EDINBURG, Texas – An extremely obese woman has become the center of controversy and some degree of interest. Prosecutors are trying to figure the logistics of carrying a woman to jail and bring her to court over her alleged murder of her 2-year-old nephew.

On Thursday, a grand jury indicted Mayra Lizbeth Rosales, 27, on one count of first-degree murder and on another count of injury to a child leading to the death of Eliseo Gonzales Jr. Previously Ms. Rosales had been charged with capital murder. …click here to read more

BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Calls for Medicare government health plans to include coverage for PET scans to additional cancer types have been made.  The medical imaging industry has asked an advisory panel to recommend wider payments.

Data has shown that positron emission tomography (PET) scans went a long way in giving doctors accurate information and allowed them to alter their treatment plans for nearly one-third of their enrolled patients.  The way PET scans work is that radioactive sugars are injected into the body which then travel to the metabolically active parts of the body and can indicate cancer risk.  What the CT or MRI scans miss, the PET scans could pick up due to the unique method of locating possible cancer cells. …click here to read more

FRIDAY, Aug. 15 (Health Day News) — Statins might help to prevent erectile dysfunction (ED) among those men who have metabolic syndrome, according to the new animal research.

A threat to cardiovascular health, metabolic syndrome, also raises the risk of ED. The recent finding mentioned that statins may reduce specific protein known as Rho-kinase level that contributes to ED. …click here to read more

LONDON - Children with deprived hand control and synchronization having more tendencies to become obese adults, researchers said on Wednesday

The findings strengthen the evidence, linking poorer cognitive function in childhood to type2 diabetes and obesity in adults.

A study of thousands of British children reveals that, most of them were in worst cognitive and physical function at the ages of 7 and 11 years and were expected to become obese in adulthood. …click here to read more

A Swiss study of 50 low birth weight babies about 5.5 pound or less have blood pressure when they ate a high salt diet it known as salt sensitivity.

Study author Dr. Giocomo D. Simonetti, “Salt sensitivity in children is low and rises with increasing age through adulthood,”
The author suggests that prevention of salty diet could improve the blood pressure of the children.

“During adolescence, about 18 percent to 20 percent of adolescents in the general population have the condition. However, salt sensitivity was present in 37 percent of all low-birth-weight (LBW) and in 47 percent of the children who were small-for-gestational-age (SGA).” …click here to read more