Daily Health Watch 2008-03-14
Your daily health watch for Friday, March 14, 2008. This page will be updated throughout the day as we post new stories and videos to FoxNews Health. Please feel free to post your comments to any of our stories here, or send email to health@foxnews.com.
VIDEO: Polish Your Pearly Whites
Ask Dr. Manny: I am interested in buying the best products for teeth whitening at home. Can you give me some tips?
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VIDEO: Hangover Cures: What Works?
Before you down that pint, check out these do’s and don’ts of preventing and curing hangovers
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VIDEO: Au Natural
Healthy foods and products exhibited at California trade show
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VIDEO: Deadly Prognosis?
Study: Overcrowded hospital emergency rooms have fatal consequences for some patients
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VIDEO: Awake During Surgery
About 30,000 Americans each year experience anesthesia awareness
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VIDEO: Not-So-Fresh Face?
Cosmetic specialist blasts Nicole Kidman’s ‘bat face’
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- Paralyzed Man, 44, Walks Out of Hospital
- A Lincoln man initially told he had been paralyzed from the neck down in a bike crash last year has walked out of a Lincoln hospital.
- Report: Young Teens Favor Inhalants to Get High
- Drug users as young as 12- and 13-years-old are sniffing household chemicals to become high, according to the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition.
- Expert: Teen Pregnancies Contribute to Overpopulation
- Unwanted teen pregnancies and bouts of binge drinking are contributing to the worlds unsustainable population growth, a World Heath Organization academic said.
- Woman Survives Heart Defect; Told She Had Epilepsy
- A woman from Great Britain is looking forward to living a normal lifestyle after all, she has lived the past 23 years with a 1.5-inch hole in her heart, it is being reported by the Daily Telegraph.
- Study: Dementia Diagnosis May Relieve Patients
- Doctors often hesitate to tell patients they likely suffer from Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia, fearing the news will overwhelm them. But a study by Washington University in St. Louis suggests physicians need not worry.
- Report: 7-Year-Old Can’t Stop Harming Herself
- A mother from Scotland is desperate to find help for her seven-year-old daughter who can’t stop beating herself up, it is being reported.
- Boy, 15, Kills Himself After Increased Ritalin Dosage
- A British teenager who recently had his prescription for Ritalin increased committed suicide by hanging himself, according to a report in the Daily Mail.
RE: Teens Favor Inhalants
It is so sad to know that this is still going on. Having teenage brothers makes it even more scary. I had a wonderful friend die at 15 on my Prom in front of his little brother Huffing butain. He died right on the beach from a heart attack. AT 15! It still 13 years down the road tears my heart apart. I don’t understand why they are not teaching children about these types of things all through High school, not just elementary and middle. It continues well into high school. It just breaks my heart that other families and friends will have to experiance the pain we all did so many years ago.
So the kids at it again, huffing toxic chemicals. It seems this often leads to brain damage and death (is this news?).
Your leader goes on to say that they then sometimes (if they live?) move on to “more harmful drugs”… like cannabis.
What is wrong with you people?
A tragic waste of human potential, no doubt. But my comment goes to Fox’ deep and persistent ideological agenda. Do you really think that smoking cannabis is more harmful than ingesting persistent synthetic organic chemicals that disrupt the endocrine and central nervous systems?
Very sad. Fox News is the laughingstock of much of the world. You embarrass sensible and moderate Americans.
I doubt that your censors (sorry, moderators) will find it convenient to print this.
Thanks for your comment!
I am sick and tired of this. You say kids sniff glue and then move on to more harmful drugs like marijuana? People die every day from inhalants. One of my best friends died from inhaling canned air. But no one has ever died from using marijuana. EVER!! If my friend had smoked some pot instead of inhaling a stupid “can of air”, he would be alive today.