Daily HealthBeat Tip PodCast: Episodes
Learning how to help your spouse through life’s troubles is one of the big jobs of a marriage.
What you eat after exercise may enhance or prolong the health benefits of exercise.
Intracranial aneurysms – a bulging of the wall of blood vessels that supply the brain – can lead to devastating bleeding surrounding and into the brain.
Playing with reptiles and birds can be a bad idea. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says critter contact causes about 74,000 cases a year of salmonella infection.
At the University of Arizona, David Layton and Paloma Beamer have been looking into the sources of house dust. Some dust comes from us – we constantly shed dead skin cells, for instance.
Lots of homework, lots of after-school activities, a job, keeping up with friends – being a teenager these days is more than a full-time job. And this may be why a survey that looked at sleep finds high school students aren’t getting enough of it.
Danice Eaton of the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Danice Eaton of the Centers for Disease Control and ...
When women are pregnant, their immune system changes and their risk of flu complications rises. That’s true with seasonal flu, and pregnant women are at even greater risk of severe illness with H1N1 flu. That’s why pregnant women were one of the five groups given priority for initial doses of H1N1 flu vaccine.
Steven Belinsky of the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in New Mexico saw that in data on more than 1,000 current and former smokers. Belinsky says gene changes that could lead to lung cancer were less severe in people who ate lots of leafy green vegetables and foods with the vitamin folate, ...
The data came out of SAMHSA’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The survey found that girls between 12 and 17 who were in these fights were more likely to have engaged in binge drinking in the past month, or to have used drugs.
Researchers know that blacks are more likely than whites to die of a stroke. What they’re less clear about is why – whether, for instance, strokes are more common among blacks. At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, researcher Virginia Howard says blacks may have more strokes. She bases that ...
Kids in a fast-food restaurant might not count calories, but parents could. And a study indicates that, when parents can count calories, the food they get for their kids would have fewer calories.
Since 1967, there’s been a vaccine for mumps. So instead of lots of young children getting mumps, now it’s uncommon.
As some people age, they get macular degeneration, which can make them go blind by losing the ability to see the central area of their vision.
Researchers say young adults with even low levels of lead can have a higher risk of major depression and panic disorder.
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, or HPS, is a severe disease people get from contact with rodents. It causes difficulty breathing and can result in death. Researcher Barbara Knust of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that controlling the rodent population around your home is one of the ...
Doing some good when you’ve gotten old, by being a volunteer, seems to carry some health benefits. Researcher Catherine Sarkisian of UCLA saw signs of that in data on close to 1,100 people ages 70 to 79 between 1988 and 1991. Sarkisian compared people who did volunteer work with those who kept active ...
Pregnant women have a higher risk of severe complications and even death from the seasonal and H1N1 flu. That’s partly because of changes in their immune system. In fact, Dr. Sonja Rasmussen of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says women may even have a higher risk of flu-related health ...
Hispanics are not all alike. Researcher Carlos Rodriguez of Columbia University Medical Center saw differences between Hispanics of Caribbean origin and those of Mexican origin, as well as non-Hispanic whites. Mexican-origin Hispanics were more likely to have diabetes, and Caribbean-origin Hispanics ...
Diabetes can damage the retina of the eye. And one study indicates that lots of calories and lots of sodium – such as salt – raise the risk of eye damage, called diabetic retinopathy. At New Jersey Medical School, Monique Roy saw this in African-Americans who had type 1 diabetes. This type develops ...
Smokers know it’s easier said than done. And survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show it. The proportion of U.S. adults who smoke has stalled. Adult smoking rates have remained virtually the same since 2004.