http://health.bloggrss.com Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:27:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Reuters - Drug violence, including decapitations and grenade attacks, has killed some 4,500 people in Mexico this year but thousands of others are falling victim to a quieter crisis: addiction to methamphetamine. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081201/hl_nm/us_mexico_drugs AP - Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes with everyday life, and even more abuse alcohol or drugs, researchers reported Monday in the most extensive study of its kind. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_he_me/med_mental_health Reuters - The United Nations on Monday urged countries across the world to expand screening of newborn infants exposed to the virus that causes AIDS, saying it could save the lives of countless children. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081201/hl_nm/us_un_aids AP - Older people who are depressed are much more likely to develop a dangerous type of internal body fat — the kind that can lead to diabetes and heart disease — than people who are not depressed, a disturbing new study found. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_he_me/med_depression_body_fat HealthDay - MONDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Women who have had their breasts augmented with implants and are later diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer may be treated successfully with a partial-breast radiation treatment known as brachytherapy, according to an Arizona physician and researcher. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20081201/hl_hsn/radioactiveseedrxhelpswomenwithimplantsfightbreastcancer AP - Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" on Dec. 31, forcing patients still using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch. The medicine inside these rescue inhalers — the albuterol that quickly opens airways during an asthma attack — isn't changing. But the chemicals used ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_he_me/med_healthbeat_green_inhalers Reuters - The surgical repair of a congenital deformity of the chest called pectus excavatum, or funnel chest, can dramatically improve a child's body image as well as physical and psychosocial functioning, according to a report in the current issue of Pediatrics. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081201/hl_nm/us_chest_abnormality Reuters - The results of small study suggest that radiotherapy can be safely used to treat prostate cancer in HIV-infected men. Treatment appears to have no long-term effect on CD4+ cell count or viral load. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081201/hl_nm/us_prostate_cancer Research led by scientists in the UK has upturned a 50-year old theory that maintains antioxidants stop or slow aging by counteracting the oxidative stress on cells caused by free radicals, a finding that will undermine claims made by beauty and diet products that ... http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/131363.php AFP - Youths in Myanmar are particularly at risk from HIV, with almost two thirds of the near quarter million people living with the virus in that country aged under 24, the UN Children's Fund said Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081201/hl_afp/myanmarhealthaids