LATEST NEWS ON WELLNESS

Enhancing Adolescents' Health By Simple, Low-Cost Steps

Simple, low-cost measures such as wearing a pedometer to inspire walking and spending a few minutes a day meditating can put adolescents on the track toward better health, researchers report. These types of side-effect-free steps can quickly help lower important numbers like blood pressure, heart rate and even weight, counteracting today's unhealthy, upward trends among young people, said Dr...
03/16/2010

Obesity-Cancer Link Investigated

The link between obesity and disease has been well documented. There's evidence now that obesity and cancer have a strong link, as they've shown in the United States at least 90,000 cancer deaths a year can be attributed to obesity. University of Alberta researcher Richard Lamb is on his way to understanding the correlation and it's a good example of how the scientific process works...
03/16/2010

Obesity Impairs Body's "Memory" Of How To Fight Flu

Obesity may limit the body's ability to develop immunity to influenza viruses, particularly secondary infections, by inhibiting the immune system's ability to "remember" how it fought off previous similar bouts of illness, according to new research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
03/16/2010

Nurses Welcome Chief Medical Officer's Focus On Physical Activity, UK

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) welcomed the Chief Medical Officer's focus on physical fitness in his final annual report and called for all children to have access to advice from school nurses...
03/16/2010

95% Success Rate For Grown Teen Pitchers With "Tommy John" Elbow Reconstruction

A new study presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Specialty Day in New Orleans, (March 13), found that 95 percent of skeletally mature high school pitchers were satisfied with their "Tommy John" elbow reconstruction surgery. Almost as many, (94.7 percent) returned to competitive baseball...
03/15/2010

84 Percent Of Male Patients Still Highly Active 15 Years After ACL Knee Reconstruction

Eighty-four percent of males who had ACL knee (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction with a patellar tendon (the tendon that attaches the knee to the front of the tibia or shin bone) graft continue at a high level of activity 15 years later, according to a study presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in New Orleans, Louisiana (March 13)...
03/15/2010

Study Of Combined Depression-Alcoholism Treatment Shows Higher Abstinence Rate

Combining the antidepressant sertraline with the alcohol dependence treatment naltrexone produced a 54 percent abstinence rate in patients with both major depression and alcohol dependence, whereas the rates were only 21 to 28 percent for patients taking a placebo, sertraline only, or naltrexone only...
03/16/2010

What Is Sexual Addiction (Nymphomania)? What Causes Sexual Addiction?

Sexual addiction, also called sexual dependency, hypersexuality, nymphomania, compulsive sexual behavior and sexual compulsivity, refers to the phenomenon in which individuals report being unable to manage their sexual behavior...
03/16/2010

Statement From The Department Of Health & Human Services Regarding The Decisions Of The U.S. Court Of Federal Claims In The Omnibus Autism Proceeding

As these latest cases illustrated, there's no doubt that autism and autism spectrum disorders place a heavy burden on many families. We know that autism and related disorders are conditions that present many special challenges to all families touched by these disorders. That is why the U.S...
03/15/2010

How To Minimize Radiation Risks Of Angioplasty Shows Highest Doses In Men, Large Body Mass, Complex Cases

Body size, gender and the complexity of heart disease significantly influence how much cumulative radiation skin dose that patients receive during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) therapy, also known as angioplasty, according to a new Mayo Clinic study...
03/16/2010

84 Percent Of Male Patients Still Highly Active 15 Years After ACL Knee Reconstruction

Eighty-four percent of males who had ACL knee (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction with a patellar tendon (the tendon that attaches the knee to the front of the tibia or shin bone) graft continue at a high level of activity 15 years later, according to a study presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in New Orleans, Louisiana (March 13)...
03/15/2010

PSA Test Reduces Prostate Cancer Deaths By 40%

When it comes to the documented 40 percent effectiveness of PSA testing in preventing death from prostate cancer, neither the American Cancer Society nor the discoverer of the PSA protein, Richard Ablin, are telling the public the complete story...
03/12/2010

Zapping Uterine Fibroids With Heat From High-energy Sound Waves

There's a new interventional radiology tool showing promise in the treatment of uterine fibroids: magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), a minimally invasive treatment that uses high-energy ultrasound waves to generate heat at a specific point to destroy uterine fibroid tissue and relieve symptoms...
03/16/2010

Slate Looks At 'Contraceptive Pioneers' And New Contraceptives In Development

After struggling for decades "to win support from the scientific community," contraceptive researchers have "re-established themselves as dedicated to a deserving craft with impressive developments that redefine conventional birth control," according to a Slate opinion piece by Jennifer Austin, a medical school graduate who is beginning an obstetrics and gynecology residency this summer...
03/16/2010

Do We Need New Surgical Techniques To Repair Vesico-Vaginal Fistulas?

UroToday.com - Vesicovaginal fistula has been a medical and social problem and remains a surgical challenge, especially when it requires re-operation, presents large size, involves the ureter and is associated with radiotherapy. In this paper, we describe our experience with complex urogenital fistulas...
03/16/2010