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Overweight Children Control Weight Better with Behavioral Programs
AHRQ.gov – Obese school-age kids and teens can lose weight or prevent further weight gain if they participate in medium- to high-intensity behavioral management programs, according to a new report. Children in the medium- to high-intensity behavioral...
Back-to-school Stomach Pain Update
NationwideChildrens.org – As the school year starts up again, parents, school nurses and pediatricians often have to respond to increased complaints of stomach pain. Many of these seasonal belly-aches are dismissed as nothing more than a case of...
Big Babies ‘risk Breast Cancer.’
Baby girls who are of larger than average length and weight at birth grow up being at increased risk of breast cancer, analysis suggests.
Wash. U. Researchers Develop Way to Predict Breast Cancer Treatment Outcomes.
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis say they have developed a new way to accurately predict treatment outcomes for women with breast cancer.
Breastfeeding ‘cuts Cancer Risk.’
Breastfeeding for a year over the course of a woman’s life helps cut the risk of breast cancer, research says.
Nicotine Gum Helps Pregnant Women Cut Back on Cigarettes.
Nicotine gum doesn’t help pregnant smokers quit smoking, but it may help them smoke fewer cigarettes — reducing their risk of having a premature or low-birth-weight baby, according to a small study.
Urinary Incontinence in Women Can be Treated with Physical Therapy
First-line treatment for stress incontinence may be Kegel exercises, supervised by physical therapist. APTA.org – In response to a new study in JAMA showing that pelvic floor disorders, such as urinary incontinence, affect up to one-quarter of American...
Exercises to Prevent ACL Injury in Female Athletes
APTA.org – The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is urging female athletes – particularly soccer players – to consider a new program of warm-up exercises to help lower their growing risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)...
‘A Faulty Gene Caused My Cancer.’
Ashkenazi Jewish people originally came from North and Eastern Europe, but have emigrated all over the world. Due to the tradition of marrying within the Jewish population, the BRCA gene faults have been passed between generations.