| Anti-aging strategies can improve more than looks Posted: 01 Nov 2013 02:23 PM PDT Experts have advice on how to slow aging, and how this can help with appearance and self-esteem.  |
| Poor children grow up more susceptible to catching colds, study finds Posted: 01 Nov 2013 06:19 AM PDT Researchers have found an association between lower socioeconomic status during childhood and adolescence and the length of telomeres, protective cap-like protein complexes at the end of chromosomes, that ultimately affects the susceptibility to colds in middle-aged adults. Published in Brain, Behavior and Immunity, the study showed that children and teens with parents of lower socioeconomic status have shorter telomeres as adults.  |
| Home visits lessen emergency care for infants Posted: 01 Nov 2013 06:19 AM PDT Home visits from a nurse are a proven but expensive way to help newborns get a good start in life. New research suggests that less costly home visiting programs can reach more families and still produce significant health care improvements. Infants in the study had 50 percent fewer emergency care episodes than other babies in the first year of life.  |
| Scientists raise alarm over today's measures against Legionellosis Posted: 01 Nov 2013 06:17 AM PDT According to the textbooks, both high doses of chlorine and hot water are lethal to legionella bacteria. But now Norwegian scientists are sounding the alarm that the bacteria can survive these treatments, by hiding in amoebae.  |
| Twenty percent sugary drink tax would cut number of UK obese adults by 180,000 Posted: 31 Oct 2013 05:34 PM PDT A twenty percent tax on sugar sweetened drinks would reduce the number of UK adults who are obese by 180,000 (1.3 percent) and who are overweight by 285,000 (0.9 percent), suggests a British study.  |
| Mid-level health workers as effective as physicians Posted: 31 Oct 2013 05:34 PM PDT Countries facing severe shortages and poor distribution of health workers could benefit from training and deploying more mid-level health workers, such as midwives, nurses, medical assistants and surgical clinicians.In countries where such health workers have been deployed, the clinical outcomes for certain services were just as good and -- in some cases -- even better than when physicians performed them, the study shows.  |
| Knowing who physician is boosts patient satisfaction Posted: 31 Oct 2013 02:56 PM PDT Knowing who your doctor is -- and a couple of facts about that person -- may go a long way toward improving patient satisfaction.  |
