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The latest news on maintaining a wellness lifestyle, with special sections for mens health and womens health from Medical News Today.com

 

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Oxygen Supply To Unborn Baby Reduced By Obesity And Passive Smoking

Babies born to mothers with obesity and exposed to passive smoking are more likely to have health problems than others. This conclusion is based on evidence of elevated levels of nucleated red blood cells in the umbilical cord reported in the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health...
03/17/2010


Scientists Believe That Anti-Obesity Drugs Are Unlikely To Provide Lasting Benefit

Scientists at the University of Liverpool argue that anti-obesity drugs fail to provide lasting benefits for health and wellbeing because they tackle the biological consequences of obesity, and not the important psychological causes of overconsumption and weight gain...
03/17/2010


Teen Girls Look To Peers To Gauge Weight Goals

Their schoolmates' weight determines whether teenage high school girls will try to lose pounds, new research finds, and the school environment plays a big role in the decision...
03/17/2010


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Sports Medicine News

Nurses Welcome Chief Medical Officer's Focus On Physical Activity, UK

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) welcomed the Chief Medical Officer's focus on physical fitness in his final annual report and called for all children to have access to advice from school nurses...
03/16/2010


95% Success Rate For Grown Teen Pitchers With "Tommy John" Elbow Reconstruction

A new study presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Specialty Day in New Orleans, (March 13), found that 95 percent of skeletally mature high school pitchers were satisfied with their "Tommy John" elbow reconstruction surgery. Almost as many, (94.7 percent) returned to competitive baseball...
03/15/2010


84 Percent Of Male Patients Still Highly Active 15 Years After ACL Knee Reconstruction

Eighty-four percent of males who had ACL knee (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction with a patellar tendon (the tendon that attaches the knee to the front of the tibia or shin bone) graft continue at a high level of activity 15 years later, according to a study presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in New Orleans, Louisiana (March 13)...
03/15/2010


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Mental Wellbeing News

Mind Is Offering Funding For Community Projects, UK

Funding is now available to residents who wish to run community projects, but hurry as there are less than 40 days left to apply and competition is tight. Grants scheme Ecominds is offering up to £20,000 to help fund initiatives that improve the local environment and involve people with mental health problems...
03/17/2010


OptumHealth Honors "Forgotten" Mental Illness Patients, Recognizes Important Progress In Behavioral Health Care

OptumHealth Inc. is supporting a national memorial being built to honor people nationwide who died in state psychiatric hospitals and are buried in unnamed graves. While noting the significant advancements in behavioral health care that today are helping millions find paths to recovery, OptumHealth unveiled a traveling fund-raising display for the memorial and presented a $50,000 donation...
03/17/2010


Study Of Combined Depression-Alcoholism Treatment Shows Higher Abstinence Rate

Combining the antidepressant sertraline with the alcohol dependence treatment naltrexone produced a 54 percent abstinence rate in patients with both major depression and alcohol dependence, whereas the rates were only 21 to 28 percent for patients taking a placebo, sertraline only, or naltrexone only...
03/16/2010


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Mens Health News

Swiss Condom For Boys Could Be Used In U.S. Sex Education Efforts, Columnist Wetzstein Says

Although the recently released "Hotshot" condom in Switzerland "has already launched a thousand jokes," the condom designed specifically for sexually active boys ages 12 to 14 "could become part of the sex-education toolbox," Washington Times columnist Cheryl Wetzstein writes...
03/17/2010


How To Minimize Radiation Risks Of Angioplasty Shows Highest Doses In Men, Large Body Mass, Complex Cases

Body size, gender and the complexity of heart disease significantly influence how much cumulative radiation skin dose that patients receive during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) therapy, also known as angioplasty, according to a new Mayo Clinic study...
03/16/2010


84 Percent Of Male Patients Still Highly Active 15 Years After ACL Knee Reconstruction

Eighty-four percent of males who had ACL knee (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction with a patellar tendon (the tendon that attaches the knee to the front of the tibia or shin bone) graft continue at a high level of activity 15 years later, according to a study presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in New Orleans, Louisiana (March 13)...
03/15/2010


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Women Taking Birth Control Pill Likely To Live Longer, Reduce Risk Of Certain Cancers, Study Finds

Women who take the birth control pill are more likely to live longer than women who have never taken the pill, according to a study published Friday in the British medical journal BMJ, the AP/Boston Globe reports. Researchers in the United Kingdom followed more than 46,000 women who took the pill and then compared the mortality rate of those women with women who did not take birth control pills...
03/17/2010


Kotex Campaign Parodies Typical Menstrual Product Advertising

In an effort to part from typically "euphemistic" advertisements for feminine products, Kotex has launched a marketing campaign for its new "U by Kotex" line that parodies conventional menstrual product ads, the New York Times reports...
03/17/2010


NPR Examines CDC Report On Genital Herpes, Black Community

NPR's "All Things Considered" on Friday examined a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis showing that roughly 16% of U.S. residents ages 14 through 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the nation's most common sexually transmitted infections...
03/17/2010


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