Men who take vitamin C supplements are at higher-than-average risk of developing kidney stones, a new study from Sweden suggests.
The analysis included 907 men who said they took regular vitamin C tablets and more than 22,000 who didn't use any nutritional supplements.

Although screening for and effective treatment of cervical cancer makes it one of the most preventable types of cancers, it still causes 275,000 deaths each year, 85 percent in developing countries. And this number is predicted to reach 430,000 by 2030. With the 2006 launch of the first vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), an infection that causes 70 percent of cervical cancer cases, the death toll has the potential to be reversed, especially if girls in low and middle-income countries can be immunized. (A second vaccine was approved in 2007).

In case you didn t already know, the flu vaccine is the only effective, safe way to protect yourself from contracting the flu. Although it s not completely protective most studies point to an efficacy rate of about 60 percent or more there is no downside to getting the shot, and it offers some degree of protection not only to the recipient, but to those with whom they come into contact, the so-called herd immunity which helps to stifle epidemics.

The Super Bowl is over but the NFL and General Electric are just getting started with a four-year partnership to better detect and study concussions, which have been found to lead to brain injuries that accumulate over time and cause depression and dementia all too often.

Before you pop that multivitamin, take a minute to read this new study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Being that multivitamins are the most commonly used supplements in the developed world, the goal of the study was to determine whether multivitamin-multimineral treatment was associated with increased risk of mortality in adults.

They won t give up, no matter the science or the votes. Anti-technology activists opposed to genetically-engineered food were defeated at the ballot box in California last year, but they re not giving up.

Patients with multivessel coronary artery disease fare better when they receive coronary artery bypass graft surgery CABG - (substituting a healthy artery or vein from the body for the blocked coronary artery and requiring open-heart surgery with bypass), as opposed to percutaneous cardiac interventions PCI - (a non-surgical procedure involving stenting of the coronary arteries via angioplasty, passing a catheter through an artery to the heart). PCI does not require opening the chest and putting the patient on heart-lung bypass.

The next time you see a hedgehog crossing the street, make sure to stay away. There have been seven cases of hedgehog-related salmonella infection reported by the Washington State Department of Health, one being fatal. Poor little varmint.
But if you do happen to come into contact with a hedgehog, maybe on your daily commute to work, make sure to wash your hands after handling. And of course, always wash your pet hedgehog s cage to avoid spreading the bacteria in your house.

Erectile dysfunction (ED) problems maintaining an erection may be a barometer of heart problems and could indicate an increased risk of death, a new study has found. The degree of risk correlated with the severity of the ED, as well as the presence of pre-existent heart disease.

Vegetarians are much less likely to suffer from serious heart disease than their meat- and fish-eating counterparts, British researchers have found.
The new study comes from the University of Oxford, where Dr Francesca Crowe lead author and medical researcher at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford and colleagues analyzed data from 45,000 volunteers from England and Scotland, recruited in the 1990s and tracked until 2009.