23andMe is part of a fledgling industry that allows consumers to peek into their genetic code.
23andMe, a genetic test maker, is asking the Food and Drug Administration to approve its personalized DNA test in a move that, if successful, could boost acceptance of technology that is viewed skeptically by leading scientists who question its usefulness.
What is right for controlling blood pressure in a 50-year-old might not work for a frail 80-year-old.
Unless you are a frail older person controlling high blood pressure is a good thing. Then it might be harmful. That’s the surprising finding of a study of more than 2,000 seniors published online in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Continue reading… “Approach to blood pressure control may need to change as we get older”
Oxygenating blood with microparticles.
Patients who can’t breathe need oxygen quickly to avoid cardiac arrest and brain injury is a big problem. Unfortunately, attempts in the early 1900s to intravenously supply this essential gas failed to oxygenate the blood and often caused dangerous air bubbles. Current treatments, such as blood substitutes, breathing masks, and tubes, aren’t always effective as well since they still rely on the lungs to function or require time to properly administer.
Continue reading… “Oxygen injections could save lives when when patients can’t breathe”
The average American only gets between six and six and a half hours of sleep a night.
Tony Schwartz, president and CEO of The Energy Project and the author of Be Excellent at Anything met Kevin Crain, a Managing Director at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, one morning at a conference and Kevin was feeling tired, as he did most days.
Continue reading… “If you don’t get enough sleep you can’t do your job”
Elaine LaLanne and Dr. Pam Peeke keynote speaker, doing pushups during the IDEA Convention.
The IDEA World Fitness Convention got together 6000 fitness professionals from around the world. For three days they listened to expert lectures, attended workshops, workouts, panels and a trade show. From this you get the latest in exercise, nutrition and fitness and 5 of the latest fitness trends.
Continue reading… “Top 5 fitness trends from the IDEA World Fitness Convention”
Sitting for hours decreases life expectancy by two years.
Even if a person is physically active and refrains from dangerous habits like smoking, sitting down for more than three hours a day can shave a person’s life expectancy by two years, according to a study to be published on Tuesday in the online journal BMJ Open.
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Norway ranks number 1 as the best place in the world to be a mom.
The joy of motherhood is a universal emotion no matter where you are in the world. However, the conditions in which women raise their children vary from country to country. As part of the 2012 State of the World’s Mothers report, Save the Children has released their 13th annual Mothers’ Index.
Continue reading… “Top 30 best places in the world to be a mother”
A diet based on healthy carbs offers best chance of keeping weight off.
A study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that a diet based on healthy carbohydrates—rather than a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet—offers the best chance of keeping weight off without bringing unwanted side effects.
Continue reading… “Not all calories created equal: Study”
Data shows clearly that we are not even close to the all time peak of misuse of prescription stimulants by high-school students.
According to a front page story in Sunday’s New York Times, there’s an epidemic in America’s selective high schools: high-achieving students under pressure to succeed are increasingly abusing stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall, which they consider as essential as SAT tutors for getting into an Ivy League college. But the data from national surveys on stimulant use tells a very different story.
Continue reading… “Is there really an epidemic of teens taking ADHD drugs to get good grades?”
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The potential of government making health information as useful as weather data felt like an abstraction two years ago. Healthcare data could give citizens the same “blue dot” for navigating health and illness akin to the one GPS data fuels on the glowing map of geolocated mobile devices that are in more and more hands.
Continue reading… “Mobile health apps just the beginning of the disruption in healthcare”
Scientists restore vision to blind mice.
There are three blind men who have an inherited eye disorder that had destroyed the light-sensing cells of their retinas many years ago. Now one of the blind men can walk around at night navigating by streetlight and headlights. Another can read his own name. And the third mean has been able to see his fiancée’s smile for the very first time. All of this has been made possible by the retinal implants they have been fitted with. The implants took over from the broken cells. They sense incoming light by converting it into electrical impulses delivered to the brain. They aren’t close to having 20/20 vision, but they have restored sight to people who have lived without it for years.
Continue reading… “Scientists restore sight to blind mice by regenerating optic nerve”
Breasts are getting bigger and arriving earlier. They’re also attracting chemicals and environmental toxins, which are getting passed along in breast milk.
Writer Florence Williams read a research study about toxins found in human breast milk when she was nursing her second child. After reading the study she decided to test her own breast milk and shipped a sample to a lab in Germany.
Continue reading… “What you need to know about what’s inside those breasts”
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