http://www.physorg.com/health-news/health-other/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on health, cancer, medications, medicine, psychology and genetics. Many alcoholic beverages contain byproducts of the materials used in the fermenting process. These byproducts are called "congeners," complex organic molecules with toxic effects including acetone, acetaldehyde, fusel oil, tannins, and furfural. Bourbon has 37 times the amount of congeners that vodka has. A new study has found that while drinking a lot of bourbon can cause a worse hangover than drinking a lot of vodka, impairment in people's next-day task performance is about the same for both beverages. http://www.physorg.com/news180351724.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:42:59 EST news180351724 (PhysOrg.com) -- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans have been used, possibly for the first time, in the sentencing phase of a murder trial in Chicago in the US. http://www.physorg.com/news178354644.html Medicine & Health - Other Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:58:10 EST news178354644 An innovative method is being used to repair the breastbone after it is intentionally broken to provide access to the heart during open-heart surgery. The technique uses a state-of-the-art adhesive that rapidly bonds to bone and accelerates the recovery process. http://www.physorg.com/news177257012.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:30:02 EST news177257012 The development of new and innovative pharmaceuticals is being stifled by a U.S. law and successful patent challenges that embolden generic competition, according to an article published in this week's issue of the journal Science. http://www.physorg.com/news174837810.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:40:08 EST news174837810 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Texas at Austin anthropologist Liza Shapiro and two fellow researchers on Thursday won an Ig Nobel Prize -- dedicated to "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think" -- for a 2007 study on the evolutionary reasons pregnant women don't tip over. http://www.physorg.com/news173710357.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:53:38 EST news173710357 A majority of Americans would not take an H1N1 flu vaccine or drug additive authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and University of Georgia study. The study, available online today in Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, found that fewer than 10 percent of those surveyed said they would be willing to take such a vaccine or drug and nearly 30 percent remained undecided. http://www.physorg.com/news173443853.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:10:01 EST news173443853 (PhysOrg.com) -- A woman in Fort Worth, Arkansas is carrying two babies that may not be twins, and which may have been conceived two and a half weeks apart. The two babies may be the result of superfetation, a rare phenomenon in which the woman ovulates and conceives again while already pregnant. http://www.physorg.com/news173346206.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:20:02 EST news173346206 A majority of medical schools surveyed report they have experienced incidents of students posting unprofessional content online, including incidents involving violation of patient confidentiality, with few schools having policies to address these types of postings, according to a study in the September 23/30 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education. http://www.physorg.com/news172856552.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:50:01 EST news172856552 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by Stuart Brody and Petr Weiss suggests vaginal orgasm is best and that sex education and medical approaches might undervalue its benefits. It also asserted the major factors in achieving vaginal orgasm were sex education focusing on its benefits, and being mentally tuned into vaginal sensations during intercourse. http://www.physorg.com/news172398076.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:21:43 EST news172398076 A 60-year-old US grandmother, blind for nearly a decade, has recovered her sight after surgeons implanted a tooth in her eye as a base to hold a tiny plastic lens, her doctors said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news172334170.html Medicine & Health - Other Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:10:01 EST news172334170 (AP) -- It's the birth defect people don't talk about. A baby is born not completely male or female. The old term was hermaphrodite, then intersex. Now it's called "disorders of sexual development." Sometimes the person with the problem doesn't even know it and finds out in an all too public way. http://www.physorg.com/news171955726.html Medicine & Health - Other Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:29:29 EST news171955726 Kim Delvaux was undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor when doctors at Loyola University Hospital woke her up. Dr. Vikram Prabhu talked to her about her favorite topics -- NASCAR and her kids. http://www.physorg.com/news171819382.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:40:01 EST news171819382 (PhysOrg.com) -- It's standard practice at leading academic medical centers: When enrolling patients in a clinical trial, researchers should disclose relevant financial relationships that might affect a patient's decision about participation, such as owning stock in the company that funds the study, or having a patent on the device being tested. http://www.physorg.com/news170525666.html Medicine & Health - Other Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:30:01 EST news170525666 All too often, a stethoscope and a doctor's touch are still the primary tools for diagnosing emergency-room patients. UC Irvine physician Chris Fox aims to change that. http://www.physorg.com/news169833592.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:50:02 EST news169833592 A Tunisian woman is due to give birth to 12 babies, which could be a world record, press reports said Tuesday, quoting doctors. http://www.physorg.com/news169814948.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:50:18 EST news169814948 Sue Pederson knows that the teenage boys in her treatment program have trouble making conversation. They may not know what to talk about; or once they get started, when to shut up. http://www.physorg.com/news168198724.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:00:01 EST news168198724 One in ten 16 year olds in Northern Ireland have self-harmed in the past year, according to new research by ARK at Queen`s University and the University of Ulster. http://www.physorg.com/news168156373.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:07:21 EST news168156373 New research shows that training your brain may be just as effective as training your muscles in preventing ACL knee injuries, and suggests a shift from performance-based to prevention-based athletic training programs. http://www.physorg.com/news167651105.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:10:01 EST news167651105 (AP) -- A drug deal plays out, California-style: A conservatively dressed courier drives a company-leased Smart Car to an apartment on a weekday afternoon. Erick Alvaro hands over a white paper bag to his 58-year-old customer, who inspects the bag to ensure that everything he ordered over the phone is there. http://www.physorg.com/news167162173.html Medicine & Health - Other Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:02:27 EST news167162173 While watching swimmers line up during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, former Olympic swimmer and NBC Sports commentator Rowdy Gaines quipped that swimmers keep getting bigger, with the shortest one in the current race towering over the average spectator. http://www.physorg.com/news167027175.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:28:42 EST news167027175 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dental disease may be a wake-up call that your diet is harming your body. http://www.physorg.com/news166373895.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:58:50 EST news166373895 An Australian stroke victim paralysed for more than 20 years has walked again thanks to anti-wrinkle drug botox, in a case hailed as extraordinary by his medical team. http://www.physorg.com/news164687986.html Medicine & Health - Other Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:40:01 EST news164687986 A unique and innovative telemedicine project is providing distant nursing home patients with Parkinson's disease access to neurologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center. A pilot study of the project - the results of which were released this month at the International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders in Paris - demonstrates that the system can improve the quality of life and motor function of patients. http://www.physorg.com/news164457911.html Medicine & Health - Other Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:30:03 EST news164457911 A new study published by University of Leicester researchers has found "convincing evidence" that cannabis smoke damages DNA in ways that could potentially increase the risk of cancer development in humans. http://www.physorg.com/news164348909.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:45:28 EST news164348909 A Frenchman who underwent the world's first face and double-hand transplant in April after being disfigured in an accident has died, hospital officials said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news164257859.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:11:14 EST news164257859 A study of patients and members of the public has shown that most lack even basic knowledge of human anatomy. The research, featured in the open access journal BMC Family Practice, found that people were generally incapable of identifying the location of major organs, even if they were currently receiving relevant treatment. http://www.physorg.com/news163988536.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:30:01 EST news163988536 The benefits of alcohol are all about moderation. Low to moderate drinking - especially of red wine - appears to reduce all causes of mortality, while too much drinking causes multiple organ damage. A mini-review of recent findings on red wine's polyphenols, particularly one called resveratrol, will be published in the September issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research; the review is also available at Early View. http://www.physorg.com/news163988399.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:30:01 EST news163988399 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Leicester are developing a new way to make protein based drugs with potential applications in stroke, vascular inflammation, blood vessel formation, regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. http://www.physorg.com/news163849816.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:50:03 EST news163849816 In an attempt to investigate why some brains are more intelligent than others, researchers have found that efficient wiring between different brain regions is associated with a higher IQ. This understanding could potentially lead to the development of drugs that could improve IQ by improving the brain's network efficiency. http://www.physorg.com/news163824097.html Medicine & Health - Other Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:10:01 EST news163824097 Researchers have known for more than half a century that sperm is able to fertilize an egg only after it has resided for a period of time in the female reproductive tract. Without this specific interaction with the female body, the sperm is incapable of producing offspring. But until now there was very little understanding of what changes occur within the sperm that suddenly allows it to fertilize an egg. http://www.physorg.com/news163780913.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:42:12 EST news163780913