CHICAGO (Reuters) -
Treatment with a common malaria drug
may explain why people in remote villages in South America have
high levels of resistance to a widely used class of antibiotics
known as fluoroquinolones, despite never having taken the
drugs, Canadian researchers said on Tuesday.

The surprising findings suggest that treating malaria with
the cheap, widely used drug chloroquine — a [...]

ATLANTA - The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques.
A bigger surprise: The low-carb diet improved cholesterol more than the other two. Some [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
In patients with hay fever, a
nasal ointment containing the antibiotic mupirocin can
eliminate Staphylococcus aureus bacteria in the nose, but this
does not improve symptoms, Israeli researchers report.

Earlier research has shown that the growth of S. aureus in
the nasal passages may worsen allergic diseases, such as hay
fever, senior investigator Dr. Eli Magen [...]

ATLANTA - Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee lead the nation when it comes to obesity, a new government survey reported Thursday.
More than 30 percent of adults in each of the states tipped the scales enough to ensure the South remains the nation’s fattest region.
Colorado was the least obese, with about 19 percent fitting that category in [...]

PARIS (AFP) - Les taux de survie pour plusieurs cancers varient nettement d’un pays à l’autre, les Etats-Unis offrant les meilleurs taux surtout dans la population blanche, selon une étude publiée jeudi dans la revue britannique The Lancet oncology.
Cette étude, la première du genre, a été menée par une équipe conduite par Michel Coleman (London [...]

La polyarthrite rhumatoïde, qui touche 250 000 à 300 000 personnes en France, est loin d’être une « maladie de vieux ». Beaucoup de jeunes patients en sont victimes. Et ils éprouvent souvent des difficultés importantes à maintenir leur activité professionnelle. Pour cause d’ailleurs, puisque cette maladie inflammatoire s’attaque aux articulations. Ces dernières années pourtant, [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
The regular use of
over-the-counter analgesic drugs, such as aspirin and
ibuprofen, does not appear to reduce the risk of ovarian
cancer, according to findings published in the American Journal
of Epidemiology.

It has been suggested that inflammation may be involved in
the development of ovarian cancer, “possibly acting in concert
with ovulation,” Dr. Mary Anne Rossing, [...]

PARIS (AFP) - Le nouvel indice de référence des loyers, désormais calculé sur la base de l’indice des prix à la consommation hors tabac et hors loyers, a augmenté de 2,38% sur un an au deuxième trimestre 2008, a annoncé l’Insee jeudi dans un communiqué.
Cet indice avait augmenté de 1,81% au premier trimestre de 2008.
“C’est [...]

Les nourrissons sont particulièrement sensibles à la déshydratation. Or et c’est un facteur aggravant considérable, ils ignorent aussi la sensation de soif ! De sorte qu’il leur est parfaitement impossible de réclamer à boire, par exemple en pleurant.

En cas de forte chaleur, quelques précautions très simples permettent de prévenir la déshydratation de bébé. Comme il [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Physical, mental, and social
impairments affect the lives of many adults who were born
prematurely, according to a national study in Norway, published
in The New England Journal of Medicine.

“What most surprised us was the consistency of a
dose-response relationship between gestational age and nearly
all of the outcomes studied,” lead author Dr. Dag Moster [...]