- FRIDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) — Maintaining good control over
one's blood sugar levels can help people with type 1 diabetes better avoid
retinopathy, a serious disorder that damages the eye's retina, researchers
say.

The findings come from a 25-year study that confirms prior large
studies. The findings were published in the November issue of
Ophthalmology.

The Wisconsin Epidemiologic [...]

- FRIDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) – A majority of Americans,
including many health-care workers, believe that people who have lung
cancer are at least partly to blame for their disease, a new survey
finds.

In the poll of nearly 1,500 American adults, researchers found 59
percent of respondents agreeing with the notion that lung cancer patients
helped bring on their [...]

- FRIDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) — U.S. government scientists
say they have developed a technology that can rapidly send an icy slush
directly into the body to cool and to protect specific organs during
certain health emergencies.

The “ice slurry” can be pumped easily into the body through a small
intravenous catheter directly into a patient's bloodstream. [...]

- FRIDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) — Age and gender are important
to the success of hip resurfacing, say U.S. researchers who reviewed more
than 500 surgeries and found the majority of serious complications
occurred in women of all ages and men over age 55.

Hip resurfacing offers an alternative to hip replacement, in which the
ball of [...]

- FRIDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) — A unique form of bone marrow
transplantation is the only safe and effective cure for sickle cell
disease, researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh report.

Traditional bone marrow transplants rely on heavy doses of chemotherapy
prior to transplant in order to destroy a recipient's bone marrow so it
won't reject the donated [...]

- FRIDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) — Living in a rural area may increase
a woman's chance of developing preeclampsia and other pregnancy-related
blood pressure disorders by 56 percent, a new study says.

The six-year study on women who gave birth in Colorado also found that
those with some college education had a 19 percent great chance [...]

- FRIDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) — Family physicians and
departments of family medicine receive minimal funding from the U.S.
National Institutes of Health, a situation that could greatly impact
public health, experts say.

Researchers at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation analyzed NIH grants
from 2002-2006. They also tracked the enrollment of family medicine
physicians membership on NIH advisory boards. [...]

- FRIDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) — Eating peanuts early in life
may help prevent development of peanut allergy, according to a study that
casts doubt on government health recommendations that infants and new
mothers shouldn't eat peanuts.

The researchers examined the incidence of peanut allergy in 8,600
Jewish school-age children in the United Kingdom and in Israel. They [...]

- FRIDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) - Greener neighborhoods, with
lots of trees, help inner city kids keep excess pounds at bay, according
to a U.S. study.

“Previous work, including our own, has provided snapshots in time, and
shown that for children in densely population cities, the greener the
neighborhood, the lower the risk of obesity. Our new study [...]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -
Foreigners who donate their organs in Singapore may be compensated under planned changes to the country's organ transplant law, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

Organ trading is illegal in Singapore and anyone found guilty may be fined up to S$10,000 ($6,579), or jailed for up to a year.

However, proposed changes to the law would [...]