Finding suggests damage may be present even after obvious symptoms are gone HealthDay – Not on Site By Barbara Bronson Gray HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, July 16, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- A mild or moderate concussion may have longer-lasting consequences than previously realized, a new study suggests. By comparing brain...
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'Breakthrough' stem cell study retracted
Brian King7/16/14
By Miriam Falco, CNN (CNN) -- It was hailed as a fast, easy, inexpensive and uncontroversial way to produce stem cells. Scientists took a skin cell and coaxed it into acting like an embryo, producing embryonic-like stem cells that could theoretically be turned into any cell in the body. What was described as a...
Bedwetting Causes and Management
Brian King7/13/14
by GoodNites® Dr. Jennifer Trachtenberg -- pediatrician, mom, and author -- frequently hears other moms’ concerns about potty training and bedwetting. Here she discusses common misconceptions about daytime vs. nighttime dryness in children and offers information to help lessen parents’ anxiety. There are distinct differences between staying dry during the...
Study: 1/3 of knee replacements are questionable
Brian King7/10/14
Whether to replace aging knees can be a tough decision. More than 650,000 Americans underwent total knee replacement surgery last year, but a new paper from researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University suggests that a third of those were not “appropriate,” based on standard medical criteria. The study authors analyzed...
Childhood vaccines are safe. Seriously.
Brian King7/ 5/14
By Jen Christensen and Nadia Kounang, CNN CNN) -- Children should get vaccinated against preventable and potentially deadly diseases. Period. That's what a project that screened more than 20,000 scientific titles and 67 papers on vaccine safety concludes this week. The review appears in the latest edition of the medical journal Pediatrics....
