HealthDay - MONDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) -- Good nutrition may be more
an issue of supply than demand in the poorest parts of the lower
Mississippi Delta. -- read full article
Reuters - Despite the fancy label, hospitals designated bariatric surgery "centers of excellence" have as many deaths and complications from the weight-loss procedure as others, U.S. researchers said on Monday. -- read full article
AP - Ever since campus counseling centers were established in the 1940s, college officials have known that the prevalence and severity of students' mental health problems were rising. They just didn't know by how much. -- read full article
AP - Food hijacked Dr. David Kessler's brain. Not apples or carrots. The scientist who once led the government's attack on addictive cigarettes can't wander through part of San Francisco without craving a local shop's chocolate-covered pretzels. Stop at one cookie? Rarely.
HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- Harnessing cutting-edge
techniques, a variety of human, animal and laboratory studies are
suggesting innovative new ways to beat cancer. -- read full article
HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- Adding the drug dasatinib to a
standard, two-drug chemotherapy regimen for treating ovarian cancer
boosted the effectiveness of the drugs in laboratory tests, new research
shows. -- read full article
Reuters - Statin drugs, a commonly prescribed class of lipid-lowering drugs that include Lipitor, Zocor and Crestor, do not prevent Alzheimer's disease or dementia, according to a report in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. -- read full article
HealthDay - MONDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) -- Good nutrition may be more
an issue of supply than demand in the poorest parts of the lower
Mississippi Delta. -- read full article
HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- Harnessing cutting-edge
techniques, a variety of human, animal and laboratory studies are
suggesting innovative new ways to beat cancer. -- read full article
HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- Someday, a simple urine
test might spot smokers at highest risk for lung cancer, scientists
report. -- read full article
Reuters - Researchers have found an unexpected genetic mutation that causes a rare type of early childhood cancer, and said on Sunday it represents a whole new mechanism for the development of cancer. -- read full article
