- THURSDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) — Hispanic workers face a
greater risk of dying from work-related injuries, with one in three deaths
occurring in the construction industry, U.S. health officials said
Thursday.

Between 1992 and 2006, 11,303 Hispanic workers died from work-related
injuries. This represents approximately 13 percent of all work-related
deaths in the United States during that time, [...]

- (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:

Breast Cancer

If you are 18 or older and have confirmed
adenocarcinoma of the breast with measurable metastatic disease, you may
be eligible to participate in this study.

The research site is in
Athens, Ga.

More information

Please see http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat29.html.
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Rhinitis, Allergic, Perennial

If your child is aged 6 months [...]

- THURSDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) — Researchers say they can
cheaply and easily track how effective some cancer drugs are at cutting
off a tumor's blood supply by using the same gene that gives fireflies
their distinctive glow.

Using a technique called bioluminescence imaging (BLI), the University
of Teexas Southwestern Medical Center team added a molecule substrate
called luciferin [...]

- THURSDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) — Eating fruits and vegetables
rich in flavonoids and drinking tea may help protect smokers from lung
cancer, say researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA).

Flavonoids are water-soluble plant pigments that have antioxidant and
anti-inflammatory properties that can counteract damage to tissues. The
UCLA team made the conclusion based on a [...]

- THURSDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) — Researchers report they have
used neural stem cells to correct a congenital brain disorder in mice.

Dr. Steven Goldman, of the University of Rochester Medical Center in
New York, and his colleagues used a type of neural stem cell called “glial
progenitor cells” (GPCs), derived from human fetuses, to correct both
behavioral [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
High cholesterol levels are
associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's disease,
according to findings from a Finnish study.
While it's well established that high cholesterol increases
heart disease risk, “the association between serum cholesterol
level and neurodegenerative diseases risk has been debated,”
write Dr. Gang Hu, of the National Public Health Institute,
Helsinki, Finland, and colleagues.
The researchers [...]

LONDON (Reuters) -
Serotonin, the brain chemical linked to
mood, plays a key role in regulating emotions such as
aggression, British researchers said on Thursday.
Serotonin, the nerve-signaling chemical targeted by many
antidepressants, appears to keep aggressive social responses in
check, Molly Crockett, a psychologist at the University of
Cambridge and colleagues reported in the journal Science.
The chemical's precise role in impulse [...]

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -
The prevalence of HIV among
pregnant women in South Africa fell for the second time in two
years last year as a result of intensive prevention campaigns,
the health minister said on Thursday.
Presenting the health department's budget to parliament,
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said the decline, shown by an annual
survey, pointed to a drop in infection among the population [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Two Scandinavian studies
indicate that moderate alcohol consumption may lower the risk
of developing rheumatoid arthritis.
Dr. Henrik Kallberg, at the Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm, and his associates evaluated data from a study in
Denmark comparing 444 people with rheumatoid arthritis to 523
similar people without arthritis (controls), and a study in
Sweden involving 1204 rheumatoid arthritis cases [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Public health officials
investigating a 2004 outbreak of whooping cough, or pertussis,
among newborns in Texas identified the source as a health-care
worker where the babies were born.
Staff members at a children's hospital in Texas noticed
that six infants admitted with whooping cough had been born
during the first half of June at the same general [...]