(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Newswise – A new study suggests that engaging in low intensity activities such as standing may not be enough to offset the health hazards of sitting for long periods of time.
Month: May 2015
Neural Stem Cell Implants Hold Promise for Treating Epilepsy
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A team of University of Florida Health researchers has successfully transplanted human stem cells that developed into fully functional neurons
Citizen Science Helps Predict Risk of Emerging Infectious Disease
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Crowdsourced science helped predict the path of a deadly plant disease over a six-year period, demonstrating the contributions that trained citizen scientists can make in large-scale geographic tracking projects.
Possible Sexual Transmission of Ebola Virus
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – On March 20, 2015, 30 days after the most recent confirmed Ebola Virus Disease (Ebola) patient in Liberia was isolated, Ebola was laboratory confirmed in a woman in Monrovia.
How To Be Part Of A Century Of Kindness
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – For the past 100 (human) years-nearly a millennium in dog years-people have been focusing on how to help pets, farm animals and wild animals through American Humane Association’s “Be Kind to Animals Week®.”
Remembering Levi Watkins Jr., 1944–2015
By Jill L. Newmark and Margaret A. Hutto In an operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, February 1980, Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., Continue reading Source: NLM
How Artificial Tanning Can Lead to Melanoma
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Young women may be up on the latest fashions and trends as they prepare for prom season. But what many don’t know is that the tan that looks oh-so-good with their dress may be the first step toward skin cancer.
Government Releases Trove of Data on Doctors’ Prescribing
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The federal government released detailed data today on nearly 1.4 billion prescriptions dispensed to seniors and disabled people in the Medicare program in 2013
Parent Training Reduces Serious Behavioral Problems in Children with Autism
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New Haven, Conn.—Young children with autism spectrum disorder, who also have serious behavioral problems, showed improved behavior when their parents were trained with specific, structured strategies to manage tantrums, aggression, self-injury, and non-compliance.