http://phys.org/health-news/health-other/ en-us Phys.Org provides the latest news on health, cancer, medications, medicine, psychology and genetics. The world's first mother-daughter uterus transplant could take place next year in Sweden, the head of an international research team in the western Swedish city of Gothenburg said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news227254937.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:22:31 EST news227254937 In 1998, a study linking the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism in children appeared in a respected medical journal. For a decade, the study grabbed headlines worldwide. Worried parents rejected the life-saving vaccine for their children and those with autistic children agonized that they allowed an injection that caused the condition. http://phys.org/news220030999.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:10:02 EST news220030999 Naidelys Montoya didn't wait for her son's baby teeth to fall out. She took the boy to an oral surgeon to have two of the loose ones extracted. http://phys.org/news214835833.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:30:01 EST news214835833 A study led by Dr. Tom P. Aufderheide, professor of emergency medicine at The Medical College of Wisconsin, shows an alternative method of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation increases long-term survival of patients. http://phys.org/news214600556.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:16:09 EST news214600556 Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced doctor who claimed a link between MMR and autism, planned secret businesses intended to make huge sums of money, in Britain and America, from his now-discredited allegations. http://phys.org/news213993766.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:43:24 EST news213993766 Anyone applying for a driving licence in Britain will be asked if they want to join an organ donation scheme under new proposals to boost the number of donors, it was announced on Friday. http://phys.org/news213014513.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:42:54 EST news213014513 Some US scientists warned Friday that the full-body, graphic-image X-ray scanners now being used to screen passengers and airline crews at airports around the country may be unsafe. http://phys.org/news208793259.html Medicine & Health - Other Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:56:34 EST news208793259 It has all the makings of a great monster story: an attempt to draw lightning from the sky, a scientist passionate to show that electricity held the secret of life, body parts and, of course, reanimation of the dead. http://phys.org/news207480352.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:28:04 EST news207480352 The American Heart Association is re-arranging the ABCs of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in its 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://phys.org/news206595176.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:10:01 EST news206595176 Heart attack patients whose hearts have stopped beating and who receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from bystanders fare better if their resuscitators skip the rescue breaths and do only chest compression, according to a study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. http://phys.org/news206300669.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:44:47 EST news206300669 A new study shows the impact of alcohol intoxication on reasoning and problem-solving abilities and may explain why some people feel they have recovered enough to drive after drinking. The research, led by Peter J. Snyder, PhD, vice president of research for Lifespan, is the first to explore how these cognitive abilities are impacted during both rising and declining blood alcohol concentrations, at matched blood alcohol level concentrations, and how self-evaluation of recovery differs from actual recovery from impairment. http://phys.org/news201321802.html Medicine & Health - Other Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:46:16 EST news201321802 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in South Africa have come up with a novel way of purifying water on a small scale using a sachet rather like a tea bag, but instead of imparting flavor to the water, the bag absorbs toxins, filters out and kills bacteria, and cleans the water. http://phys.org/news201320077.html Medicine & Health - Other Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:14:52 EST news201320077 "Love stinks!" the J. Geils band told the world in 1980, and while you can certainly argue whether or not this tender and ineffable spirit of affection has a downside, working hard to find it does. It may even shorten your life. http://phys.org/news200573491.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:53:07 EST news200573491 French doctors have carried out a successful full-face transplant -- eyelids, tear ducts and all -- on a 35-year-old man, the hospital where the operation took place confirmed on Thursday. http://phys.org/news197786244.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:37:45 EST news197786244 When Liane Lefever complained to her doctor about a persistent ear ache, an examination found a much more serious problem: a brain tumor. http://phys.org/news197557607.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:20:01 EST news197557607 Germany's Federal Court of Justice on Friday overturned the conviction of a lawyer who advised an elderly comatose woman's family to cut off her feeding tube, in a landmark ruling on euthanasia. http://phys.org/news196665878.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:50:02 EST news196665878 Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown has yet to write a book on the hidden pictures in Michelangelo's artwork, but maybe he can start working on a thriller that takes Robert Langdon on a journey through the Renaissance master's alleged diagrams of human anatomy. Hidden in plain sight, in Sistine Chapel frescoes, assert some medical personnel, are pictures of human anatomy. The latest assertion appears in the journal Neurosurgery, where Ian Suk and Dr. Rafael J. Tamargo claim that Michelangelo included a rendering of the human brain stem in the fresco titled "The Separation of Light from Darkness". http://phys.org/news196441618.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:07:42 EST news196441618 (PhysOrg.com) -- If you're among the parents-to-be who've used one of the increasingly popular online Chinese calendar charts to predict your baby's sex, a University of Michigan epidemiologist recommends that you hold off on painting the nursery pink or blue. http://phys.org/news194029420.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 25 May 2010 18:04:01 EST news194029420 (AP) -- A team of surgeons has carried out the world's first full-face transplant on a young Spanish farmer unable to breathe or eat on his own since accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago. http://phys.org/news191229838.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:24:15 EST news191229838 A medical student and faculty directors from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics analyzed depictions of bioethical issues and professionalism over a full season of two popular medical dramas—"Grey's Anatomy" and "House, M.D."—and found that the shows were "rife" with ethical dilemmas and actions that often ran afoul of professional codes of conduct. http://phys.org/news188816826.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:23:48 EST news188816826 (PhysOrg.com) -- The physiological theory that underpins all endurance training and coaching for the last 100 years has just been disproved. http://phys.org/news188205906.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:25:29 EST news188205906 Researchers in the United States have discovered that accidental overdose deaths involving cocaine rise when the average weekly ambient temperature passes 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit). http://phys.org/news186780663.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:40:01 EST news186780663 (PhysOrg.com) -- Of the top 50 medical schools in the United States, as defined by the 2009 U.S. News & World Report’s research ranking, only 13 - or 26 percent - have publicly available policies in place that strictly prohibit ghostwriting, according to a survey in this week’s PLoS Medicine. http://phys.org/news184346071.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:30:01 EST news184346071 Reading and retaining information. That's the challenge faced by the one in five children who have some form of dyslexia. http://phys.org/news183736475.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:59:58 EST news183736475 Women's minds and genitals respond differently to sexual arousal, whereas in men, the responses of the body and mind are more in tune with each other, according to Assistant Professor Meredith Chivers, from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, and her international collaborators, Michael Seto, Martin Lalumičre, Ellen Laan, and Teresa Grimbos. Their meta-analysis of the extent of agreement between subjective ratings and physiological measures of sexual arousal in men and women is published online this week in Springer's journal Archives of Sexual Behavior. http://phys.org/news181826700.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:25:46 EST news181826700 (AP) -- They're not your grandpa's hearing aids. Today's newest models range from the completely invisible - it sits deep in the ear canal for months at a time - to Bluetooth-enabled gadgets that open cell phones and iPods for hearing-aid users. http://phys.org/news181235770.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:50:01 EST news181235770 Many alcoholic beverages contain byproducts of the materials used in the fermenting process. These byproducts are called "congeners," complex organic molecules with toxic effects including acetone, acetaldehyde, fusel oil, tannins, and furfural. Bourbon has 37 times the amount of congeners that vodka has. A new study has found that while drinking a lot of bourbon can cause a worse hangover than drinking a lot of vodka, impairment in people's next-day task performance is about the same for both beverages. http://phys.org/news180351724.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:42:59 EST news180351724 (PhysOrg.com) -- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans have been used, possibly for the first time, in the sentencing phase of a murder trial in Chicago in the US. http://phys.org/news178354644.html Medicine & Health - Other Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:58:10 EST news178354644 An innovative method is being used to repair the breastbone after it is intentionally broken to provide access to the heart during open-heart surgery. The technique uses a state-of-the-art adhesive that rapidly bonds to bone and accelerates the recovery process. http://phys.org/news177257012.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:30:02 EST news177257012 The development of new and innovative pharmaceuticals is being stifled by a U.S. law and successful patent challenges that embolden generic competition, according to an article published in this week's issue of the journal Science. http://phys.org/news174837810.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:40:08 EST news174837810