In a survey of Florida high school students, white Hispanic teens were more likely to use tanning beds and less likely to consider themselves at risk for skin cancer or protect themselves from the sun than white non-Hispanic teens, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Findings from a study released revealed that a limited amount of clinical research exists to prove the effectiveness of many over-the-counter (OTC) anti-aging products.
A team of entomologists from the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources has completed their assessment of the impact of mosquitoes following the flooding that occurred in southeast Kansas last month.
Recent toy recalls may leave you wondering about your child’s exposure to lead. Read on to get the facts from Children’s Hospital Boston’s Michael Shannon, MD, MPH, an emergency physician, toxicologist and co-director of the Pediatric Environmental Health Center at Children’s Hospital Boston and Alan Woolf, MD, MPH, a pediatrician, toxicologist, co-director of the Pediatric Environmental Health Center and director of the Environmental Medicine Program at Children’s Hospital Boston.
A year ago, 42-year-old Phillip Hall was facing near-certain death, perhaps within weeks. But today, he?s about to celebrate his birthday, his tenth wedding anniversary ? and the one-year anniversary of the day he was rushed into a University of Michigan operating room and implanted with a temporary total artificial heart that saved his life by replacing his own failing heart.
Researchers at UCLA have developed a mathematical model that mimics a particularly nasty and ongoing outbreak in the Los Angeles County Jail (LACJ) of the flesh eating bacteria Staphylococcus Aureus.
A team of Mayo Clinic researchers has discovered a new, more accurate diagnostic test to detect infection of prosthetic joints, potentially leading to better treatment options and patient outcomes.
Daily injections could be a thing of the past for people with diabetes thanks to an innovative new product supported by the Australian government.
A compound related to a drug used in humans to prevent organ-transplant rejection attacks a key biochemical process in the faulty immune cells of lupus-prone mice, suggesting a possible new approach to combating the disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.
Exercise cannot reduce a sodium-retaining hormone in African Americans known to potentially cause hypertension, found Michael D. Brown, Ph.D., the senior author of a study in the September issue of Experimental Physiology. Brown is an associate professor of kinesiology at Temple University?s College of Health Professions.