Category : Salud

VOA News November 24, 2015 1:25 PM Women are getting close to drinking the same amount of alcohol as men in the United States, according to a new study. Writing in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, researchers from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, say women […]Load more...

VOA News November 23, 2015 11:01 AM Pregnant women can consume moderate amounts of coffee without harming their child, a new study suggests. Writing in the journal American Journal of Epidemiology, researchers from Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio said moderate caffeine intake won’t negatively impact a child’s intelligence or cause behavioral problems. “We did not find […]Load more...

Pawtucket, RI – Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island recently honored Shannon McKeon, RN, of North Attleboro, MA, a nurse on Wood 6, with the Daisy Award for November. The award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize excellence in nursing. McKeon has been a nurse at Memorial for 11 years. Patients and fellow […]Load more...

Deborah Block November 18, 2015 A new full body PET scanner is being developed that could revolutionize how scientists see the inner workings of the human body, possibly leading to the development of better and safer drugs to target diseases such as cancer, heart disease and brain disorders. Unlike X-rays and MRI’s, which provide images […]Load more...

Jessica Berman November 12, 2015 As they get older, many people develop a “spare tire” or roll of fat around the middle.  Now comes word that so-called central obesity could dramatically increase the risk of death. A new study found that normal weight or skinny people with so-called spare tires, where the circumference of their […]Load more...

Carol Pearson Americans are taking more prescription medicines than ever before. What’s more, an increasing number of Americans are taking more than one drug, mostly to treat diseases related to obesity. These were the findings of a study led by Elizabeth Kantor at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. Kantor, now at Memorial […]Load more...

VOA News November 05, 2015 Heroin and prescription drug overdoses have reached epidemic levels in the United States, surpassing car accidents and firearms as the leading cause of injury deaths, an annual assessment by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has found. «Sadly, this report confirms what we’ve known for some time. … Drug abuse is ending too […]Load more...

VOA News October 29, 2015 Being married reduces mortality after heart surgery, according to a new study. Writing in the journal JAMA Surgery, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that patients who are divorced, separated or widowed had around a 40 percent higher risk of dying or “developing […]Load more...

LONDON—Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder show signs of improvement after playing a video game for 30 minutes a day rather than taking a pill, the U.S. company developing the treatment said Wednesday. Diagnoses of ADHD have risen in recent decades; some 9.5 percent of children aged 3-17 in the United States had the condition […]Load more...