http://www.healthexperiment.com Health Experiment is the largest weekly source for medical news and disease research in obesity, vaccines, cancer, heart disease, women's health, diabetes, AIDS, HIV, medical devices, gene therapy, and hepatitis. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:36:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.healthexperiment.com/2008/07/24/soy-based-foods-may-lower-sperm-count-study.html 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 ... http://www.healthexperiment.com/2008/07/24/pittsburgh-cancer-center-warns-of-cell-phone-risks.html 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 ... http://www.healthexperiment.com/2008/07/24/attention-disorder-rising-among-older-children.html - (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 ... http://www.healthexperiment.com/2008/07/24/health-tip-stay-awake-behind-the-wheel.html - (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 ... http://www.healthexperiment.com/2008/07/24/health-tip-bottled-or-tap.html - 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 ... http://www.healthexperiment.com/2008/07/24/mouse-model-to-aid-sinusitis-research.html - 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 ... http://www.healthexperiment.com/2008/07/24/family-meals-can-help-teen-girls-avoid-drugs-alcohol.html - (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 ... http://www.healthexperiment.com/2008/07/24/clinical-trials-update-july-23-2008.html - 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 ... http://www.healthexperiment.com/2008/07/24/alcohol-use-frequently-overlooked-before-surgery.html - 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 ... http://www.healthexperiment.com/2008/07/24/coronary-disease-dulls-cognitive-skills.html