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Postpartum depression isn’t just for mothers anymore. In fact, new fathers have been experiencing elevated rates of depression for some time, according to a study published online Monday in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. A team of British researchers scoured the medical records of nearly 87,000 couples in the U.K. who had a baby [...]
At least one in seven home kitchens would fail the kind of health inspections done in restaurants, according to new research by a local health department in the United States. The study by the Los Angeles County’s Department of Public Health suggests that 14 per cent of home kitchens would fail a restaurant inspection, earning [...]
Reports of a Massachusetts man with a pea sprouting in his lung didn’t faze Ali Musani, an interventional pulmonologist at National Jewish Health in Denver. He has found surprising things in people’s lungs — thumbtacks, batteries, beans, even a two-decade-old fishbone. In the case of the pea, it came to light when Ron Sveden, 75, [...]
Black rice, the rare and cheaper version of rice, contains health-promoting anthocyanin antioxidants which may confer protective benefits against cellular oxidation, new research from Louisiana State University indicates. Like brown rice, black rice has high antioxidantcontent in its outer layer. However, during the milling process to make white rice, the protective benefits of black rice [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – 6:34 am – There are nights when Jane Hopkins feels like a sleep cop. She will climb out of her bed in the wee hours to see whether her teenage sons are really asleep. If she spies them still awake, playing on the computer or the PlayStation3 in the basement of their [...]
(Forbes) – 7:58 am – Parents have plenty of health risks to worry about that weren’t an issue when they were growing up. Like videogames, which experts say are keeping children too sedentary and preventing them from sleeping. Or drug-resistant bacteria like methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which causes painful skin infections. It’s gone from a [...]
SACRAMENTO -11:27 am – State lawmakers are scrambling to pass legislation that would require thousands of California schoolchildren to be immunized against whooping cough. The measure would make immunizations mandatory for all students in grades 7-12 starting Jan. 1. However, there is some discussion of moving up the effective date given that the outbreak is [...]
USA Today 9:54 am – A national salmonella outbreak that could have sickened thousands has led to the recall of 380 million eggs and renewed questions about whether it’s feasible to keep the microbe — the most common bacterial source of food-borne illness in the nation — out of the henhouse. The answer from experiences [...]
ATLANTA - 8:02 am – A national outbreak of salmonella in eggs has sickened hundreds of people since May and appears to be ongoing, experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say. The outbreak has been tracked to in-shell eggs from Wright County Egg in Galt, Iowa, which has launched a recall. The [...]
SAN DIEGO – 9:03 am – Men who say they had a good relationship with their father while growing up react less to day-to-day stress as adults than those whose relationship with their dad was poor, new research suggests. The study was among those on parents and kids presented at the four-day annual meeting here [...]