Jugendliche sind einer Umfrage zufolge oft nachlässig beim Sonnenschutz: 83% der 14- bis 19-Jährigen hatten in den vergangenen drei Jahren einen Sonnenbrand, fast zwei Drittel von allen Befragten hatten sogar mehrere. 39% der Jugendlichen cremten sich in den vergangenen 12 Monaten gar nicht mit Sonnenschutzmitteln ein, ergab eine Studie des Meinungsforschungsinstituts Ipsos.
Sonnenbrand: Besonders gefährlich in [...]

- SATURDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) — Falls are a leading cause
of serious injury and death among elderly people in the United States, and
most of those falls occur in the home, says the American Geriatric Society
(AGS).

“There are many steps people can take to make their home safer for
those who are aging. Something as small [...]

PARIS (AFP) - Des légionelles ont été détectées la semaine dernière dans le bâtiment principal de la Cité des sciences et de l’Industrie, à Paris, entraînant la fermeture de toutes les sorties d’eau chaude, a-t-on appris samedi.
La direction de la Cité des sciences, confirmant une information du Parisien, a indiqué à l’AFP avoir été informée [...]

AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine officials are advising consumers to avoid eating lobster tomalley after tests revealed high levels of toxins in some lobsters.
The Maine Center for Disease Control said Friday that lobster meat is perfectly safe but that people should not eat the tomalley — a soft green substance found in the body of the [...]

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

Breast Cancer

To qualify for this trial, you must be at least 18 and
have histologically or cytologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the
breast. Scans used to document measurable or evaluable disease must be
done within four weeks of study entry.

The research site is in
Anchorage, Ala.

More [...]

- FRIDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) — Scientists may have found
more evidence that a person's genetic make-up may help determine whether
or not they respond to the antidepressant Celexa (citalopram).

Specifically, researchers at the Mayo Clinic have found that variations
in the serotonin transporter gene could help select which patients should
try this drug, one of the family [...]

- FRIDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) — It's one step forward, one
step back in the search for treatments against Alzheimer's disease.

In one of two studies in the July 19 issue of The Lancet, an
older drug called dimebon significantly improved Alzheimer's symptoms. But
in a second report, a once-promising vaccine failed to prevent the
progression of [...]

- FRIDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) — Correcting lazy eye in adults
is supposed to be impossible, but researchers report they have been able
to do that — at least partially and temporarily — by beaming magnetic
pulses into the brain.

Someone with lazy eye — ophthalmologists call it amblyopia — has poor
vision because one eye is weaker [...]