April 2011 - NPR Health Blog - The Network of Care

A Brain Protein Gone Awry Provides Schizophrenia Clue

Changes to a single protein involved in making brain cells and then pushing them where they belong may help explain one way schizophrenia is triggered. Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 06 2011 12:00 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Sugar May Be An Empty Nutrient, But Is It Poisonous?

Sugary foods can lead people to pack on the pounds. But there's scant science behind claims that sugar directly causes cancer, heart disease, and high cholesterol. Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 9:22 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Why Use Tweezers To Play Operation When A Robot Will Do?

If you've never mastered the game of Operation, maybe a robot could help. A Johns Hopkins roboticist shows how it's done in a video that contrasts very high- and very low-tech approaches. Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 22 2011 12:42 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Popular Painkillers Can Impair Antidepressants' Effectiveness

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs make SSRI antidepressants less effective, which may help account for the fact that the widely used antidepressants don't help many people. Read More...

Published Mon, Apr 25 2011 1:54 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Shrinking Height Of Poor Women Reflects Lack of Food, Health Care

Measuring height gives clues to the health of nations. Many aren't measuring up. A new study finds that in 14 African countries, women are shorter than in previous generations. Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 12:12 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Death Takes A Holiday: Fatalities From Traffic Accidents Fall

Americans are driving more than ever, yet deaths from traffic accidents have fallen to levels not seen since 1949. Safer cars and better roads are making a difference. Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 01 2011 6:55 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Bulging Waistlines Lead Coast Guard To Lower Passenger Limits

The Coast Guard is raising its assumption about how much the average American weighs to 185 pounds, up 9 percent from the current benchmark of 160 pounds. The change will lower the number of people allowed on many passenger vessels. Read More...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2011 7:55 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Americans Like Their Health Care, But Think The System Stinks

A majority of Americans give the country's health system barely passing grades. Most people choose a hospital based on someone's personal experience than looking at quality ratings. Yet when it comes to surgeons, people are evenly split on whether...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2011 9:24 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Want To Play Spin The Budget?

Why answer simple questions about the federal budget briefly when long-winded treatises will do. A query about an apparent typo led to a full-throated Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 13 2011 10:54 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Latest Smelly Johnson & Johnson Recall: Topamax

A chemical from wooden shipping pallets is believed to have tainted 57,000 bottles of Topamax, a medicine for epilepsy and migraines. Johnson & Johnson says the contaminant does not present a health hazard but can be offensive. Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 14 2011 8:55 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

1 in 4 Supermarket Meat Samples Tainted With Drug-Resistant Bacteria

A survey of meat and poultry sold in supermarkets across the country found widespread contamination with Staphylococcus aureus contamination — the cause of most staph infections in people. A quarter of the samples were tainted with bacteria resistant...

Published Fri, Apr 15 2011 8:30 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

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