Osteoporosis drugs may raise throat cancer risk

September 3rd, 2010 by Benedictus | No Comments | Filed in Health |

Researchers say new findings shouldn’t affect patients taking bisphosphonates, but said the medicines should be watched closely. Other  studies have been divided over whether the risk is real.




Osteoporosis – Cancer – Bisphosphonate – Health – Conditions and Diseases

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Text messages little help in remembering the Pill

September 2nd, 2010 by Benedictus | No Comments | Filed in Health |

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A cell phone text message — and the buzz or beep that signals its arrival — may not help a woman remember to pop her birth control pill, a new study suggests.




Mobile phone – Text messaging – Birth control – Cell Phones – Reuters

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Trapped, but still sane: Survivors speak out

September 2nd, 2010 by Benedictus | No Comments | Filed in Health |

Nicholas White was stranded for 41 hours in an elevator back in 1999 at Rockefeller Center's McGraw-Hill Building in New York.Randy Knapp was a teenager when he spent 13 nights trapped in a whiteout on Oregon’s Mount Hood. Thirty-three years later, he’s still climbing.


Oregon – Mount Hood – United States – Whiteout – Climbing

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Diabetes drug may keep lung cancer at bay

September 2nd, 2010 by Benedictus | No Comments | Filed in Health |

The popular diabetes drug Metformin could stave off lung cancer in smokers and deserves further study, a new study finds.

Cancer – Lung cancer – Health – Lung – Diabetes mellitus

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Ovary removal may benefit high-risk women

August 31st, 2010 by Benedictus | No Comments | Filed in Health |

Surgery to remove healthy ovaries gives a triple benefit to high-risk women: It lowers their threat of breast and ovarian cancer, and boosts their chances of living longer, new research suggests.

Cancer – Ovary – Ovarian cancer – Conditions and Diseases – Oophorectomy

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Deaths raise fears about sleep drug for vets

August 30th, 2010 by Benedictus | No Comments | Filed in Health |

Shirley and Stan White's son, Andrew White, died in his sleep on Feb. 12, 2008, while taking a Seroquel, a powerful antipsychotic prescribed as a sleep aid. Shirley White holds a box of her son's prescription medication is photo taken in the their son's bedroom in Cross Lanes, W. Va. Thousands of soldiers suffering from PTSD have received Seroquel, a potent anti-psychotic medication, over the last nine years. But a spate of deaths have raised questions about its off-label use as a sleep aid.




Health – Antipsychotic – Posttraumatic stress disorder – Conditions and Diseases – Off-label use

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Baby died after superbug hit ward

August 30th, 2010 by Benedictus | No Comments | Filed in Health |

A baby died and three others became ill after a superbug resistant to common antibiotics hit a London hospital, it is revealed.

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First genetic link found to common migraine

August 29th, 2010 by Benedictus | No Comments | Filed in Health |

An international scientific team has identified for the first time a genetic risk factor associated with common migraines and say their research could open the way for new treatments to prevent migraine attacks.

Migraine – Research – Headache – Health – Neurological disorder

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Government scrapping NHS Direct

August 29th, 2010 by Benedictus | No Comments | Filed in Health |

The coalition government confirms plans to scrap the NHS Direct helpline in England and replace it with an alternative service.

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Male oesophageal cancer ‘doubles’

August 28th, 2010 by Benedictus | No Comments | Filed in Health |

Cancers of the food pipe in Britain have doubled in men over 25 years, figures from Cancer Research UK show.

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Medicare expands coverage to help smokers quit

August 28th, 2010 by Benedictus | No Comments | Filed in Health |

Even though they’ve lived with the health warnings much of their lives and doubtless seen the ill effects on friends, relatives and even themselves, about 4.5 million older Americans continue to smoke.




Medicare – United States – Health – Health care – Tobacco

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No jail for Germany HIV popstar

August 26th, 2010 by Benedictus | No Comments | Filed in Health |

An HIV-positive German popstar accused of infecting a former partner with the virus is given a two-year suspended sentence.

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