- MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) — Simple changes to hospital
procedures can significantly reduce the side effects children suffer while
on opiates to relieve pain, a new study reveals.

The study, a yearlong collaboration between 14 U.S. children's
hospitals, documented a 67 percent decrease in “harmful events” caused by
the pain relievers under these new procedures.

The [...]

- MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) — Three-quarters of middle schools
have vending machines where snacks and sugared drinks are sold, a new
study finds.

The research demonstrates that there are vending machines in most
middle schools, and “that those vending machines don't always have the
healthiest choices,” said study author Amy Virus, a registered dietitian
with the Center for [...]

- MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) — Occasionally forget an
appointment or a friend's name? Then you may have a loss of brain volume,
a new study suggests.

Researchers scanned the brains of almost 500 people reporting such
momentary forgetfulness and found that the size of their hippocampus — an
area of the brain important for memory and [...]

- MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) — Just keeping the air moving
around a bedroom seems to dramatically reduce a baby's risk of sudden
infant death syndrome (SIDS), new research suggests.

“What we found in this study is that if an infant had a fan that was
used in the sleeping room, the infant's risk of SIDS was [...]

- MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) — Only about half of U.S.
pediatricians surveyed in a new study said they'd disclose a medical error
to the family of a child under their care.

Many said they were much more likely to admit the error when it was an
obvious one.

Medication errors, never a pleasant subject, are particularly tricky
when [...]

PARIS - Le président Nicolas Sarkozy a adressé lundi, en son nom propre et en celui de la Nation tout entière, ses "plus vives félicitations" à Françoise Barré-Sinoussi et à Luc Montagnier, qui ont reçu le prix Nobel de médecine 2008 avec l’Allemand Harald Zur Hausen pour leurs travaux ayant abouti respectivement à la découverte [...]

- MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) — Over the past two flu
seasons, vaccinating children five and younger did not reduce the
number of child hospitalizations or doctor's visits linked to influenza,
according to results of a new study.

Given the poor match between the flu vaccine and circulating strains
during the last two years, “this finding is [...]

PARIS - Le président Nicolas Sarkozy a adressé lundi, en son nom propre et en celui de la Nation tout entière, ses "plus vives félicitations" à Françoise Barré-Sinoussi et à Luc Montagnier, qui ont reçu le prix Nobel de médecine 2008 avec l’Allemand Harald Zur Hausen pour leurs travaux ayant abouti respectivement à la découverte [...]

PARIS - Tout juste couronnée par le Prix Nobel de médecine 2008 avec le Pr Luc Montagnier pour leur découverte du virus du SIDA, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi s’est dite lundi "très émue, très honorée". Jointe au téléphone par l’Associated Press à l’Institut Pasteur de Phnom Penh, la chercheuse s’est dite "très contente pour la France, pour [...]

- MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) — Being vaccinated against
pneumonia halves the risk of having a heart attack two years later, a new
Canadian study finds.

The study compared 999 people admitted to Canadian hospitals for heart
attacks, with 3,996 admitted for other reasons. It found no difference
between those who did or did not have the pneumococcal [...]