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State booster-seat laws reduce children’s injuries
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010It seems like common sense, but a new study finds that booster-seat laws can sharply reduce the number of children injured in car accidents. Traffic injuries among kids ages 4 to 6 dropped 18% in New York after a state law requiring booster seats took effect in 2005. The study is the first to compare [...]
Why Some People Can Sleep Through Noise
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010Some people can sleep through anything. Others not so much. Light sleepers who are easily awakened by noise have different brain rhythms than people who can sleep through it, according to a new study. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found that the number of brain rhythms called spindles produced during a quiet night determines whether [...]
Spray cleaners are a poison hazard to babies, toddlers
Thursday, August 5th, 2010And adults as well, for that matter. But especially the kids. Spray cleaners send thousands of babies and toddlers to the emergency room each year, according to a new study. Nearly 12,000 children under age 5 go to the emergency room each year because of injuries caused by household cleaning products, according to a study [...]
23 Doctors Help Houston Woman Deliver Quintuplets
Thursday, August 5th, 2010You know that saying, “It takes a village”, well sometimes it does. And that’s just to deliver some children. It took a small village to help a Houston woman give birth to quintuplets. 23 doctors in two operating rooms. Thirty-year-old Veronica Mayorga-Real delivered the three girls and two boys by Cesarean section Saturday at Children’s [...]
528-Lb. Mom Dies 5 Months After Giving Birth
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010A 25-year-old Romanian woman who weighed 528 pounds gave birth to a baby girl more than 5 months ago and is now dead. According to relatives of Victoria Lacatus, she died of a heart attack Sunday after developing a high fever and breathing problems. Doctors in southern Romania said Lacatus’ heart simply stopped. Doctors tried [...]
Can Herpes Fight Cancer?
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010Normally it’s best to avoid herpes, but maybe we should embrace it. Just a little. Researchers at a London hospital have discovered encouraging proof that it can be used to treat patients with head and neck cancer. According to BBC News, a genetically engineered herpes virus, used with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, helped kill tumors in [...]
Ingredients Used In Meat Processing Increases Bladder Cancer Risk
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010This should come as a surprise to no one who knows our food supply. An eight-year study from the National Institutes of Health and American Association for Retired Persons has yielded results that suggest that components used in meat processing, including nitrites, can increase the risk of bladder cancer. The researchers followed about 300,000 individuals [...]
More Evidence Supports Dropping Mouth-to-Mouth From CPR
Thursday, July 29th, 2010CPR saves lives. That we know. But two new studies from the U.S. and Europe find that hands-only CPR may be best when trying to save the life of a victim of cardiac arrest. Cardiologist Dr. Myron “Mike” Weisfeldt, physician in chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and director of the Department of Medicine at [...]
Could Your Boxspring Be Causing Cancer?
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Here’s something you don’t often think of and it seems ludicrous at first. The breast cancer rate is 10% higher on people’s left side than right. Why is that? Some researchers think it’s because people tend to sleep on their right side, and that their boxsprings are pulling in electromagnetic radiation from FM and TV [...]
The longer you sit, the shorter your life
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010The more you sit around, the shorter your average life span is, according to a new study. The effect remained even after researchers factored out obesity or the level of daily physical activity people were engaged in, according to a study of more than 120,000 American adults. We already kind of knew this anyway, but [...]
