Month: October 2011

HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) — About one in six asthma
sufferers carries a genetic variant that’s associated with a poor response
to commonly prescribed inhaled asthma medications called corticosteroids,
according to a new study.

Reuters – Some Americans are losing weight resulting in more people of “normal weight,” according to a new study, but it is not clear if the trend will last.

HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — Storing medications properly can help
preserve them and help keep them from getting into the wrong hands.

HealthDay – FRIDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) — Jennifer Jones Austin works as
a lawyer and child advocate in Brooklyn, N.Y., devoting her talents to
protecting at-risk children. So it may be fitting that in Austin’s own
hour of need, her life was saved by donations from two newborn
children.

HealthDay – FRIDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) — A patient’s ability to ride a
bicycle can help doctors determine whether the patient has Parkinson’s
disease or atypical parkinsonism, regardless of the terrain or riding
situation, a new study indicates.

HealthDay – FRIDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) — Exposing children to MRIs
during pediatric clinical trials is not unduly risky to their well-being
as long as sedation and injectable dyes aren’t used, new Canadian research
concludes.

HealthDay – FRIDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) — News that a key government
advisory panel will give a thumbs-down next week to a controversial blood
test for prostate cancer is garnering both praise and condemnation from
experts.

HealthDay – FRIDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) — Women with polycystic ovary
syndrome (PCOS), an endocrine disorder that often leads to infertility,
are more likely to have parents with some form of heart disease, according
to a new study.