,” said Donna Murphy. Brain aneurysms are commonly treated with open brain surgery, but Donna, who...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - April 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: bostonwebintern Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Brain Aneurysms Brigham and Women's Hospital Dr. Ali Aziz Sultan Dr. Mallika Marshall New Treatment Source Type: news

Rite Aid’s New Telemedicine Kiosks in Select Ohio Pharmacies Allow Customers to Consult with Physicians for a Nominal Fee
Pathologists may want to explore the opportunity to be tele-consultants and be paid for helping consumers understand their lab test results and other clinical findings First it was rapid medical clinics in retail pharmacies. Next came health kiosks with information for consumers in pharmacies. Now a national pharmacy chain is upping the ante by installing […]
Source: Dark Daily - April 3, 2015 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: jude Tags: Instruments & Equipment Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Cleveland Clinic clinical laboratory Dark Daily health kiosk HealthSpot medical laboratory Source Type: news

‘Romeo and Juliet’ Dinosaurs Found Buried Together
Researchers uncovered a dinosaur couple that had been buried together for more than 75 million years and gave them the nicknames “Romeo and Juliet.” The dinosaurs, a pair of oviraptors, were found to have physical differences suggesting they were male and female, similar to the gender differences seen in modern birds, the researchers wrote in the journal Scientific Reports. They were discovered within about 20 centimeters of each other in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. It’s likely that the love birds were killed in a sand dune collapse brought on by heavy rains, and therefore buried alive—suggesting a m...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - April 3, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Begley Tags: Uncategorized Archaeology Dinosaur Source Type: news

Antibiotics Over-Prescribed For Sinus Infections In The US
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_0204201517383300000AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – Antibiotics are over prescribed in this country and as it turns out, 20 percent of them are used to treat sinusitis. Sinusitis gets diagnosed about 30 million times annually, but not every sinus headache is sinusitis and not every sinusitis requires antibiotics. So in an effort to limit their use, leading ear, nose, and throat surgeons are arming doctors and patients with information to decide whether a prescription is actually needed. Symptoms of sinusitis include colorful nasal discharge, stuffy nose, facial pain and pressure...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - April 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: mouellette2015 Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Antibiotics Dr. Mallika Marshall Health News Sinus Infection Symptoms Sinus Infections Sinusitis Source Type: news

Africa: Global Fund Board Selects New Chair and Vice-Chair
[Global Fund] Geneva -The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria selected Norbert Hauser, a former Member of Parliament and international auditor from Germany, as its new Chair and also named Aida Kurtovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as Vice-Chair. Both began serving a two-year term today.
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - April 2, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Parents Warned To Use Metric System When Giving Medicine To Kids
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_3003201517444000000AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – Patients are often told to give their child a teaspoon or 2 ½ teaspoons of a medication like Tylenol or ibuprofen or an antibiotic. The problem is, some parents will use a regular kitchen spoon and could inadvertently give too much medication. For example, a tablespoon of liquid is three times as much as a teaspoon. So pediatricians are encouraging parents to focus on milliliters instead…and once again are calling on drug manufacturers, pharmacists, and doctors to be consistent about metric dosing. Look for the millilit...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - March 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Dr. Mallika Marshall Medication Medicine Parents Source Type: news

Study: Quality Time Spent With Kids More Important Than Quantity
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_3003201517492300000AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – Working moms are spending as much time with their kids as “at-home” mothers did in the early 1970s, but many moms and some dads still feel guilty about not spending even more time with their children. Dr. Mallika Marshall says working moms and dads shouldn’t worry so much. It’s quality time that matters, not quantity. In the first large-scale study of its kind, researchers found that the amount of time parents spend with their kids between the ages of 3 and 11 has essentially no bearing on how their children do in t...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - March 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Children Dr. Mallika Marshall Kids Source Type: news

Women Learn About New Family Planning Option At ‘Egg Freezing Party’
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_2503201517332100000AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – There is a whole new kind of party for women who eventually want to have babies. It’s called an egg freezing party, designed to promote and inform women about this relatively new option in family planning. EggBanxx, a national company that partners with local fertility clinics, hosted the party at the Liberty Hotel in Boston. More than 50 women shared drinks and got a chance to talk to fertility doctors about the possibility of freezing their eggs, which has only been considered non-experimental for about three years now. “...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - March 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Dr. Mallika Marshall egg freezing Liberty Hotel Source Type: news

Lynn Woman Has No Regrets After Preventative Surgeries
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_2403201522205700000AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – Bethany Cove says she has no regrets. “If there is anything you could do to prevent cancer you’d want to do that,” Cove says. She had two major surgeries by choice; a double mastectomy at age 35 and a hysterectomy last year at 41, all to avoid cancer. “As far as I was concerned they were ticking time bombs on my chest and needed to come off and it was an easy decision for me,” she says. Her story is just like Angelina Jolie’s story. And watching the superstar go public with her very private cho...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - March 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Local News Syndicated Local Watch Listen Angelina Jolie Breast Cancer Kate Merrill Source Type: news

Angelina Jolie Undergoes Further Preventive Surgery
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_2403201517211800000AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – A difficult and courageous decision from Angelina Jolie. The actress just announced she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed in an effort to decrease her chance of developing the disease that killed her mother. Two years ago, the Oscar winner underwent a double mastectomy to avoid breast cancer. Jolie carries a gene mutation making her more likely to get both breast and ovarian cancer. Since her first announcement the rates of genetic testing have increased around the world and that means more women are facing these dif...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - March 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: nealjriley Tags: Entertainment Health Local News Syndicated Local Angelina Jolie BRCA1 Cancer Dana Farber Cancer Institute ovarian cancer Source Type: news

Does Sleep Improve Memory and Sex?
http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_2303201518263700000AA.mp4 BOSTON (CBS) – There’s more evidence that a midday siesta can do you good. A new study out of Germany asked people to memorize dozens of words and phrases, and those who took a 45-minute nap remembered more word pairs than those who stayed awake and watched a DVD instead. A different study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine looked at the effect of sleep on a woman’s sex life and they found that for each additional hour a woman slept, the likelihood that she would engage in sexual activity in the next 24 hours increased b...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - March 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: mouellette2015 Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Dr. Mallika Marshall Exercise Health News Memory Sex Sexual Function Sleep Source Type: news

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