Archive for September, 2009
Heart attack rates fall 17% after smoking bans
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009According to two new studies on recent laws, community smoking bans have a dramatic effect on reducing heart attacks. Two separate studies each found that heart attack rates fall 17% within a year after smoking bans take effect. One analysis included 13 studies. A second analysis considered 11 studies. The studies suggest that public smoking [...]
3 Cancer Fighting Foods in the Kitchen
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009It is possible to prevent thousands of breast and colon cancer cases. All it takes is you making smart lifestyle choices, according to the World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research. It’s all in what you choose in the kitchen. Here are some tips. Calcium-According to a study from the National Institutes [...]
Anxious kids at risk for obesity as adults
Friday, September 18th, 2009New research suggests that children with emotional difficulties have a greater risk of becoming obese in adulthood. In the study, researchers examined data from about 6,500 members of the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study. The participants in the study were assessed when they were 10 years old for emotional problems, self-perceptions and their body-mass index [...]
New surgery uses patient’s tooth to restore her sight
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Doctors in Miami performed a surgery that used a 60-year-old patient’s tooth. The surgery is the first in the USA. Patient Sharron Thornton was able to see for the first time in nine years. Before she could only see shadows. “Sharron was able to see 20/60 this morning. She was seeing only shadows a couple [...]
Cutting salt intake would save $18B a year in health costs
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009It’s better to be preemptive than suffer problems later. If the police could magically know when a crime will happen, they could intercede and wallah, no crime. It isn’t that easy with crime, but with health we can prevent bad things from happening and in a sense control our future. If Americans would cut their [...]
