Family Medicine News

Resynchronizing neurons to erase schizophrenia

17.09.2018 Health Problems

Schizophrenia, an often severe and disabling psychiatric disorder, affects approximately 1 percent of the world’s population. While research over the past few years has suggested that desynchronization of neurons may be the cause of its neuropsychiatric symptoms, including memory disorders, hyperactivity and hallucinatory phenomena, the cellular origin of such desynchronization remains poorly understood. Now, researchers at the University of Geneva […]

Researchers call for major re-think on sun safety

17.09.2018 Health Problems

Most Australians are familiar with the ‘slip, slop, slap’ message, but new research suggests we’re not taking sun safety seriously enough. Currently, health agencies recommend that sun protection is used when the UV Index – which measures the intensity of UV radiation – is three or higher. But researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) and New Zealand’s National Institute […]

Five reasons you could develop heart disease before 50

15.09.2018 Health Problems

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, yet people generally associate it with an older, aging population. But heart attacks, strokes and other types of heart disease can be blind to age—particularly when certain factors are in play. Here are five reasons why heart disease can strike by the age of 50: Smoking One of […]

Make these Petit Turkey Sliders

15.09.2018 Kids Health

Kids craving a snack? Try this recipe for Petit Turkey Sliders, courtesy Neeraj Balasubramanian, executive sous chef, The Park, Visakhapatnam. Easy to make, these are delicious and perfect to satisfy hunger pangs. You can even pack some for their tiffin to share with friends! Ingredients 2 slices white sandwich bread (about 1 ounce each) 1 pound (93 percent lean) ground […]

Neon Hair Colors Are Seriously Trending for Fall

15.09.2018 Skin & Body Care

It may be the end of summer, but the neon trend is not going away anytime soon, especially when it comes to hair. Lime green, electric yellow, and hot pink are just a few of the fluorescent hues spotted lately on celebs like Katy Perry, who just added some neon green color to her famous crop. In August, before Cardi […]

Repeat vaccination is safe for most kids with mild to moderate reactions

15.09.2018 Kids Health

Children who experience some type of adverse event following initial immunization have a low rate of recurrent reactions to subsequent vaccinations, reports a study in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, the official journal of The European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases. “Most patients with a history of mild or moderate adverse events following immunization [AEFI] can be safely reimmunized,” write […]

Picky eating may mask larger issues

14.09.2018 Kids Health

(HealthDay)—Many children are picky eaters, making every meal a challenge. But for some, the problem goes deeper than not liking vegetables or whole-wheat bread. According to a study in the journal Pediatrics, more than one in five kids between the ages of 2 and 6 are considered “selective eaters.” Most of them are moderately picky, but about 3 percent restrict […]

Carrie Underwood Delayed Her Pregnancy Announcement Because of This

14.09.2018 Kids Health

If you only judged pregnancy announcements by celebrity Instagram posts, you’d think that sharing the news was always a happy event. But here in the real world, we understand that pregnancy can present women with a variety of feelings: elated, scared or, in some cases, angry. For country singer Carrie Underwood, she felt a mixture of both excitement and hesitation, […]

Cancer drug and antidepressants provide clues for treating brain-eating amoeba infections

13.09.2018 Health Problems

The amoeba Naegleria fowleri is commonly found in warm swimming pools, lakes and rivers. On rare occasions, the amoeba can infect a healthy person and cause severe primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a “brain-eating” disease that is almost always fatal. Other than trial-and-error with general antifungal medications, there are no treatments for the infection. Researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical […]

For women with genetic risk, twice-a-year MRI beats mammograms

13.09.2018 Health Problems

Getting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans twice a year instead of one annual mammogram is far more effective at detecting early breast cancers in young women with a high-risk genetic profile than mammograms alone, according to a research team based at the University of Chicago Medicine and the University of Washington, Seattle. The results, first presented Dec. 8, 2017 at […]

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