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4/20/11 - Diet Soft Drinks Don't Increase Diabetes Risk

4/20/11 Diet Soft Drinks Don't Increase Diabetes Risk

Food Product Design

BOSTON—While regular consumption of soft drinks and other sugary drinks can increase a person's risk of diabetes, drinking diet soda or artificially sweetened beverages does not, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical ...

4/19/11 - US drug spending slows; hits $307 bln in 2010: report

4/19/11 US drug spending slows; hits $307 bln in 2010: report

WTAQ - Bill Berkrot

REUTERS/Lucas Jackson By Bill Berkrot NEW YORK (Reuters) - US spending growth on prescription ...

4/19/11 - Childhood Eczema May Lead to Adult Asthma

4/19/11 Childhood Eczema May Lead to Adult Asthma

EmpowHer - Denise DeWitt

People who have eczema as a child are nine times more likely to develop allergic asthma as an adult. That is the result of a new study out of the University of Melbourne, the Murdoch Children's ...

4/18/11 - Results on National Study of Parental Concerns About Childhood Vaccines Announced

4/18/11 Results on National Study of Parental Concerns About Childhood Vaccines Announced

HealthNewsDigest.com

Kempe's research has led to improved child health policies in health disparities among underserved populations, state Children's Health Insurance Programs funding, and immunization delivery, policies and practices. She will receive her award during the ...

4/18/11 - Weight Loss May Improve Your Memory

4/18/11 Weight Loss May Improve Your Memory

HealthNews - Drucilla Dyess

These are the findings of new research from Kent State University recently published in the journal Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. John Gunstad, an Assistant Professor of psychology and lead author of the study, reported that results of the ...

4/18/11 - Richmond, Virginia Beach among top 10 most challenging places in the US to ...

4/18/11 Richmond, Virginia Beach among top 10 most challenging places in the US to ...

The Republic

Richmond has won the title of "Asthma Capital" of the US for the second year in a row. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America also ranked Virginia Beach in the top 10 most challenging places to live with asthma. The group's rankings are based on ...

4/18/11 What leads gay, straight teens to attempt suicide? Research suggests similar ...

4/18/11 What leads gay, straight teens to attempt suicide? Research suggests similar ...

Washington Post

Other teen health experts called it a powerful, novel way to evaluate a tragic social problem. “Is it surprising? No. Is it important? Yes,” said Dr. Robert Blum of Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study “takes our relatively ...

4/15/11 - Study in overweight/obese women finds diet plus exercise is more effective for ...

4/15/11 Study in overweight/obese women finds diet plus exercise is more effective for ...

HealthCanal.com

The results of this randomized trial, led by Anne McTiernan, MD, Ph.D., director of the Prevention Center and a member of the Hutchinson Center's Public Health Sciences Division, were published online April 14 in Obesity. The majority of women in the ...

4/15/11 - Diabetes Treatment Standards for Frail Older Adults Should Be More Flexible

4/15/11 Diabetes Treatment Standards for Frail Older Adults Should Be More Flexible

UCSF News Services - Steve Tokar

Diabetes treatment standards for frail older adults should be more flexible than those for younger adults, focusing more on day-to-day quality of life and less on long-term results, according to a geriatrician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. ...

4/15/11 - FDA orders safety studies for some asthma drugs

4/15/11 FDA orders safety studies for some asthma drugs

Reuters - Esha Dey, Tim Dobbyn

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health regulators have ordered drugmakers to conduct clinical trials involving a total of 53000 patients to test the safety of a controversial class of inhaled asthma drugs that are already on the market. ...

4/15/11 Obesity, Disparities in Care Help Drive U.S. Stillbirths: Studies

Obesity, Disparities in Care Help Drive U.S. Stillbirths: Studies

BusinessWeek - Steven Reinberg

Dr. Cathy Spong, chief of the Pregnancy & Perinatology Branch at the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and author of an accompanying journal editorial, said that the disparities seen in stillbirths are the same ones seen in ...

4/15/11 Study Documents PBDE Flame Retardant Levels in Children

4/15/11 Study Documents PBDE Flame Retardant Levels in Children

Newswise (press release)

... higher reported levels of PBDEs in their bodies than the California children,” says study leader Brenda Eskenazi of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health's Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH). ...

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4/13/11 - YMCA Survey Finds U.S. Parents Not Making Kids' Health Top Priority

4/13/11 YMCA Survey Finds U.S. Parents Not Making Kids' Health Top Priority

Centre Daily Times

CHICAGO, April 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Despite growing rates of childhood obesity and chronic illness among the nation's kids, only 15 percent of American parents rank overall physical health as the top concern for their children, ...

4/13/11 - Dentists Weigh In on Kids' Chocolate Milk Health Debate

4/13/11 Dentists Weigh In on Kids' Chocolate Milk Health Debate

ABC News - Liz Neporent

For years, nutrition experts and healthy food advocates have been calling for a ban on chocolate milk in schools to help curb childhood obesity. Some dentists are now joining the chorus, saying it's one of the main ...

4/13/11 - Arthritis Has Limiting Effects on Hispanics More than Any Other Race

4/13/11 Arthritis Has Limiting Effects on Hispanics More than Any Other Race

Hispanically Speaking News

Arthritis is associated with substantial activity limitation, work disability, increased prevalence of obesity, reduced quality of life, and high health-care costs. In a new study featured in the Journal of the American Medical Association, ...

4/13/11 UT Southwestern pediatricians launch landmark children's health study

4/13/11 UT Southwestern pediatricians launch landmark children's health study

EurekAlert (press release)

The multicenter study will eventually follow 100000 children nationwide from birth until age 21 to determine how various factors, including environmental and genetic ones, affect a child's health, development and quality of life. ...

4/13/11 $2.7 Million Grant to Unite Generations in the Fight Against Obesity

4/13/11 $2.7 Million Grant to Unite Generations in the Fight Against Obesity

Virtual Press Office (press release)

Coordinated Approach to Child Health, or CATCH, is an evidence-based, nationally-recognized curriculum created by research teams from the University of California at San Diego, University of Minnesota, Tulane University and University of Texas. ...

4/13/11 Non-Profit Urges Parents and Legislators to Make the First Five (Years of Life ...

4/13/11 Non-Profit Urges Parents and Legislators to Make the First Five (Years of Life ...

PR Newswire (press release)

The National Survey of Children's Health, 2007. US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, (2009). Rockville, Maryland: US Department of Health and Human Services. ...

4/13/11 YMCA Survey Finds U.S. Parents Not Making Kids' Health Top Priority

4/13/11 YMCA Survey Finds U.S. Parents Not Making Kids' Health Top Priority

PR Newswire (press release)

CHICAGO, PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Despite growing rates of childhood obesity and chronic illness among the nation's kids, only 15 percent of American parents rank overall physical health as the top concern for their children, ...