Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/most-popular/emailed/health Most Emailed - Health en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:24 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/most-popular/emailed/health http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_he_me/us_med_autism_mother_s_age ap/20100208/us_med_autism_mother_s_age AP health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:30:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_he_me/us_med_autism_mother_s_age"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265647466334-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=K9mVhsielYp1b4gii_JOKw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A boy with autism at a treament center. Women over 40 are nearly twice as likely to give birth to an autistic child than a mother under 30, researchers said in a study that found more evidence of links between autism and maternal age.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)" border="0" /></a>AP - A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_he_me/us_med_autism_mother_s_age"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265647466334-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=K9mVhsielYp1b4gii_JOKw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="A boy with autism at a treament center. Women over 40 are nearly twice as likely to give birth to an autistic child than a mother under 30, researchers said in a study that found more evidence of links between autism and maternal age.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_cancer_pancreas_sodas nm/20100208/us_cancer_pancreas_sodas Reuters health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:15:25 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_cancer_pancreas_sodas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r175871192.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=SsVrlqtwBoVlykyGjPeYNw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Tumor cells from the pancreas tainted with an immunocytochemical stain and magnified 400 times in an undated image. REUTERS/NCI/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer, an unusual but deadly cancer, researchers reported on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_cancer_pancreas_sodas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r175871192.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=SsVrlqtwBoVlykyGjPeYNw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Tumor cells from the pancreas tainted with an immunocytochemical stain and magnified 400 times in an undated image. REUTERS/NCI/Handout" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_he_me/med_africa_malaria_drugs ap/20100208/med_africa_malaria_drugs AP health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:43:31 GMT AP - High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality &mdash; including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal &mdash; raising fears of increased drug resistance that could wipe out the last weapon left to battle a disease that kills 1 million people each year, according to a U.S. report released Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_he_me/us_med_murtha_surgery ap/20100209/us_med_murtha_surgery AP health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:48:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_he_me/us_med_murtha_surgery"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.8fb72c367df94266a481cfadc60d3701.obit_murtha_wx109.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=JbgaJ5K8eS1GJwFAEBz9eg--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="FILE - In this July 23, 2006 file photo, Rep. John Murtha, D- Pa., waits to speak to Democrats at the Hampton, N.H. Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Gallbladder surgery is usually a very safe operation, but a powerful congressman's death is a reminder of the known risks.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_he_me/us_med_murtha_surgery"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.8fb72c367df94266a481cfadc60d3701.obit_murtha_wx109.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=JbgaJ5K8eS1GJwFAEBz9eg--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this July 23, 2006 file photo, Rep. John Murtha, D- Pa., waits to speak to Democrats at the Hampton, N.H. Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100205/hl_hsn/testsshowtoptunabrandshavehighmercurylevels hsn/20100205/testsshowtoptunabrandshavehighmercurylevels HealthDay science Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:49:36 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Tests on more than 300 samples of canned tuna from the top three brands in the United States revealed that more than half contained mercury levels above what's considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_religious_healthier nm/20100208/us_religious_healthier Reuters health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:29:55 GMT Reuters - A number of studies over the past two decades have shown that religious people tend to be healthier. But a new study suggests that when it comes to heart disease and clogged arteries, attending religious services or having spiritual experiences may not protect against heart attacks and strokes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_he_me/us_med_healthbeat_baby_blood ap/20100208/us_med_healthbeat_baby_blood AP health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:08:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_he_me/us_med_healthbeat_baby_blood"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.ac16d47c17094466a52f4ff74da4c9e8.healthbeat_baby_blood_wx201.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=nRa7rNHC32faDlsnZPa.dQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A one-day-old baby boy's heel is pricked for blood during a phenylketonuria (PKU) test at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. A critical safety net for babies &mdash; that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn &mdash; is facing an ethics attack. States increasingly are storing the leftover blood samples for later medical research, often without parents' knowledge or consent &mdash; prompting lawsuits in two states and work in many others to give parents a greater say. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0" /></a>AP - A critical safety net for babies &mdash; that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn &mdash; is facing an ethics attack.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_he_me/us_med_healthbeat_baby_blood"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.ac16d47c17094466a52f4ff74da4c9e8.healthbeat_baby_blood_wx201.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=nRa7rNHC32faDlsnZPa.dQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A one-day-old baby boy's heel is pricked for blood during a phenylketonuria (PKU) test at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. A critical safety net for babies &mdash; that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn &mdash; is facing an ethics attack. States increasingly are storing the leftover blood samples for later medical research, often without parents' knowledge or consent &mdash; prompting lawsuits in two states and work in many others to give parents a greater say. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_afp/healthdrinkcancer afp/20100209/healthdrinkcancer AFP topstories Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:36:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_afp/healthdrinkcancer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265652814100-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=MFXlhkuHkw.O4oukpJTyUg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A Cambodian scavenger (L) collects empty cans of soft drink and bottles of drinking water as a school child (R) sits next to her drinking a soft drink in 2008. People who drink at least two sugary soft drinks a day have an increased risk of contracting cancer of the pancreas, a study published Monday shows.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)" border="0" /></a>AFP - People who drink at least two sugary sodas a week have an increased risk of developing cancer of the pancreas, and researchers suspect the culprit is sugar, a new study shows.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_afp/healthdrinkcancer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265652814100-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=MFXlhkuHkw.O4oukpJTyUg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Cambodian scavenger (L) collects empty cans of soft drink and bottles of drinking water as a school child (R) sits next to her drinking a soft drink in 2008. People who drink at least two sugary soft drinks a day have an increased risk of contracting cancer of the pancreas, a study published Monday shows.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100208/sc_livescience/childrenraisedbylesbiansdojustfinestudiesshow livescience/20100208/childrenraisedbylesbiansdojustfinestudiesshow LiveScience.com health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:29:09 GMT LiveScience.com - Children raised by lesbian parents fare as well as they would in heterosexual households, new research suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100209/hl_hsn/softdrinkscouldboostpancreaticcancerrisk hsn/20100209/softdrinkscouldboostpancreaticcancerrisk HealthDay health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:49:41 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- People who down two or more soft drinks a week may have double the risk of developing deadly pancreatic cancer, compared to non-soda drinkers, new research suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100204/hl_hsn/veryobesepeoplemaybemissinggenes hsn/20100204/veryobesepeoplemaybemissinggenes HealthDay health Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:49:52 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Adding more evidence to theories linking DNA to weight, European scientists report that a genetic variation seems to virtually guarantee that a person will become obese. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100209/hl_hsn/cleaningagenttiedtoparkinsonsinstudy hsn/20100209/cleaningagenttiedtoparkinsonsinstudy HealthDay health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:49:43 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- The industrial cleaner trichloroethylene (TCE) has been linked to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, U.S. researchers say. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100209/hl_hsn/scientistsspotgenestiedtoaging hsn/20100209/scientistsspotgenestiedtoaging HealthDay health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:49:47 GMT HealthDay - SUNDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have discovered genetic variants that are associated with biological aging, a finding that could explain why some people seem to age faster than others. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100129/hl_hsn/toolittlevitamindmayworsenasthma hsn/20100129/toolittlevitamindmayworsenasthma HealthDay health Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:49:39 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- People with asthma who have low levels of vitamin D fare worse than those with high levels of the "sunshine" vitamin, a new study finds. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_obese_needle nm/20100208/us_obese_needle Reuters health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:37:28 GMT Reuters - Our ever-expanding waistlines may have outgrown the doctor's needle, researchers say, in what could be another casualty of the obesity epidemic. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/hl_afp/healthuspoliticsobesitychildrenobama afp/20100209/healthuspoliticsobesitychildrenobama AFP health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:48:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/hl_afp/healthuspoliticsobesitychildrenobama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265728440610-5-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=WoqVwarqLndbONh0DQrwfQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with athletes, farmers, doctors and the media Tuesday to confront the childhood obesity "epidemic" that affects a staggering one in three American youngsters.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with athletes, farmers, doctors and the media Tuesday to confront the childhood obesity "epidemic" that affects a staggering one in three American youngsters.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/hl_afp/healthuspoliticsobesitychildrenobama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265728440610-5-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=WoqVwarqLndbONh0DQrwfQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with athletes, farmers, doctors and the media Tuesday to confront the childhood obesity "epidemic" that affects a staggering one in three American youngsters.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/hl_nm/us_cancer_tobacco nm/20100209/us_cancer_tobacco Reuters health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:00:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/hl_nm/us_cancer_tobacco"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r2943550170.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=Yr7HM4k1MXpOz6gtYFOZVQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="A man smokes a cigarette in central London, February 1, 2010. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Old tobacco smoke does more than simply make a room smell stale -- it can leave cancer-causing toxins behind, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/hl_nm/us_cancer_tobacco"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r2943550170.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=Yr7HM4k1MXpOz6gtYFOZVQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man smokes a cigarette in central London, February 1, 2010. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100209/hl_hsn/stemcellresearchmakesanotheradvance hsn/20100209/stemcellresearchmakesanotheradvance HealthDay health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:49:29 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists say they've developed a new and easier way to create what's known as pluripotent stem cells -- cells that can develop into one of many cell types for use in regenerative medicine. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100206/hl_hsn/artificialpancreashelpstype1diabeticsduringsleep hsn/20100206/artificialpancreashelpstype1diabeticsduringsleep HealthDay health Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:49:29 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that young children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes could benefit by using an artificial pancreas device to lower the risk of dangerously low blood sugar levels during sleep and help them control their disease. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100209/hl_hsn/highbloodpressuremaypredictdementiainsomeseniors hsn/20100209/highbloodpressuremaypredictdementiainsomeseniors HealthDay health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:49:33 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- High blood pressure may predict dementia in older adults with impaired executive function (difficulty organizing thoughts and making decisions), but not in those with memory problems, a new study has found.