http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- Food allergies affect about one in 13 U.S. children, double the latest government estimate, a new study suggests. http://phys.org/news227790084.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:01:36 EST news227790084 (PhysOrg.com) -- Is your heart sound? To answer that question, all assistant professor Shashi Murthy needs is a single drop of your blood. http://phys.org/news164918009.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:35:27 EST news164918009 (AP) -- Drinking during pregnancy can seriously harm a baby's brain, yet thousands of mothers-to-be still do. Now scientists have begun testing whether a prenatal nutrient might offer those babies a little protection, part of a growing quest for ways to reverse the damage. http://phys.org/news164909483.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:11:57 EST news164909483 (AP) -- A new Internet data map offers a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at HIV cases in the U.S. and finds the infection rates tend to be highest in the South. http://phys.org/news164898312.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:05:53 EST news164898312 (AP) -- The national count of swine flu cases has risen to 21,449 cases and the number of deaths have nearly doubled to 87. http://phys.org/news164631694.html Medicine & Health Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:02:00 EST news164631694 (AP) -- Tourette syndrome occurs in 3 out of every 1,000 school-aged children, and is more than twice as common in white kids as in blacks or Hispanics, according to the largest U.S. study to estimate how many have the disorder. http://phys.org/news163345483.html Medicine & Health Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:45:14 EST news163345483 Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases of National Health Laboratory Service (NICD-NHLS), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Roche's 454 Life Sciences Corporation have discovered the new virus responsible for a highly fatal hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Zambia and South Africa in late 2008. It is the first new hemorrhagic fever-associated arenavirus from Africa identified in nearly four decades. http://phys.org/news163167640.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:21:05 EST news163167640 Everyone knows how to wash their hands. Warm water, lots of soap, a vigorous and thorough scrubbing, a good drying. Moms pound it into us from the time we're toddlers. http://phys.org/news162884616.html Medicine & Health Sat, 30 May 2009 06:44:15 EST news162884616 There are so many things to worry about these days. Wouldn't it be nice to cross something off the list? Turns out you can. Researchers have been busy debunking some common medical myths that have been repeated so many times, people assume them to be true. http://phys.org/news162824502.html Medicine & Health Fri, 29 May 2009 14:04:57 EST news162824502 (AP) -- A U.S. health official said a swine flu vaccine could be available as early as October, but only if vaccine production and testing run smoothly this summer. http://phys.org/news162740426.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 May 2009 14:45:16 EST news162740426 (AP) -- The U.S. cancer death rate fell again in 2006, a new analysis shows, continuing a slow downward trend that experts attribute to declines in smoking, earlier detection and better treatment. http://phys.org/news162626646.html Medicine & Health Wed, 27 May 2009 07:04:44 EST news162626646 (AP) -- Authorities in Mexico announced three more swine flu deaths and the United States and Canada one more death each as the world's largest vaccine maker signed a deal with the United States to produce a swine flu vaccine. http://phys.org/news162540078.html Medicine & Health Tue, 26 May 2009 07:02:32 EST news162540078 (AP) -- Illinois health officials say a person in the Chicago area has died of swine flu. It's the nation's 12th confirmed death from the illness. http://phys.org/news162491356.html Medicine & Health Mon, 25 May 2009 17:29:50 EST news162491356 (AP) -- Authorities in South Korea say tests have confirmed that an American citizen in the country has swine flu. http://phys.org/news162269438.html Medicine & Health Sat, 23 May 2009 03:51:19 EST news162269438 (AP) -- New test results show what scientists have suspected - people in their 60's and older have greater immunity to the new swine flu virus. http://phys.org/news162129179.html Medicine & Health Thu, 21 May 2009 12:53:17 EST news162129179 (AP) -- Utah officials reported the state's first death associated with swine flu and Arizona recorded that state's third victim, pushing the national death toll to 10 people. http://phys.org/news162108710.html Medicine & Health Thu, 21 May 2009 07:15:00 EST news162108710 (AP) -- The swine flu virus continues spreading among children in the city, closing more schools, and the disease reached further into Asia among travelers returning from the United States. http://phys.org/news161693142.html Medicine & Health Sat, 16 May 2009 11:46:26 EST news161693142 (AP) -- For seven years, Dr. Thomas Frieden has been the nagging conscience of the nation's biggest city, the man who made sure New Yorkers couldn't smoke in bars or eat french fries cooked in artery-clogging trans fats. http://phys.org/news161629160.html Medicine & Health Fri, 15 May 2009 18:01:06 EST news161629160 (AP) -- Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said Friday it has received orders from several countries to stockpile pandemic vaccine as soon as it gets the vaccine's key ingredient from the World Health Organization. http://phys.org/news161610096.html Medicine & Health Fri, 15 May 2009 12:43:05 EST news161610096 (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Friday will name Dr. Thomas Frieden as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, administration officials told The New York Times. http://phys.org/news161583368.html Medicine & Health Fri, 15 May 2009 05:16:39 EST news161583368 (AP) -- As swine flu cases hit 6,500 worldwide, World Health Organization officials were meeting with vaccine manufacturers and other experts in Geneva on Thursday to discuss making a vaccine to fight the virus. http://phys.org/news161513537.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 May 2009 09:52:46 EST news161513537 (AP) -- The swine flu epidemic may seem mild now, with relatively few deaths even as the virus infects thousands in at least 33 countries. But experts worry it could mutate into something more dangerous - making the question of who should get antiviral therapy ever more important. http://phys.org/news161367430.html Medicine & Health Tue, 12 May 2009 17:17:58 EST news161367430 Given his age, H. Byran Poff figures he has seen just about everything that can happen to mankind. http://phys.org/news161183707.html Medicine & Health Sun, 10 May 2009 14:16:32 EST news161183707 (AP) -- The most pivotal moments in the swine flu saga are yet to come. Will it sweep through impoverished Southern Hemisphere countries in the next few months? Will it roar back in the rest of the world in the fall? And who will be vaccinated if it does? http://phys.org/news161142339.html Medicine & Health Sun, 10 May 2009 02:46:25 EST news161142339 (AP) -- A Washington state man with underlying heart conditions became the third person infected with swine flu to die in the U.S., health officials said Saturday, while Costa Rica reported the first swine flu death outside North America. http://phys.org/news161141941.html Medicine & Health Sun, 10 May 2009 02:40:24 EST news161141941 (AP) -- Japanese authorities scrambled Saturday to track travelers who arrived on the same flight as three people diagnosed with the country's first confirmed cases of swine flu. Australia also joined the ranks of affected countries with its first confirmed case. http://phys.org/news161084628.html Medicine & Health Sat, 09 May 2009 10:44:59 EST news161084628 (AP) -- Thanks to swine flu, there's a little less hugging and kissing in the United States. http://phys.org/news161027985.html Medicine & Health Fri, 08 May 2009 19:00:09 EST news161027985 (AP) -- A U.S. health official says now only about 10 percent of the Americans who got swine flu had traveled to Mexico and likely picked up the infection there. Most got the bug at home. http://phys.org/news160926248.html Medicine & Health Thu, 07 May 2009 14:44:23 EST news160926248 (AP) -- People hospitalized in the United States for swine flu are turning out to be younger than is typical for regular flu. http://phys.org/news160843290.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 May 2009 15:42:05 EST news160843290 With blogs, Facebook, Twitter and lots of other sources, information about swine flu is traveling at light speed. http://phys.org/news160828842.html Technology Wed, 06 May 2009 11:41:15 EST news160828842