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FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Routine small fuel spills at gas stations could cause long-term harm to communities as the gas leaks into the soil and groundwater, a new study suggests. "Gas station owners have worked very hard to prevent gasoline from leaking out of underground storage tanks," said study leader Markus Hilpert, a senior scientist in the department of environmental health sciences...
October 10, 2014
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) - The childhood pneumococcal vaccine helps children avoid the suffering and danger of ear infections, meningitis and pneumonia. And a new study suggests it may provide an added bonus: cutting down on infections from antibiotic-resistant "superbugs." - First used in children in 2010, the pneumococcal vaccine was linked to a 62 percent reduction between 2009 and...
October 10, 2014
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) - U.S. troops have arrived in the beleaguered nation of Liberia, the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Their first mission: to set up an isolation center for doctors and other health-care workers infected with the deadly disease. Six U.S. military planes arrived Thursday, and the United States may eventually send as many as 4,000 troops to help combat...
October 10, 2014
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) - The combination drug Akynzeo (netupitant and palonosetron) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat nausea and vomiting among people undergoing chemotherapy, the agency said Friday in a news release. Akynzeo contains a new anti-nausea drug, netupitant, and palonosetron, which was approved to treat nausea and vomiting in 2008. The combination...
October 10, 2014
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) - If you think teenagers always pay a penalty in performance when they juggle multiple media devices, think again. A new study conducted by high school students finds that some youngsters do equally well on tasks when moving between their laptops, smartphones and other devices, compared to less media-obsessed teens. "Maybe practice really does make perfect," Alexandra...
October 10, 2014
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Parents' lack of knowledge about concussion may hinder youngsters' treatment and recovery, two new studies suggest. One study included a survey of 511 parents of children aged 5 to 18 who suffered a head injury. Only about half of the parents knew that a concussion was a brain injury that could cause symptoms such as headache or difficulty concentrating. Ninety-two...
October 10, 2014
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Counting pitches reduces young pitchers' risk of arm damage, but many coaches don't use this method consistently, according to a new study. Researchers surveyed 61 youth baseball coaches in Cincinnati and northeast Ohio, and found that all of them were familiar with pitch counts and limited the number of pitches thrown by players in some way. The results also...
October 10, 2014
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Another study suggests that coffee might actually be healthy for your liver, and that even decaffeinated coffee may have this effect. Prior research had suggested that drinking coffee may help protect the organ, but the new study suggests caffeine might not be the active ingredient at work. In this study, researchers led by Dr. Qian Xiao, of the U.S. National...
October 10, 2014
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Many newborns are at risk on their first trip home from the hospital because their parents install or use car safety seats incorrectly, a new study warns. Researchers looked at 267 families with newborns and found that 93 percent made at least one major mistake in positioning their infant in a car safety seat or when installing the seat in a vehicle. The most...
October 10, 2014
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Harvoni, a daily pill that treats the most common form of hepatitis C, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday. It's the first combination pill (ledipasvir and sofosbuvir) approved to treat the chronic infection, and the first medication that doesn't require that the antiviral drugs interferon or ribavirin be taken at the same time, the...
October 10, 2014
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Hearing themselves make speech-like sounds such as cooing and babbling is crucial to infants' speech and language development, a new study shows. The researchers also found that infants with major hearing loss who received cochlear implants to improve their hearing quickly reached the vocalization levels of infants with no hearing problems. "Hearing is a critical...
October 10, 2014
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Five major U.S. airports will begin screening travelers entering the country from the three West African nations hit hardest by the ongoing Ebola epidemic, federal health officials announced Wednesday. These five airports receive 94 percent of the roughly 150 travelers who arrive daily in the United States from the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and...
October 9, 2014
(HealthDay News) - Children can learn healthy habits that can help them throughout their lives. The Letsmove.gov website offers these examples: - Get physical activity every day. Try new vegetables and fruits to expand your tastes. Drink plenty of water every day. Take frequent breaks from TV watching to get some exercise. Help your parents prepare a healthy dinner for the family. Copyright © 2014...
October 9, 2014
(HealthDay News) - Autumn offers a bounty of healthy produce, so take advantage of the flavors and nutritional benefits of the season. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics suggests fall fruits and veggies: - Pumpkin, which is rich in vitamin A and fiber. Add it to muffins, bread and other baked goods. Nitrate-rich beets, steamed, roasted or left raw and chopped, peeled and tossed in a salad. Fiber-,...
October 9, 2014
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: - Bee Swarm Kills Man, Critically Injures Another in Arizona - One man was killed and another critically injured Wednesday when landscape workers in southern Arizona were attacked by Africanized bees. The crew was cutting grass and weeding for a 90-year-old homeowner when they were swarmed by bees...
October 9, 2014
THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Regularly eating fried food before pregnancy may increase a woman's risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to a new study. Researchers examined more than 21,000 single-child pregnancies in the United States over more than 10 years. Diabetes occurred in almost 850 of the pregnancies, the study found. Diabetes that develops during pregnancy is...
October 9, 2014
THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) - When it comes to pain relief during labor and delivery, mom probably knows best, new research suggests. Doctors tend to be cautious about when to give the pain-relieving local anesthetic known as an epidural during labor. But, a new study says the best time to give an epidural is likely when a woman asks for it. Researchers reviewed nine studies that included...
October 9, 2014
THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) - College athletes in contact sports such as football and soccer are more than twice as likely as other college athletes to carry a superbug known as methicillin-resistant -Staphylococcus aureus- (MRSA), new research finds. "This study shows that even outside of a full-scale outbreak, when athletes are healthy and there are no infections, there are still a substantial...
October 9, 2014
THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) - New research finds that children who are hospitalized get discharged sooner and come back less often when hospitals take extra efforts to control treatment that uses antibiotics. Some hospitals and other medical facilities have embraced "stewardship programs" designed to make it harder for physicians to prescribe antibiotic medications without a good reason....
October 9, 2014
THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Scientists who mapped out the shape and structure of a key protein in the Ebola virus say their discovery could help efforts to develop drugs to prevent or treat infection with the deadly pathogen. The protein has a molecular architecture unlike any protein known to exist, according to the researchers. Its distinctive folded shape may be crucial to how the...
October 9, 2014
THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) - The heads of West African nations battered by the Ebola outbreak pleaded Thursday with world leaders for massive increases in financial and medical aid. "Our people are dying," Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma said by videoconference at a World Bank meeting in Washington, D.C. He called the epidemic "a tragedy unforeseen in modern times," -NBC News-...
October 9, 2014
THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Lung cancer can remain dormant for more than 20 years before suddenly becoming aggressive, a new study says. Researchers analyzed lung cancers from seven patients - including smokers, former smokers and never smokers - and found that the initial genetic errors that cause the cancer can go undetected for many years. This dormancy can end when new, additional...
October 9, 2014
THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) - In what may be a step toward a cure for type 1 diabetes, researchers say they've developed a large-scale method for turning human embryonic stem cells into fully functioning beta cells capable of producing insulin. Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disorder affecting upwards of 3 million Americans, is characterized by the body's destruction of its own insulin-producing...
October 9, 2014
THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) - In a small study, Swedish researchers found that the impotence drug yohimbine might help people with type 2 diabetes who have a particular gene mutation that lowers their insulin production. Among 50 men and women with type 2 diabetes partially caused by a mutation in a gene called alpha(2A)-AR, those treated with yohimbine showed improved insulin production...
October 9, 2014
THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Even though Hispanics in the United States become infected with HIV at rates triple those of whites, less than half of Hispanics with the virus are receiving adequate treatment, a new report finds. The report, based on 2010 U.S. government health data, finds that while 80 percent of HIV-infected Hispanics do receive care soon after their diagnosis, only about...
October 9, 2014
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