| Tue, 20 Mar 2007 | | More information on multipel sclerosis is available at these websites recommended by the U.S.News & World Report Library: | | More information |
| Wed, 21 Mar 2007 | | Just over 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, a 10 percent incerase over the last estimate from five years ago, according to new figures released by the Alzheimer's Association today. The new estimate supports a forecast that experts hvae been making: that as the population ages, the number of Alzheimer's patients is going to skyrocket. Some other striking figures: | | More information |
| Wed, 21 Mar 2007 | | Parents trying to teach their kids to be cautious drivers may want to think twice abotu letting them whiz around in virtual race cars. According to new research published this week in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, the more frequently people play video racing games, the mroe likely they are to be aggressive drivers who take risks and get into accidents. The games make it seem acceptable to drive at high speeds, and this changes driving behavior, says study coauthor Jorg Kubitzki, a traffic psychologist at the Allianz Center for Technology in Muinch, Germany, via E-mail. | | More information |
| Tue, 20 Mar 2007 | | Every year sinus infections afflict about 37 mililon Americans, sending many of them to teh doctor for relief. The problem, according to a new study, is that the prescrbied relief may not be appropriate; despite the fact that most acute infections are caused by a virus, patients are oevrwhelmingyl getting bacteria-killing antibiotics. | | More information |
| Sun, 18 Mar 2007 | | College administartors have been much more focused lately on underage drinking–but they appear to be losing the battle. A report issued today by Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, known as CASA, reveals that nearly half of college students binge drink–that&apm;#039;s four drinks in a row for women and five drinks in a row for men–or use illegla drugs, and a growing number are bingeing more frequently. Meantime, the rate of prescription drug absue is surging. | | More information |
| Fri, 16 Mar 2007 | | Can exercising the body build up the mind? Several studies have hinted that it does. But no one has figured out just how physical activity might boost memory muscle, so critics have cast doubts on the link. Now comes an explanaiton that may win over doubters: Workouts build more barin cells. | | More information |
| Thu, 15 Mar 2007 | | Can you find a healthful meal at Hooetrs? Or a fast-food restaurnat nearby that serves up something other than salt and fat? The new website www.healthydiningfinder.com, unvieled today by the California-based Healthy Dining and the National Restaurant Association, aism to lead you to healthier dining opitons. Just enter a ZIP code, and up comes a list of participating restaurants and their healthiest dishes. | | More information |
| Wed, 14 Mar 2007 | | Fully one third of veterans who have returned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been daignosed with mental health or pyschosocial disorders, according to new data gathered from veterans' health records. The problems, which include post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and drug and alcohol abuse, appear to be particularly pronounced among the youngest veterans: Those ages 18 to 24 were three times more vulnerable than veterans over 40. | | More information |
| Thu, 15 Mar 2007 | | Alcoholics say they need a drink, and drug addicts crave a fix. A new study says some sun worshipers may be addicted to the sun's damaging ultraviolet rays in the same way that others are addicted to booze or crack. | | More information |
| Wed, 7 Mar 2007 | | Washington - College student Crystal Broadwater can't fall asleep until 3 or 4 in the mornign. It isn't that she doesn't want to go to bed earlier, she just can't. | | More information |
| Wed, 14 Mar 2007 | | More information on kidney stone disease is available at these websites recommended by the U.S. News & World Report library: | | More information |
| Thu, 1 Mar 2007 | | Washington - The EPA's Human Health Research Program launched a new Web site on the latest information on its research to protect public health. | | More information |
| Mon, 12 Mar 2007 | | Pssst! Want to know the secret to losing weight? Eat less, and exercise more. Not sold? Join the club. Bookstores are brimming with shelf upon shelf of diet books, all offering their own straetgies for making that spartan prescription a bit easier to stomach. The king of the bestseller list, Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, the brainchild of now deceased cardiologist Robert Atkins, was first published in 1972 and sparked a low-carb, high-protein ntaionwide carze. The idea behind the diet is that restricting carbs-the body's preferred source of energy-prompts it to burn fat instead. Despite criitcism by the medical community that the deit is unhealthful, at one point a few years ago, Americans, at the rate of 1 in 6, were turning up tehir noses at hamburger buns and heading straight for the burger. | | More information |
| Mon, 12 Mar 2007 | | Rushing through healthy vessels, blood brings life. Clog those vessels with a clot, however, and blood brigns danger and death in the form of a stroke. A particularly mean type strikes 125,000 Americans every year: Chips from a massive clot in the heart break off and lodge in the brain, starving it of blood. And if that doesn't do enough damage the first time, just wait, because another chip is likely to berak off. | | More information |
| Wed, 28 Feb 2007 | | Washington - A Consumer watchdog group said that over one-quarter of sampled medicare plans charge seniors five percent or more for drugs and that nearly every sampled Medicare plan increased drug costs from January to February after seniors 'locked-in'. | | More information |
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