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Night Work ‘Throws Body into Chaos’
[BBC] Doing the night shift throws the body “into chaos” and could cause long-term damage, warn researchers. Shift work has been linked to higher rates of type 2 diabetes, heart attacks and cancer. Now...
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Good Health Should Be a New Year’s Resolution for All African-Americans
by Michael A. LeNoir, M.D., President, National Medical Association Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Michael A. LeNoir, M.D., President of the National Medical Association Good health...
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FDA Takes Another Look at Caramel Coloring in Soda
A bottle of soda is photographed in Washington Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/J. David Ake) MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration says there’s no...
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Little-Known Aspect of Medicaid Now Causing People to Avoid Coverage
[The Washington Post] Add this to the scary but improbable things people are hearing could happen because of the new federal health-care law: After you die, the state could come after your house. The...
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Poll: Uninsured Rate Drops as Health Law Rolls Out
Chart shows the monthly averages of uninsured Americans RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It may just be the start of a new trend. The uninsured rate dropped modestly this...
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Top Ten For Fighting The Bug
by Brian W. Carter Special to the NNPA from the Los Angeles Sentinel Here are some simple ways you can keep the sickness away or at least hurt it really bad. Well, unfortunately, as with every year,...
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New Study Details Gun Injuries Suffered by Children
[Voice of America] WASHINGTON — Every day in the United States, about 20 children are injured by firearms and require hospitalization, according to new research. The research said that in 2009, there...
View ArticleObesity “Fate” May Be Set by Age 5, Study Suggests
[CBS News] Those efforts to fight obesity in schools? Think younger. A new study finds that much of a child’s “weight fate” is set by age 5, and that nearly half of kids who became obese by the eighth...
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Testosterone Supplements Linked to Heart Attacks in New Study
(CBSNews.com) – A new medical study draws a link between testosterone supplements and heart attacks. An analysis authored by epidemiologist William Finkle and researchers at UCLA of insurance claims...
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Israel’s Oramed Says Oral Insulin Capsule Trial a Success
Jan 30 (Reuters) – Oramed, an Israeli developer of oral drug delivery systems, said on Thursday a mid-stage trial for its oral insulin capsule for the treatment of type 2 diabetes met all primary and...
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Child Peanut Allergy Treatment ‘Breakthrough’
[BBC] A breakthrough in treating peanut allergies may have been made by a team of British researchers. A trial was carried out with 99 children, giving them a tiny dose of peanut protein every day,...
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Saline Shortage Sparks Dialysis Worries
[The Almagest] A shortage of IV saline in hospitals in the United States is causing alarm with hospital officials and management. The frightening part about this shortage is that saline gets used so...
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Vodka to Blame for Russia’s “Extraordinarily High” Early Death Risk, Study Finds
In this Sept. 2005 file photo, men sleep after drinking on a bench in downtown Moscow. (AP Photo/Alexei Sazonov, File) Vodka is the alcoholic drink of choice for many Russians, and new research...
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Coordinated Health-Care Program Saves Millions
[Wall Street Journal] Nearly half of the 114 hospitals and doctor groups that began Accountable Care Organizations under the health law in 2012 managed to slow Medicare spending in their first year,...
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‘Revenge’ Sex: Popular Means To Cope With Distress
[The Almagest] A recent study shows that up to one-third of college students who had recently been in a breakup had ‘rebound’ or ‘revenge’ sex to within a month after the split. The researchers...
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HPV Vaccine Doesn’t Lead to Teen Sex
[Al-Jazeera America] Parents worried that vaccinating their adolescent daughters against the human papillomavirus (HPV) might encourage them to engage in risky sexual behavior — or to start having sex...
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US Abortion Rate at Lowest in 40 Years as Drop Linked to National Decline in...
[Daily Mail] The U.S. abortion rate declined to its lowest level since 1973, and the number of abortions fell by 13 percent between 2008 and 2011, according to the latest national survey of abortion...
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Excess Sugar May Double Heart Disease Risk, Study Finds
[Business Week] In this Sept. 8, 2013 file photo, a vendor sells cotton candy at Safeco field during a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Seattle Mariners, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S....
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Americans No More Familiar with ‘Obamacare’ Today Than in August
In this July 30, 2013 file photo, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, left, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott...
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Rice Recalled After Skin Reactions in Children
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is warning against eating Uncle Ben’s rice products served at schools, restaurants, hospitals and other food...
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