Pediatricians are calling possible acceptable vaccine against swine flu for their young patients. A vaccine containing no additives should be developed for the kids.

A leg swelling, distending pain or the feeling of aching muscles, without being able to have previously made sport indicate thrombosis. Also responding to this event, the calf is often sensitive to pressure, and the sole of the foot hurts when stepping. Are further evidence of thrombosis, decrease the discomfort when lying down, and that warms the skin or pale, bluish or reddish-pink.

In children with asthma there is a connection between the weather and the attack is likely. This resulted in an American study, have been scientifically evaluated for the data of several thousand children.

People who are plagued by psychological problems, and they do not get alone or through conversations with friends or family in the grip should not wait too long to seek professional assistance claim. Failure people on their own emotional crises to overcome in a short time, they should consult a psychiatrist or psychotherapist in a private conversation and to clarify whether treatment is advisable. Even with the occasional but recurring mental disorders should not currency out professional advice.

Drugs often have side effects, sometimes even serious side effects, and some even have been suspected to cause cancer. But in this case it is a different kind: the diabetes drug metformin reduced the likelihood of developing cancer. This report by researchers at the University of Dundee in Scotland in the journal Diabetes Care. They assessed data from diabetic patients treated with metformin and compared them with a control group of diabetic patients taking metformin no. Because of the mode of action of the drug, the krebsunterdrückende effect is suspected …

The regulation of body weight is apparently more strongly influenced by the time of food intake than previously believed. A recent study found that sleep time for the meal to a significantly greater weight gain than eating the waking hours. People who want to keep their weight stable or decline should, therefore, eat an early supper and to avoid nighttime snacks. It is referred here to a study by researchers. The work is published in the latest edition of the journal Obesity.

Patients with grass or hay fever with allergic asthma should now be incurred in the autumn gardening care of yourself so that worsen their disease symptoms are not repeated. Specific behavioral tips to give doctors the lungs of the German Lung Foundation in Hanover. One must be aware that the burden is with pollen from plants in your garden about ten times greater than by plants that are outside of the plot so far away.

The swine flu virus, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) still not mutated into a deadlier direction, but shows a tendency for better resistance to vaccines. The virus is being watched by health authorities around the world hard to change, “said WHO Director General Margaret Chan on Monday at a conference in Hong Kong.

The number of people with Alzheimer’s or other dementia will double over the world, according to a study, all 20 years almost. This is especially the increasing life expectancy, as is apparent from a study made by a British scientist.

Doctors and health insurers in some parts of the world find themselves in the fight against breast cancer on the way: Since the start of mammography screening has better screening program in 2005, doctors discovered tumors in more women than ever before.