- THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) — Zometa (zoledronic acid)
prevented bone loss at 12 months in premenopausal women undergoing
chemotherapy after they had surgery for early stage breast cancer, a new
study found.

The multicenter, phase III study is the first to evaluate the use of
zoledronic acid in premenopausal breast cancer patients. The 101 women (85
completed the [...]

- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by editors of HealthDay:

FDA Sanctions Irradiation of Lettuce,
Spinach

Food producers will be allowed to irradiate fresh spinach and iceberg
lettuce to kill E. coli and other dangerous germs to prevent
outbreaks of foodborne illness, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
said. The
new regulation takes effect Friday.

Irradiation [...]

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

Sleep Disorders

If you are aged 18 to 65, in good general health, and
wake up multiple times during a typical night, you may qualify for this
study.

The research site is in Las Vegas, Nev.

More information

Please see http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat169.html.

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Urticaria

If your child is 6 [...]

- THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) — Dawn Marie Perkins wasn't
even seven months pregnant with her twin boys when she knew something had
gone terribly wrong.

After numerous tests and evaluations, Perkins quickly learned that
strokes aren't something that just happens in the elderly; they can even
strike an infant still in the womb.

Her son, Elijah Perkins, [...]

- THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) — U.S. researchers have identified
170 more proteins to add to the 91 already known to be associated with
programmed cell death, or apoptosis.

They also uncovered new information about how these proteins may
function. The findings may help in the development of new drug treatments
for stroke and a number [...]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Le cancer de la peau dégage une odeur particulière, ont déterminé des chimistes américains dont les travaux sont dévoilés mercredi, ce qui pourrait rapidement permettre la mise au point d’un simple test de détection.
“Les chercheurs soupçonnaient depuis longtemps que des odeurs émanaient des tumeurs mais nous sommes les premiers à identifier et [...]

- THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) — The great swath of
undecided voters who typically decide elections might not be so undecided
after all.

A new study suggests that individuals have unconscious preferences that
can more accurately predict the final vote than standard measures.

A test to measure unconscious associations may give pollsters a
heads-up on election outcomes.

“Typically, it's the [...]

- THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) — Some parents' refusal to
vaccinate children seems to be behind the highest rate of measles cases
reported since 1996, federal officials said Thursday.

Between Jan. 1 and July 31 of this year, 131 measles cases have been
reported in the United States, many of them among children whose parents
have philosophical or [...]

A girls uses a phone to send a text message. My Svensson, a 17-year-old student, needed only 61 seconds to write a 141-character SMS message rich in crisp words and snappy punctuation to claim the Swedish text messaging championship.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)

- THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) — Text messaging may not seem
an obvious safety concern. [...]

- THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) — Mass media has the power to
both encourage tobacco use, especially among young people, and to
discourage it, according to a landmark study released Thursday by the U.S.
National Cancer Institute.

“This is the first report to conclude that tobacco advertising and
promotion increases tobacco use,” said Melanie Wakefield, senior
scientific editor of [...]