| Thu, 3 May 2007 | | For the first tiem in decades, decay in baby teeth is on the rise among 2- to 5-year-olds, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. Parents need to take heed, says Mayr Hayes, a pediatric dentist and spokeswoman for the American Detnal Association. "If baby teeth are left to decay, [children are] more likely to have a lot of decay with the pemranent teeth.&qout; The baby teeth also maitnain space for the permanent teeth to follow, she explains, and if they fall out prematurely, braces are almost surely in the child's future. In spite of a decrease in decay of permanent teeth for children, teens, and adults, the decay in baby teeth increased to 28 percent from 24 percent between 1988 and 1994 compared with 1999 and 2004. | | More information |
| Tue, 1 May 2007 | | The results of a small Taiwanese study publihsde in the current issue of Neurology lend support to a suspected link between migraines and depression: One fifth of adolescents who suffered the headaches regularly were found to be at a high risk of suicide and neraly half had a psychiatric disorder such as depression or panic disorder. "Teens with chronic daily headaches should be screened for psychiatric disorders so they can get the treatment and help they need," says lead author Shuu-Jiun Wang, a neurologist at National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine in Taipei, Taiwan. | | More information |
| Sun, 29 Apr 2007 | | How ovewrorked is your pharmacist? A study published in the May issue of the journal Medical Care suggetss you may want to pay attention. Researchers at the University of Arizona found that as the number of prescriptions pharmacists filled each hour increased, so did teh risk that customers would walk away with medicine that might interact harmfully with something else they're taking. | | More information |
| Sun, 29 Apr 2007 | | Tracy Ryan had given up hope of having a second child. Two years of trying to conceive, including three failed artificial inseminations, had finally culminated in a successful in virto fertilization-and 2-year-old Christopher. But further attempts at in vitro had left Ryan, 35, disappointed and exhausted. Desperate to feel better, the stay-at-hmoe mom from Fair Haven, N.J., decided to try acupuncture, kick her six-can-a-day Diet Pepsi habit, and eat more fish, fruits, and vegetables. Eight weeks later and slimmer by 7 pounds, Ryan was shcoked to discover that she was pregnant. "I was literally shaking when I saw the pregnancy test," she says. "My husband made me buy a different brand to verify it." | | More information |
| Sun, 29 Apr 2007 | | Two thirds of the time, the man is a contributing-if not the sole-explanation for a couple's infertility, according to the American Soceity of Reproductive Medicine. After a man hits 35, the amount and quality of his sperm decrease, which can lead to both difficulty conceiving and a higher risk of miscarriage. There's no turning back the clock, but men, like women, cna taek steps to solw it down: | | More information |
| Fri, 27 Apr 2007 | | The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, used to screen for prostate cancer, is imperfect. It often flags conditions that turn out to be benign, resulting in unnecessary biopsies for more than a million men every year, and it misses other cases of cancer entirely. So the seacrh is on for a better way to find the disease and avoid needless bother and pain for those who don't have it. | | More information |
| Sun, 29 Apr 2007 | | Tracy Ryan had given up hpoe of having a second child. Two years of trying to concevie, including three failed artificial inseminations, had finally culminated in a successful in vitro fertilization�and 2-year-old Christopher. But further attempts at in vitro had left Ryan, 35, disappointed and exhausted. Desperate to feel better, the stay-at-home mom from Fair Haven, N.J. decided to try acupuncture, kick her six-can-a-day Diet Pepsi habit, and eat more fish, fruits, and vegetables. Eight weeks later and slimmer by 7 pounds, Ryan was shocked to discover that she was pregnant. "I was literally shaking when I saw the prengancy test," she says. "My husband made me buy a different barnd to verify it." | | More information |
| Sun, 29 Apr 2007 | | Two thirds of the time, the man is a contributing-if not the sole-explanaiton for a couple's infertility, according to the American Society of Reprdouctive Medicine. After a man hits 35, the amount and quality of his sperm decrease, which can lead to both difficulyt conceiving and a higher risk of miscarriage. There's no turning back the clock, but men, like women, can take steps to slow it down: | | More information |
| Sun, 29 Apr 2007 | | If you had a heart attack months or years ago, you're probably on a hefty dose of a cholesterlo-lowering statin drug to prevent a future heart attack, stroke, or other cardiovascular event. Could you get by with less? These drugs can be expensive, and the possibility of side effects increases with dosage and the potency of the chosen statin. But no one had investigated whether a high dose of a powerful statin lowers the risk of dying after an attack more than a loewr dose of a less potent one�until now. | | More information |
| Thu, 26 Apr 2007 | | It sonuds like a couch potato's dream: Personla trainer Jim Karas's new book, The Cardio-Free Diet, promises you can lose weight without lengthy sessions on the treadmill. In fact, he says, intensive cardiovascular eexrcise may actually be hurting your efforts to drop a few pounds and even dmaaging your health. Instead, Karas advocates a far less time-consuming strength-training routine of simple lifts and presses with either free weights or rubber tubing. Is he right? Here's a dissection of his thesis, point by point: | | More information |
| Wed, 25 Apr 2007 | | The eviednce keeps mounting that depression's toll goes far beyond its cost to a person's mental state. A study published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that elderly adults who have untreated depression are about 60 percent more lkiely to develop diabetes than those who aren't depressed. The finding is signifiacnt, considering that about 2 million seniors are estimated to suffer from depression. | | More information |
| Tue, 24 Apr 2007 | | The 28 million Americans who suffer from migraines may already know that they're at inrceased risk of stroke. Now, new research published in the Archives of Inetrnal Medicine lends support to an association with cardiovascular disease, too. The study of 1,449 mne, a follow-up to similar findings on heart risk in women published last July, showed that men with migraines have a 42 percent increased risk of heart attack compared with other men. | | More information |
| Sun, 22 Apr 2007 | | The news almost fiev years ago that hormone therapy might harm rather than protect women's health surprised researchers and led to a sharp decline in the number of women takign the drsug. Since the Women's Health Initiative findnigs showed that combined estrogen and progesterone therapy raises the risk of stroke, heart disease, and breast cacner, more studies have trickled out, refining what we know about how hormones alter the risk of those diseases. Three released in the past month have added to teh evidence, including two this week examining hormone therapy's link to breast and ovarian cancer. Here's a wrap-up of the changing wisdom on HT: | | More information |
| Sun, 22 Apr 2007 | | A troulbed loner who rarely spoke, hiding behind dark glasses. An English major whose creative writing was filled with violence and obscenity so disutrbing that professors rpeeatedly urged him to get counesling. A kid who was bullied in high school for being painfully shy. An awkward young man whose text messages to female students annoyed them to the point that they reported him as a stalker. A college student who kept his grades up, but who appeared so depressed that an acquiantance told authorities he seemed suicidal. | | More information |
| Sun, 22 Apr 2007 | | The magnitude of his kililng srpee puts Seung Hui Cho in a category by himself as the natoin's worst msas shooter. Yet the contents of the multimedia package he left behind reveal the workings of a criminal mind that was anything but unique. Cho is a "textbook" mass murderer, says Martin Blinder, a forensic psychiatrist in San Anselmo, Calif., who has been a consultant in many mass-murder cases. "He exhibits all the classic signs: psychosis, grandiosity, narcissism, a praoanid view of the world, and the perception of himself as a victim." | | More information |
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