May 2011 - NPR Health Blog - The Network of Care

How Do They Know He Was Bin Laden?

A U.S. intelligence official said a DNA match, using DNA from several family members, provided virtual certainty that the body taken from the compound in Abbottabad, Pakisatan, was bin Laden's. Read More...

Published Mon, May 02 2011 11:25 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Audit Finds Widespread Use Of Antipsychotic Drugs In Nursing Homes

About 14 percent of elderly nursing homes residents receives a so-called atypical antipsychotic medicine despite an increased risk of death when the medicines are used to manage dementia in older people. Read More...

Published Wed, May 11 2011 7:37 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Bedbugs Lie Down With Drug-Resistant Superbugs

Two Canadian researchers have found antibiotic-resistant bacteria living on bedbugs recovered from three people hospitalized in Vancouver. While far from proving that bedbugs can transmit bacterial infections, the findings hint it may be possible. Read...

Published Thu, May 12 2011 6:47 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

U.S. Mulls Implications Of Early Use Of HIV Drugs To Stop AIDS Spread

Findings from a recent study suggest that if all the HIV-infected people in the world got antiviral drugs, the 30-year-old pandemic could be brought to heel. Now the administration's chief AIDS strategist is leading a what-if discussion about that...

Published Thu, May 26 2011 7:48 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Strong Warnings On Cigarettes Prompt Smokers To Consider Quitting

A survey of smokers in 14 countries found that health warnings on cigarette packages registered with most smokers. And among those smokers who noticed them, more than a quarter said the messages led them to think about quitting. Read More...

Published Fri, May 27 2011 9:57 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Nearly 1 In 5 Young Adults Has High Blood Pressure

Being overweight or obese is a well-known risk factor for hypertension. And the majority of the young adults in the study grew overweight or obese as they got older at a rapid pace. Read More...

Published Wed, May 25 2011 9:01 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Doubts Rise Over Virus As Cause Of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

New research findings suggest that a mouse virus thought by some to cause chronic fatigue syndrome is instead a laboratory contaminant. The results led a leading scientific journal to ask for a retraction of an earlier paper proposing the viral link....

Published Tue, May 31 2011 1:05 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Cellphone Use May Be A Cancer Risk After All

The finding that cellphones are a possible carcinogen is a bit of surprise. Last year, the largest study to date found scant evidence to support a link between cellphones and brain cancers. Read More...

Published Tue, May 31 2011 10:01 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

House Moves Ahead With Bill To Bar Tax Subsidies For Abortion

Republicans in the House of Representatives are bringing to a vote a bill that would eliminate tax subsidies for health insurance plans that cover abortion. Some small business owners say it could have unintended consequences that penalize them. Read...

Published Wed, May 04 2011 9:58 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Early Drug Treatment For HIV Slashes Infection Risk

Early treatment of the HIV-infected person with antiretroviral drugs cut the risk of HIV transmission to his or her uninfected sexual partner by 96 percent. The effect was so dramatic, an international study was halted four years early. Read More...

Published Thu, May 12 2011 11:21 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

How People Really Use The Internet For Health

Eighty percent of adults who use the Internet have looked online for health info. Two-thirds have looked up a specific disease or medical problem. More than half have checked for info on a particular treatment, drug or procedure. Read More...

Published Fri, May 13 2011 1:11 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Something's Fishy With FDA's Oversight Of Imported Seafood

More than 80 percent of seafood eaten in the country is imported. And about half of the foreign seafood is farmed. Those facts raise the question: Is the seafood, especially the farmed stuff, safe to eat? Read More...

Published Mon, May 16 2011 1:45 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Coffee Lowers Risk Of Deadliest Prostate Cancer

A researcher says the coffee effect persisted even after factoring in the effects of exercise, obesity, smoking and other factors that either raise or lower the risk of prostate cancer. Regular and decaffeinated coffee were associated with the same low...

Published Tue, May 17 2011 9:01 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Pills May Be Just As Good As Inhalers For Asthmatic Kids

Researchers say that anti-inflammatory asthma drugs that come in pills can be good alternatives to inhalers, especially for children. But the study comes with some heavy caveats. Read More...

Published Thu, May 05 2011 5:20 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Verdict: Haiti's Cholera Outbreak Originated In U.N. Camp

A United Nations panel finds that cholera spread quickly from a U.N. camp in the upper Artibonite River valley to waters used by tens of thousands of Haitians for bathing, washing and drinking. Read More...

Published Fri, May 06 2011 5:57 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

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