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Prostate Cancer Increases The Risk Of Bone Fracture, Study Shows
As unlikely as it sounds, scientists have shown that there is a link between prostate cancer and a higher risk of bone fracture. Men with prostate cancer face a 50%...
Ultrasound mammography: Good but risky
PROVIDENCE, R.I., May 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. study shows adding an ultrasound screening to routine mammography may find more breast cancers, but also hikes the rate of...
Chemistry Of Airborne Particulate: Lung Interactions Revealed
Exactly how airborne particulates harm our lungs still puzzles epidemiologists, physicians, environmental scientists, and policy makers. Now California Institute of Technology researchers have found that they act by impairing the...
Endocrine Disruptors In Common Plastics Linked To Obesity Risk
Exposure during development either in the womb or during infancy to chemicals used to make products such as baby bottles, the lining of food tins and some plastic food wraps...
Exercise May Protect Girls From Future Breast Cancer
New research shows exercise during the teen years — starting as young as age 12 — can help protect girls from breast cancer when they’re grown.
Americans Taking Prescription Drugs in Greater Numbers
For the first time, more than half of insured adults regularly rely on prescription drugs, according to new data.
Office Initiative Reduces Headaches And Neck And Shoulder Pain By More Than 40 Percent
When office staff took part in a workplace educational and physical initiative, headaches fell by 41 percent, neck and shoulder pain fell by 43 percent and painkiller use fell by...
Exposure To Coarse Air Pollution Not Associated With Hospital Admission For Respiratory Diseases
Exposure to coarse particulate matter air pollution such as from agricultural activities, windblown dust and mechanical grinding is not statistically significantly associated with emergency hospital admissions for respiratory and cardiovascular...
Patients Suffering From 'Hemineglect' Ignore Things On Their Left, But They See Them Nonetheless
Patients suffering from "hemineglect" ignore things presented to their left side. However, sometimes these ignored stimuli may be processed without awareness. In a new study, researchers report that unconscious processing...
Hospital pay for performance incentives may backfire among safety-net hospitals
The same government-backed incentive programs aimed at improving the care all Americans receive in hospitals may be widening the gap between poor, underserved patients and those who are insured or...
Treating safety research like other clinical studies slows progress
Progress in patient safety research could slow to a crawl unless regulators work out a host of ethical issues, Johns Hopkins researchers assert in an upcoming opinion piece.
Britain Releases Batch of Files on UFO Sightings
Britain's National Archives released 1,000 pages of secret UFO documents.
Charles Meyer Goldstein, 87; dentist, USC faculty member organized free dental clinics
Charles Meyer Goldstein, a dentist and USC faculty member who advocated community service and organized free dental clinics that treat thousands of poor people each year, died Sunday at his...
When It Comes To Living Longer, It’s Better To Go Hungry Than Go Running
A study investigating aging in mice has found that hormonal changes that occur when mice eat significantly less may help explain an already established phenomenon: a low calorie diet can...
Educated People In US Living Longer, Less Educated Have Unchanged Death Rate
A new study finds a gap in overall death rates between Americans with less than high school education and college graduates increased rapidly from 1993 to 2001. The study says...
Drug Therapy For PKU Reverses Heart Damage, Study Shows
A pricy drug used to treat a rare but well-known genetic disorder may hold wider promise as a treatment for millions of Americans with potentially lethal enlarged hearts, due mainly...
Neglected Tropical Diseases Rarely Make The Headlines
A new study of leading news organizations has found that neglected tropical diseases rarely make headlines, despite the huge amount of illness, suffering, and poverty that they cause.
Fibromyalgia: The Invisible Disease
"Drug approved. Is disease real?" "Does it really exist or is it all in women's heads?" "The doctors are in. The jury is out. " The New York Times headlines...
Tooth loss strongly linked to risk of esophageal, head and neck, and lung cancer
Studying thousands of patients, Japanese researchers have found a strong link between tooth loss and increased risk of three cancers - esophageal, head and neck, and lung. They suggest...
Researchers fine-tune clot-busting treatment for bleeding in brain
A multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins doctors has fine-tuned the dosage and timing for administering clot-busting tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) to patients with strokes caused by bleeding within the...
Sticky gecko feet: The role of temperature and humidity
A team of five University of Akron researchers has published the paper, “Sticky gecko feet: the role of temperature and humidity” in PLoS ONE, an open-access, online journal for peer-reviewed...
Britain releases batch of files on UFO sightings
(AP) -- The men were air traffic controllers. Experienced, calm professionals. Nobody was drinking. But they were so worried about losing their jobs that they demanded their names be...
Drug does not increase suitability for dialysis of surgically-enlarged blood vessels
The anti-platelet drug clopidogrel reduced the frequency of early blood clot formation in new surgically enlarged blood vessels (fistulas) created for patients requiring dialysis, but did not increase the proportion...
We're watching the 'oppressors': world telecoms boss
The head of the world telecoms body said on Tuesday that oppressive regimes are increasingly using their control over the Internet to deprive citizens of information but that those governments...
Woman dies after getting infected kidney
BOSTON, May 13 (UPI) -- Health officials said a 70-year-old woman died in Boston after receiving a kidney infected with lymphocyte choriomeningitis virus.
Self-Sterilizing Plastics Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria [News]
Despite the proliferation of antibiotics and assorted antibacterial hand lotions and wipes, bacteria remain a moving target for hospitals and clinics seeking to protect their patients from infections. One approach...
Skin patch effective in ADHD treatment
CLEVELAND, May 13 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have determined the prolonged use of a transdermal patch is safe and effective for the treatment of ADHD in...
Early Stage Bone Cells Produce Potential Estrogen Substitute
Cells on their way to forming bone also produce an estrogen-like substance that mimics the naturally occurring female sex hormone estradiol, investigators at the Yale School of Medicine reported Monday...