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Asian spice could reduce breast cancer risk in women exposed to hormone replacement therapy

COLUMBIA, Mo. Previous studies have found that postmenopausal women who have taken a combined estrogen and progestin hormone replacement therapy have increased their risk of developing progestin-accelerated breast tumors. Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that curcumin, a popular...

Businessman Exposed Problems With Quest Subsidiary's Blood Test Kits; Led to $302 Million Settlement

NEW YORK, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The impetus for the massive federal investigation that led to today's $302 million settlement by Quest Diagnostics Inc. was a "qui tam" (whistleblower) lawsuit filed by a California businessman and biochemist, the government revealed today. The qui tam laws...

Poor Kids Exposed to More Secondhand Smoke

Wealthier households are less apt to include adult smokers, study finds,,,, FRIDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) -- Poor children are exposed to more secondhand smoke than their wealthier counterparts, a new study has found. A big reason for this is that "poor kids are far more likely t...

Toes With Nail Fungus Will Be Exposed During Upcoming Summer Sandal Months: Prepare Now

Start Now for Summer Relief! Woodward Laboratories adds a New Nail Fungus Test Kit to its Proven Mycocide NS Antifungal Treatment Line; Makes Diagnosing Nail Fungus Convenient and Free ALISO VIEJO, Calif., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 35 million Americans have nail fungus, but only 2.5...

Smithsonian Worker Exposed to Asbestos Files Whistleblower Retaliation Complaint

Smithsonian Whistleblower and Asbestos Experts to Dispute Smithsonian's Assurances That National Air and Space Museum is Safe for Workers and Public WASHINGTON, March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Smithsonian whistleblower Richard Pullman will hold a press conference on Tuesday, March 17, to...

Clinical Trial Fraud Exposed by Coast IRB

WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday, March 6, 2009, Coast IRB notified Criminal Fraud unit of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the FDA, and the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health Professions of a fraudulent clinical test. Coast Independent Review Board discovered th...

Preemies Exposed to Toxins in Liquid Meds

Called excipients, these agents include chemicals that can cause nerve damage, study says FRIDAY, Jan. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Potentially harmful agents called excipients are contained in liquid medicines commonly given to premature infants, according to a U.K. study. Excipients a...

'Recovery coaches' effective in reducing number of babies exposed to drugs

About 11 percent of the 4 million babies born in the U.S. each year have been exposed to alcohol or illicit drugs in the womb, according to a June 2006 report by the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare. If removed from the home by child protection, these children tend to remain in...

Almost Half of Kids Still Exposed to Secondhand Smoke

Survey says that despite progress, more is needed to clean up air in homes, cars FRIDAY, Dec. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Despite progress in establishing clean indoor air policies, 42 percent of U.S. children are still exposed to secondhand smoke each week, according to a new survey. ...

Newborns exposed to maternal smoking more irritable, difficult to soothe

PROVIDENCE, RI Previous studies have shown that babies exposed to tobacco in utero are more likely to have a low birth weight and are at increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome. Now new research by The Miriam Hospital reveals that these babies are also less likely to self-soothe and are m...

Bed net usage increases, but 90 million African children still exposed to malaria

The use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) to protect children from malaria has risen six-fold in the past seven years, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. Despite this success, however, 90 million children still do not have access to this simple protective tool, and remain at ...

Newborns in Intensive Care Often Exposed to Pain

May change pain processing in brain, affect development, researcher says TUESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Although tiny babies receiving intensive care must undergo numerous painful interventions, not enough is being done to reduce their discomfort, new research suggests. Of the ...

Girls and children exposed to tobacco smoke benefit more from montelukast (singulair)

Girls and children exposed to tobacco smoke respond particularly well to montelukast (Singulair) according to researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center. Associate Professor of Pediatrics Nathan Rabinovitch, MD, and his colleagues also identified two biomarkers that may help physi...

Short RNA strand helps exposed skin cells protect body from bacteria, dehydration and even cancer

Every minute, 30,000 of our outermost skin cells die so that we can live. When they do, new cells migrate from the inner layer of the skin to the surface of it, where they form a tough protective barrier. In a series of elegant experiments in mice, researchers at Rockefeller University have now di...

Many Babies Exposed to Chemicals

Evidence of phthalates found in urine after using shampoo, lotion and powder, study shows MONDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- More than 80 percent of infants tested in a new study had been exposed to a potentially harmful group of chemicals known as phthalates. Exactly what this mean...

Research finds allergic children exposed to peanuts at younger ages despite recommendations to avoid

The age at which children are exposed to peanuts and have an allergic response has dropped significantly over the last decade, despite recommendations that at-risk families avoid exposing children to peanuts during the first three years of life, according to research led by a Childrens Hospital of...

UGA study: Youth exposed to smokeless tobacco ads despite settlement

Athens, Ga. - A 1998 settlement designed to limit the marketing of smokeless tobacco to youth hasnt been effective, according to a new University of Georgia study published in the early online edition of the American Journal of Public Health. Exposure rates are significant and have been very s...

Health Hazards in Household Cleaners Exposed

Use of certain cleaning products reduces lung function, increases asthma risk, studies find,,,, FRIDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) -- A clean, fresh-smelling home may actually be bad for your health, depending on what type of cleaning and air freshening products you use. Recent resear...

Exploitation of Residents at Wasserstein and Lazard-linked Senior Care Facilities Exposed

Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein comes under fire as healthcare workers' union informs residents, families that Atria senior care facilities value private equity gain over safety measures; Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films releases documentary exposing Lazard and Wasserstein greed NEW YORK, Jul...

Hundreds of Children Exposed to Pesticide in US

Recently in a school in California a foul mist drifted onto the playground from the adjacent orange groves and a couple of children collapsed in spasms , vomiting on the blacktop. Apparently hundreds of school children in many agricultural states have been exposed to farm chemicals, leading to...

Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange Increased Risk of Prostate Cancer Recurrence

Veterans exposed to Agent Orange have a 48 percent increased risk of prostate cancer recurrence following surgery than their unexposed peers , and when the disease comes back, it seems more aggressive, researchers say. "We need to be screening these patients earlier, treating their cancer a...

American Who Exposed Air Passengers to Drug Resistant TB Quarantined

Drug-resistant tuberculosis may be the disease generally identified with the third world and the poor. But it is spreading its tentacles everywhere. US authorities fear that an American might have exposed fellow air passengers on two transatlantic flights this month to the potentially lethal disea...

Activists Urge Greater Medical Support for Gulf War Veterans Exposed to Sarin Gas

When US forces destroyed a chemical munitions dump in Khamisiyah, Iraq in March 1991, the soldiers concerned did not realize what they were getting into. Only much later it was revealed they could have been exposed to the deadly sarin gas, released during the demolition. Sarin is a chemica...

Adolescents Exposed to Family Turmoil and Violence Face Stress-related Problems

Adolescents who are chronically exposed to family turmoil, violence, noise, poor housing or other chronic risk factors show more stress-induced physiological strain// than other young people. However, when they have responsive, supportive mothers, they do not experience these negative physiol...

Health-Care Workers Exposed to HIV on Job Need Preventive Treatment

A review of existing research confirms that health-care workers should undergo a month of preventive drug treatment if they are exposed// to HIV on the job. Still, the reviewers say that there’s been little research into so-called occupational postexposure prophylaxis, and it’s still not cle...

Stakes Higher for Elderly Women Exposed to Air Pollution

Post-menopausal women exposed to high concentrations of air pollutants, are at a higher risk of cardiovascular problems than previously thought, reveal a new study.// The study conducted by Women’s Health Initiative, which is funded by the government of America, has brought out findings that ur...

Soldiers Exposed To Gunshot Noise Need Better Hearing Protection

A new study published in the January issue of the medical journal Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery strongly recommends better hearing protection for soldiers to// prevent permanent long-term hearing loss that can be caused by exposure to the sound of gunshots. The study measured the imp...

Children exposed to smoke prone to bladder cancer

Children exposed to smoke may be prone to bladder cancer later in life, says a new study. // Naomi Allen of Oxford University and other British researchers analysed data of about 430,000 people across Britain and found that people who smoked before the age of 15 were three times more likely ...

An Infectious Agent of Deception, Exposed Through Proteomics

Salmonella bacteria, infamous for food poisoning that kills hundreds of thousands worldwide, infect by stealth. They slip unnoticed into and multiply inside macrophages, the very immune system// cells the body relies on to seek and destroy invading microbes. Just how Salmonella escapes detect...

Babies in Womb Exposed to Harmful Chemicals

Babies are exposed to certain harmful chemicals before they are even born, finds a news study that lays stress on the need for pregnant women to be careful about their diet.// Scientists led by Maria Jose Lopez Espinosa at the University of Granada, Spain, tested blood samples taken from the ...

People Exposed To Lead Likely To Die From Brain Cancer

According to University of Rochester Medical Center study people exposed to lead on the job are 50 percent more likely to die from brain cancer than people who are not// exposed. The study author Edwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., said the study provides further evidence that widespread environmental ...

Babies Could Be exposed to Third Hand Smoke If Parents Are Smokers

A new research done in the US has shown that babies whose parents smoke are exposed to ‘third hand smoke’ even by simply touching furniture and other objects in the home.// The researchers had explained that the babies might take in nicotine and other chemicals from cigarettes even as they hu...

Irish Households Exposed To Lethal Radiation

A government body issued a warning today that thousands of people in Ireland are being exposed to potentially lethal doses of radiation.// The warning issued by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) came after a house in Kerry was discovered to contain 40- fold the acceptab...

Lakhs of Indians Exposed to High Levels of Poisonous Gases

New Delhi: Millions of Indians are being exposed to high levels of poisonous gases, including cancer-causing volatile organic compounds and sulphur fumes//, and the country lacks the mechanism to monitor or regulate these toxins, according to a report relased here today. Titled 'Smokescreen: A...

Australian Children Not Being Exposed To Enough Sunlight

Professor Peter Ebeling the head of endocrinology of the Western Hospital in Australia warned that many Victorian children were not receiving enough sunlight// , there by lacking vitamin D, which is needed to absorb calcium for healthy bones. He explained that children who were not exposed t...

Children exposed to smoke show decreased levels of Vitamin C

A recent study has shown that children, who are exposed to smoke, as a reason of having parents who smoke at home, are likely to have impaired vitamin C levels. Earlier studies have however, revealed the same// results in smokers. The study, which involved 520 children aged 2 to 12 years, who ...

Frank Sinatra's Boozy Night Nap on Cop's Couch Exposed

Singer/actor Frank Sinatra once slept on a policeman's couch after a night of heavy boozing . The 82-year-old's boozy night nap in 1952 has been revealed in Dennis Wood's book 'A Few Coppers More - True Tales Of Policing In Manchester'. Sinatra was at a career low when he met a Manc...

Lohans Boozing Stint in Rehab Exposed

It seems that hell-raising actress Lindsay Lohan got back to her boozing ways while still undergoing treatment in rehab for the second time . The actress guzzled vodka and Red Bull energy drink secretly during her 21st birthday in Promises rehab. Following the incident, furious reha...

Myths About Hydropower Projects Exposed

Shattering the myth of big hydropower projects being clean, a new scientific study has revealed that large dams in the country are accountable for at least 19 percent of India's global warming emissions, especially methane. According to the study, Indian dams are larger methane emitters an...

Link Between Eye Infections and Contact Lens Use Exposed

A recent research has found that the use of a specific contact lens solution is very strongly linked to Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), a rare severe eye infection. The study, by University of Illinois researchers, has been published online by the American Journal of Ophthalmology. A...