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Sunday, 11 September 2011 04:01 |
 (By: Maia Szalavitz) -- If cannabis causes the munchies, how is it possible that pot smokers are thinner than nonsmokers?
A new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology finds an intriguing connection between marijuana use and body weight, showing that rates of obesity are lower by roughly a third in people who smoke pot at least three times a week, compared with those who don't use marijuana at all.
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Saturday, 27 August 2011 09:41 |
 (Medscape Medical News - Robert Lowe and Mark Crane) August 26, 2011 — Hospitals and nursing homes up and down the East Coast continued to evacuate their patients today in advance of Hurricane Irene, expected to make landfall sometime on Saturday.
And like other providers, physician practices along the mid-Atlantic braced themselves for high winds, flooding, loss of electrical power, and the potential injuries and disease that the storm will leave behind.
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Friday, 01 July 2011 12:44 |
 (CNN) -- A heavy smoker for more than 45 years, Fernando Sandoval quit cold turkey after a CT scan revealed he had a tumor in his lung. Nine years ago Sandoval was one of the first people to participate in a clinical trial at UCLA to determine whether a low-dose CT scan can be used as a possible screening tool for the deadliest cancer. Final results from this clinical trial, which enrolled more than 53,000 people at 33 different sites, found low-dose CT screening reduces the number of lung cancer deaths in high risk smokers by 20%.
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:40 |
(CNN) -- A new maternal blood test can determine a fetus' sex as early as seven weeks into a pregnancy.
This achievement, reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is a potential boon to parents who fear their children are at risk for a sex-linked condition. If, for example, a particular disease affects only males and a fetus is female, a woman can avoid further invasive tests, such as amniocentesis, which carry a risk of miscarriage.
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011 11:12 |
 (CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday it will implement new rules for sunscreen products, in order to help Americans reduce their risk of skin cancer and early aging.
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