http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic devices could create significant environmental and health problems after they are thrown away. UC Irvine researchers are working with engineers, manufacturers and public health officials to find solutions. http://www.physorg.com/news178305162.html Space & Earth Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:30:01 EST news178305162 Scientists are reporting evidence that air pollution - a well-recognized problem at major airports - may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports. Those airports are becoming an increasingly important component of global air transport systems. The study, one of only a handful to examine airborne pollutants near regional airports, suggests that officials should pay closer attention to these overlooked emissions, which could cause health problems for local residents. It appears online in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology. http://www.physorg.com/news177772475.html Space & Earth Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:40:03 EST news177772475 Canadians know that too much salt isn't good for their diets, but half still continue to shake it on, according to a new study by University of Alberta researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news177690757.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:00:02 EST news177690757 Someone healthy enough to work could still cost an employer more than $4,000 annually in unnecessary health care costs. http://www.physorg.com/news175433290.html Medicine & Health Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:40:02 EST news175433290 At 84 years old, Juan Guano would seem an unlikely candidate for a kidney transplant. http://www.physorg.com/news172860700.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:30:02 EST news172860700 (AP) -- It's time to get the first of at least two flu shots recommended for many Americans this fall - the vaccine against regular winter flu is ready. http://www.physorg.com/news171796317.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:30:02 EST news171796317 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 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:07:21 EST news168156373 Young men who stay at home with their parents are more violent than those who live independently, according to new research at Queen Mary, University of London. http://www.physorg.com/news167318803.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:50:13 EST news167318803 (PhysOrg.com) -- Caring for a child with health problems profoundly affects the physical health, mental health and work attendance of parents, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. http://www.physorg.com/news167059566.html Medicine & Health Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:50:01 EST news167059566 Britain could have more than 100,000 cases of swine flu a day by the end of August, the government said Thursday, while stressing there was no need for alarm. http://www.physorg.com/news165756857.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:34:46 EST news165756857 (AP) -- It isn't just the thunder thighs that shrink after obesity surgery. Melting fat somehow thins bones, too. Doctors don't yet know how likely patients' bones are to thin enough to break in the years after surgery. But one of the first attempts to tell suggests they might have twice the average person's risk, and be even more likely to break a hand or foot. http://www.physorg.com/news164300455.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:30:01 EST news164300455 (AP) -- Health officials in Wisconsin, California, Illinois and Utah reported deaths from swine flu on Thursday, and said all four patients had had other health problems. http://www.physorg.com/news163353087.html Medicine & Health Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:51:53 EST news163353087 In these times of trillion-dollar budgets and deficits, $6.3 billion may not seem like much money, but that's what the United States potentially could save on each group of adolescents who enter foster care every year. http://www.physorg.com/news163165667.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:10:30 EST news163165667 Behavioural ecologists working in Bolivia have found that wild spider monkeys control their diets in a similar way to humans, contrary to what has been thought up to now. Rather than trying to maximize their daily energy intake, the monkeys tightly regulate their daily protein intake, so that it stays at the same level regardless of seasonal variation in the availability of different foods. http://www.physorg.com/news162047681.html Biology Wed, 20 May 2009 14:15:21 EST news162047681 (AP) -- Working a few years beyond retirement could help stave off Alzheimer's disease, according to a new British study published Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news161860463.html Medicine & Health Mon, 18 May 2009 10:14:50 EST news161860463 Children entering first grade with signs of depression and anxiety or excessive aggression are at risk of being chronically victimized by their classmates by third grade. That's the finding of a new longitudinal study that appears in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Child Development. http://www.physorg.com/news161605169.html Medicine & Health Fri, 15 May 2009 11:20:30 EST news161605169 Stress may indeed be a direct contributor to childhood obesity. That's according to a new Iowa State University study finding that increased levels of stress in adolescents are associated with a greater likelihood of them being overweight or obese. http://www.physorg.com/news161520563.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 May 2009 11:49:58 EST news161520563 Family and network oriented, stress-reducing care improves level of overall functioning and mental health in adolescents at risk of developing psychosis, suggests a recent Finnish study. http://www.physorg.com/news161515511.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 May 2009 10:25:43 EST news161515511 (AP) -- Health officials have released details about the chronic health problems suffered by the two people who died from swine flu in the United States. The Mexican toddler who died in Texas suffered from chronic muscle weakness, a heart defect, a swallowing problem and lack of oxygen. The 33-year-old Texas woman had asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, a skin condition and was 35 weeks pregnant. http://www.physorg.com/news160941899.html Medicine & Health Thu, 07 May 2009 19:05:33 EST news160941899 The new science of epigenetics explains how genes can be modified by the environment, and a prime result of epigenetic inquiry has just been published online in The FASEB Journal: You are what your mother did not eat during pregnancy. In the research report, scientists from the University of Utah show that rat fetuses receiving poor nutrition in the womb become genetically primed to be born into an environment lacking proper nutrition. As a result of this genetic adaptation, the rats were likely to grow to smaller sizes than their normal counterparts. At the same time, they were also at higher risk for a host of health problems throughout their lives, such as diabetes, growth retardation, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and neurodevelopmental delays, among others. Although the study involved rats, the genes and cellular mechanisms involved are the same as those in humans. http://www.physorg.com/news158856122.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:43:43 EST news158856122 Taking herbal food supplements is certainly not free of risk. Since 2005, the poison emergency centers in the German cities of Freiburg and Göttingen have registered a total of 17 patients with health problems after taking Chinese slimming capsules. The pharmacologist Dieter Müller and his coauthors describe the documented cases of poisoning in the current edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International. http://www.physorg.com/news158420527.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:42:24 EST news158420527 Johns Hopkins patient safety experts say it's high time for diagnostic errors to get the same attention from medical institutions and caregivers as drug-prescribing errors, wrong-site surgeries and hospital-acquired infections. Diagnostic misadventures represent a potentially much larger source of preventable health problems and deaths than many of the more popular targets of safety reform, they say in a commentary in the March 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. http://www.physorg.com/news155926395.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:55:08 EST news155926395 (PhysOrg.com) -- Gamers caught a very early glimpse of the future of serious games aimed at the health sector during the PlayMancer project`s demos at the latest Vienna Science Fair. http://www.physorg.com/news155568373.html Technology Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:26:58 EST news155568373 South Koreans are stocking up on air purifiers following a forecast of especially severe "yellow dust" storms from China and Mongolia this spring, officials said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news155118022.html Space & Earth Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:20:39 EST news155118022 (PhysOrg.com) -- Past behavior is generally considered to be a good predictor of future behavior, but new research indicates that may not be the case in the development of depression, particularly among adolescent girls. http://www.physorg.com/news154113418.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:21:40 EST news154113418 Pediatricians usually have about seven minutes to sit face-to-face with patients during a typical visit. It's barely enough time to perform an exam, let alone assess how a child is faring at school or at home. http://www.physorg.com/news151852405.html Medicine & Health Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:13:50 EST news151852405 More than 7,000 school pupils from across the UK will be taking part in the trial of a new positive thinking programme led by the University of Bath designed to prevent children developing problems with depression. http://www.physorg.com/news140953584.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:46:24 EST news140953584 Half the residents of New Orleans were suffering from poor mental and physical health more than a year after their homes and community were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, according to research published in the September issue of the UK-based Journal of Clinical Nursing. http://www.physorg.com/news139657858.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:50:58 EST news139657858 The extent of inbreeding in purebred dogs and how this reduces their genetic variation is revealed in a new study by Imperial College London researchers. Inbreeding puts dogs at risk of birth defects and genetically inherited health problems. http://www.physorg.com/news138025054.html Biology Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:17:34 EST news138025054 More than 80 percent of a sample of Air Force women deployed in Iraq and other areas around the world report suffering from persistent fatigue, fever, hair loss and difficulty concentrating, according to a University of Michigan study. http://www.physorg.com/news137950900.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:41:40 EST news137950900