Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1690 Most Emailed - Health en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:49:16 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1690 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam afp/20090702/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam AFP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:31:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246530698434-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=URsI3y6pVobkjZizuzo70w--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A vegetarian salad. Australian researchers have said that people who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)" border="0" /></a>AFP - People who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246530698434-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=URsI3y6pVobkjZizuzo70w--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A vegetarian salad. Australian researchers have said that people who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/hl_nm/us_prostate_cancer nm/20090703/us_prostate_cancer Reuters health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:45:43 GMT Reuters - PSA blood tests are often used to screen men for prostate cancer, but there is still no good evidence that they cut death rates from the disease, a new review finds. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/hl_nm/us_alcohol_longevity nm/20090703/us_alcohol_longevity Reuters health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:30:08 GMT Reuters - Moderate drinkers are wealthier, more educated and less likely to be disabled than teetotalers, which explains some, but not all, of the association between moderate alcohol consumption and longer life, according to a new study. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_research ap/20090702/us_med_swine_flu_research AP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:03:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_research"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.911dc8a160b04620868479cfeba3d71e.argentina_swine_flu_bai108.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=_LBWDcYtKsk_iK_7cbH2gw--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="A physician holds samples of patients suspected of being infected with swine flu at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Health authorities have warned that while the swine flu peak has passed in Mexico, the Southern Hemisphere is at risk as it heads deeper into its winter flu season as the nation's swine flu death toll surged to 35. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Pontoriero)" border="0" /></a>AP - With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is — so far — more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_research"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.911dc8a160b04620868479cfeba3d71e.argentina_swine_flu_bai108.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=_LBWDcYtKsk_iK_7cbH2gw--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="A physician holds samples of patients suspected of being infected with swine flu at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Health authorities have warned that while the swine flu peak has passed in Mexico, the Southern Hemisphere is at risk as it heads deeper into its winter flu season as the nation's swine flu death toll surged to 35. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Pontoriero)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/hl_afp/ugandahealthwomenpolitics afp/20090703/ugandahealthwomenpolitics AFP health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:45:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/hl_afp/ugandahealthwomenpolitics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1224071924862-1-0.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=jjl621aDSycrjkrv228Tkw--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="A woman who performs genital cutting displays a knife she uses to perform the procedure. Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country's eastern region.(AFP/File/Kambou Sia)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country's eastern region, the president said in a statement Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/hl_afp/ugandahealthwomenpolitics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1224071924862-1-0.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=jjl621aDSycrjkrv228Tkw--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="photo" title="A woman who performs genital cutting displays a knife she uses to perform the procedure. Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country's eastern region.(AFP/File/Kambou Sia)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090627/hl_hsn/manyadultswithasthmaareskippingflushots hsn/20090627/manyadultswithasthmaareskippingflushots HealthDay health Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:48:41 GMT HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) -- Adults with asthma face a higher risk of complications if they catch the flu, yet many skip their annual shots, new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_he_me/us_surgery_tech_hepatitis ap/20090703/us_surgery_tech_hepatitis AP health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:40:35 GMT AP - A former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic, federal authorities said Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/hl_nm/us_bedwetting_apnea nm/20090703/us_bedwetting_apnea Reuters health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:44:10 GMT Reuters - Children who are overweight and wet the bed at night may have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), researchers report. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/ts_nm/us_flu_camps nm/20090703/us_flu_camps Reuters topstories Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:47:12 GMT Reuters - Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090703/hl_hsn/newdrugcouldworkagainstleukemia hsn/20090703/newdrugcouldworkagainstleukemia HealthDay health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:49:01 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- A new targeted therapy shows promise in treating acute myeloid leukemia, a highly treatment-resistant blood cancer, according to a new study. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthpsychology afp/20090702/healthpsychology AFP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:32:54 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthpsychology"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246573946040-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=7uQVlrvX_uXad44MTMp57g--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="A woman looks at her reflection in a mirror. Repeating positive statements such as "I am a lovable person" or "I will succeed" makes some people feel worse about themselves instead of raising their self-esteem, a study showed Thursday.(AFP/File/Fred Dufour)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Repeating positive statements such as "I am a lovable person" or "I will succeed" makes some people feel worse about themselves instead of raising their self-esteem, a study showed Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthpsychology"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246573946040-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=7uQVlrvX_uXad44MTMp57g--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="A woman looks at her reflection in a mirror. Repeating positive statements such as "I am a lovable person" or "I will succeed" makes some people feel worse about themselves instead of raising their self-esteem, a study showed Thursday.(AFP/File/Fred Dufour)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/hl_nm/us_neighborhood_asthma nm/20090703/us_neighborhood_asthma Reuters health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:41:00 GMT Reuters - Childhood asthma is less common in neighborhoods with high economic potential and strong community vitality, new research shows. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090630/hl_hsn/talkwithkidsnotatthem hsn/20090630/talkwithkidsnotatthem HealthDay health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:49:27 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) -- If you want to help children develop language and speech skills, UCLA researchers say, listening to what they have to say is just as important as talking to them. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090703/hl_hsn/increasingalcoholusetiedtomorehospitalization hsn/20090703/increasingalcoholusetiedtomorehospitalization HealthDay health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:49:09 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- The more alcohol men drink, the more time they spend in a hospital, research from the United Kingdom has found. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090703/hl_hsn/livingaloneincreasesoddsofdevelopingdementia hsn/20090703/livingaloneincreasesoddsofdevelopingdementia HealthDay health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:48:52 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Middle-aged adults who live alone are twice as likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer's disease later in life compared to those who are married or live with a partner. And the risk is three times higher among those who are divorced or widowed, according to a new study by Swedish and Finnish researchers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090704/hl_hsn/onmemoryolderamericansoutsmarttheenglish hsn/20090704/onmemoryolderamericansoutsmarttheenglish HealthDay health Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:49:12 GMT HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- Older people in the United States scored better than their counterparts in England on a memory and awareness test, possibly because of differences in levels of depression and education and the fact that American adults receive more aggressive treatment for heart disease, a new study suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_he_me/us_med_chelation_study ap/20090702/us_med_chelation_study AP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:33:09 GMT AP - A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090704/hl_hsn/healthtipunderstandingprediabetes hsn/20090704/healthtipunderstandingprediabetes HealthDay health Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:49:15 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Before some people develop full-blown diabetes, their blood sugar is above normal, but not high enough to qualify for a diagnosis of diabetes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090704/hl_hsn/healthtipwaxbuildupmaycausehearingloss hsn/20090704/healthtipwaxbuildupmaycausehearingloss HealthDay health Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:49:16 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Inside your ear, there are glands that produce a waxy oil called cerumen. This helps protect your ear from dust, germs and other foreign substances, but too much wax buildup can trigger hearing loss.