There has been a drastic rise in the number of diagnosed cases of ADHD Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in American children over the last decade, according to new data released by the CDC.
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The Food and Drug Administration is admitting it s been too cautious by mandating certain warning labels on nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products such as the patch and nicotine gum and perhaps the labels have even deterred people from trying the cessation aids.
The evidence continues to mount that routine annual mammography screening isn t such a good thing. Even when a false positive doesn t result in surgery, it takes a psychological toll on women, researchers in Denmark say.
Children may already have one of the tools necessary to combat obesity technology. A Pew Internet study found that 78 percent of teens have cell phones and 47 percent of those are smartphones. Researchers around the country have started to develop programs using these resources to encourage teens to make healthier choices.
There s good news for vapers for the most part.
Researchers led by Dr Maciej L Goniewicz of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., conducted a comprehensive analysis of the vapor from a dozen brands of electronic cigarettes under a controlled setting. They say that while e-cigarette vapors contained some toxic substances, the levels of toxicants were nine to 450 times lower than cigarette smoke.
Mayor Bloomberg s ban on large sugary drinks set to go into effect on Tuesday, March 12th is not only applicable to soda, but may affect your morning coffee routine as well. And those restrictions are even more difficult to understand than the soda regulations, sorry to say.
A simple skin exam can significantly reduce the odds of being diagnosed with invasive melanoma, according to a new study. And these results hold true for patients who have had even a single skin exam as compared to those patients with no history of dermatologic examination.
More Americans now die from drug overdoses than from car accidents and the numbers just keep going up, as you can see from chart below from the CDC.
There were 42,917 poisoning deaths in 2010, with drugs accounting for most (38,329) of those. Opiate analgesics such as oxycodone (Percocet) accounted for 43 percent of all drug overdose deaths, the CDC says.
Ever had surgery for a tear in your medial meniscus, the hard rubber-like cartilage in your knee? No less than three ACSH staffers have. But maybe it wasn t necessary, a new study suggests.
In a finding that is sure to have the Natural Resources Defense Council ordering their vassals at Mother Jones to insist we are shills for Big Gel Manicure, we have noted that correlation between gel manicures - used to prevent nail from chipping - and cancer was not good science. It wasn't even good epidemiology.
If two women get cancer and have no family of history of cancer but both had gel manicures, that is not worth claiming they cause cancer - it is simply that cancer can strike anyone, anywhere, at any time.
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They are almost universally perceived by Americans as natural, safe and non-drugs, but in reality, dietary supplements are none of these. And ironically, despite the constant media attention and public concern over the safety of prescription drugs, according to a recent study, supplements are also responsible for more than half of all drug recalls.
Can you patent a human gene? The Supreme Court today seemed skeptical, raising questions about the legality of Myriad Genetic’s isolation of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that signal an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. It’s a complex issue. Companies can’t patent abstract ideas, natural phenomena and laws of nature. But an appeals [...]
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They are almost universally perceived by Americans as natural, safe and non-drugs, but in reality, dietary supplements may or may not be natural, and many of them are, in fact, drugs. And ironically, despite the constant media attention and public concern over the safety of prescription drugs, according to a recent study, supplements are also responsible for more than half of all drug recalls.
A new study published in journalBMC Medicine found that gaining weight increases ones risk of coronary heart disease just as much as getting older.
Researchers followed 1.2 million women for about 10 years. They found that every 5-unit increase in BMI increased incidence of CHD by 23 percent. This is equivalent to the risk incurred from aging 2.5 years. For obese women BMI = 34 risk increased to one in six.
In a recent op-ed in the UK's Guardian, a Tom Riddington ostensibly a physician condemns in no uncertain terms the increasing uptake of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) by hundreds of thousands of desperate, addicted UK smokers (soon to be millions in all likelihood). A similar trend in the e-cigarette market has been documented in both Europe and here in the U.S.
Many assume that vigorous exercise is a more effective means of reducing risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) than is more moderate activity. New research however, suggests that this assumption isn t necessarily true.
Earlier this week we reported on a study that found individuals who were offered monetary incentives to lose weight were more likely to ditch the excess pounds than those spurred on solely by motivation or education.
Adding a cash incentive and a bit of peer pressure may make it easier for people to lose weight, according to a paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine which found that companies that offer employees a monetary award based on a group's -- not an individual's -- weight loss performance may be the most successful at getting people to shed pounds.
Over ten years ago, Derek Lowe, an organic chemist who specializes in drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry started a small blog called “In the Pipeline,” which was mostly about developments in the drug industry. In the ensuing decade, his blog exploded, and is now the most widely-read and influential blog in the pharmaceutical/chemistry/science universe. [...]
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Sometimes vaccines simply work, and sometimes they really work. Such is the case for human pappilomavirus (HPV), the causative pathogen for most cases of cervical cancer. A study of more than 85 thousand native-born Australians revealed some very encouraging, and possibly even startling results. In 2007, two HPV vaccines were approved in Australia—Merck’s Gardisil, and GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix. The country began a campaign [...]
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Although medical guidelines have changed, most physicians opt for the 'better safe than sorry' approach when it comes to cervical cancer screenings among their patients, according to a government survey.
Can you patent a human gene? The Supreme Court today seemed skeptical, raising questions about the legality of Myriad Genetic s isolation of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that signal an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
Just days after two bombs in Boston killed three people and injured 170 more, letters that may — or may not — have been poisoned with ricin addressed to President Obama and a Mississippi senator have been intercepted by authorities. But don’t panic yet. The rapid test that authorities used in this case frequently causes [...]
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Sleep may not be on the list of priorities for a lot of teens, but maybe it should be. A new study published in the journal Pediatrics, found that increased sleep time may lead to a decrease in adolescent obesity, and those teenagers with the highest BMIs would see the greatest benefits.
One scientist calls it the dark side of open access, the move to make scholarly articles more accessible. The New York Times reports on how there s a proliferation of online journals that will print seemingly anything for a fee, and researchers warn that non experts using the Internet for research will have trouble distinguishing credible research from junk.
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