Health News
Breast reduction for men is the fastest growing part of the UK cosmetic surgery industry for the second year running, plastic surgeons say.
Fractal Ken / CC BY 2.0 Women and men may come from Venus and Mars, but Heart Month should remind us all that we have more in common sometimes than we might think - particularly where our hearts are concerned. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in women and men worldwide.
A strategy to halve the number of smokers in England over the next 10 years is unveiled by the government.
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries...
The Utah House Health and Human Services Committee on Tuesday approved a bill (HB 12) that would permit criminal charges against a woman who attempts to have an illegal abortion, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. The legislation would define which abortions are legal and protected from prosecution...
California's state Senate Thursday voted for a bill creating a single-payer health system Thursday. The Associated Press: "The California Senate approved creating a government-run health care system for the nation's most populous state on Thursday, ignoring a veto threat from Gov...
Earthtimes (press release)
To further protect the safety of patients taking individually prepared medications, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has developed new and revised quality guidelines for pharmacists who compound - or individually prepare - these life-saving drugs...
Author Terry Pratchett says he is ready to be a test case for assisted suicide "tribunals" which would provide assistance to those with incurable diseases wishing to end their lives.
Postmenopausal women who have been diagnosed with HER2 positive , estrogen receptor sensitive breast cancer can now take advantage of a drug combination just approved by the FDA. Tykerb (lapatinib) and Femara (letrozole) are not new drugs for breast cancer, but using the combination of these to treat advanced breast cancer has just been studied. Results of the study showed that women with HER2, ER positive metastatic breast cancer had almost triple the survival rates of women treated with only Femara. When combined, Tykerb and Femara extended the lives of patients by 35 weeks, as compared to 13 weeks on Femara alone.
The Joint Commission on Tuesday issued its latest sentinel event alert highlighting maternal death in the U.S. as a serious, though rare, issue that should receive more attention from hospitals and caregivers, HealthLeaders Media reports. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, 13...
A study published Friday in the British medical journal Lancet found that a new type of emergency contraception, ulipristal acetate, appears to be more effective for a longer time than the most widely used form of EC, levonorgestrel, the AP/USA Today reports. The new EC pill -- available by prescription in Europe under the brand name ellaOne -- prevented pregnancy for up to five days in the study...
New England Journal of Medicine: Increased Ambulatory Care Copayments And Hospitalizations Among The Elderly - This study examines the consequences of increasing copayments for outpatient care of Medicare enrollees in managed-care plans...
Childhood cancer project under way
The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, shows that hip fractures in grandfathers are linked to low bone density and reduced bone size in their grandsons. "This is the first time this risk factor for low bone mass has been demonstrated across two generations," says associate professor Mattias Lorentzon, who led the research team at the Sahlgrenska Academy...
Sanford Hematology and Oncology Moves to New Location (PRWeb Feb 1, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/02/prweb3546884.htm
A study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP suggests that healthy older adults without sleep disorders can expect to have a reduced "sleep need" and to be less sleepy during the day than healthy young adults. Results show that during a night of eight hours in bed, total sleep time decreased significantly and progressively with age...
A study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP found gray matter concentration deficits in multiple brain areas of people with severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)...
A study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP suggests that healthy older adults without sleep disorders can expect to have a reduced "sleep need" and to be less sleepy during the day than healthy young adults. Results show that during a night of eight hours in bed, total sleep time decreased significantly and progressively with age...