Cancer 'tidal wave' on horizon, warns WHO - 0 views
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Jackie Longe on 05 Feb 14This is a sobering thought.
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Vitamins 'effective in treating ADHD symptoms' - 0 views
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This has been discussed and tried as a treatment for eons by parents (myself included) not wanting to put their kids on serious drugs. Most psychiatrists do not back it up as viable so having an article in JAMA about it is a huge change in perspective and it comes on the heels of research showing pretty serious side effects to the pharmaceutical treatments.
Dengue vaccine finally in sight, after 70 years - 0 views
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LONDON - One of the grimmest legacies of the war in the Pacific is still being fought 70 years on, but a victory over dengue, the intensely painful "breakbone fever" which that conflict helped spread around the world, may be in sight. The U.S.
23 percent of American teens have diabetes or at risk - 0 views
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MyHealthNewsDaily staff The percent of U.S. teens with diabetes is on the rise, a new study suggests. Between 1999 and 2008, the percentage of adolescents ages 12 to 19 with diabetes or prediabetes increased from 9 percent to 23 percent, the study found. Prediabetes is a conditio ...
Eyesight 'clue' to mental decline - 1 views
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15 March 2012 Last updated at 05:50 ET By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News Looking at the back of the eye may offer an insight into the health of someone's brain, according to the US researchers. A small study, published in the journal Neurology, linked damage to the retina with declining brain function.
iPhone brain-training app could help you do away with reading glasses - 0 views
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Last updated at 11:57 AM on 29th September 2011 Far from making your sight worse, it seems that time spent staring at a computer or iPhone screen could soon improve vision. A brain-training app that gives middle-aged people the eyesight of those ten years younger will be available to download within months, developers say.
OTC inhalers to be phased out to protect ozone layer - 0 views
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WASHINGTON - Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday patients who use the epinephrine inhalers to treat mild asthma will need to switch by Dec.
Fish oils block chemotherapy drug - 0 views
A Tick-Borne Parasite Invades the Blood Supply - 0 views
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A parasitic infection normally transmitted by deer ticks has made its way into the U.S. blood supply, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Tuesday
Researchers Discover Underlying Cause of Lou Gehrig's Disease - 0 views
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Louis Van Oeyen / WRHS / Getty Images Researchers report they've discovered a common cause of all forms of the fatal neurological disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease. The findings, published in Nature, point to a possible new avenue for treatment.
Three cancers share genetic link - 0 views
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A gene has been linked to at least three cancers in different tissues in the body, US researchers say. Their findings, reported in the journal Science, showed a fifth of melanomas (skin cancer), Ewing's sarcomas (bone) and glioblastomas (brain) had a defective copy of the gene STAG2.
Modified ecstasy 'attacks cancer' - 0 views
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Modified ecstasy could one day have a role to play in fighting some blood cancers, according to scientists. Ecstasy is known to kill some cancer cells, but scientists have increased its effectiveness 100-fold, they said in Investigational New Drugs journal.
1 in 10 US kids has ADHD, study finds - 0 views
Salmonella superbug on the rise - 0 views
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A strain of Salmonella resistant to the most powerful antibiotics has been found in the UK, France and Denmark. The outbreak emerged in Africa then spread to Europe, picking up antibiotic resistance along the way, says a team of international researchers. They are calling on health officials to step up monitoring to stop the "superbug" spreading globally.
The high cost of healthy eating out of reach for many - 0 views
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SEATTLE - A healthy diet is expensive and could make it difficult for Americans to meet new U.S. nutritional guidelines, according to a study published Thursday that says the government should do more to help consumers eat healthier.
Secondhand smoke boosts kids' ADHD, learning disability risks - 0 views
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Two new studies from the American Academy of Pediatrics look at how exposure to secondhand smoke affects American youths' learning behaviors and their attitudes toward smoking. The first found that children exposed to secondhand smoke in the home had a 50% increased risk of developing two or more childhood neurobehavioral disorders compared with children who were not exposed at home.
Bad bug: Gonorrhea strain resists all antibiotics - 0 views
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For several years, public health officials have been concerned that gonorrhea, one of the most prevalent STDs in the world, might become resistant to the last widely available antibiotics used to treat it, a class of drugs called cephalosporins.