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. (AP) -- Mexican authorities said 60 people may have died from a swine flu virus in Mexico, and world health officials worry it could unleash a global flu epidemic. Mexico City closed schools across the metropolis Friday in hopes of containing the outbreak that has sickened more than 900. http://www.physorg.com/news159803609.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:54:11 EST news159803609 (AP) -- Mexico City closed schools across the metropolis of 20 million Friday after at least 16 people died and more than 900 others fall ill from what health officials suspect is a new strain of swine flu. World health officials worried that it could mark the start of a flu pandemic. http://www.physorg.com/news159796266.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:51:48 EST news159796266 Local, state and national health experts are baffled as to how a rare and deadly strain of meningitis killed four people and infected eight others in South Florida since December, an unprecedented outbreak in the United States. http://www.physorg.com/news159786160.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:03:50 EST news159786160 Three recent African trials support male circumcision for reducing the risk of contracting HIV in heterosexual men. After including new data from these trials in their review, Cochrane Researchers have changed their previous conclusions that there was insufficient evidence to recommend circumcision as an intervention to prevent HIV infection in heterosexual men. http://www.physorg.com/news158992038.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:27:55 EST news158992038 Most parents hate text messaging. Adults find it annoying because teenagers text constantly - during dinner, in class, while they are doing homework, while the parent is trying to talk to them. Judith Cornelius, assistant professor of nursing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, sees texting differently. She thinks that text messaging might, just might, be the way to get teenagers to really listen to vital information. http://www.physorg.com/news158936038.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:54:36 EST news158936038 Middle school youth are engaging in sexual intercourse as early as age 12, according to a study by researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health. http://www.physorg.com/news158416220.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:30:55 EST news158416220 (AP) -- The flu season is winding down and turning out to be one of the mildest in years, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.physorg.com/news158346469.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:08:19 EST news158346469 (PhysOrg.com) -- A small, pilot study in 50 people in Japan suggests that eating two and a half ounces of broccoli sprouts daily for two months may confer some protection against a rampant stomach bug that causes gastritis, ulcers and even stomach cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news158207312.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:29:15 EST news158207312 (PhysOrg.com) -- A large-scale effort to identify genetic markers of breast cancer has uncovered two common genetic variants that increase risk of the disease in women of European ancestry. http://www.physorg.com/news157640958.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:09:39 EST news157640958 (AP) -- Watch out for Fluffy and Fido! Cats and dogs are a factor in more than 86,000 serious falls each year, according to the first government study of pet-related tumbles. http://www.physorg.com/news157297439.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:44:29 EST news157297439 Authorities in northwestern China have resorted to using a contraception-abortion pill to rein in a plague of gerbils which is threatening the local desert ecosystem, state media said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news157186549.html Biology Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:56:23 EST news157186549 Asian-American women who ate higher amounts of soy during childhood had a 58 percent reduced risk of breast cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news157127513.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:32:45 EST news157127513 Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) fell by more than 90 percent during the past three years at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania due to a multi-pronged approach combining leadership initiatives, electronic infection surveillance, checklists to guide line insertion and maintenance, and implementation of the Toyota Production System to encourage best practices in line care. The findings, which Penn physicians say provide a road map for cutting the deadly, costly toll of hospital-acquired infections nationwide, will be presented on Friday, March 20 at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). http://www.physorg.com/news156795919.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:25:50 EST news156795919 Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have begun testing a vaccine that might be able to prevent colon cancer in people at high risk for developing the disease. If shown to be effective, it might spare patients the risk and inconvenience of repeated invasive surveillance tests, such as colonoscopy, that are now necessary to spot and remove precancerous polyps. http://www.physorg.com/news156689071.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:45:00 EST news156689071 (PhysOrg.com) -- An Indiana University School of Optometry faculty member's company is nearing completion of a diagnostic camera that could aid in saving the vision of millions of people worldwide. http://www.physorg.com/news156528803.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:13:47 EST news156528803 (AP) -- A Minnesota company has won federal approval to become the first in the U.S. to market an E. coli vaccine for cattle, a new weapon against a foodborne disease that can cause serious illness in people and even death. http://www.physorg.com/news156162941.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:36:15 EST news156162941 Australian researchers have admitted they had found no scientific proof that hi-tech running shoes improve athletic performance or limit injury. http://www.physorg.com/news156063767.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:03:07 EST news156063767 HIV/AIDS statistics for women and girls are startling. http://www.physorg.com/news155892869.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:36:12 EST news155892869 The largest study of its kind to evaluate the effect of red versus white wine on breast-cancer risk concludes that both are equal offenders when it comes to increasing breast-cancer risk. The results of the study, led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, were published in the March issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. http://www.physorg.com/news155815339.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:02:44 EST news155815339 A third of common cancers could be prevented if people shifted to a sounder diet, exercised more and controlled their weight, researchers said on Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news154875172.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:53:33 EST news154875172 As influenza season shifts into high gear, with 24 states now reporting widespread activity, the nation's infectious diseases experts are urging supermarket pharmacies with free-antibiotics promotions to educate their customers on when antibiotics are the right prescription -and when they can do more harm than good. http://www.physorg.com/news154789898.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:16:03 EST news154789898 Researchers have identified the gene that ultimately controls the production of tooth enamel, a significant advance that could some day lead to the repair of damaged enamel, a new concept in cavity prevention, and restoration or even the production of replacement teeth. http://www.physorg.com/news154631744.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:16:17 EST news154631744 Infection prevention and control resources and programming in Canadian long-term care facilities fall short of recommended standards, a new Queen's University study shows. http://www.physorg.com/news154288064.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:48:04 EST news154288064 People often ask their physicians what they can do to prevent cancers. Various supplements and unorthodox treatments to clean out the system and purge toxins are promoted by convincing arguments as a way to improve health and, by inference, reduce cancer risk. http://www.physorg.com/news154197204.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:33:52 EST news154197204 In contrast to the perception that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infections associated with use of a catheter is an increasing problem in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, the incidence of this type of infection decreased by nearly 50 percent from 1997 - 2007, according to a study in the February 18 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news154119754.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:03:05 EST news154119754 Less than two years after the HPV vaccine was approved as a routine vaccination for girls aged 11 and older, one-quarter of California adolescent girls have started the series of shots that protect against human papillomavirus, which is strongly linked to cervical cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news154101660.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:01:43 EST news154101660 Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the American Legacy Foundation have estimated that truth(R), the nations' largest youth smoking prevention campaign, saved $1.9 billion or more in health care costs associated with tobacco use. The results were published February 12 online by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news153669857.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:04:43 EST news153669857 (PhysOrg.com) -- For the second time in two years, a nationwide outbreak of salmonellosis has been tied to peanut products. This time, over 570 people have been sickened and over 1700 products have been taken off supermarket shelves so far, in what is now the largest food-related recall in the country`s history. http://www.physorg.com/news153597262.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:55:37 EST news153597262 Awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure have increased significantly in England, according to a nationally representative health survey reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://www.physorg.com/news153420221.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:45:54 EST news153420221 Laboratory work in animals showed limited activity when statins were given to prevent breast cancer, according to a report in the February issue of Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news153044989.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:32:47 EST news153044989