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Smart clothes offer emotional aidTextiles that monitor stress levels and take action to calm their wearers have been developed by researchers.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 7 Jun 2010 | 3:22 am Your Brain on Computers: Attached to Technology and Paying a PriceScientists say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information from e-mail and other interruptions. Source: NYT > Health | 7 Jun 2010 | 12:20 am Costa Rica puts brakes on popular stem cell tourismSAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Costa Rica is cracking down on an unauthorized stem cell clinic that has attracted hundreds of foreigners seeking relief from degenerative diseases and...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 6 Jun 2010 | 11:06 pm Study: Children of Lesbians May Do Better Than Their Peers (Time.com)Time.com - The first study to track children of lesbians from birth to adolescence finds that these kids do better than children in straight families on certain measures of social developmentSource: Yahoo! News: Health News | 6 Jun 2010 | 11:05 pm Sexsomnia - sexual acts while asleep - may be more common than thought: studyTORONTO - Some people walk or talk in their sleep. Others even sing while off in the Land of Nod. But having sex while asleep? It may seem hard to believe, but the occurrence of...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 6 Jun 2010 | 10:08 pm Sexsomnia: 'Sex While Sleeping' Condition StudiedMen report doing it more than women, a new study finds.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 6 Jun 2010 | 10:01 pm Overtreated: Bleeding for colds, X-rays for shoesBloodletting for a cold? X-rays to see if your shoes fit? Medicines, tests or procedures that can be useful in the right situation, yet dangerous if overused _ it's been a recurring themSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 6 Jun 2010 | 10:00 pm Overtreated: More medical care isn't always betterMore medical care won't necessarily make you healthier _ it may make you sicker. It's an idea that technology-loving Americans find hard to believe. Anywhere from one-fifth to nearly...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 6 Jun 2010 | 10:00 pm Longer Use of Avastin May Fight Ovarian Cancer, Study SaysThe widely used cancer drug Avastin can help keep ovarian cancer in check, but only if used for a long period of time, researchers have reported.Source: NYT > Health | 6 Jun 2010 | 9:54 pm Researchers Report Treatment Headway Against Lung Cancer (HealthDay)HealthDay - SATURDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report they prolonged survival for some patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, for whom the median survival is currently only about six months.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 6 Jun 2010 | 9:47 pm Novel Drug Combats Advanced Melanoma (HealthDay)HealthDay - SATURDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists say that a new drug to treat melanoma, the first in its class, improved survival by 68 percent in patients whose disease had spread from the skin to other parts of the body.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 6 Jun 2010 | 9:47 pm Targeted Therapy Shows Promise Against Deadly Brain Cancer (HealthDay)HealthDay - SATURDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- A preliminary study has found that a targeted treatment for medulloblastoma -- the most common malignant brain cancer in children -- may one day be able to treat drug-resistant forms of the disease.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 6 Jun 2010 | 9:47 pm White House and Allies Set to Build Up Health LawPresident Obama and his allies, concerned about deep skepticism over his landmark health care overhaul, are orchestrating an elaborate campaign to sell the public on the law.Source: NYT > Health | 6 Jun 2010 | 9:32 pm Surging costs hit food security in poorer nations (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 6 Jun 2010 | 8:14 pm Ipilimumab Improves Survival in Advanced Melanoma; Immediate Patient Demand AnticipatedFor the first time, a therapy for metastatic melanoma has been shown to improve overall survival.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 6 Jun 2010 | 6:50 pm Proton Radiotherapy Reduces Adverse Effects, Novel Agent Offers Hope in MedulloblastomaTwo studies offer hope for children with medulloblastoma: one on proton radiotherapy and the other on a novel agent that acts on the sonic hedgehog pathway.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 6 Jun 2010 | 6:40 pm Under pressureChina HIV/Aids charity struggles amid restrictionsSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 6 Jun 2010 | 6:05 pm Researchers Study Brain Scans for Insight to MarriageFor a true reading on a couple, some science is needed.Source: NYT > Health | 6 Jun 2010 | 5:54 pm Brain scan 'lie detector' warningMeasures are needed to stop brain scans being misused by courts, insurers and employers, experts are warning.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 6 Jun 2010 | 5:08 pm Nektar ovarian cancer drug benefits women in studyCHICAGO (Reuters) - About 48 percent of women with advanced ovarian cancer saw sustained benefits from treatment with Nektar Therapeutics' experimental drug NKTR-102 in a mid-stage study,...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 6 Jun 2010 | 4:49 pm Meditation Dulls Experience of PainMeditation keeps the mind from anticipating pain, and so dulls a person's experience of pain.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 6 Jun 2010 | 4:10 pm Sao Paulo holds 'world's biggest' gay paradeHomosexuals and their supporters filled Sao Paulo's main avenue Sunday for an annual Gay Parade that organizers claimed was the biggest in the world with an estimated three million...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 6 Jun 2010 | 2:51 pm Study: Radiation boosts prostate cancer survival (AP)AP - Doctors are reporting a key advance in treating men with cancer that has started to spread beyond the prostate: survival is significantly better if radiation is added to standard hormone treatments.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 6 Jun 2010 | 1:09 pm Radiation plus hormones boosts prostate cancer survival; new breast cancer drug shows promiseCHICAGO - Doctors are reporting a key advance in treating men with cancer that has started to spread beyond the prostate: survival is significantly better if radiation is added to...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 6 Jun 2010 | 12:22 pm Study: Radiation boosts prostate cancer survivalDoctors are reporting a key advance in treating men with cancer that has started to spread beyond the prostate. A study finds that survival is significantly better if they get radiation...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 6 Jun 2010 | 10:45 am One-shot radiation 'hits cancer'A single dose of radiation is as effective against breast cancer as weeks of post-operative radiotherapy, a study suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 6 Jun 2010 | 10:22 am Brain 'helps control cholesterol'The amount of cholesterol circulating in the bloodstream is partly regulated by the brain, a study in mice suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 6 Jun 2010 | 10:17 am Used longer, Roche's Avastin helps ovarian cancerCHICAGO (Reuters) - Long-term use of Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG's Avastin, in combination with chemotherapy, helped women with advanced ovarian cancer live longer without their cancerSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 6 Jun 2010 | 10:15 am From plywood to brick, new Kandahar hospital offers another chance at lifeKANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Here, the dying get a second chance. "They hit our doors, they live," said Lt.-Col. Douglas Kromrey, the executive officer of the new Role 3 Hospital at KandaharSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 6 Jun 2010 | 9:26 am Multiple Dental X-Rays Raise Risk Of Thyroid CancerResearchers from Brighton (England), Cambridge (England) and Kuwait have demonstrated that thyroid cancer risk increases as the number of dental x-rays taken grows. The researchers report that the incidence rates of thyroid cancer have doubled from 1.4 per 100,000 in 1975 to 2.9 per 100,000 in 2006 in the UK. They stress that several factors are probably involved in the thyroid cancer increase, and that sensitive diagnostic techniques should not be considered to account for all of it. Further research is needed...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 6 Jun 2010 | 8:00 am Single-Dose Breast Cancer Radiation Therapy Is EffectiveA large, 10-year, randomized clinical trial - called TARGIT-A - has revealed promising results for the broadening use of a shorter and easier radiation therapy method for patients with breast cancer. The study revealed that a single radiation dose during surgery (IORT = infra-operative radiotherapy) is at least as effective as longer post-operative treatments. In TARGIT (targeted intraoperative radiotherapy) for breast cancer, the radiation therapy is confined to the area of the breast where the tumor has been removed...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 6 Jun 2010 | 7:00 am White hair a "healing sign" with melanoma drugs (Reuters)Reuters - When your hair turns white it is usually a sign of old age, but in advanced melanoma patients taking a new type of cancer treatment, it may be a very good sign, researchers said on Saturday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 6 Jun 2010 | 6:09 am
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