5 Tips: How to Keep Your New Year's Resolution

Whatever you resolve to do differently in 2009, vow also to develop a strategy to make it happen.
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 31 Dec 2009 | 7:03 pm

What Science Says about Enlightened Sex

Another year, another batch of boring resolutions. So why not resolve to have better sex?
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 31 Dec 2009 | 2:57 pm

Exercise Improves Kids' Academics

Aerobic exercise improves a student's fitness level and test scores, too.
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 29 Dec 2009 | 2:06 pm

French ski resorts get a lift in business

Buoyed by major snowfalls and French families seeking to spend their euros closer to home, France's ski resorts are reporting a boom in business. Hotels and chalets in the...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jan 2009 | 1:40 pm

Canada's Africa Oil stops Somali exploration -staff

DHAROOR, Somalia, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Canadian oil and gas exploration company Africa Oil Corp has stopped exploration in Somalia's Puntland region for lack of funds, local staff and contractors said on...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jan 2009 | 11:17 am

UPDATE 6-Four killed as quake strikes Indonesia's Papua

JAKARTA, Jan 4 (Reuters) - A series of powerful earthquakes off the northern coast of West Papua, Indonesia, early on Sunday killed four people, injured several others and flattened buildings, officials...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jan 2009 | 9:55 am

UPDATE 1-China develops gas fields in East China Sea-report

BEIJING/TOKYO, Jan 4 (Reuters) - China has drilled a gas field in the East China Sea in violation of a June agreement, a Japanese newspaper reported on Sunday, a charge Beijing dismissed because it said...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jan 2009 | 9:25 am

Hawai'i DOH Launches Enhanced Online Licensing For Clinical Laboratory Professionals

Renewing Hawai'i state clinical laboratory personnel licenses just got easier. The Hawai'i State Department of Health (DOH) State Laboratories Division (SLD) now allows clinical laboratory professionals to update their profiles and pay license renewal fees online.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jan 2009 | 9:00 am

Keep Your New Year's Resolution To Lose Weight

With the sumptuous food and treats available during the holiday season, it's easy for us overdo it - even while we are adopting a New Year's resolution to lose weight and be active. "Making a resolution to lose weight today is an important first step to a long and healthy life," said Department of Health Services Secretary Karen Timberlake.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jan 2009 | 9:00 am

Period pains

'The strain of PMS cost us our relationship'
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Jan 2009 | 8:53 am

Texas DSHS To Resume Annual Wintertime Rabies Bait Drop Jan. 7

The Texas Department of State Health Services' annual airdrop of vaccine baits, credited with turning the tide against the spread of rabies strains carried by coyotes and gray foxes, will begin next week. Some 2.9 million baits will be dropped over parts of 41 Texas counties.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jan 2009 | 8:00 am

Researchers Link Blood Sugar To Normal Cognitive Aging

Maintaining blood sugar levels, even in the absence of disease, may be an important strategy for preserving cognitive health, suggests a study published by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). The study appeared in the December issue of Annals of Neurology.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jan 2009 | 8:00 am

Schering-Plough Announces European Submission Of Fertility Medicine Corifollitropin Alfa

Schering-Plough Corp., (NYSE: SGP), a leading provider of fertility treatments, announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has validated (accepted for review) its Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for corifollitropin alfa, the company's experimental, sustained follicle stimulant (SFS). This application will follow the Centralized Procedure.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jan 2009 | 8:00 am

Central United States Earthquake Consortium And CDC To Host Post-Earthquake Public Health And Medical Issues Course In Arkansas

On February 4, 2009, the Central United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC), in cooperation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is presenting a one-day class titled "Disaster Medicine 101: Post-Earthquake Public Health and Medical Issues in the New Madrid Seismic Zone" at the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) Auditorium. The class will begin at 8:30 a.m.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jan 2009 | 8:00 am

ADHS Stresses Importance Of Folic Acid For Young Women

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." That old adage is quite true when it comes to reducing brain and spinal birth defects. Today, the Arizona Department of Health Services launched an awareness campaign to stress the importance of preventing those birth defects by taking a multivitamin. In Arizona, more than 50 babies are born with brain and spine birth defects each year.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jan 2009 | 8:00 am

Scientists Pull Protein's Tail To Curtail Cancer

When researchers look inside human cancer cells for the whereabouts of an important tumor- suppressor, they often catch the protein playing hooky, lolling around in cellular broth instead of muscling its way out to the cells' membranes and foiling cancer growth.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jan 2009 | 8:00 am

Study Confirms Gender Differences In Production Of Doctoral Theses

A study by the University of Barcelona has shown that, while the number of students completing a thesis is evening out between men and women, most thesis supervisors and evaluation board members are still men.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jan 2009 | 8:00 am

Bright Lights, Not So Big Pupils

A team of Johns Hopkins neuroscientists has worked out how some newly discovered light sensors in the eye detect light and communicate with the brain. The report appears online this week in Nature. These light sensors are a small number of nerve cells in the retina that contain melanopsin molecules.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jan 2009 | 8:00 am

Vilnius, a 2009 European capital of culture

Lithuania's capital Vilnius has rung in 2009 as a European Capital of Culture, sharing the title this year with the Austrian city of Linz, with plans for 12 months of concerts, art and...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jan 2009 | 7:37 am

Base jumper survives 60-metre fall with failed parachute

A base jumper survived a 60-metre (200-foot) plunge from an Australian bridge Sunday despite his parachute failing during the stunt, officials said. The man, aged in his late
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jan 2009 | 6:47 am

Law on Flu Vaccinations May Be Tested

New Jersey, the first state in the nation to require flu shots for young schoolchildren, set a Dec. 31 deadline for parents to obtain flu vaccinations for their children.


Source: NYT > Health | 4 Jan 2009 | 4:48 am

Global trends driving 'land grab' in poor nations: activists

Resource-hungry nations are snapping up huge tracts of agricultural land in poor Asian nations, in what activists say is a "land grab" that will worsen poverty and malnutrition.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jan 2009 | 4:41 am

China develops gas field in East China Sea-report

TOKYO, Jan 4 (Reuters) - China has drilled the Tianwaitian gas field in the East China Sea, a Japanese newspaper reported on Sunday, despite an agreement in June to jointly develop gas fields in disputed...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jan 2009 | 4:41 am

Nano device 'times drug release'

Researchers say they can harness the power of gold nanoparticles to devise a better way of delivering drugs to patients.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Jan 2009 | 12:04 am

Danny's heart: College swimmer faces mortality (AP)

Danny Thrall, 19, a sophomore on the swim team at Fordham University in New York, forms his hands in the shape of a heart over the scars from open heart surgery he had about six weeks earlier during workouts at a downtown Chicago health club Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. A routine physical in September revealed a problem with a valve in his heart that required the surgery. Six weeks later he is back in the pool and hopes to get back to competitive form. In January, he will return to Fordham and hopes to practice with his teammates, even if he can't compete this season. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - This time, when the lanky young man stepped into the pool, his chest was tight. His muscles ached. He pushed off to take his first strokes, and grimaced at the pain.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Jan 2009 | 10:47 pm

Contraceptive pill is polluting environment: Vatican newspaper (AFP)

A woman holds prescription contraceptives. The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Tim Matsui)AFP - The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Jan 2009 | 9:29 pm

Cell phone soap operas deliver safe-sex message

"Hey baby, you OK?" Mike asks his girlfriend as she sits down next to him. "Yeah, I'm OK," Toni says, and she puts her head on his shoulder. Mike thinks it's safe to move in for a kiss.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 3 Jan 2009 | 7:15 pm

Cell phone soap operas deliver safe-sex message (AP)

Rutgers College of nursing professor Rachel Jones talks in her home office in Boonton Township, N.J., Saturday Jan. 3, 2009. Jones who has dedicated her career to reducing HIV/AIDS among young, urban black and Latina women, recently received a $2 million National Institutes of Health grant to test the effectiveness of using short videos to go beyond pamphlets on safe sex and deliver the message to women who might otherwise tune it out. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - "Hey baby, you OK?" Mike asks his girlfriend as she sits down next to him.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Jan 2009 | 7:15 pm

S.Korea says domestic power prices too low

SEOUL, Jan 4 (Reuters) - South Korea's energy minister said current power prices were insufficient for state-run power companies -- Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) and Korea Gas Corp , urging an increase...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 3 Jan 2009 | 4:19 pm

Doctor, former patient now colleagues in Detroit (AP)

This undated picture provided by the Henry Ford Hospital shows Dr. Trevor Banka, left, and Dr. Michael Mott, in the operating room at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Mich. (AP Photo/Henry Ford Hospital)AP - When Dr. Trevor Banka treats cancer patients alongside Dr. Michael Mott he is working with not only his mentor, but the physician who helped save his life.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Jan 2009 | 3:24 pm

Recording studio in hospital about more than music (AP)

Jalen Huckabay, right, contemplates the song she is writing as her mother Karen, left, waits outside the studio door at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. The hospital has a one-of-a-kind program that gives pediatric cancer patients a chance to record their own songs. More than 116 songs have been recorded since Purple Songs began in March 2006 as part of the cancer center's Arts in Medicine program. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Just down the hall from the chemo infusion rooms at Texas Children's Hospital, Jalen Huckabay was about to slip into another world, away from the wearying regimen of pokes, prods and pinches she'd endured since being diagnosed with lymphoma in November.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Jan 2009 | 3:23 pm