]> http://www.healthedia.com/latest/date Latest Blog Articles at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962532?rsstype=latest&cid=0 I ve been studying yoga for years and while I ve certainly noted some of the benefits of being generally more limber in bed I don t often say Ow, that hurts, I ve never really considered whether yoga could have a serious impact on... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:30:20 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962532?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962533?rsstype=latest&cid=0 Being a joiner isn t always a bad thing. Earlier this week, New York Times Well blogger Tara Parker-Pope reported on a study that indicates team sports may provide greater fitness benefits than other forms of exercise. In the Danish study, so... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:00:22 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962533?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962534?rsstype=latest&cid=0 Agave devotees, you ve been duped! So we ll try not to sugar-coat this.Yesterday, Discovery Channel s Planet Green reported that certain types of agave syrup may actually contain the same insulin-busting sugars found in high-fructose corn syrup... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:30:51 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962534?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962535?rsstype=latest&cid=0 The Olympics are over, but our eyes are still on the North country. Well, actually, our stomachs are. It s maple harvesting season, and the Vancouver Sun reports that Canada is expecting especially good harvests this year thanks to the warm weathe... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:02:40 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962535?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/962555?rsstype=latest&cid=0 Dr Ramona Bates of Suture for a Living points us to a recent study in Archives of Dermatology that looked into correlating which laser wavelengths were best for removing different tattoo inks. The team of Spanish researchers blasted 21 tattoo inks w... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:59:03 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/962555?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962537?rsstype=latest&cid=0 We hate to say it, but something fishy s going on here. Last week, environmental plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in California state court against 10 fish oil producers (including major players CVS, GNC, and Rite Aid), stirring controversy around the su... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:00:37 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962537?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/962547?rsstype=latest&cid=0 The following is part of a series of original guest columns by the American Medical Association.by J. James Rohack, MD Physicians in nearly every area of the country face a David and Goliath scenario when negotiating with entrenched health insura... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:00:34 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/962547?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/962557?rsstype=latest&cid=0 Scientists at Yale University believe they have discovered the signaling mechanism at work during artery formation, which may end up being used to control the growth of replacement arteries for people with coronary stenoses, etc. Until now, scientis... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:55:43 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/962557?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/962558?rsstype=latest&cid=0 The FDA has issued approval for Boston Scientific's Express LD Iliac Premounted Stent System, granting it an indication for the treatment of peripheral artery disease in iliac arteries. It is the same balloon expandable stent that has FDA indication... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:40:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/962558?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962539?rsstype=latest&cid=0 Jessica Alba, who already has good skin (photo: Wenn)I was out with my friend E, bemoaning the weather, my job, my general inertia, and their very sad and noticeable effects on my skin. He said, Why don t you take a lover? E is a gay man who c... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:21:08 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962539?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962540?rsstype=latest&cid=0 photo courtesy of: WENNHealth-conscious First Lady Michelle Obama will award $40,000 worth in prizes to the top Apps for Health entrants as part of her Let s Move campaign for healthy kids. Yesterday s press release details the contes... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:44:27 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/962540?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/health-care-blog/962576?rsstype=latest&cid=0 By BOB WACHTER One of my interns was running the list with me last week (giving me a thumbnail update on the plans for each of our inpatients). It was standard stuff until he got to Ms. X, a 80ish-year-old...... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:27:12 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/health-care-blog/962576?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/962559?rsstype=latest&cid=0 Scientists at John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK managed to create Cowpea mosaic virus particles that are missing their genetic material, turning them into drug ferrying containers that may prove useful against cancer and other localized diseases. Unli... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:55:59 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/962559?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/962560?rsstype=latest&cid=0 Electronic Arts, the video game development company, has announced its next generation of fitness tools. Following up on its popular EA SPORTS Active product line, the release scheduled for this fall should include a heart rate monitor, arm and leg ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:33:49 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/962560?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/world-of-psychology/962571?rsstype=latest&cid=0 Our friends over at the Association for Psychological Science made sure that a new study about video games would get out (because, you know, it s about video games and kids, and that always seems to get people s attention), so we took a look and ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:31:49 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/world-of-psychology/962571?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/962561?rsstype=latest&cid=0 Cambridge Consultants, a product design and development firm, has created a new prefilled syringe that uses fewer resources to manufacture than many current models. Unsurprisingly, the green syringe was named Syreen, but its environmental credential... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:07:15 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/962561?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/962549?rsstype=latest&cid=0 Originally published in MedPage Todayby Chris Emery, MedPage Today Contributing WriterThe symptoms of autism tend to emerge in children after six months of age, with a loss of social and communications skills that is more common and more subtle than ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/962549?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/962542?rsstype=latest&cid=0 The Daily Telegraph in the UK has a story today claiming that a 1951 outbreak of hallucinations and dementia in the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit was not (as everyone thought) an example of ergot poisoning. No, according to some guy who's writi... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:42:03 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/962542?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dbs-medical-rants/962528?rsstype=latest&cid=0 First, thanks to the great discussion. Readers will learn as much from the discussion as they will from me. To repeat the presentation:The patient is an 81 year old man found with altered mental status. He has known diabetes mellitus, hypertens... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:41:22 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dbs-medical-rants/962528?rsstype=latest&cid=0 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/962562?rsstype=latest&cid=0 Medtronic is making available in the US its VERTEX SELECT Reconstruction System, a package for performing cervical spinal stabilization procedures via the posterior approach.From the press release:When paired with the VERTEX SELECT Occipitocervical... 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