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Compare health insurance costs Are instant insurance quotes as good as the ones you would get by sitting down in your neighborhood insurance agency? Yes, as long as you're truthful and accurate as you fill out your online application. If you lie about your tobacco use, hide that your hobby is hang gliding, or conceal a pre-existing illness, the insurance company may refuse to pay your claims. Insurance comparison websites work with many different insurance companies and they do not receive commissions for steering you toward one particular company or plan. So you can be assured that the quotes you receive are impartial and accurate................Go to healthQuotesSite Twitter Health News Feel free to follow me on Twitter so we can share interesting articles about genetics and medicine 2.0 Big Pharma and Twitter = Big joke! (Health Business News Twitter surgery timeline: 8 months of OR tweet Webcast Your Brain Surgery? Hospitals See Marketing Tool (New York Times Surgery LIVE: For four consecutive nights, top surgeons will carry out life-changing operations in front of a studio audience and live on Channel 4. While........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/22/2009 2:02:09 PM) The first online doctors Who has never heard about Jay Parkinson, founder of HelloHealth service, the first online medical practice? Now please meet Dr. Hodge, the first iPhone doctor Hodge"s start-up Personal Pediatrics aims to equip a fleet of self-starter pediatricians in major metro areas with iPhones, cloud-based practice software and the marketing know-how to court new parents, families and corporate health programs alike. The company"s plan points to a........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/22/2009 2:01:56 PM) Smoking is a risk factor for ALS While prior studies have indicated a "probable" correlation between smoking and ALS, a newly released study reported in the Nov. 17, 2009 issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, states that smoking may now be considered an "established" risk factor for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The findings come from Baystate Medical Center neurologist Dr. Carmel Armon, an........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/17/2009 8:07:13 AM) Antioxidant in Broccoli may be useful in treating Cystic Fibrosis Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that a dietary antioxidant found in such vegetables as broccoli and cauliflower protects cells from damage caused by chemicals generated during the body's inflammatory response to infection and injury. The finding has implications for such inflammation-based disorders as cystic fibrosis (CF), diabetes, heart disease, and neurodegeneration. Through cell-culture........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/17/2009 7:52:45 AM) How society maintains the status quo There is a tendency to believe that only men treat women in a sexist way, but a newly released study by a University of Miami researcher and his daughter shows that both men and women participate in maintaining a gender hierarchy in our society. The study, titled "Social Dominance and Sexual Self-Schema as Moderators of Sexist Reactions to Female Subtypes," was recently published by the journal of Sex Roles The two most significant findings........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/13/2009 8:09:31 AM) When preschoolers ask questions Curiosity plays a big part in preschoolers' lives. A newly released study that explored why young children ask so a number of "why" questions concludes that children are motivated by a desire for explanation. The study, by scientists at the University of Michigan, appears in the November/December 2009 issue of the journal Child Development The scientists carried out two studies of 2- to 5-year-olds, focusing on their "how" and "why"........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/13/2009 8:05:16 AM) Does green tea prevent cancer? Eventhough researchers are reluctant to officially endorse green tea as a cancer prevention method, evidence continues to grow about its protective effects, including results of a newly released study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, which suggests some reduction in oral cancer. Vassiliki Papadimitrakopoulo, M.D., professor of medicine in the Department of Thoracic/Head and........Go to the Cancer-blog (Added on 11/5/2009 8:25:52 AM) Geneticists Hunt for Scleroderma Triggers At its most benign, the autoimmune disease scleroderma can discolor parts of the skin of its sufferers. At its most pernicious, it can thicken and harden their skin, their blood vessels, and their internal organs before, in a number of cases, killing them. In all its forms, scleroderma gives Dartmouth geneticist Michael Whitfield, his graduate students, and his postdoctoral scientists a sense of urgency in their search for the triggers of........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 10/29/2009 10:31:35 PM) New explanation for flu virus antigenic drift Influenza viruses evade infection-fighting antibodies by constantly changing the shape of their major surface protein. This shape-shifting, called antigenic drift, is why influenza vaccineswhich are designed to elicit antibodies matched to each year's circulating virus strainsmust be reformulated annually. Now, scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 10/29/2009 10:09:10 PM) How to Find Cheap Insurance Quotes Online - Life cover Life insurance is not always considered as the top preference by a number of people. They think it is a needless expenditure or they are just unable to afford the cost. However, there are a number of inexpensive insurance plans available if you know where to look for them. Researching online will allow you to find cheap insurance quotes for protecting your family during any serious crisis. You do not want them having to struggle to meet........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 10/14/2009 10:17:50 PM) Parkinson's disease data bank yields promise Individuals with Parkinson's disease who have higher levels of a metabolite called urate in their blood and in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have a slower rate of disease progression, as per a research studyfunded by the National Institutes of Health. A clinical trial is under way to examine the safety and potential benefits of supplemental urate elevation for recently diagnosed Parkinson's patients who have low urate levels. Investigators........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 10/13/2009 7:53:34 AM) Study on Genetic Impact of Radiation Scientists at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center are helping to lead a massive international study on the possible genetic effects of radiation and cancer drug exposures on future generations. The study's principal researchers are meeting this week at the OU Health Sciences Center to discuss their recent findings, which will be presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. The study, which........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 10/7/2009 8:06:53 PM) Gene that Could Lead to New Therapies Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists are one step closer to finding new ways to treat Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), a bone marrow disease that strikes up to 15,000 people each year in the United States, and that sometimes results in acute myeloid leukemia. Scientists observed that the gene RhoB is important to the disease's progression and could prove to be a therapeutic target for late-stage MDS. "Using our genetic models,........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/29/2009 8:05:37 AM) Women who make poor shoe choices A recently published study determined that women who make poor shoe choices early in life suffer with foot pain in later years. Research shows that men do not experience the same foot pain as women, due to type of shoes they wear. Details of this study appear in the recent issue of Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology. National data reveal that foot and toe........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/29/2009 7:44:59 AM) MRI As a Too in Diabetes © Muffe A study performed at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston suggests that a noninvasive imaging (MRI) may aid physicians in the early diagnosis, staging and treatment of diabetes According to Anna Moore, MD - lead author of the study "With noninvasive MRI we have the ability to evaluate beta cell mass, a major factor of insulin secretion that is significantly reduced in type two diabetes........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/27/2009 10:07:10 PM) Why should pharma use Twitter John Pugh, who is a journalist, online marketer and healthcare PR, just published a deep and more than useful presentation about how and why the pharma industry should use Twitter.........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/27/2009 9:41:08 PM) Medicine and Web 2.0 in Education: Slideshow Kevin A. Clauson, Associate Professor at Nova Southeastern University, just published a slideshow Podium presentation at Medicine 2.0 in Toronto (2009) of survey research to characterize the knowledge, familiarity, and preferences regarding Web 2.0 tools among students in pharmacy schoo........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/27/2009 9:40:51 PM) Patient Education Video Series Dr. Val Jones has recently uploaded 3 videos as a part of a long series of patient education and inspirational story videos. These feature hospital safety described by Paul Levy, author of Running a Hospital blog “Paul Levy, President & CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, discusses his innovative approach to keeping patients aware of the safety record of his hospital. Produced by Dr. Val Jones.” Paul........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/27/2009 9:40:34 PM) Changes in Brain Mechanisms for Cocaine Addicts About 2 million Americans currently use cocaine for its temporary side-effects of euphoria, which have contributed to making it one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs in the country. Cocaine addiction, which can cause severe biological and behavioral problems, is very difficult to overcome. Now, University of Missouri scientists Ashwin Mohan and Sandeep Pendyam, doctoral students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/23/2009 7:23:35 AM) Littman Bluetooth Stethoscope I want my doctor to have nothing but the coolest, fastest, and best technology when it comes to keeping me healthy. The Littmann 3200 Bluetooth Stethoscope is a necessary update to an outdated piece of equipment that seems long overdue. When my doctor is listening to my heart or looking for pneumonia, I want them to have super-powers, but this high-tech stethoscope will do in a pinch Designed just like a traditional stehoscope, the Littmann........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/15/2009 10:40:46 PM) Small peptide found to stop lung cancer In new animal research done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, researchers have discovered a therapy effective in mice at blocking the growth and shrinking the size of lung cancer tumors, one of the leading causes of cancer death in the world. The study, recently published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, is the first to show that therapy with a specific........Go to the Cancer-blog (Added on 8/26/2009 11:00:00 PM) Male germ cells can be directly converted into other cell types Scientists have found a way to directly convert spermatogonial stem cells, the precursors of sperm cells, into tissues of the prostate, skin and uterus. Their approach, described this month in the journal Stem Cells, may prove to be an effective alternative to the medical use of embryonic stem cells. The hunt for alternatives to embryonic stem cells has led to some promising yet problematic approaches, some of which involve spermatagonial........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 7/28/2009 11:18:58 PM) Stem cells not the only way to fix a broken heart Scientists appear to have a new way to fix a broken heart. They have devised a method to coax heart muscle cells into reentering the cell cycle, allowing the differentiated adult cells to divide and regenerate healthy heart tissue after a heart attack, as per studies in mice and rats published in the July 24th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. The key ingredient is a growth factor known as neuregulin1 (NRG1 for short), and........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 7/24/2009 12:03:13 AM) Health Care Workers Train Through Medical Simulation Soldiers and pilots use simulation training to learn accuracy, safety and confidence. Now, University of Missouri medical, nursing, health professions and University of Missouri- Kansas City pharmacy instructors are using medical simulation to train students to recognize safety risks, communicate effectively and work with other health professionals. "Effective training is needed to help students recognize safety issues, such as assuring that........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 5/20/2009 5:17:46 AM) The cardiovascular benefits of daily exercise School children as young as 11 can benefit from a daily exercise programme in reducing their levels of several known risk factors for cardiovascular disease. A research study that's ongoing, which began four years ago in the German city of Leipzig, shows already that children assigned to daily exercise lessons reduced their overall prevalence of obesity, improved their exercise capacity, increased their levels of HDL-cholesterol, and reduced........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 5/8/2009 5:16:27 AM) Preventing osteo-necrosis of the jaw from bisphosphonates Patients with breast cancer, individuals at risk for osteoporosis and those undergoing certain types of bone cancer therapies often take drugs containing bisphosphonates. These drugs have been found to place people who are at risk for developing osteonecrosis of the jaws (a rotting of the jaw bones). Dentists, as well as oncologists, are now using X-rays to detect "ghost sockets" in patients that take these drugs and when these sockets are........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 5/7/2009 10:14:07 PM) Moving gene therapy forward Gene treatment is the introduction of genetic material into a patient's cells resulting in a cure or a therapeutic effect. In recent years, it has been shown that gene treatment is a promising technology to treat or even cure several fatal diseases for which there is no attractive alternative treatment. Gene treatment can be used for hereditary diseases, but also for other diseases that affect heart, brain and even for cancer. What are the symptoms of lung cancer    Go to the Health-blog (Added on 5/4/2009 5:21:35 AM) Limping rat provides sciatica insights A newly developed animal model for the painful nerve condition known as sciatica should help scientists diagnose and treat it, as per Duke University bioengineers and surgeons. Sciatica is not a single disorder, but rather a diverse range of symptoms, such as numbness or pain from the lower back to the feet, radiating leg pain or difficulty in controlling the leg. It is often caused by compression, or pinching, of any of the five nerve........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 4/30/2009 5:23:27 AM) Details of bacterial 'injection' system New details of the composition and structure of a needlelike protein complex on the surface of certain bacteria may help researchers develop new strategies to thwart infection. The research, conducted in part at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will be published April 26, 2009, in the advance online edition of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology The researchers were studying a needlelike protein complex known........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 4/27/2009 5:19:36 AM)

Risk factors for ADHD Children exposed prenatally to tobacco smoke and during childhood to lead face a especially high risk for ADHD, as per research done at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The study estimates that up to 35 percent of ADHD cases in children between the ages of 8 and 15 could be reduced by eliminating both of these environmental exposures. This could translate into up to 800,000 children. "Tobacco and lead exposure each have........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/23/2009 8:10:18 AM) Daycare and TV time In a newly released study, the amount of television viewed by a number of young children in child care settings doubles the prior estimates of early childhood screen time, with those in home-based settings watching significantly more on average than those in center-based daycares. This study is the first to examine screen time in child care settings in more than 20 years. The study looked at television use in 168 child care programs in four........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/23/2009 8:08:36 AM) Pet therapy while recovering from total joint-replacement surgery Adults who use pet treatment while recovering from total joint-replacement surgery require 50 percent less pain medicine than those who do not. These findings were presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the International Society of Anthrozoology and the First Human Animal Interaction Conference (HAI) in Kansas City, Mo. "Evidence suggests that animal-assisted treatment (AAT) can have a positive effect on a patient's psychosocial,........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/17/2009 8:50:25 AM) How immune cells chase down bacteria A team led by Yale University researchers has developed a new approach to studying how immune cells chase down bacteria in our bodies. Their findings are described in the November 15 issue of Nature Methods Advanced Online Publication. When bacteria enter our bodies they secrete molecules, leaving behind chemical trails as they move through our system. It has been known for some time that immune cells follow these trails in order to hunt the........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/17/2009 8:31:20 AM) Pediatric onset multiple sclerosis is more aggressive Magnetic resonance images (MRI) of patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in childhood show that pediatric onset multiple sclerosis is more aggressive, and causes more brain lesions, than MS diagnosed in adulthood, scientists at the University at Buffalo have reported. Interestingly, however, patients with pediatric-onset MS -- which comprise up to 5 percent of total MS cases -- develop disabilities at a slower pace than patients with........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/17/2009 8:02:22 AM) Cheerleading injuries in US due to stunts Whether rallying the crowd at a sporting event or participating in competition, cheerleading can be both fun and physically demanding. Eventhough integral to cheerleading routines, performing stunts can lead to injury. Stunt-related injuries accounted for more than half (60 percent) of U.S. cheerleading injuries from June 2006 through June 2007, as per a newly released study conducted by scientists at the Center for Injury Research and Policy........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/16/2009 8:08:01 AM) When should flu trigger a school shutdown? As flu season approaches, parents around the country are starting to face school closures. But how bad should an influenza outbreak be for a school to shut down? A study led by epidemiologists John Brownstein, PhD, and Anne Gatewood Hoen, PhD of the Children's Hospital Boston Informatics Program, in collaboration Asami Sasaki of the University of Niigata Prefecture (Niigata, Japan), tapped a detailed set of Japanese data to help guide decision........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/5/2009 8:35:23 AM) Bacteria 'launch a shield' to resist attack Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark along with other collaborators in Denmark and the US observed that the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa can 'switch on' production of molecules that kill white blood cells preventing the bacteria being eliminated by the body's immune system. P. aeruginosa is responsible for a number of hospital-acquired infections and also causes chronic infections in those........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/2/2009 8:49:53 AM) Sleep deprivation and information processing A study in the Nov.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorization (information-integration) to a more controlled, explicit process (rule-based). This use of rule-based strategies in a task in which information-integration strategies are optimal can lead to potentially devastating errors when quick and accurate categorization is........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 11/2/2009 8:49:18 AM) Standards for a new genomic era A team of geneticists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, together with a consortium of international researchers, has recently proposed a set of standards designed to elucidate the quality of publicly available genetic sequencing information. The new standards could eventually allow genetic scientists to develop vaccines more efficiently or help public health or security personnel more quickly respond to potential public-health emergencies. ........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 10/21/2009 11:24:00 PM) Spinal cord regeneration after injury Animal research is suggesting new ways to aid recovery after spinal cord injury. New studies demonstrate that diet affects recovery rate and show how to make stem cell therapies safer for spinal injury patients. The findings were presented at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news on brain science and health. In other animal studies, scientists identified........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 10/20/2009 10:11:13 PM) Genetic cause of hemoglobin problems A gene with a significant effect on regulating hemoglobin in the body has been identified as part of a genome-wide association study, which looked at the link between genes and hemoglobin level in 16,000 people. The research was carried out by researchers from Imperial College London and published in Nature Genetics today. It shows a strong association between a gene known as TMPRSS6 and the regulation of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is contained........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 10/12/2009 7:16:00 AM) Improving vaccine efficacy for the elderly A newly released study from the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake, New York, demonstrates that immune system cells important for both pathogen resistance and vaccine efficacy live longer in older animals but because of this longevity acquire functional defects. The work may provide new targets for boosting immune system function in older individuals. The well-documented decreases in immune system function that accompany aging leave elderly........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 10/6/2009 7:29:24 AM) Molecular imaging for endometrial cancer A promising new molecular imaging technique may provide physicians and patients with a noninvasive way to learn more information about a type of cancer of the uterus lining called "endometrial carcinoma"one of the most common cancerous female tumors. This research was presented as per a research findings reported in the recent issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine "Endometrial carcinoma is one of the most common female cancerous tumors,"........Go to the Cancer-blog (Added on 10/1/2009 6:59:43 AM) Living conditions have significant impact on reproductive health When costs outweigh benefits, successful pregnancies are less likely to occur. Life is all about tradeoffs and recently published research by Virginia J. Vitzthum, a senior scientist at Indiana University's Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, and professor in the IU College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Anthropology, has shown that during periods of intense labor and low food intake, rates of early pregnancy........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/29/2009 7:48:15 AM) Director of Alzheimer's Disease Center honored Dr. Roger Rosenberg, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been awarded the first Medal for Scientific Achievement by the World Federation of Neurology. The federation is made up of more than 100 neurology associations internationally. It established the award, and another for service to international neurology, in 2008. The prizes are the first ever given by the federation. "I am honored that........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/29/2009 7:42:55 AM) Healthcare: the Impact on Small Business © SarahMcD The debate over healthcare (and health insurance reform) is far from over. A piece of proposed legislation, H.R. 3200, has gotten a lot of scrutiny. But there is no single, unified bill before tghe whole of Congress yet. So the impact on small business (or anyone else, for that matter) is hard to foresee... BusinessWeek ran an article recently that spelled out some possible changes to the current system that would........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/27/2009 9:56:20 PM) Will Twitter Change Healthcare? Ask it! Obviously not, but it can provide us with some new solutions. That’s why I wanted to share askCH, an interesting project AskCH is a one-of-a-kind healthcare tool. Send a healthcare cost or definition question in the proper format, and receive the answer with a link to find detailed information So you can send messages via Twitter such as Cost of [drug name] near [zipcode example tweet: “d askch cost of lexapro near........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/27/2009 9:41:01 PM) La Jolla Institute scientist earns prestigious NIH Award A scientist at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology has received one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s top awards -- the 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Award. The prestigious prize carries with it funding for total costs of up to $4.7 million over five years, and is designed to support the work of exceptionally creative scientists, whose novel proposals offer the potential to make extraordinary contributions to human health.........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/24/2009 6:55:54 AM) Private umbilical cord banking not cost-effective Private cord blood banking is not cost-effective because it costs an additional $1,374,246 per life-year gained, as per a new analysis by UCSF researchers. The research team also concluded that private cord blood banking is cost-effective only for families with a child with a very high likelihood of needing a stem cell transplant. The scientists used a technique called decision analysis that tracks hypothetical groups of people and allows........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/23/2009 7:13:35 AM) What is Compression Wear? Compression wear includes leg wear such as gradient stockings and arm sleeves. They are different from athletic or dress socks. They are designed to improve circulation in the arms and legs. Improved circulation cures swelling and aches caused by the accumulation of blood or lymph in the limbs. These stockings and arm sleeves are used to treat ailments like lymphedema, blood clots and venous ulcers. Compression stockings are used in the........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 9/22/2009 10:23:26 PM) Working too much can be dangerous Allowing teens to work too a number of hours in the wrong environment can be dangerous for their sexual health by fostering conditions that lead them to older sex partners, a newly released study shows. This is just one of the key findings in a University of Michigan study of youth on what predicts age of sex partners. Jose Bauermeister, one of the authors, says age difference of sex partners is important, because a larger age difference is........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 8/26/2009 10:58:56 PM) Formal education lessens the impact of Alzheimer's disease Scientists at the Department of Psychiatry, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universitt Mnchen, investigated the effects of formal education on the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. They were able to show that education diminishes the impact of Alzheimer's disease on cognition even if a manifest brain volume loss has already occurred. The results are reported in the current issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease ("Education attenuates........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 8/11/2009 11:18:46 PM) DHA in Alzheimer's disease Results from two large studies using DHA, an omega 3 fatty acid, were reported today at the Alzheimer's Association 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD 2009) in Vienna. One of the trials was conducted by the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS) supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), and the second by Martek Biosciences Corporation (Martek), the primary company that makes algal DHA for........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 7/12/2009 8:47:59 AM) Protein erbin could become treatment target A new protein identified as critical to insulating the wiring that connects the brain and body could one day be a therapy target for divergent diseases, from rare ones that lower the pain threshold to cancer, Medical College of Georgia scientists say. They report this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition that in the peripheral nervous system that controls arms and legs, the protein erbin regulates the........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 5/20/2009 5:20:12 AM) No insurance? No colonoscopy John M Inadomi highlights the disparity in colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) among different socioeconomic and ethnic groups in US society in a recent review published by F1000 Medicine Reports (www.f1000medicine.com/reports). Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the developed world. In this report, John Inadomi, chief of Clinical Gastroenterology at the San Francisco General Hospital and a frequent........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 5/8/2009 5:07:41 AM) What teens don't know about OTC medications Teens, who are starting to make more decisions about their own health care, may not know enough about over-the-counter pain medications to avoid complications or inadvertent misuse. A University of Rochester Medical Center study surveyed almost 100 young people between 14 and 20 years old and observed that the average score on series of questions about knowledge of over-the-counter medicine was 44 percent. Despite that obvious knowledge........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 5/5/2009 5:24:02 AM) Institution of a bedtime routine improves sleep A study in the May 1 issue of the journal SLEEP demonstrates that the use of a consistent bedtime routine contributes to improvements in multiple aspects of infant and toddler sleep, bedtime behavior and maternal mood. Results indicate that the establishment of a nightly bedtime routine produced significant reductions in problematic sleep behaviors for infants and toddlers. Improvements were seen in latency and sleep onset and in the number........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 5/1/2009 5:09:19 AM) Simulated gene therapy In a recent issue of The Journal of Chemical Physics, published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP), a group of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratory describe the first comprehensive, molecular-level numerical study of gene treatment. Their work should help researchers design new experimental gene therapies and possibly solve some of the problems linked to this promising technique. ........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 4/30/2009 5:15:29 AM) Brain works best when cells keep right rhythms It is said that each of us marches to the beat of a different drum, but new Stanford University research suggests that brain cells need to follow specific rhythms that must be kept for proper brain functioning. These rhythms don't appear to be working correctly in such diseases as schizophrenia and autism, and now two papers due to be published online this week by the journals Nature and Science demonstrate that precisely tuning the oscillation........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 4/27/2009 5:26:24 AM)