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Another potential public health topic

This might be worth mentioning in some topic in the Fitness book: criticism of the government's MyPlate icon, Harvard's improvement.

Another possible public health policy topic.

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.

"Mobile health" (mHealth) -- might make a good new topic?

But behavioral therapy should be first treatment in youngest children.

Pretty cool thinking.

As exciting as such advances are, brain imaging is still primarily a research tool when it comes to mental disorders. Scans are appropriate for ruling out obvious pathology, like brain tumors, as possible causes of symptoms. The differences in brain structure and activity seen in disorders like schizophrenia or ADHD, for example, are typically only meaningful when comparing group statistics. There is simply too much individual variation in brain structure and function for an individual's scan to be diagnostic or predictive, given the current state of the science.

Risperidone worked no better than placebo in easing overall symptoms, study finds

Mental Health

Why? Males can't get cervical cancer. But they do contribute to it by spreading HPV to women through sexual activity. So vaccinating boys and young men against the virus will help prevent its transmission to women. Vaccination will also help prevent some of the 7,000 HPV-related cancers that occur in men each year....

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.

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.

"Questions to ask your doctor" . . . That sounds familiar.

Largest study to date spots more than 50 possible culprits in autoimmune disease.

Apparently all such inhalers are going off the market due to ozone effect. I am really surprised inhalers have an impact.

A study published last week ... indicates that a hand-held auto-injector-much like the epi pens used by people with life-threatening allergies-could be used to treat seizures that don't stop on their own. This could pave the way for home treatment of epileptic seizures.

Johns Hopkins scientists, reporting in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, have identified a small region on chromosome 2 that is associated with increased risk for attempted suicide.

Stem cell researchers create lung surface tissue in a dish

A protein that slashes the survival rates of head and neck cancer sufferers has been discovered - leaving scientists feeling positive that it could be vital for future treatment to help prevent cancer tumours developing.