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Sunday NFL football fans may have noticed something different amongst the hordes of their favorite gridiron defensive linemen and quarterbacks — pink cleats, wristbands, gloves, chin straps, sideline caps, helmet decals, eye shield decals, captains' patches, sideline towels and quarterback towels. In honor of breast cancer awareness month, every NFL game in October will feature this distinct pink tint, reminding all of us about the devastating disease.
The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to regulate perchlorate under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The chemical has long been used in testing rockets and missiles, and therefore has been notoriously dubbed as the toxic chemical used in rocket fuel.
Most people who want to scare folks for Halloween do it with a frightening costume or elaborate yard display. Not the Environmental Working Group, alas.
A third of American mothers are unlikely to get their children flu shots, according to a survey commissioned by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Another poll by the same group finds 43 percent of Americans say they won’t get vaccinated themselves.
An international team of Alzheimer’s disease experts have proposed a new framework for diagnosing the disease earlier in its course that doesn’t require the patient to suffer from full-blown dementia. Instead, the patients must suffer “episodic memory impairment” and have at least one positive biomarker — either found in the cerebrospinal fluid, or on special radiological tests — for the disease.
Pregnant women who were near the 9/11 attacks in New York don’t have to worry that they might have put their unborn child at risk from exposure to toxic dust.
The FDA Endocrinologic & Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee has now recommended against allowing two new anti-obesity prescription drugs onto the market, in spite of the pervasive obesity epidemic in this country.
ACSH’s Dr. Josh Bloom yesterday participated in a webinar whose ostensible aim was a discussion of the efficacy of taxing sugary beverages as a weapon in the fight against obesity. But rather than discussing the pros and cons of such a tax, participants focused mostly on generating revenue through taxes on soda and sweetened juice.
Last month, an FDA advisory panel voted 12-to-1 to recommend the agency revoke the indication for advanced breast cancer for Avastin, a drug which two recent studies show does not significantly increase progression-free survival in patients. But over 6,500 people and counting disagree with the panel’s assessment and are petitioning the FDA to maintain Avastin’s indication for breast cancer.
Many women who take prescription drugs that can cause birth defects aren t that vigilant about using birth control, according to a new study. After analyzing a large database of prescription drug orders, Medco Research Institute scientists found that an alarming 40 percent of reproductive-age women concurrently using an oral contraceptive and a Category X drug a medication with known teratogenic, or fetal malformation effects are not taking the contraceptive regularly and are risking pregnancy.
Dallas-area black men have been getting more than just fades, buzzcuts and something off the top while visiting their local barbershop. As part of a public health intervention study, barbers in an intervention group of eight black-owned barbershops were trained to take customers blood pressure, and offered patrons a free reading with each cut while telling them a model story about real people getting their blood pressure under control.
Pregnant women whose doctors recommended the H1N1 swine flu vaccine were almost seven times more likely to get the shot than those whose doctors didn t recommend it,according to a survey of 300 women at Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Del. An aggressive pro-vaccine campaign at the hospital resulted in 62 percent of admitted pregnant women getting shots, researcher Marci Drees, M.D., told reporters at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Even though the number of U.S. adults with high blood pressure has not changed over the past decade, U.S. government researchers report that many more know about it — over 80 percent in 2008, up from 70 percent in 1999-2000 — and are getting treated for it. Approximately 30 percent of Americans have high blood pressure — a number that has remained stable since 1999 across gender, age and race — but almost 74 percent of adults took drugs to treat it in 2008, compared to 50 percent in 1999-2000.
NYC Health Department’s tactics as disgusting as their gross-out videos
The frequency with which we reach for the saltshaker hasn t changed in the last five decades, a study in the November issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds.
Researchers announced yesterday that they discovered a new strain of swine flu (H1N1) in Singapore in early 2010 that has since spread to Australia and New Zealand. The new flu variant may require the development of an updated seasonal flu vaccine sooner than expected.
The American Heart Association has recommended new guidelines for the performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). In emergency people are are now advised to give 30 chest compressions first, and then check the airway and administer rescue breaths as needed to children and adults. Previously the guidelines called for the rescue breaths coming before the chest compressions, a system dubbed ABC, for airway-breaths-chest compressions. Now it’s CAB — compressions, airway, breathing.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is ensuring that ghosts and goblins are not the only things you ll have to fear this Halloween as they send out another infamous scaremongering email. This time EWG is unhappy that the Alliance for Food and Farming (AFF), a national non-profit organization composed of farmers and farm groups, in conjunction with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and the U.S.
Full-term newborns with jaundice are at a higher risk for psychological disorders, including the autism spectrum disorder known as pervasive developmental disorder, according to a very large Danish study published in yesterday’s Pediatrics.
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