Health & Medicine

Posted July 22, 2013:

• Vaccinating Boys Plays Key Role in HPV Prevention


• Surgeon Recommends Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Be Abandoned


• Plain Packaging Seems to Make Cigarettes Less Appealing and Increase Urgency to Quit Smoking


• Scientists Prove Ticks Harbor Heartland Virus, a Recently Discovered Disease in the United States


• A Woman's Work Is Never Done?


• Skipping Breakfast May Increase Coronary Heart Disease Risk


• Scientists Identify Key Brain Circuits That Control Compulsive Drinking in Rats


• Weight Is a Factor in Graduate School Admissions


• Novel 'Top-Down' Mechanism Repatterns Developing Brain Regions


• Chemical Reaction Could Streamline Manufacture of Pharmaceuticals and Other Compounds


• Breastfed Children Are Less Likely to Develop ADHD Later in Life, Study Suggests


• Flex Plan for Physically Demanding Jobs: Flexibility Tests Are Often as Good as Strength Tests, and Not as Discriminatory


• New Key to 'Switching Off' Hypertension


• Off-Grid Sterilization With 'Solar Steam'


• Rare Immune Cells Promote Food-Induced Allergic Inflammation in the Esophagus


• Sports Medicine Physician Advises Parents to Not Let Their Kids Play Football


• Teen Eating Disorders Increase Suicide Risk


• 'Love Hormone' Is Two-Faced: Oxytocin Strengthens Bad Memories and Can Increase Fear and Anxiety


• New Hope for Hormone Resistant Breast Cancer


• Explaining Cancer to Better Prevent It


• Protein Complex Linked to Cancer Growth May Also Help Fight Tumors


• Study Lays Groundwork for Norovirus Anti-Viral Treatments


• Could Turning on a Gene Prevent Diabetes?


• Mental Illness Linked to Early Death in People With Epilepsy


• To Savor the Flavor, Perform a Short Ritual First


• Too Many Antioxidants? Resveratrol Blocks Many Cardiovascular Benefits of Exercise


• Health Risks from Arsenic in Rice Exposed


• When Cells Are Consumed by Wanderlust