- WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) — Being born extremely
underweight may be a risk factor for a shy, cautious personality as an
adult.

A study published in the July issue of Pediatrics finds that
young adults who were born at extremely low birth weights were more likely
to be shy, cautious and risk-averse than their counterparts who had [...]

- WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) — Compared to CPR alone,
adding extracorporeal life support doubles survival in hospital patients
with cardiac arrest, says a study by researchers at the National Taiwan
University Hospital.

In ELS, a catheter is inserted into a leg artery/vein. The patient
receives CPR until the start of ELS, at which point blood travels through
the [...]

- WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) — Every summer, an estimated
6,200 Americans are hospitalized for heat exposure. In 2005, about 180 of
those people who were hospitalized died, according to the latest News
and Numbers from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality.

Severe heat exposure, which is called hyperthermia, occurs when the
body's temperature rises to 106 [...]

- WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) — Scientists say they have
finally succeeded in developing human embryonic stem cells earlier in the
development stage of a blastomere, or a 4-cell stage embryo, so the whole
embryo is not destroyed.

The development, expected to be presented Wednesday at the European
Society of Human Reproduction & Embryology annual conference in
Barcelona, may [...]

- WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) — Diabetes and being over- or
underweight can have a negative effect on male fertility.

That's the conclusion of two reports to be presented July 9 at the
annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction &
Embryology, in Barcelona, Spain.

While semen samples from diabetics look normal under the microscope, a
closer [...]

- WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) — Assisted breathing improves
the symptoms of patients whose lungs fill with water because of a weak
heartbeat, but it doesn't reduce death rates, a new British study
shows.

The study found no significant difference between two forms of assisted
breathing — continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and noninvasive
intermittent positive-pressure ventilation (NIPPV). Both [...]

- WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) — Researchers exploring the
benefits of the once-banned drug thalidomide for patients with myeloma
have learned a lesson that's as true to life as it is to science: Don't
judge results too early.

Earlier findings showed that adding thalidomide into therapy regimens
increased the odds of a complete remission, but not the length [...]

- WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) — The number of people
sickened in the ongoing salmonella outbreak has now surpassed 1,000, and
while certain types of tomatoes remain the suspected cause, U.S. health
officials on Wednesday added hot peppers and cilantro as potential
suspects.

“We continue to get new reported cases every day,” Dr. Robert Tauxe,
deputy director of the [...]

A volunteer prepares a dose of the rubella vaccine in a classroom during a campaign to eliminate the virus in Port-au-Prince November 19, 2007. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
The biggest U.S. outbreak of measles
since 1997 has sickened 127 people in 15 states, most of whom
were not vaccinated against the highly contagious viral
illness, federal health officials said [...]

- WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) — The number of people
sickened in the ongoing salmonella outbreak has now surpassed 1,000, and
while certain types of tomatoes remain the suspected cause, U.S. health
officials on Wednesday added hot peppers and cilantro as potential
suspects as well.

“We continue to get new reported cases every day,” Dr. Robert Tauxe,
deputy director [...]