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THURSDAY, Aug. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Black Americans are at greater risk for diabetes-related vision loss than other racial groups battling the blood sugar disease, a new study says. Researchers analyzed data from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which evaluates about 5,000 people each year. They found that blacks had the highest rates of a condition known as diabetic...
August 21, 2014
THURSDAY, Aug. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) - The number of U.S. teens using sunscreen dropped nearly 12 percent in the last decade, a new report shows. During that same time period, the number of teens using indoor tanning beds barely decreased. Both indoor tanning and failure to use sunscreen increase the risk of skin cancers, including deadly melanomas, the researchers noted. "Unfortunately, we found...
August 21, 2014
THURSDAY, Aug. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Using two types of polio vaccines seems to provide stronger protection against the disease and may boost efforts to eradicate polio, a new study shows. The research involving nearly 1,000 children in India found that giving the Salk inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) to those who had already been given the Sabin live-attenuated oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV)...
August 21, 2014
THURSDAY, Aug. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Black mothers are less likely than white moms to breast-feed their babies, and here's one possible reason why: Hospitals in neighborhoods with many black residents do less to promote nursing than those in areas with more white residents, a U.S. government study finds. Key practices that support breast-feeding are much less common in medical centers where the...
August 21, 2014
THURSDAY, Aug. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) - The air in American cities is getting safer to breathe, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported Thursday. Significant progress has been made in reducing levels of harmful substances in urban air in recent decades, the agency said in a news release. Since 1990, there has been a nearly 60 percent reduction in mercury from human sources such as coal-fired...
August 21, 2014
THURSDAY, Aug. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Not only is eating better and exercising healthy for people with diabetes, it can save them hundreds of health-care dollars a year, a new study finds. The study, led by Mark Espeland, a professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., included more than 5,100 overweight and obese type 2 diabetes patients. Participants...
August 21, 2014
THURSDAY, Aug. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Among seniors, dimming vision may be tied to poorer survival, new research suggests. The study involved more than 2,500 people, aged 65 to 84, who were assessed when they enrolled in the study and again two, six and eight years later. Vision loss over time was associated with an increase in the person's risk of death during the study period, the researchers...
August 21, 2014
THURSDAY, Aug. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Being born at a low birth weight puts black women at increased risk for type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests. The findings may partly explain high diabetes rates among black Americans, a population that has a high prevalence of low birth weight, the researchers added. Their study of more than 21,000 black women found that those with a low birth weight were...
August 21, 2014
THURSDAY, Aug. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) - A combination of therapy and antidepressants appears to best help people with severe but short-term depression, a new study reports. Four out of five people suffering from severe depression for less than two years experienced full recovery when treated with cognitive therapy plus antidepressant medication, researchers found. On the other hand, the combination...
August 21, 2014
THURSDAY, Aug. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is going ahead with tough new controls on painkillers containing hydrocodone, which has been tied to a surge in dangerous addictions across the United States. The new restrictions would cover prescription narcotic drugs such as Vicodin, Lortab and their generic equivalents, putting them in the same regulatory...
August 21, 2014
TUESDAY, Aug. 19, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Taking the widely used antibiotic clarithromycin may boost some patients' odds of dying from heart-related causes, a new study suggests. Because millions of people receive this antibiotic each year, the findings require urgent confirmation, said the Danish researchers behind the study. However, they emphasized that the actual risk is small and that guidelines...
August 20, 2014
(HealthDay News) - A healthy lifestyle can help keep your brain sharp as you age, preventing cognitive decline. The American Academy of Family Physicians suggests how to stay mentally sharp as you get older: - Eat a healthy, balanced diet and maintain a healthy body weight. Get regular exercise, aiming for 30 minutes of exercise, at least five days per week. Join a club, play a sport, volunteer or...
August 20, 2014
(HealthDay News) - Psoriasis causes red, itchy skin plaques that commonly affect the bottoms of the feet. The American Podiatric Medical Association suggests how to help manage the condition: - Soak feet in an oatmeal bath. Regularly apply a hypoallergenic moisturizing lotion. Avoid stress. Don't drink alcohol. Consider light therapy if your doctor recommends it. See a podiatrist if the psoriasis doesn't...
August 20, 2014
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Leaving the car at home and getting to work by walking, cycling or public transit is good for your health, a new study indicates. Researchers looked at thousands of people in the United Kingdom and found that 76 percent of men and 72 percent of women drove to work, 10 percent of men and 11 percent of women used public transit, and 14 percent of men and 17...
August 20, 2014
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) - U.S. teen birth rates fell dramatically during the past two decades, plummeting 57 percent and saving taxpayers billions of dollars, a new government report shows. An estimated 4 million fewer births occurred among teenagers as a result of the decline, according to researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That "eye-opening" reduction...
August 20, 2014
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: - MLB Pitcher Curt Schilling Blames Mouth Cancer on Chewing Tobacco - Former major league pitcher Curt Schilling revealed Wednesday that he has mouth cancer and said it was caused by three decades of using chewing tobacco. In February, Schilling announced that he had cancer but did not say what kind,...
August 20, 2014
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) - White, straight women are much more likely to seek treatment for infertility than minority, bisexual or lesbian women, a new study finds. Researchers examined data gathered from nearly 20,000 American women, aged 21 to 44, who took part in polls in 2002 and 2006-2010, conducted as part of the National Survey of Family Growth study. In the first poll, 13 percent...
August 20, 2014
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Cerdelga (eliglustat) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat type 1 Gaucher disease, a rare inherited disorder caused by the body's insufficient production of a key enzyme. Lack of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase causes fatty deposits in the spleen, liver and bone marrow. Symptoms include liver and spleen enlargement, anemia, low...
August 20, 2014
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) - A new study found no evidence to support the widely held belief that intensive treatment for high blood pressure increases patients' risk of falls and broken bones. Research shows that treating high blood pressure can prevent strokes and other cardiovascular problems, but many doctors fear that tight control of high blood pressure may lead to low blood pressure,...
August 20, 2014
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) - New research reveals that, long ago, sea mammals may have played a role in the global spread of the infectious disease known as tuberculosis. Ancient strains of tuberculosis spread from people in Africa to seals and sea lions, who then spread it to people in South America thousands of years ago, according to an international team of researchers. "Tuberculosis...
August 20, 2014
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) - A new experimental drug has saved a group of rhesus monkeys from deadly Marburg virus, a very close cousin of Ebola virus that kills up to 90 percent of those it infects, researchers report. The drug protected 16 monkeys infected with lethal doses of Marburg virus, even when it was given three days after infection, according to a study published Aug. 20 in...
August 20, 2014
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Botox, the wrinkle fighter, might be a cancer fighter, too, according to a new animal study. Researchers working with mice are using Botox to try to combat stomach cancer by silencing nerves that connect to tumors. The work is still in its very early stages, and a prominent cancer expert cautioned that the approach is far from ready for prime time. While...
August 20, 2014
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Pigs' hearts transplanted into baboons survived for more than a year, which is twice as long as previously achieved, researchers report. The work is part of efforts to find ways to use animal organs to shorten transplant waiting lists. In this study, scientists transplanted hearts from genetically engineered piglets into baboons' abdomens. The genetic engineering...
August 20, 2014
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Although it's extremely rare, colds, flu and other minor infections might trigger a strong but brief period of elevated risk for stroke in children, a new study suggests. Just five out of 100,000 children a year have a stroke in the United States, said Dr. Heather Fullerton, lead author of the study and a professor of neurology and pediatrics at the University...
August 20, 2014
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) - Loss of brain cells that act as a "sleep switch" may help explain why many seniors have trouble falling and staying asleep, a new study suggests. In Alzheimer's patients, sleep disruption can be especially severe and often results in nighttime confusion and wandering, according to the researchers. The investigators analyzed data from the Rush Memory and Aging...
August 20, 2014
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