BRCA Mutations Don't Raise Breast Cancer Risk Equally (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Not all carriers of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations show the same risk for developing breast cancer. More »
Girls who feel unpopular may gain weight (AP)
AP - Where a teenage girl sees herself on her school's social ladder may sway her future weight, a study of more than 4,000 girls finds. Those who believed they were unpopular gained more weight over a two-year period than girls who viewed themselves as more popular. Researchers said the study showed how a girl's view of her social status has broader health consequences. More »
Dairy linked to 3 deaths, miscarriage (AP)
AP - At Whittier Farms dairy, the fifth-generation owners brag of the quality of their Holstein cows and still deliver milk right to your door, in glass bottles. Customers like the products because they are a hormone-free taste of old New England. More »
Diabetes Drug May Cut Med-Related Weight Gain (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Improved diet, more exercise and the diabetes medication metformin can help people suffering with schizophrenia control the weight gain that typically accompanies their medications, a Chinese study suggests. More »
China says latest bird flu outbreak under control (Reuters)
Reuters - China's latest outbreak in poultry of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, in the far western region of Xinjiang, has been brought under control, state media reported. More »
Clinical Trials Update: Jan. 8, 2008 (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch: More »
Grocery Store Chain Pulls All Tobacco Products
The Wegman's supermarket chain will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products on Feb. 10. More »
Holding Back Foods Doesn't Stop Allergies
The American Academy of Pediatrics changes its advice about allergy causing foods and breast-feeding. More »
Autism Trend Lets Vaccines Off Hook
Autisum cases continued to grown in California after a mercury-based preservative was removed from childhood vaccines. More »
Reason To Worry: Anxiety Ups Heart Attacks
Hostility may lead to some heart attacks, but worrying excessively may be even worse. More »
Geography Plays Role In Organ Transplants
Rural patients are less likely to get on waiting lists for organs, a study finds. More »
Cold Doesn't Have To Stop Runners, Golfers
Getting a good winter workout for your favorite sport doesn't always mean moving inside. More »
Nepal radio breaks taboos to fight HIV/AIDS (Reuters)
Reuters - Ignoring social taboos in this conservative nation, a Nepali radio program on safe sex is spreading awareness against HIV/AIDS and offers life-saving advice to young people who are vulnerable to the disease. More »
Uganda: HIV/Aids Education Should Be Reinforced
Uganda was praised for its efforts to address the AIDS scourge. This was made possible with high political commitment and massive external support. More »
Southern Africa: SADC Artists Against HIV, Aids Established
Following the inaugural Sadc Artists Aids Festival held in Harare last December, a forum that would address HIV and Aids issues affecting artists - the Sadc Artists Against HIV and Aids - has been established. More »
Nigeria: Turai Yar'Adua Cautions On HIV/Aids
The wife of the president, Hajiya Turai Yar'Adua yesterday in Yola cautioned Nigerians not to jubilate over the recent report on the decline of HIV and AIDS prevalence in the country. More »
Staying active and drinking moderately is the key to a long life
People who drink moderate amounts of alcohol and are physically active have a lower risk of death from heart disease and other causes than people who don?t drink at all, according to new research. People who neither drink alcohol nor exercise have a 30-49 per cent higher risk of heart disease than those who either drink, exercise or both. The research, which was published in the European Heart Journal [1] today (Wednesday 9 January), is the first to look at the combined influence of leisure-time physical activity and weekly alcohol intake on the risk of fatal ischaemic heart disease (a form of heart disease characterised by a reduced blood supply to the heart) and deaths from all causes. More »
Clinical Trials Update: Jan. 9, 2008 (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch: More »
5 Factors Help Predict Psychosis in Children (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Jan. 9 (HealthDay News) -- It may be possible to predict who will develop psychotic illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, very early in the disease process, a new study says. More »
Measles epidemic in north Nigerian city (AFP)
AFP - A measles epidemic in the northern Nigerian city of Kano has killed over 200 children since the start of December 2007, health workers said Wednesday. More »
Uganda: We Have to Suspend Drug Copyright Rules to Save Lives
Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs can keep people with HIV alive for longer and slow the effects of the HIV epidemic in countries such as Uganda. More »
Tiny RNA Molecules Control Breast Cancer's Spread (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Jan. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have zeroed in on a handful of tiny ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules that seem to control whether or not breast cancer travels to the lung and bone. More »
Missing molecules key to breast cancer spread (Reuters)
Reuters - The finding will help doctors make better treatment decisions and may give rise to a new way of halting the advance of breast cancer, said Dr. Sohail Tavazoie, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. More »