By Dennis Thompson
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have long known that some kids suffering severe emotional turmoil find relief in physical pain — cutting or burning or sticking themselves with pins to achieve a form of release.
But researchers now are questioning whether enough is being done to reach out to these young people and help them before they do themselves irreparable damage.
FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) — Cancer patients’ primary goal in talking with their doctors about information they’ve found on the Internet is to get more insight and advice on the online information, new research indicates.
“It seems that patients were not necessarily trying to influence their doctors, but rather they wanted to better understand their options,” study author Christina Sabee, an associate professor of communication studies at San Francisco State University, said in a Journal of Applied Communication Research news release.
FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) — Investigating indigenous Amazonian or African peoples who still follow a hunter-gatherer or forager-horticulturist lifestyle is giving new insights into how diet and lifestyle affect the heart as humans age.
Two new studies found that these types of hunter-gatherer or foraging peoples have lower increases in blood pressure related to their age and are less likely to have hardening of the arteries than people with more modern lifestyles.
FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) — Exposure to loud music at a rock concert often results in temporary hearing loss for teenagers, researchers say.
A small study by the House Research Institute revealed that 72 percent of teens reported reduced hearing after attending a three-hour show. This type of hearing loss typically disappears within 48 hours, but if it occurs repeatedly, permanent hearing loss can develop, the study authors noted.
FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) — Only one in 14 Hispanic adults in the United States has ever been screened for skin cancer, far fewer than the one in four whites screened, a new study finds.
Socioeconomic factors such as lack of health insurance and poorer access to health care services are major reasons for this disparity, according to the researchers at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) — Pregnant women who received a flu shot to protect them against the H1N1 swine flu virus had a significantly reduced risk of stillbirth, preterm birth and of having a baby small for gestational age, according to a new study.
The researchers examined data from nearly 56,000 single-child births that took place in Ontario, Canada, during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) — The number of Americans suffering from kidney stones has almost doubled since 1994, researchers report, and the obesity epidemic is the most likely reason why.
About one in 11 Americans now develops kidney stones, according to scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles and RAND Corp. In contrast, only one in 20 Americans developed kidney stones back in 1994, they noted.
THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) — Some overweight or obese children are at increased risk for a brain condition that can lead to blindness, a new study shows.
The risk of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) — also called pseudotumor cerebri — is especially high in older white girls, according to the Kaiser Permanente researchers.
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) — Despite scary headlines by the score, most people don’t have to fear that they’ll be the next victim of the so-called flesh-eating bacteria disease, experts say.
“Only about 10,000 to 12,000 cases are reported a year in the U.S.,” said Dr. Pascal James Imperato, dean of the School of Public Health at State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. “It’s relatively rare.”
WEDNESDAY, May 23, 2012 (Health.com) — Calcium supplements, widely taken by older people to prevent bone fractures, may be doing more harm than good, a large new study suggests.
Researchers tracked nearly 25,000 European adults for 11 years, and found that people who reported regularly taking calcium supplements were more than twice as likely to have a heart attack as those who didn’t use any supplements. Read More
