Spoon-feeding babies pureed food could cause health problems later in life a Unicef childcare expert has warned.
FDA OKs Blood Pressure Drug
Patients who suffer from a rare disease that causes continuous high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs received a new treatment choice Friday. The Food and Drug Administration said it approved Letairis to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Kids and Junk Food Advertising Study
In a child’s buffet of food commercials, more than 40 percent of the dishes are candy, snacks and fast food. Nowhere to be found: fresh fruit, vegetables, poultry or seafood.
For years, health officials have warned that kids were being inundated with commercials about not-so-healthy foods. Now, researchers have put numbers to those warnings in the largest-ever study of commercials aimed at children.
Food allergies: One bite can be deadly
"He took a bite of the cookie and he said to his friend, ‘I shouldn’t have eaten that,’" said his mother. Severely allergic to peanuts, the 16-year-old from western Massachusetts made the dire mistake of not asking about the ingredients. Within minutes he developed a severe allergic reaction to the cookie, which contained peanuts.
Exercise Helps Control Type 2 Diabetes
Regular exercise among women with type 2 diabetes may not only reduce waist size, but may also reduce the amount of visceral fat surrounding organs in the abdomen — the type of fat known to be associated with insulin resistance, a study shows.
Pesticides Linked to Diabetes in Pregnancy
A pregnant mother’s exposure to pesticides may affect the risk of her developing diabetes during pregnancy, new research suggests.
Dr. Tina M. Saldana and a team of researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina assessed the risk of gestational diabetes amongst wives of farmers.
Source: Diabetes Care
Diet: Staying Motivated
Diets can fail for a number of reasons:
* You may have set unrealistic goals and feel a failure when you can’t meet them.
* The diet may be too rigid to follow for long.
* You may not have prepared yourself for what happens after you finish the diet.
* You may be losing weight for other people.
* You could be relying on willpower alone.
* You lack the skills to succeed.
Young Boy Is 24th Egyptian To Become Infected With Bird Flu Virus
Mohammed Mahmoud Ibrahim, aged 4, is the 24th human to become infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus strain in Egypt since the disease appeared in the country in 2006, according to the country’s Ministry of Health today.
FDA Approved Humira for Chron’s Disease
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved Humira (adalimumab) to treat adult patients with moderately to severely active Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestines, which affects an estimated one million Americans.
Humira is a human-derived, genetically-engineered monoclonal antibody (a protein that can be produced in large quantities in a manufacturing plant). The product acts to reduce excessive levels of human tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha, which plays an important role in abnormal inflammatory and immune responses.
The labeling includes a boxed warning about potential serious adverse events.
Source: FDA
AMA Stops Short of Classifying Excessive Video Gaming as “Addiction”
An AMA report prepared for the American Medical Association’s annual policy meeting had proposed including video game addiction in a manual of psychiatric illnesses.
The report was prepared by the AMA’s Council on Science and Public Health.
After some debate, the organization declared that more study is needed before classifying excessive video gaming as an addiction.
The organization acknowledged that over-use of video games can certainly be a problem for both children and adults. The report indicated that children who start playing video games earlier, are more likely to become hooked on video gaming.
According to the report, up to 90 percent of American youngsters play video games and that more than 5 million of them may be addicted.
Source: American Medical Association