February 2011 - NPR Health Blog - The Network of Care

Your Health Podcast: Good News and Ah-CHOOs

This week's health podcast has some good news from Richard Knox, plus a look at a link between marijuana and psychosis and a Antarctic homeopathic overdose. Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 11 2011 2:34 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Weighty Issue: Keep Junior Off Solid Food During His First 4 Months

Formula-fed kids who got weaned by four months were six times more likely to be obese as preschoolers. For kids who got *** milk, there was no difference in obesity tied to when solid foods were started. Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 07 2011 7:06 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health News Blog

Your Health Podcast: From Concussion Prevention To Whoopie Pies

In this week's podcast, we'll hear about efforts to prevent brain injuries in high school athletes, catch up with MS patients undergoing a controversial new treatment, and hear a song about Maine's State Dessert-elect. Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 04 2011 3:05 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health News Blog

Researchers Link Marijuana And Earlier Onset Of Psychosis

Australian researchers found that marijuana users who developed psychosis were 2.7 years younger than nonusers who became psychotic. Other sort of substance abuse sped up psychosis by 2 years, but alcohol alone showed no effect. Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 09 2011 5:57 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health News Blog

Homeopathic Insomnia Remedy No Match For Antarctic Summer

More than 1,600 people in 28 countries and Antarctica deliberately overdosed on homeopathic remedies over the weekend. No injuries, illnesses or worse were reported. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 08 2011 2:40 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health News Blog

How Long Moms Work Linked To Slight Increase In Kids' Weight

The link wasn't explained by other factors, including the amount of TV watched or the time of day moms worked. The weight gain was small, about a pound, and no reason for moms to feel guilty, the lead researcher says. Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 04 2011 12:34 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health News Blog

Impatience Leads To Rage On Sidewalks, Too

Believe it or not, there are scientists who study sidewalk rage, and one has even come up with a 15-question Pedestrian Aggressiveness Syndrome Scale to quantify some people's problem with slow walkers. Are you brave enough to try it? Read More.....

Published Tue, Feb 15 2011 9:44 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Intellectual Backer Of Insurance Mandate Faults Alternatives

An MIT economist revs up his estimating machine to argue that the leading mandate replacements, such as penalties for people who delay buying insurance, wouldn't do nearly as much to address the twin problems of coverage and cost. Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 09 2011 2:45 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health News Blog

L.A. Hospital Transplants Wrong Kidney Into Patient

The mistake at USC University appears to have happened when two kidneys from different donors got mixed up. The transplant program has been halted while the problems are investigated and corrected. Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 18 2011 6:41 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Health Hardliners To GOP: Most Americans Are 'Over-Insured'

The conservative group FreedomWorks recommends a system of vouchers to replace Medicare, Medicaid and provisions of the new health law. Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 16 2011 1:26 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Chemist Doubts Hair-Straightener With Formaldehyde-Free Formula

Brazilian Blowout took the formaldehyde out of a version its hair-straightening treatment, but the latest formula may not be as effective, a chemist says. Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2011 2:22 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Best Route To Heart May Be Through Your Wrist

Some cardiologists are pushing for an alternate approach to snaking catheters into the arteries feeding the heart. Going through an artery in the wrist, instead of the groin, poses a lower risk of bleeding, they say. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 08 2011 6:56 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health News Blog

Check Out The New Shots

Our goal is to make Shots more useful by presenting posts more clearly. We're also trying to make it easier for you to find other relevant posts and stories. Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 10:17 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health News Blog

Health Law: No Big Deal Or Congressional Overreach?

After a federal court in Florida declared the health law unconstitutional, esteemed legal scholars weighed in on the ruling at a Senate hearing Wednesday. The consensus? There was none, with scholars endorsing either extreme. Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 1:55 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health News Blog

GOP Counts The Ways To Defund Health Law

House Republicans have come up with more than half a dozen ways to throttle spending on overhaul. Democrats in the Senate can block them, and President Obama still wields the veto pen. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2011 2:05 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

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