- FRIDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) — High-dose hyperbaric oxygen therapy
shows promise as a way to extend the window of opportunity to resuscitate
a person whose heart has stopped during sudden cardiac arrest, a new study
shows.

Researchers at the School of Medicine at the Louisiana State University
Health Sciences Center in New Orleans report they used the [...]

- FRIDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) — Researchers are looking into
possible geographical reasons why 1991 Gulf War veterans have developed
the fatal neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at
twice the rate of the general population.

Of the 135 diagnosed Gulf Vet cases of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's
Disease, in the first 11 years after the [...]

- FRIDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) — Men over 40 may want to avoid
iced tea and start hitting the lemonade if they wish to lower their risk
of kidney stones, according to experts.

Kidney stones, crystals that develop in the kidneys or the tubes that
carry urine from the kidney to the bladder, affect 10 percent [...]

- FRIDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) — For many Americans, the
meanings of various lab tests have long been the Bermuda Triangle of
health care: poorly explained and often mysterious.

Enter a nonprofit Web site from the American Association for Clinical
Chemistry (AACC) called Lab Tests Online. It offers patients easy access
to detailed but consumer-friendly information on lab [...]

- FRIDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) — New details about how the
brain and immune system communicate to fight disease have been discovered
by U.S. researchers.

A team at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset,
N.Y., identified a new anatomical path through which the brain and spleen
communicate. The spleen, which manufactures immune cells, is also where
important [...]

- FRIDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) — Individuals bent on beating
drug tests need only turn to the Internet to find dozens of products that
claim to help them do so, scientists have found.

Researchers at the University of Texas at Houston Medical School plan
to present a detailed list of drug-test cheating options, along with
sophisticated counter-measure [...]

- FRIDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) — Certain kinds of
sweeteners — such as date sugar and dark brown sugars — may help manage
type 2 diabetes and related complications, American and Brazilian
researchers say.

“Depending on their origin and grade of refining, many sweeteners
contained significant amounts of antioxidants, which have the potential to
control diabetes-linked high blood pressure [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
The increase in the rates of
cesarean sections reported by many countries appears to be
associated, in part, to more and more women deciding to have
children later in life, according to a report in the current
issue of PLoS Medicine.

In the study, laboratory testing showed that as maternal
age increases, the ability of the [...]

A variety of mooncakes with different fillings are displayed for the camera at a hotel in Singapore September 13, 2007. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
To desensitize young children
to their allergy to eggs, physicians from Greece say “let them
eat cake.”

Heat modifies certain egg allergens and, in turn, allows
some children with egg allergies to be [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
A higher body mass index (BMI)
is associated with lower survival rates in women with breast
cancer, according to a report in the July 10th issue of the
Journal of Clinical Oncology.

“We have found strong evidence that high BMI and a recent
pregnancy are associated with a poorer prognosis after a
diagnosis of breast cancer,” [...]