On our Lab Notes page CalorieLab’s editors select and rank the day’s essential health news items in real time. Readers can suggest, vote and comment on items. Below are brief summaries of this past week’s (November 17, 2012 through November 24, 2012) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes.
1. Online Medical Record Access Increases Visits
Results from a new study suggests that giving people online access to their medical records may not reduce the number of visits or phone calls they make to the doctor, and in fact may actually increase them.
2. Flu or Fever While Pregnant Ups Autism Risk
Babies born to women who came down with the flu or ran a fever for more than one week during pregnancy are 2 to 3 times more likely to develop some form of autism by age three. No link was found between common colds or sinus infections and autism.
3. Groups Say Birth Control Pill Should Be OTC
A panel of obstetrician gynecologists and scientists wrote a statement to drugs regulators that called for making birth control pills over-the-counter, so women will have greater access to them which will reduce unwanted pregnancies.
4. 1 in 20 American Youths Has Used Steroids
1 in 20 American youths has used anabolic steroids to build muscle mass, says new research.
5. Red State Roads Much Deadlier Than Blues
If you plan on driving in, to, or through a state that voted for Romney during the upcoming holiday season, be warned: the 10 states with the highest rates of traffic fatalities all went Red. Meanwhile, the 10 lowest-fatality states all went Blue.
6. Starbucks Buys Teavana
Teavana currently has 300 locations in shopping malls, but Starbucks wants to expand the popular Teavana into stand-along stores around the world, complete with tea bars where customers can purchase cold or hot drinks.
7. Le Whif: Breathable Chocolate in Tube
Makers of the breathable coffee and vitamins are betting that you also want to breathe in your chocolate while chatting with friends over coffee.
8. No Major Change in FDA Pharmacy Oversight Yet
There will be no new regulations giving the FDA more authority in overseeing compound pharmacies until they show their role in the events leading up to a fungal meningitis outbreak tied to a steroid made by The New England Compounding Center.
9. Santa Stuck at Beard While Rappelling
Santa needed some assistance after his beard became stuck while rappelling at the Reading shopping centre in the UK.
10. Little Brother May Raise Blood Pressure
Having a younger brother may mean you’re more likely to have higher blood pressure into adulthood, claim researchers who studied 374 Bolivian adults living in villages in the Amazon.
11. Diet Essential for Wound Healing in Diabetes
Chronic wounds such as foot ulcers are a common problem for patients with diabetes. French researchers have found that a high protein diet, particularly one rich in two specific amino acids, may improve wound healing in diabetic laboratory animals.
12. Hi-Caf Energy Drinks Could Be Fatal
One month after the FDA noted a link between five deaths and Monster Energy drinks, the agency announced a probe into reports of thirteen deaths and 33 hospitalizations linked to 5-Hour Energy shots. The concern: high caffeine concentrations.
(By CalorieLab editors)
Lab Notes: Online Medical Record Access Increases Visits; Flu or Fever While Pregnant Ups Autism Risk is a post from: CalorieLab - Health News & Information Blog
Source: http://calorielab.com/news/2012/11/24/this-past-week-health-news-from-labnotes-17/
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