The LA County coroner’s office has completed it’s investigation into the December 20th death of actress Brittany Murphy. Officials have ruled her death as accidental as a result of community acquired pneumonia complicated by an iron deficiency anemia and multiple drug intoxication.
The LA County coroner’s office has completed it’s investigation into the December 20th death of actress Brittany Murphy.
This Sunday, millions of people will join together to watch the 44th Super Bowl featuring the first ever appearance at the championship game for the New Orleans Saints against the two-time champion Indianapolis Colts. The average household will bring 17 people together on the day of the event, so staying safe and healthy should be just as much of a priority as having fun
This Sunday, millions of people will join together to watch the 44th Super Bowl featuring the first ever appearance at the championship game for the New Orleans Saints against the two-time champion In
Botox®, the neurotoxin that is best known for its ability to temporarily erase wrinkles and frown lines, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for medical purposes more than a decade before it was approved for cosmetic reasons (Botox® Cosmetic).
Botox®, the neurotoxin that is best known for its ability to temporarily erase wrinkles and frown lines, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for medical purposes more than a decade
Many people are feeling out of joint as the City Council in LA approved an ordinance on Tuesday that would close down most of the 1,000 medical marijuana dispensaries making the use of marijuana in the remaining outlets illegal.
The LA City Council approved an ordinance on Tuesday that would close down most of the 1,000 medical marijuana dispensaries making the use of marijuana in the remaining outlets illegal.
Onion Cream Treats New Stretch Marks
Title: Onion Cream Treats New Stretch Marks Category: Health News Created: 3/12/2010 11:23:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 3/12/2010 11:23:01 AM Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Occasional High Blood Pressure Risky, Too?
Title: Occasional High Blood Pressure Risky, Too? Category: Health News Created: 3/12/2010 11:16:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 3/12/2010 11:16:29 AM Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Retail Spices Recalled in Salmonella Scare
Title: Retail Spices Recalled in Salmonella Scare Category: Health News Created: 3/12/2010 11:08:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 3/12/2010 11:08:28 AM Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Seeing an 'A' Raises Test Scores
Title: Seeing an 'A' Raises Test Scores Category: Health News Created: 3/12/2010 11:03:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 3/12/2010 11:03:26 AM Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Health Tip: Risk Factors for Melanoma
Title: Health Tip: Risk Factors for Melanoma Category: Health News Created: 3/11/2010 10:10:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 3/12/2010 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Vitamin D insufficiency - more body fat, less muscle strength
MUHC.ca - There’s an epidemic of vitamin D insufficiency in progress. A ground-breaking study (of women) published in the March 2010 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found an astonishing 59 per cent of study subjects had too little Vitamin D in their blood. Nearly a quarter of the group had serious vitamin D deficiency [...] Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:55:23 +0000
Can vitamin D improve mood in the winter?
LoyolaMedicine.org - A daily dose of vitamin D may just be what Chicagoans need to get through the long winter, according to researchers at Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (MNSON). The researchers propose that adequate vitamin D can help lift moods during cold weather months when days are short and more time [...] Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:37 +0000
Vitamin D essential for activating immune system T-cells
news.ku.dk - Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that Vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defenses and that without sufficient intake of the vitamin, the killer cells of the immune system – T cells - will not be able to react to and fight off serious infections in the body.
For T-cells [...] Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:39:50 +0000
Simvastatin impairs ability of immune system to fight infection
Simvastatin negatively impacts the immune system’s ability to clear infection and control inflammation in the presence of bacteria, according to new research published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology.
Simvastatin might help us control our cholesterol, but when it comes to infection, it’s an entirely different story says a new research study. In the research report, [...] Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:35:04 +0000
Mesothelioma vaccine proven safe
A potential vaccine against mesothelioma - a rare cancer associated primarily with asbestos exposure - has been demonstrated to be safe. The mesothelioma vaccine, which infuses uses a patient’s own dendritic cells (DC) with antigen from the patient’s tumor, was able to induce a T-cell response against mesothelioma tumors.
“[This] is the first human study on [...] Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:32:00 +0000
Don’t forget to move your clocks forward this weekend. And then don’t forget to be more careful in the days after you adjust your clocks. Because a recent study found that the hour of lost sleep was related to increased job-related injuries. Probably because sleepy workers were less alert. The work appeared last September in the Journal of Applied Psychology . [See http://bit.ly/coie2b ] [More]
The 1992 tearjerker Lorenzo’s Oil told the true story of one family’s struggle to save their son from X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a deadly degenerative brain disease. Unfortunately, over the ensuing years, the oil of the film’s title, a dietary supplement, has not panned out as the cure many people hoped it would be. Now a paper in the November 2009 issue of Science suggests that the long-sought cure may come from gene therapy--a famously hyped approach to treatment that tragically caused the death of a teenage experimental subject in 1999.
Since then, however, researchers have continued to cautiously pursue gene therapy for certain disorders with known genetic origins. ALD, for instance, is caused by mutations in a gene called ABCD1, leading to unusually high levels of a type of fatty acid that damages the material insulating some neurons. It affects about one in 20,000 six- to eight-year-old boys, leading to death before adolescence. The main treatment is still bone marrow transplantation: a risky procedure that relies on finding a suitable donor, explains Patrick Aubourg, a neurologist at France’s INSERM research institute.
Winds of Change I found it surprising that in “ A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030 ,” Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi do not mention the effects of the suggested energy sources on climate. The authors propose to absorb about six terawatts of energy from about 60 terawatts available in the wind, or about 10 percent of its total energy. Because the winds, at least near the U.S., usually flow around highs or lows, where the speed and related Coriolis force tend to maintain the pressure difference, I can easily envision that absorbing the energy will change the rate at which the pressure centers collapse. How this would change the weather, I do not know, but it must make a change to give us some of the energy. Possibly, the weather change would be an improvement, but as a believer in Murphy’s Law, I would be surprised. About 100 years ago dumping garbage into the ocean was justified because the oceans were infinite compared to the effect, so no one calculated how much was allowable. Let’s be smarter this time! Why not do the calculations before we cause more problems? [More]
MIAMI--In three months hundreds of thousands of soccer fans are expected to descend on nine South African cities for the 2010 World Cup. But for so many visitors going to a country where more than 10 percent of the population is estimated to have HIV/AIDS, many public health experts are worried that the event will kick off a spike in transmission. South Africa, in turn, has responded by requesting one billion condoms for the year (many of which will be supplied by the U.K.)--more than twice as many as usual, the BBC noted . [More]
Half a century ago, thousands of pregnant women in 46 countries took a drug for morning sickness that would later be discovered to cause severe malformations in developing fetuses. Worldwide, roughly 10,000 affected children nicknamed "thalidomide babies" were born with multiple defects, including the characteristic shortened upper limbs (a condition known as phocomelia, Greek for "seal limbs"), before the drug was discontinued in 1961 after four years on the market.
Beau's lines:Transverse lines or grooves across the fingernails; transverse depressions in the nail plate. Beau's lines are caused by temporary cessation of cell division in the proximal nail matrix. The condition may be caused by local disease of the nail fold, physical trauma to it, or a systemic insult, such as an illness or a drug as, for example, chemotherapy. Named for the distinguished French physician Joseph Honore Simon Beau (1806-1865) who described this phenomenon in 1846.
Also known as Beau-Reil cross furrows. Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813), German anatomist, physiologist, and physician for the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, described the same lines across the nails in 1796, a half century before Beau.
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New blood pressure approach urged
Occasionally high blood pressure may be a greater indicator of stroke risk than consistently high readings, researchers say. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:02:40 GMT
Women on pill 'may live longer'
Women who have taken the contraceptive pill are less likely to die of cancer and heart disease, a long-term study finds. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:38:04 GMT
Home 'cervical cancer' test hope
At-home screening tests for the virus responsible for most cervical cancers could detect many more cases, say researchers. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:02:52 GMT
Cases of self-harming jump 50%
The number of young people admitted to hospital after cutting themselves rises 50% in five years. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:09:51 GMT
Social care 'badly under-funded'
Adult social care in England is "chronically under-funded" and "severely rationed", a cross-party group of MPs says. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:14:23 GMT
Will Tuttle PhD has written a non-traditional “diet” book, not for weight loss or to reduce symptoms of a chronic disease, but as part of an overall lifestyl
An NIH Panel this week is encouraging physicians and pregnant women to discuss all delivery options, including a VBAC, or vaginal birth after cesarean sectio
FDA warning: some patients cannot process Plavix
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix, cautioning that some patients do not respond to the blockbuster blood thinner. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:03:46 EST
Harnessing Our Sensory Superpowers
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research in perceptual psychology and brain science is revealing that our senses pick up information about the world that we thought was only available to other species, Lawrence Rosenblum, UCR professor of psychology, writes in a new book. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:18:49 EST
Japan team uncovers thalidomide mystery
Japanese scientists have uncovered how thalidomide led to deformities in children born to mothers taking the drug in the 1950s and 1960s, according to a study released Friday. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:42:25 EST
Women on the pill may live longer
(AP) -- Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:24:43 EST
Researchers develop new lab technique for cardiovascular testing
Cardiovascular disease is one of the most significant causes of death in the world, and around 1 million Dutch citizens have a cardiovascular condition. Andries van der Meer of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, has developed a new laboratory technique for cardiovascular testing. The advantage of the new technique is a considerable reduction in the quantity of cells that needs to be cultivated, so that the testing is speeded up significantly. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:00:01 EST
Cysts On Ovaries: What All Women Really Must Know About Cysts On Ovaries (Selena Larkey)
Cysts on ovaries may be a scary idea to hear about or read about, but if you are a woman, you should become informed about this topic. It is not unusual for women to develop this type of issue within their bodies. In fact, most women do indeed develop one of these cysts at some point in their lifetimes. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:04:02 +0000
Panic Attacks: Natural Remedies (Jamie Sue Tan)
Having a panic attack or a panic disorder is no joke. it can greatly affect your general quality of life by limiting your capacity to handle situations and solve problems, as well as limit the places you can go to. Eliminating or handling the condition is not easy as well. Medication are indeed effective in terms of managing the symptoms associated with the condition but is... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:00:55 +0000
5 Tips For Losing Weight When Eating At Restaurants (Katherine Crawford, M.S.)
Restaurants are a part of your social life. After all, we eat together in order to socialize together. Now, if you decide to not eat at restaurants when losing weight, your social life might become quite unbearable. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:56:42 +0000
Get What You Want In A New York City Cosmetic Surgery (Daren Allen)
There something you should consider before you go to have cosmetic surgery . One of the many questions you are going to have should revolve around who is going to be doing your surgery. There are many things that you have to keep in mind when you are looking at your New York City cosmetic surgery doctor, because this is going to be the person who has the most say in what you... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:46:26 +0000
Of Top Cosmetic Surgeons: Orange County Cosmetic Surgery (Josh Smith)
You must be satisfied with the choice of Orange County cosmetic surgery, where you can be sure of getting good quality surgery that is performed using the very latest in technology. Having made such a choice, there should not be anything standing in your way to becoming more beautiful. All you need to do is to save up enough money and head down to Orange County for cosmetic... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:46:12 +0000
Novel Fluocinonide Cream Can Help Clear Dermatitis Lesions in Adults: Presented at AAD
-- Adult patients with atopic dermatitis can be treated safely and effectively with a 2-week course of fluocinonide 0.1% cream, researchers said here at the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD). 'At the end of the study, Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:21:24 GMT
Clopidogrel Gets Black Box Warning for Reduced Effectiveness in Certain Patients
-- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has added a Boxed Warning to the label for clopidogrel (Plavix) regarding patients who do not effectively metabolise the drug and therefore may not receive the full benefits of the drug. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:21:17 GMT
Diclofenac Gel Clears Actinic Keratoses Among Organ Transplant Recipients: Presented at AAD
-- Organ transplant recipients who are at high risk for skin cancer are able to clear dangerous actinic keratoses if they were treated with 3% diclofenac in 2.5% hyaluronic acid gel rather than with placebo, researchers said here at the 68th Annual Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:20:56 GMT
Doctors fail to cut cholesterol enough
LONDON: Only half of patients at high risk of heart disease are given the right targets for cutting their cholesterol and millions may suffer heart attack or stroke due to doctors'' poor advice, scientists said on Thursday. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:12:57 GMT
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