Don’t make a health fumble on football day
Monday, 28 January 2013
Let’s face it: “Super Bowl is not the day when you’re going to stick with the daily recommendations for sodium limits,” says Dr. Martha Gulati, director of preventative cardiology and women’s vascular health at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Hearing loss linked to memory loss in the elderly
Sunday, 27 January 2013
Adults who lose their hearing later in life also are more likely to have a hard time concentrating on a book or remembering a simple conversation, Johns Hopkins research has found.
Researchers question how flu is really spread
Sunday, 27 January 2013
(MCT) BALTIMORE - Every flu season, doctors instruct their patients in the basics of respiratory etiquette: To limit spread of the disease, wash your hands, cover your mouth when you cough and practice good hygiene.
Study shows unassisted method works best to restore independent breathing in patients on ventilators
Saturday, 26 January 2013
Use of a device that supplies humidified oxygen is more effective than a technique that reduces positive airway pressure delivered to the lungs in helping patients who have been on a ventilator more than 21 days regain the ability to breathe on their own, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Sober bar: Alcohol-free nightspot for people in recovery
Saturday, 26 January 2013
Reed is a former heroin user who has been clean for three years, and in that time he has found few places in the Chicago area where a young guy like him can go for a drug- and alcohol-free night on the town.
Regular marijuana use by teens continues to be a concern
Thursday, 20 December 2012
Continued high use of marijuana by the nation's eighth, 10th and 12th graders combined with a drop in perceptions of its potential harms in this year's Monitoring the Future survey, an annual survey of eighth, 10th, and 12th-graders conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan. The survey was carried out in classrooms around the country earlier this year, under a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health.
19 Baltimore workers profiled in 'American Nurse' book
Thursday, 20 December 2012
Carolyn Jones' new coffee-table book documents the diverse and profound ways nurses change lives.
Genetic action shows results on rare brain disease in children
Thursday, 20 December 2012
A team led by a New Jersey researcher has been able to slow the course of a rare childhood brain disease by injecting patients with corrective genes, according to a study published Wednesday.
Prenatal intervention reduces learning deficit in mice
Monday, 03 December 2012
Mice with a condition that serves as a laboratory model for Down syndrome perform better on memory and learning tasks as adults if they were treated before birth with neuroprotective peptides, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health.
Former Hopkins students help free clinic develop electronic records
Monday, 03 December 2012
In 2006, when Eugene Semenov was an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University, he volunteered at the medical clinic of Baltimore Rescue...
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