The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established the We Can! City Program to assist towns and cities across the nation in mobilizing their communities to prevent childhood overweight.
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found that infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is also associated with increased risk of myocardial infarction or heart attack.
When it comes to cholesterol-lowering drugs, more is better. At least, that?s what heart doctors and heart patients have been hearing in recent years. And as a result, more patients are taking higher doses of drugs called statins ? leading to lower heart and stroke risk, but higher prescription drug costs and more frequent side effects.
Jen-On Herbal Science International, Inc. 205 Russell St., City of Industry, CA 91744, announced that it is conducting a voluntary nationwide recall of the company’s supplement product sold under the name H S Joy of Love.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched “A Healthier US Starts Here,” an initiative focused on motivating seniors and others with Medicare to make the most of Medicare’s preventive services.
College-age students who drink heavily may increase their risk for future heart disease, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s 8th Annual Conference on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.
Liverpool scientists have uncovered the reason why overweight women have more Caesarean sections — they are at significant risk of their uterus contracting poorly in childbirth.
Trials lasting 4 to 8 weeks indicate that including wholegrain oats in your diet may lower total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
A cancer-suppressing gene has been successfully delivered into the tumors of stage four lung cancer patients via an intravenously administered lipid nanoparticle in a phase I clinical trial at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The gene, FUS1, also was found to be active in the metastatic nonsmall cell lung cancer tumors.
Childhood obesity may be associated with a condition known as otitis media with effusion, which consists of fluid build-up in the middle ear space without symptoms of acute ear infection, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.