Hidden digital ads pushing children to eat fatty food, health experts warn
LONDON – Children in Europe are bombarded with hidden digital advertising and marketing promoting fatty, sugary and salty foods that is damaging their health and adding to the region's obesity problem, World Health Organization experts said on Friday. The researchers called for policymakers to do more to protect children from junk food advertising messages on networking sites, games - known as "advergames" - and other social media. "Our governments have given the prevention of childhood obesit..>> view originalSmoking more likely to kill HIV patients than the virus - WRCB
BY MAGGIE FOX, NBC News(NBC News) - Smoking is so deadly that it may be more likely to kill HIV patients than the virus, researchers reported Thursday.New cocktails of HIV drugs can keep patients healthy, even though they don't cure the infection. And they work so well that HIV patients who can get the drugs have almost the same life expectancy as uninfected Americans.The trouble is, 40 percent of HIV patients smoke — more than twice the rate of U.S. adults as a whole.Dr. Krishna Reddy of Massac..>> view originalCould polio drugs treat children with a mysterious paralyzing disease?
Researchers developing drugs against polio and other polio-like viruses say those drugs could potentially be effective against a mysterious, polio-like condition called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM).The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 89 cases of the paralyzing disease in the United States through September. A 6-year-old boy suspected of having AFM died in Seattle on Sunday, the first death believed to be caused by the disease. One of the drugs in development, pocapavir..>> view originalSmoking Wreaks Genetic Havoc on Lungs, Study Warns
Smoking Wreaks Genetic Havoc on Lungs, Study Warns For every year of smoking a pack daily, there were 150 more mutations found in each lung cell WebMD News from HealthDay By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Nov. 4, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Smoking is linked to significant genetic damage in the lungs and other organs of the body, according to new research. "This study offers fresh insights into how tobacco smoke causes cancer," said co-lead author Ludmil Alexandrov, the Oppenheim..>> view originalSuicide deaths on the rise in kids
The death rate data, published in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, measured children's fatalities due to motor vehicle traffic injury, homicide and suicide between the years 1999 and 2014. On a positive note, the number of deaths due to motor vehicle traffic, or car crashes, has improved significantly through the years, the report says. In 2014, vehicle fatalities decreased by 58% from 1999, when there were 4.5 deaths per 100,000 children..>> view originalDozens of USC students sickened by norovirus
LOS ANGELES – University of Southern California officials say students have been sickened by the gastrointestinal illness norovirus in a number of campus residence halls. City News Service reports that fewer than 100 students have come down with norovirus in the seven-day period since the illness was first reported. More on this... Campus health officials sent an advisory to students on Oct. 27 reporting an increased number of cases among students living in residence calls. An update sent Mo..>> view originalLawsuit claims former fertility doctor used his own sperm
Image copyright Courtesy Rebecca Dixon Image caption The Dixon family learned this year Daniel was not Rebecca's biological father. A former Ontario fertility doctor is facing allegations he used his own sperm to impregnate at least two patients. Daniel and Davina Dixon and their daughter Rebecca filed a civil lawsuit this week in an Ontario court against Dr Norman Barwin. They decided to take legal action after learning this year Rebecca was not Mr ..>> view originalMutant Ebola May Have Caused Explosive Outbreak
Omu Fahnbulleh stands over her husband after he staggered and fell, knocking him unconscious at an Ebola ward in Liberia in 2014. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption John Moore/Getty Images One mutation. A simple tweak in the Ebola gene — a C got turned into a T. That's all it took to make Ebola more infectious..>> view originalMedical Interns Could Work Longer Without A Break Under New Rule
Enlarge this image A proposed change in work rules would let first-year residents care for patients for up to 28 hours without getting a chance to sleep. Thomas Northcut/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Thomas Northcut/Getty Images A proposed change in work rules would let first-year residents care for patients for..>> view originalThe Real Reason Why Daylight Saving Time Is a Thing
This weekend, when American clocks turn back an hour at Nov. 6 at 2:00 a.m. Eastern Time, the move will bring an end to the period of Daylight Saving Time that marked precisely a century since the first such policy went into effect. That Daylight Saving Time began in Germany on May 1, 1916, in the hopes that it would save energy during World War I, according to Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time. But, though Germans were first to mess with th..>> view original
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