http://www.bnd.com/living/health/index.xml News, sports, and entertainment from Belleville News Democrat en-us Copyright 2009 Belleville News Democrat Health 60 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:33:03 CST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys support@Belleville.com http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/606205.html http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/606205.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:12 CST The nation's largest medical lab company says it recently discovered and fixed a problem that led to inaccuracies in a small number of tests for vitamin D deficiency. http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/606119.html http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/606119.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:32 CST The Jurassic version of jumbo jets - huge flying creatures weighing hundreds of pounds - is a mystery of dinosaur-era flight: How did something so big get off the ground? A Johns Hopkins University biologist thinks he has figured out the answer. http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/606078.html http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/606078.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:02 CST Babies do better after a scheduled Caesarean section if they're born no sooner than seven days before their due date, a new large study of U.S. births shows. Those delivered earlier had more complications, including breathing problems, even though they were full term, the researchers reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. Even just a few days made a difference, they said. http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/605990.html http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/605990.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:22 CST Health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak that has reportedly sickened nearly 400 people in 42 states, but they don't know how the bacteria are spreading. http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/605809.html http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/605809.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:42 CST When galaxies initially formed, they weren't the first in the cosmic neighborhood. The supermassive black holes, which reside at the center of galaxies, probably moved in first, a new astronomy study suggests. http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/605567.html http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/605567.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:32 CST You've heard of making cheese from goats' milk, but prescription drugs? In what would be a scientific first, an anti-clotting drug made from the milk of genetically engineered goats moved closer to government approval Wednesday after experts at the Food and Drug Administration reported that the medication works and its safety is acceptable. http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/605457.html http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/605457.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:12 CST Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says. Mississippi's rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, according to new state statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The teen birth rate for that year in Texas and New Mexico was more than 50 percent higher. http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/605433.html http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/605433.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:22 CST What if someone told you turkey doesn't make you tired, or that you nails really don't keep growing after you die? http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/605006.html http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/605006.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:12 CST Parkinson's sufferers who had electrodes implanted in their brains improved substantially more than those who took only medicine, according to the biggest test yet of deep brain stimulation. http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/604976.html http://www.bnd.com/living/health/story/604976.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:44 CST Anderson Hospital has received what hospital officials are calling a "major donation" from a lifelong Collinsville resident toward its capital campaign to improve and expand the hospital's intensive care unit.