Doctors should have more in-depth talks with their adolescent patients about sex, according to a new study. This teen learns about the consequences of premarital sex in a middle school class.
(Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - December 30, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
MD Anderson, Orlando Health to part ways after 23 years
Ending a 23-year relationship with the world-renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Orlando Health announced Monday that it will partner with the University of Florida to restructure and rebrand its cancer center.
On Jan. 31, it will... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - December 16, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
MD Anderson, Orlando Health to part ways
Ending a 23-year relationship with the world-renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Orlando Health announced today that it will end its affiliation, and no longer be MD Anderson Cancer Center-Orlando effective Jan. 30.
The next day, it will... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - December 16, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
4 in 10 in ER, hospital after being shot are gun-accident victims, Florida data show
It's not armed robbers or warring gangs who send the greatest percentage of gunshot survivors to Florida emergency rooms.
It's people who shoot someone, or themselves, accidentally.
Four out of every 10 people who are rushed to a Florida hospital or... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - December 15, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
"Patient choice" cloaks self-doom: Front Burner
Nancy was 44 years old when Belgian doctors euthanized her. After three sex-change operations, she'd had enough. Her body disgusted her. It disgusted her mother, too, from the day she was born: "When I first saw 'Nancy,'" she told a Belgium newspaper... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - December 13, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Radiologists used MRIs before and after consuming an energy drink to study changes of the heart.
(Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - December 2, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Companies help workers drop pounds, boost productivity
Although two out of three Americans think obesity is a serious public health issue, most — 54 percent — don't believe the government should meddle in the matter, according to a national survey from Pew Research Center.
Many business owners... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - November 17, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Family fights for toddler battling cancer, more funding for childhood cancer research
It's hard to read the Facebook posts from Cannon Wiggins' family. Because the 2-year-old Orlando boy is battling neuroblastoma, and his parents are sharing that battle in all its ugly details. They hope awareness ("this is what childhood cancer looks... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - November 11, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Lesbian egg donor in Brevard parental-rights dispute gets support from Florida high court
TALLAHASSEE—Siding with a woman who sought parental rights after separating from her lesbian partner, a divided Florida Supreme Court found Thursday that state laws about assisted-reproductive technology are unconstitutional in such cases... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - November 8, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
The old Prentice Women's Hospital designed by Betrand Golberg that is being torn down to make way for the new Biomedical Research Building. Three architectural firms set up their entries Thursday Nov.
(Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - November 7, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Overweight adults with diabetes sought for diet study
Overweight adults with type 2 diabetes are being recruited to join an 8-month online study to compare the effectiveness of two diets, and how well each controls the disease. The online study will look at the health impact of a low-carbohydrate diet versus... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - November 6, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Fast food companies serve up (and advertise) too many unhealthy kids' meals, study says
Despite some improvements, most fast-food restaurants still dish up unhealthy kids' meals -- and bombard youngsters with advertisements touting their calorie-laden offerings, according to a new study by Yale University researchers. The worst kids' meal... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - November 5, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
One Dose of HPV Vaccine May Be Enough to Prevent Cervical Cancer
Women who get one dose of the HPV vaccine, and not the full recommended series of three shots, may have adequate protection against the virus that leads to cervical cancer, according to a new study published this week in Cancer Prevention Research, a... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - November 4, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
How to grow your brain
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found that walkers increased the size of their hippocampus, the region of the brain that controls new memories, by 2 percent after one year of walking 40 minutes three times a week.
The researchers divided... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - October 31, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Dr. Grace K. Suh, M.D., a medical oncologist specializing in breast cancers, issues related to women¿s cancers has joined the cancer care team at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox.
(Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - October 31, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
