- April 24, 2012 -
Would you drink hand sanitizer? The idea may sound repulsive to most people, but California doctors are warning parents of what may be a fast-growing dangerous trend after six local teenagers were hospitalized in separate incidents with alcohol poisoning from drinking the soapy stuff.
The Los Angeles Times reported some of the teenagers used salt to separate the alcohol from the sanitizer using instructions found online. If a liquid hand sanitizer contains 62 percent ethyl alcohol, that means a “drink” can be as high as 120 proof, …

Many migraine sufferers could have fewer, less severe headaches if they took preventive medicines, but few eligible patients do, say doctors releasing updated treatment guidelines Monday.
The guidelines list seven prescription medicines and one herbal remedy backed by strong evidence, and include many other treatments that might work for some patients.
“Migraine is one of the most disabling conditions known to man, but patients need to know that there is hope,” says Stephen Silberstein, a neurologist at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and lead author of the guidelines from the American Academy …

We’re a much more image-driven society than we were even five years ago, experts say. People have cameras everywhere. You can be at a wedding at the buffet table and a moment later see pictures of your double chin on Facebook.
“Chinplants,” i.e., surgical procedures that enhance and define the chin line, increased 71 percent between 2010 and 2011, outdoing breast augmentation, liposuction and even Botox, which increased a mere five percent between 2010 and 2011, according to new statistics released by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
A strong …

- Apr 20, 2012 -
A team of U.S. scientists departed on Friday to conduct research on Mount Everest climbers in an effort to further knowledge of the cardiovascular system at extreme altitudes and help improve treatment for heart and lung patients.
Bruce Johnson, a consultant on cardiovascular diseases at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and leader of the group, said the study subjects will be a U.S. team that plans to replicate the first 1963 ascent of the mountain by a U.S. team.
That expedition put five U.S. climbers on the …

Common sense would suggest the more a person gets hit in the head, the more likely that person could suffer from a brain disease later in life.
A yearlong study of 78 boxers and mixed martial arts fighters by the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health supports that assertion. But the results of the “Professional Fighters Brain Health Study,” which were released late Wednesday, also showed that young fighters don’t necessarily have to be in danger of suffering from Parkinson’s disease or Alzheimer’s long after they’re done competing in …