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• VIDEO: Private company takes over hospital Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon has become the first NHS hospital in Britain to be managed by a private company. • VIDEO: Online test to gauge asthma risk A new online test is being launched that will help people with asthma gauge to what extent they are at risk from a serious attack. • Why I became a triathlete Senior executive producer Roni Selig's personal and professional problems led to her eventually start the Fit Nation program at CNN. • Well: Today's Teens Better Behaved Than Their Parents In fact, today's teenagers are misbehaving a lot less than their parents did. • Komen Foundation Urged to Restore Planned Parenthood Funds The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation was faced with dissension in its own ranks and roiling anger online over its decision to end its long partnership with Planned Parenthood. • Alzheimer?s Spreads in the Brain Like a Virus, Studies Find The discovery in studies of mice solves a mystery surrounding the disease?s grim march and has immediate implications for developing treatments, researchers said. • Well: Think Like a Doctor: The Sleeping Wife Can you solve a medical mystery involving a 43-year-old woman who suddenly falls asleep and can't be awakened? • Phys Ed: Phys Ed: Exercise as Housecleaning for the Body The ability of exercise to speed the removal of garbage from inside our body's cells may be one of its most valuable, if least visible, effects, a new study suggests. • Well Blog: Think Like a Doctor: Sleeping Wife Solved! Readers solve the mystery of a 43-year-old healthy and active woman who suddenly falls asleep and can't be awakened. • The New Old Age Blog: The Pet Problem A pet trust offers owners some assurances that after they die, their pets will be cared for. • The New Old Age Blog: How Alzheimer's Disease Spreads Two new studies provide clues to how Alzheimer's disease spreads in the brain. • The New Old Age Blog: The Lioness in Winter "The Iron Lady" does not sidestep Margaret Thatcher's dementia. • Op-Ed Contributor: I Had Asperger Syndrome. Briefly. Asperger syndrome was the wrong diagnosis for me. I was really just an awkward teenager. • Latest illnesses point to raw milk's popularity Raw milk from a dairy in Pennsylvania is now linked to 38 illnesses in four states, and the farm has temporarily suspended sales.
• New map pinpoints Lyme disease risk areas Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve ...
• First lady's push-ups raise fitness bar Michelle Obama and Ellen DeGeneres put on an impressive push-up demonstration -- setting a great example for other women their age.
• Namaste, travelers! SFO opens airport yoga room Stressed out by flying? Northern California travelers can now find their inner calm in the Yoga Room at San Francisco International Airport.
• Health roundup: Massage, red wine and push-ups The benefits of massage and red wine get new scientific backing and the first lady wins a push-up contest.
• Pet elk denied re-entry to Pennsylvania from W.Va. More than a year after the 3-year-old elk escaped from his paddock, he's being denied re-entry to the state from West Virginia.
• Malaria death toll possibly twice as high Malaria may be killing around twice as many as experts thought, and it could also be hitting older children and adults a new study suggests.
• Video: New findings on behavior of Alzheimer's Two new studies find that Alzheimer's disease seems to spread from cell to cell like an infection. Dr. Karen Duff speaks with Charlie Rose and Gayle King about these new findings. • Video: Discovery may lead to Alzheimer's treatments Researchers have found a new clue in the way Alzheimer's disease may spread in the brain. Jim Axelrod reports on how this discovery could lead to new treatments to try and stop it. • Professor David Oliver documents cancer battle in online videos After diagnosed with nasal pharyngeal carcinoma, 69-year-old professor decides to teach through "social support" videos • Detroit doctors plug unstoppable nosebleed with cured pork Girl had rare blood disorder Glanzmann's thrombasthenia, so do not try at home • Alzheimer's disease "jumps" across brain cells to spread New clues to disease spread might help improve treatments, researchers said • Regulate, tax sugar like alcohol, tobacco? Proposal draws fire from sugar, beverage makers, but MD calls sugar toxic, says it and it alone behind some major diseases • Feds face uphill battle for graphic cigarette warning labels Should tobacco companies be required to put large graphic images on cigarette packs? Gov't argues yes • Video: Leslie Carter dead at 25 Leslie Carter, the sister of The Backstreet Boy's Nick Carter and singer Aaron Carter, died on Tuesday at the age of 25. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports. • Komen backs off decision on funding cuts In an apparent reversal of Susan G. Komen For the Cure's funding cuts to Planned Parenthood, the founder and CEO of the nation's largest breast-cancer advocacy agency said Friday that the group would amend the criteria that sparked a firestorm. • Is social media spreading twitching hysteria? In the case of nearly 20 teenagers with a twitching disorder in upstate New York, doctors say the symptoms may be spreading faster through the girls' own use of Facebook and other forms of social media. • Malaria death toll possibly twice as high Malaria may be killing around twice as many people as experts previously thought, and it could also be hitting older children and adults ? long considered the least susceptible ? a new study suggests. • More mystery illness cases reported in upstate NY Three more teens and a 36-year-old nurse have been stricken by the same symptoms first observed in 12 teenage girls. [CaRP] XML error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 60 • Well: Today's Teens Better Behaved Than Their Parents In fact, today's teenagers are misbehaving a lot less than their parents did. • Komen Foundation Urged to Restore Planned Parenthood Funds The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation was faced with dissension in its own ranks and roiling anger online over its decision to end its long partnership with Planned Parenthood. • Alzheimer?s Spreads in the Brain Like a Virus, Studies Find The discovery in studies of mice solves a mystery surrounding the disease?s grim march and has immediate implications for developing treatments, researchers said. • Well: Think Like a Doctor: The Sleeping Wife Can you solve a medical mystery involving a 43-year-old woman who suddenly falls asleep and can't be awakened? • Phys Ed: Phys Ed: Exercise as Housecleaning for the Body The ability of exercise to speed the removal of garbage from inside our body's cells may be one of its most valuable, if least visible, effects, a new study suggests. • Well Blog: Think Like a Doctor: Sleeping Wife Solved! Readers solve the mystery of a 43-year-old healthy and active woman who suddenly falls asleep and can't be awakened. • The New Old Age Blog: The Pet Problem A pet trust offers owners some assurances that after they die, their pets will be cared for. • The New Old Age Blog: How Alzheimer's Disease Spreads Two new studies provide clues to how Alzheimer's disease spreads in the brain. • The New Old Age Blog: The Lioness in Winter "The Iron Lady" does not sidestep Margaret Thatcher's dementia. • Op-Ed Contributor: I Had Asperger Syndrome. Briefly. Asperger syndrome was the wrong diagnosis for me. I was really just an awkward teenager. • ScienceShot: Double-Star System Hosts Ancient World Both suns are 2 billion years older than Earth • ScienceShot: Two-Dimensional Glass Researchers create world's thinnest pane of glass?and it resembles an 80-year-old sketch • Massage's Mystery Mechanism Unmasked Hands-on therapy turns genes on (and off) for better healing • Little Blows to Head Add Up to Big Risk Small hits to the head may add up to injuries for high school football players, according to a new study by the Purdue Neurotrauma Group at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. • Can Too Much Texting Make Teens Shallow? Teens and young adults who text frequently -- such as more than 300 text messages a day -- may be risking more than sore thumbs, according to a new study. • Senior Moment or Something Worse? Yes/No Test May Tell When are ?senior moments? just a normal part of healthy aging, and when are they a sign of something more serious such as Alzheimer?s disease? This is the million dollar question, and the Alzheimer?s Questionnaire, a set of 21 yes or no questions that can be answered by a loved one or caregiver, may help answer it. • Sex and the Elderly: STD Risk Often Ignored The rate of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) has more than doubled among middle-aged adults and the elderly over the last decade, but the reasons for this are unclear. • Sunny Skies Linked to Lower Stroke Risk People who live in sunny places may have a lower risk of stroke, new research suggests. • Signs of Alzheimer?s May Show Up Years Before Symptoms Amyloid protein plaques in the brain are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. Now, new research shows that this plaque actually builds up gradually and causes subtle changes in memory and mental status even in some adults who are healthy. • Sleep Apnea Linked to Silent Strokes A common sleep disorder is associated with an increased risk of symptomless, but serious, strokes called ?silent strokes,? German researchers report. • Massage May Help Sore Muscles Recover There may be more to love about massage than just the ahhhhh. A new study shows that kneading muscles after hard exercise decreases inflammation and helps your muscles recover. • Americans Sweet on Sugar: Time to Regulate? Americans are eating unhealthy amounts of sugar, say researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, and excess sugar should be regulated like alcohol and tobacco, they contend. • Discovery of extremely long-lived proteins may provide insight into cell agin... One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain how the aging process occurs in the brain. • A lonely heart can make you sick: Middle aged divorced women vulnerable to co... Newly divorced middle aged women are more vulnerable to contract HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, according to new research, because they tend to let their guard down with new sexual partners and avoid using protection since they are not afraid of getting pregnant. • Regular use of vitamin and mineral supplements could reduce the risk of colon... Could the use of vitamin and mineral supplements in a regular diet help to reduce the risk of colon cancer and protect against carcinogens? A study published in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology found that rats given regular multivitamin and mineral supplements showed a significantly lower risk of developing colon cancer when they were exposed to carcinogens. • Rare mutations may help explain aneurysm in high-risk families An innovative approach to genome screening has provided clues about rare mutations that may make people susceptible to brain aneurysms, predisposing them to brain bleeds, according to preliminary research. • Coughing and other respiratory symptoms improve within weeks of smoking cessa... If the proven long-term benefits of smoking cessation are not enough to motivate young adults to stop smoking, a new study shows that 18- to 24-year olds who stop smoking for at least two weeks report substantially fewer respiratory symptoms, especially coughing. • New device performs better than old for removing blood clots, research shows An experimental blood clot-removing device outperformed the FDA-approved MERCI; retriever device, according to new research. • Lower levels of sunlight exposure link to allergy and eczema in children, stu... Increased exposure to sunlight may reduce the risk of both food allergies and eczema in children, according to a new scientific study. • Judder-free videos on the smartphone Overloaded cellular networks can get annoying ? especially when you want to watch a video on your smartphone. An optimized Radio Resource Manager will soon be able to help network operators accommodate heavy network traffic. • Collective action: Occupied genetic switches hold clues to cells' history If you wanted to draw your family tree, you could start by searching for people who share your surname. Cells, of course, don?t have surnames, but scientists have found that genetic switches called enhancers, and the molecules that activate those switches ? transcription factors ? can be used in a similar way, as clues to a cell?s developmental history. The study also unveils a new model for how enhancers function. • Breastfeeding linked to improved lung function at school-age, especially with... Breastfeeding is associated with improved lung function at school age, particularly in children of asthmatic mothers, according to a new study. • Holding back immunity A ?gatekeeper? protein plays a critical role in helping immune cells to sound a warning after encountering signs of tumor growth or infection. • Malaria kills nearly twice as many people than previously thought, but deaths... Malaria is killing more people worldwide than previously thought -- 1.2 million -- but the number of deaths has fallen rapidly as efforts to combat the disease have ramped up, according to new research. Researchers say that deaths from malaria have been missed by previous studies because of the assumption that the disease mainly kills children under age five. • How to tell apart the forgetful from those at risk of Alzheimer?s disease It can be difficult to distinguish between people with normal age-associated memory loss and those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). However people with aMCI are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer?s disease (AD), and identification of these people would mean that they could begin treatment as early as possible. New research shows that specific questions, included as part of a questionnaire designed to help diagnose AD, are also able to discriminate between normal memory loss... • U.S. counties with thriving small businesses have healthier residents U.S. counties and parishes with a greater concentration of small, locally-owned businesses have healthier populations ? with lower rates of mortality, obesity and diabetes ? than do those that rely on large companies with ?absentee? owners, according to a national study. • Google Earth ocean terrain receives major update: Data sharpen resolution of ... Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by researchers from around the world. The newest version of Google Earth includes more accurate imagery in several key areas of ocean using data collected by research cruises over the past three years. • Triglyceride levels predict stroke risk in postmenopausal women The traditional risk factors for stroke ? such as high cholesterol ? are not as accurate at predicting risk in postmenopausal women as previously thought. Instead, researchers say doctors should refocus their attention on triglyceride levels to determine which women are at highest risk of suffering a devastating and potentially fatal cardiovascular event. • New technique successfully dissolves blood clots in brain and lowers risk of ... Neurologists report success with a new means of getting rid of potentially lethal blood clots in the brain safely without cutting through easily damaged brain tissue or removing large pieces of skull. • Untangling the mysteries of Alzheimer's Researchers have found new evidence that confirms the significance of a protein that neuroscientists call tau to the development of Alzheimer's disease. While earlier studies have focused on tau's aggregation into twisted structures known as "neurofibrillary tangles," the new work emphasizes intermediary steps between single protein units and the much larger tangles ? small assemblages of two, three, four or more proteins, which the investigators believe are the most toxic entities in Alzheimer'... • Millisecond pulsar paradox: Stellar astrophysics helps explain behavior of fa... Pulsars are among the most exotic celestial bodies known. They have diameters of about 20 kilometers, but at the same time roughly the mass of our sun. A sugar-cube sized piece of its ultra-compact matter on Earth would weigh hundreds of millions of tons. A sub-class of them, known as millisecond pulsars, spin up to several hundred times per second around their own axes. Previous studies reached the paradoxical conclusion that some millisecond pulsars are older than the universe itself. Now this... • Potential new treatment identified for leishmaniasis Researchers have identified fexinidazole as a possible, much-needed, new treatment for the parasitic disease visceral leishmaniasis. • Donor's Hands Help Artistic Amputee By donating her husband?s skilled hands to an amputee so that he might once again play music and paint, a New Hampshire woman created a fitting legacy for a handy and generous man who never hesitated to help strangers. Jodi Lloyd stayed in the background... • Komen Foundation Reinstates Planned Parenthood Funding Amid a firestorm of controversy, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation apologized for cutting off funding from Planned Parenthood and vowed to revise its policy that led to that decision. ?We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast... • Sex Life of Older Adults and Rising STDs The sex life of older adults ? long ignored and little researched ? is getting new attention in the face of some staggering statistics. Rates of sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis have doubled for people in their 50s, 60s and 70s in... • Raw Milk From Pa. Farm Sickens 35 Unpasteurized milk can contain harmful bacteria, FDA warns. • Malaria Deaths Twice As High As Once Reported Malaria kills 1.2 million people each year, twice as high as previously reported in 2011, according to new research published in the Lancet. And, while many believe that most malaria death occur in children under 5, the report found 42 percent of all malaria deaths occur in older children and adults. • Blood Test May Help Diagnose Depression A new study found a blood test may help diagnose depression. • Top 9 Heart Healthy Foods The single most important step you can take for heart health starts with what you put on your plate. • Watch: Komen Reinstates Planned Parenthood Funding The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation reverses decision on funding. • Watch: Malaria More Deadly Than Previously Thought Dr. Arlene Dent explains that more intervention is needed to combat malaria. • Watch: Radioactive Medical Kit Found in Pa. Trash DEP seeks origin of antique kit containing capsules of radium. • Watch: Susan G. Komen Cuts Ties to Planned Parenthood Leading breast cancer charity's decision ignites controversy. • Watch: Can General Anesthetic for Toddlers Lead to ADHD? Dr. Roderic Eckenhoff discusses Links between general anesthetic and ADHD. • Watch: Is Your Eating Behavior Influenced by Others? Dr. Karen Cooper explains how people tend to mimic each other's eating patterns. • Watch: Pfizer Recalls Birth Control Packets 1 million packets of Lo/Ovral-28 could raise risk of accidental pregnancy. • Watch: Combating Dry Skin Dr. Neeta Ogden with tips for preventing and treating eczema. • Watch: Living With Down Syndrome Kelle Hampton discusses her family's journey of acceptance and love. • How To Help Your Skin Fend Off The Harshness Of Winter In winter, low humidity outdoors combined with dry indoor heat robs skin of moisture. CBS 2's Mary Kay Kleist offers some tips to beat the season. • Schakowsky: Komen Bowed To Political Pressure In Cut To Planned Parenthood U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) is expressing extreme disappointment with the decision by the Susan G. Komen Foundation to stop funding cancer screening provided by Planned Parenthood. • Women Should Be Aware Of Heart-Attack Symptoms Doctors say many women don't see a heart attack coming because they have different symptoms than men, and even emergency room physicians can be slow to reach a diagnosis. • Palmer House Works To Raise Awareness Of Heart Disease In Women February is American Heart Month -- an attempt to focus the nation's attention on heart disease. • Chicago Teen Using Laughs To Cope With Cancer They say laughter is the best medicine, and a Chicago father-son duo is really put that old adage to the test. • National Briefing | New England: Maine: Emergency Plan Would Limit Cod Fishing Fishermen from Cape Cod, Mass., to northern Maine would have to reduce the amount of cod they catch under an emergency proposal by the New England Fishery Management Council. • Deal to Salvage Britain?s Victory May Yield Richest Trove The wreck of the warship Victory has been a topic of public debate in Britain because documents suggest it carried gold coins that today could be worth up to $1 billion. • Basics: These Mammals Pack a Toxic Punch For protection, mammals generally rely on teeth, claws, muscles, keen senses or quick wits. Every so often, however, a mammalian lineage discovers the wonders of chemistry. • Scientists Examine Hope Diamond for Clues to Its Blue The diamond holds a different allure for those studying the history of the Earth. • Alzheimer?s Spreads in the Brain Like a Virus, Studies Find The discovery in studies of mice solves a mystery surrounding the disease?s grim march and has immediate implications for developing treatments, researchers said. • Green Blog: Coral, Part II: Is the Cold or Heat More Lethal? Researchers find that extreme cold induces acute stress in coral but that heat is ultimately more lethal. • Observatory: Marine Turtles? Mating Habits Make Up for Male Shortage A vast majority of babies are female, but the disparity fades as a factor by the time green turtles are old enough to breed. • Observatory: Jumping Spiders Focus Eyes Like a Camera to Hunt A technique called image defocus, which blurs the background while sharpening the prey, shows how far to pounce. • Dot Earth Blog: A Shameful Attack on Free Speech by a Group Claiming to Speak... A coal-backed group pushes for the cancellation of a lecture by a Pennsylvania climate scientist. |
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