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Smoke less to stay young

...e helped to kick the habit."it follows that public health campaigns aimed at young people must be drastically modified to convince them to eliminate cigarettes completely....

Osteoporosis associated with Childhood Cancer

...it has the potential to become a tremendous public health issue. Survivors of childhood ALL who suffer bone loss in their 20s or younger face potentially more severe and debilitating injuries as they age. The researchers determined that the effective drug combination used to treat childhood acute lymphobl...

Smoking during pregnancy increases risk of cleft palate

...ediments and emotional detriment. Just as public health messages about the risks of drinking alcohol during pregnancy have resulted in a steady decline in fetal alcohol syndrome, they hope women will take notice of their results and others that have found smoking can harm a developing baby....

Tobacco and alcohol connected to larger health problems

...400 patients// to find if there was a link between health status and smoking habits. They classified them into four groups:current tobacco use only, history of alcohol problems only, both, or neither. The patients with both current tobacco use and past alcohol problems had noticeably lower scores on both ...

Obesity increases health costs

Obese patients spend more for health care and medications than smokers, as the extra weight poses them many more chronic health hazards. While tobacco is still the nation's principal cause of preventable deaths, the surgeon gene...

Parasite infections linked to organ transplants

... disease can cause heart irregularities. Federal health officials estimate as many as 100,000 Latin American immigrants in the United States may carry the parasite. More than 16 million people are said to be infected in Central and South America. 10% to 30% of people infected with the parasite develop ful...

Heart Surgery Is Getting Safer for the Old

...rating on are, too," he noted. "The success of our health care system is that people are living longer, living better."...

Healthy Medicine Or Harmful Intoxicant?

...a healthy, naturally occurring substance with many health benefits or a deadly intoxicant with no legitimate medical use? GHB -- gamma hydroxy butyric acid -- hailed as a wonder drug for the first 30 years// of its career, has been blamed as an illegal killer for the past 12 years. Many blame GHB for thousa...

Calcium reduces colon cancer risk

...ncer history of 135,000 men and women in two large health surveys.// They found that those who consumed 800 to 900 mg of calcium a day significantly reduced their risk of left-side colon cancer by 50 to 60 percent. The researchers found that sufficient levels of calcium in the diet significantly reduced th...

Medications linked to xerostomia and caries

...m to bring dental care to individuals with special health care needs.“In a follow-up study, we examined data from 65 more patients and found similar results,” Dr. Salinas says. “We need to continue to look at this. The patients we studied originally were patients at our dental school clinic, not a totally r...

Gel pares inflammatory activity throughout body

...to further evidence of the connection between oral health and overall health, investigators from the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine have found. The investigators divided a sample of 100 adults with chronic periodontal disease into four groups, two of which had an antibiotic-infused gel ap...

Problematic Use of smallpox vaccine

...lating an abundant supply of smallpox vaccine, but health officials say they are not recommending that it be widely used- yet. The vaccine currently on hand, 16.8 million doses in a government stockpile// and more than 80 million doses that drug maker Aventis Pasteur says it will add to that, is safe and ef...

Campaign aims to simplify OTC drug labels

... over-the-counter drugs each year to treat routine health problems. The number has increased as more and mor...lp from the Food and Drug Administration and other health organizations. Boldly printed drug labels and a new education campaign are the issues to be consider...

Inspiring positive life changes

...d a number of studies on biomarkers indicators of health or disease status to see// if a knowledge of these...point out that people need support to change their health behaviours. Doctors shouldn't just leave them with the bad news that they are poisoning themselves w...

Cathine leads to mental health disorder

...ther European countries, is causing massive mental health problems among their young men....

Meningitis C vaccine a cost-effective success

...h year. The researchers say the annual cost to the health service of treating these cases was around ￡4.88 million. The team calculated that the campaign would prevent 9,980 cases of meningitis C and 666 deaths over the cohort’s lifetime, resulting in almost 23,000 discounted life years saved. That saving w...

Interference helps Heart Patients

...age of phone calls from a nurse checking on their health and offering advice. Calls began within five days of hospital discharge. Hospital readmission rates for heart failure were 30 percent lower among patients who received the calls. Among phone-call patients who were re-hospitalized for heart failure, ...

Women need to exercise more to prevent obesity

...im for 35 minutes a day// of moderate exercise for health and weight control. But scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham now warn that this may not be enough. They have studied a group of women who reported a tendency to gain weight. Physical inactivity alone accounted for 60 per cent of th...

Pharmaceutical companies are targeting patients

...prompt many to see their doctor about an untreated health problem and prod others to take their prescription drugs more faithfully. Sixty percent of the print and broadcast ads were for just 20 medications, including the arthritis drugs Vioxx and Celebrex, the ulcer drug Prilosec, Viagra for impotence and t...

Women benefit from consuming fish

...indings add to the rapidly growing evidence of the health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, which are especially plentiful in dark, oily fish such as mackerel, salmon and sardines....

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