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(AP) -- More and more U.S. adults are being told by their doctor to get out and exercise, according to government survey released Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-doctors-adults.html Health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:52:51 EST news248014324 Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, accounting for more than twice as much sodium as salty junk food like potato chips. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-cdc-breads-salt-sources-diet.html Health Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:02:53 EST news247842163 Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-kids-cars-cdc.html Health Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:50:02 EST news247721479 Measles outbreaks in parts of Europe and Africa led to some 60,000 more cases worldwide in 2010 over the previous year, after nearly a decade of declines, US health authorities said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-measles-cases-decade-decline.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:00:19 EST news247409994 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has completed a comprehensive study of an unexplained skin condition commonly referred to as Morgellons and found no infectious agent and no evidence to suggest an environmental link. The full results are reported in the Jan. 25 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-unexplained-skin-condition-non-infectious-linked.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:00:14 EST news246710905 A new government study suggests a lot of teenage girls are clueless about their chances of getting pregnant. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-cdc-teens-moms-didnt.html Health Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:20:01 EST news246204901 Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-india-tb-strain-resistant-drugs.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:04:16 EST news245952233 Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed a new laboratory test that can rapidly identify the bacterium responsible for staph infections. This new test takes advantage of unique isotopic labeling combined with specific bacteriophage amplification to rapidly identify Staphylococcus aureus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-laboratory-method-mass-spectrometry-rapidly.html Medical research Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:50:01 EST news245586293 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has developed two new Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for measurements of human exposure to environmental toxins. Used as a sort of chemical ruler to check the accuracy of tests and analytic procedures, the new reference materials replace and improve older versions, adding measures for emerging environmental contaminants such as perchlorate, a chemical that the Environmental Protection Agency has targeted for regulation as a contaminant under the Safe Drinking Water Act. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-nist-srms-human-exposure-environmental.html Other Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:46:47 EST news245508398 Binge drinking is more common in the United States than previously thought, particularly among young adults, though the most frequent offenders are over 65, said a US government study on Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-over-65s-frequent-binge-drinkers.html Health Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:50:06 EST news245421505 (AP) -- For the first time in 20 years, a federal panel is urging the government to lower the threshold for lead poisoning in children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-cutoff-poisoning-urged.html Health Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:48:31 EST news244921701 (AP) -- An Oklahoma baby is the third infant this month sickened by bacteria sometimes associated with tainted infant formula. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-oklahoma-baby-3rd-sickened-rare.html Health Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:05:56 EST news244303544 (AP) -- It's a startling number: 1 in 4 women surveyed by the government say they were violently attacked by their husbands or boyfriends. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-survey-women-victims-severe-violence.html Health Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:17:12 EST news243101821 On Oct. 25, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all adolescent boys be immunized against the human papilloma virus, which causes several types of cancer in both sexes. We strongly support this landmark decision, which builds on the CDC’s 2006 recommendation to immunize all girls against HPV. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-cancers-boys-girls-benefit-hpv.html Cancer Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:20:02 EST news242898326 Research, led by Timothy Sterling, M.D., professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has led to an important change in CDC recommendations in the regimen for prevention of the centuries-old scourge, tuberculosis (TB). Sterling’s work is published in the Dec. 8 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-vanderbilt-simpler-therapy-latent-tuberculosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:40:01 EST news242637099 Inadequate use of masks or respirators put health care workers at risk of 2009 H1N1 infection during the earliest stages of the 2009 pandemic in the U.S., according to a study published in the December issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-inadequate-mask-health-workers-early.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:04:35 EST news241887864 Public health should focus not only on reducing the burden of common diseases but also address the needs of people with blood disorders , experts say in a supplement to December's American Journal of Preventive Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-blood-disorders-health-issue.html Health Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:19:19 EST news240643150 The number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers more than tripled over a decade, the government reported Tuesday - a trend that a U.S. health official called an epidemic, but one that can be stopped. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-deaths-painkiller-overdose-triple-decade.html Medications Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:46:52 EST news239370400 Wegmans Food Markets has recalled 5,000 pounds of pine nuts sold in the bulk foods department of its stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland after salmonella sickened 42 people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-wegmans-recalls-nuts-salmonella.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:12:38 EST news238932751 Research underway at the Trudeau Institute could lead to new treatments for people sickened by Listeria and other sepsis-causing bacteria. Dr. Stephen Smiley's laboratory has published a study in the scientific journal Infection and Immunity that supports a new approach to treating these infections. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-trudeau-approach-listeria-infections.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:37:20 EST news238088231 (AP) -- The toll of excessive drinking works out to about $2 per drink, in terms of medical expenses and other costs to society, according to a new federal research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-cdc-shot-excessive.html Health Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:06:32 EST news238075585 While parents commonly use the Internet to learn about pediatric health problems, little is known about how often they seek out this information, and how they use it prior to seeking medical care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-parents-online-pediatric-health-doctors.html Health Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:35:49 EST news237785736 (AP) -- Federal health authorities say a nationwide outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe is now responsible for 21 deaths and the number may continue to grow. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-deaths-linked-listeria-cantaloupe.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:25:44 EST news237223534 (AP) -- The number of athletic children going to hospitals with concussions is up 60 percent in the past decade, a finding that is likely due to parents and coaches being more careful about getting head injuries treated, according to a new federal study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-kids-er-concussion-pct-decade.html Health Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:05:55 EST news237125148 Eighteen people have died and 100 people have fallen ill since late July in the United States from eating cantaloupes infected with listeria, health authorities said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-infected-cantaloupes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:30:30 EST news236968219 (AP) -- Drunken driving incidents have fallen 30 percent in the last five years, and last year were at their lowest mark in nearly two decades, according to a new federal report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-cdc-self-reported-drunk.html Health Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:46:22 EST news236954774 Listeriosis outbreaks like the current one traced to Colorado cantaloupes are extremely rare, according to a farm food-safety expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. But Luke LaBorde, associate professor of food science, worries that melons present a heightened risk for spreading food-borne illnesses. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-listeriosis-outbreak-linked-cantaloupes-rare.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:47:45 EST news236850452 A rare virus has killed three people and sickened nearly 100 in Japan, the Philippines, the United States and the Netherlands over the past two years, US health authorities said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-rare-flu-like-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:10:01 EST news236616979 (AP) -- Eric Jensen surveys his dusty cantaloupe field and seems equally stunned and puzzled at the fate that has befallen his crop: row upon row of melons rotting on the vine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-cdc-additional-listeria-death-colorado.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:51:47 EST news236616653 (AP) -- Federal health officials said Wednesday more illnesses and possibly more deaths may be linked to an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe in coming weeks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-cantaloupe-illnesses-deaths.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:45:07 EST news236486697