A small study from Johns Hopkins adds to the growing body of evidence that red blood cells stored longer than three weeks begin to lose the capacity to deliver oxygen-rich cells where they may be most needed. In a report published online in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, the Johns Hopkins...
More than half of British businesses do not have a defibrillator, show poll results released this week - despite the impact the device has on cardiac arrest survival rates. The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) commissioned a survey of 1,000 business decision-makers across the...
University of Florida researchers have found changes in the behavior and in the brains of mice in withdrawal from methamphetamine addiction. These findings may affect the way physicians treat recovering methamphetamine addicts, the researchers write in the current issue of the journal Synapse...
Despite being a nutritionally-dense salad favorite, fresh sprouts haven't had the best luck lately. Deemed unsafe by everyone by*prominent food safety experts, the little greens pose a pretty big risk of E. coli. In fact, guaranteeing the safety of sprouts is almost impossible--which is why...
Earlier this week, a weight loss drug called Qsymia hit the market in the US. It was the first new FDA-approved anti-obesity medication to be introduced in over a decade. But Britons who are looking to lose weight may not be able to get their hands on it in the near future--or ever. According to...
So... Ive been thinking... if soy, a once "wonder" food is now know for all kinds of bad side effect primarily in developing males due to the xeno-estrogen hormone that mimics the female estrogen hormone and causing all kinds of havoc... how do I know what kinds of other beans/nuts/etc contain...
Tomorrow night I'm traveling Amtrak for the first time. I'm going from Iowa to California, so its somewhat of a long trip.
I'm extremely nervous. I'm 19 and this is my first time traveling and traveling alone. I an really worried because the station I'm getting on at doesn't have anyone there...
If you were looking to start a new birth control pill in or around 2008, your OB-GYN probably suggested Yaz, by*Bayer, which was that year's most popular pill. If, in 2011, you're still on it, you may soon be seeing new warning labels, courtesy of the FDA, who are meeting this week to revisit...
The authors of a unique and revealing study of children in foster care receiving antipsychotic medication are calling for better oversight of such medications for youths. A main finding from this research is that children in foster care were just as likely to be prescribed more than one...
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The list of freshmen with eligibility concerns grew longer on Wednesday morning when UConn announced it will hold point guard Ryan Boatright out of games hours before the Huskies' season-opening exhibition matchup with American International.
UConn specified in its release that the NCAA's...
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has stopped one arm of a three arm multi-center, clinical trial studying treatments for the lung-scarring disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) for safety concerns. The trial found that people...
Several new studies of air and water near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill conclude that cleanup workers may have escaped harm from one of the most worrisome groups of potentially toxic substances in the oil, according to an article in Chemical & Engineering News (CEN), ACS's weekly...
People lose the ability to detect the taste of iron in drinking water with advancing age, raising concern that older people may be at risk for an unhealthy over-exposure to iron, Virginia Tech engineers are reporting in results they term "unique." The study appears in the American Chemical...
Predictive genetic testing may be able to identify children's risk for developing common, treatable, and possibly preventable disorders. Using this knowledge, doctors may be able to help at-risk children learn to manage their conditions by making healthy lifestyle changes. Test results may also...
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Wake Forest University and University of East Anglia have found more potential and real heart problems related to Chantix (varenicline), a Pfizer drug that in intended to curb smoking habits. In a review heart problems among 8,216 participants in 14...
Giving patients both the herpes zoster and pneumococcal vaccines simultaneously does not seem to undermine the zoster vaccine's protective effect, despite FDA concerns to the contrary, researchers from Kaiser Permanente wrote in the journal Vaccine. The package insert of the zoster vaccine says...
Administering both the pneumococcal and the herpes zoster vaccines to patients during the same visit is beneficial and does not appear to compromise the protective effect of the zoster vaccine, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the journal Vaccine. The study's findings...
You'll be happy to hear there wasn't so much as a glimpse of diva-like behavior at this weekend's 35th annual Toyota Pro Celebrity Race this weekend. But that doesn't mean one of...