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| Attempting to zap Parkinson's through spinal cord (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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| | AP - Implanting a pacemaker-like device deep in the brain helps some Parkinson's disease patients move better, but could less risky zapping of the spinal cord work instead? It did in mice and rats nearly immobilized with Parkinson's-like symptoms: Scientists at Duke University Medical Center turned on the electricity and videotaped the rodents immediately scurrying around almost like normal. |
| Roche files Tarceva for first-line lung cancer use (Reuters)
March 19, 2009 at 8:05 am
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| | Reuters - Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG said on Thursday it had submitted its Tarceva drug to the European Medicines Agency for use as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. |
| US births break record; 40 pct out-of-wedlock (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 1:41 am
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|  AP - Remember the baby boom? No, not the one after World War II. More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any other year in the nation's history — and a wedding band made increasingly little difference in the matter. The 4,317,119 births, reported by federal researchers Wednesday, topped a record first set in 1957 at the height of the baby boom.
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| Unmarried Childbirths in U.S. Reach Record Levels (HealthDay)
March 18, 2009 at 11:47 pm
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| | HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- The number of unmarried women who are having babies has reached a record level in the United States, and Cesarean delivery rates continue to hit new highs, a government report shows. |
| Unmarried Childbirths in U.S. Reach Record Levels (HealthDay)
March 18, 2009 at 7:02 pm
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| | HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- The number of unmarried women who are having babies has reached a record level in the United States, and Cesarean delivery rates continue to hit new highs, a government report shows. |
| US births break record; 40 pct out-of-wedlock (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 6:18 pm
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| AP - Remember the baby boom? No, not the one after World War II. More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any other year in the nation's history — and a wedding band made increasingly little difference in the matter. The 4,317,119 births, reported by federal researchers Wednesday, topped a record first set in 1957 at the height of the baby boom. |
| Studies don't end prostate cancer test controversy (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 6:13 pm
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| | AP - Screening for prostate cancer doesn't necessarily save lives, and any benefits can come at a high price, according to two, big long-awaited studies. The findings are unlikely to end the debate over the usefulness of routine testing. |
| Study finds younger blacks have more heart failure (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 5:06 pm
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| | AP - One in 100 black men and women develop heart failure before age 50, according to one of the first long-term studies to look at the life-threatening condition in younger adults. The research suggests blacks in that age group suffer the condition at a rate 20 times higher than whites do — an astounding difference more pronounced than earlier studies had indicated. |
| Health care overhaul cost may reach $1.5 trillion (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 7:27 am
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|  AP - Your lungs may work just fine, but the estimated price for universal health care could take your breath away. Health policy experts say guaranteeing coverage for all Americans may cost about $1.5 trillion over the next decade. That would be more than double the $634 billion 'down payment' President Barack Obama set aside for health reform in his budget.
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| Cochlear implant surgery safe for seniors (Reuters)
March 18, 2009 at 6:32 am
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| | Reuters - The risk of complications from general anesthesia is not especially high for elderly patients having a cochlear implant inserted to correct deafness, according to a new report. |
| Study: Being obese can take years off your life (AP)
March 17, 2009 at 8:05 pm
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|  AP - Being obese can take years off your life and in some cases may be as dangerous as smoking, a new study says. British researchers at the University of Oxford analyzed 57 studies mostly in Europe and North America, following nearly one million people for an average of 10 to 15 years. During that time, about 100,000 of those people died.
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| Study: 'Smart drug' Provigil may be habit-forming (AP)
March 17, 2009 at 8:05 pm
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|  AP - A so-called "smart drug" popular with young people may carry more of an addiction risk than thought, a small government study suggests. Scans of 10 healthy men showed that the prescription drug Provigil caused changes in the brain's pleasure center, very much like potentially habit-forming classic stimulants. Modafinil, the drug's generic name, is sometimes used as an illegal study aid by college students.
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