This file photo taken on June, 2003, shows soybeans in fields in the northern Argentine province of Santa Fe. (Enrique Marcarian/Files/Reuters)

CHICAGO (Reuters) -
Eating a half serving a day of
soy-based foods could be enough to significantly lower a man's
sperm count, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

The study is the largest in humans to look at the
relationship [...]

Sara Loughran, a 24-year-old graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, talks on her cell phone while waiting for a bus on campus in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, July 23, 2008. The head of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute released a memo advising faculty and staff to limit cell phone use because of ‘the growing body [...]

CHICAGO (Reuters) -
A growing number of older U.S. children
are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder, while diagnoses among younger children have held
steady, government researchers said on Wednesday.

The report by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention found ADHD diagnoses among children aged 12 to 17
increased by an average of 4 percent a year from 1997 [...]

- (HealthDay News) — People who work the third shift, drive great
distances each day, and those who don't get enough sleep or take sedating
medications are at greatest risk of drowsy driving.

But everyone is at risk of being impaired behind the wheel because
they're too tired. The National Safety Council offers these suggestions to
prevent drowsy driving:

Get [...]

- (HealthDay News) — Depending on where you live, the water that
comes from your tap can be just as safe as bottled water.

But in some people, common pollutants found in tap water can pose a
greater health hazard. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
offers this list:

People with a weakened immune system.
People with HIV/AIDS.
People [...]

- WEDNESDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) — Mice genetically engineered to
have inflamed nasal passages may help researchers learn more about loss of
smell due to chronic sinusitis.

“A sense of smell in good working order is essential to our quality of
life, and these genetically engineered mice give us the first real animal
model for better understanding, treating [...]

- WEDNESDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) — Eating meals together as a
family can reduce a teen girl's risk of turning to alcohol or drugs, a new
study suggests.

In families who ate at least five meals a week together, the teen girls
were much less likely to drink alcohol, or smoke marijuana or cigarettes
five years later, said [...]

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

Neuropathy

If you have a diagnosis of orthostatic hypotension
associated with: Parkinson's disease, multiple system atrophy, pure
autonomic failure, dopamine beta hydroxylase deficiency, or non-diabetic
autonomic neuropathy — and have a documented fall in blood pressure
within three minutes of standing — you may qualify for [...]

- WEDNESDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) — Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are
frequently overlooked in patients undergoing surgery, say German
researchers who studied 1,556 surgical patients.

“First, we noted that AUD is not diagnosed adequately during
preoperative assessment. Then, even if a finding of AUD was made before
surgery, preventive measures were not often undertaken. This is
significant, because patients [...]

- WEDNESDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) — Men and women suffering
from coronary heart disease seem to fare worse on measures of cognitive
function.

And the longer the person had had heart disease, the worse the
performance in such mental processes as reasoning, vocabulary and verbal
fluency, according to a study in the July 23 issue of the European
Heart [...]