[Health] Childhood obesity calculator may be most accurate predictor yet

Childhood obesity calculator may be most accurate predictor yet
http://lifestyle.myjoyonline.com/pages/health/201211/97980.php
Researchers say they can predict a newborn baby's odds of becoming an obese child using a simple new calculation. The new formula factors in six easily-available pieces of information: a child's birth weight, body mass index measurements of its parents, ...

Ranbaxy Pulls Defective Generic Lipitor
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/FDAGeneral/36165
More than 40 lots of generic atorvastatin tablets made by Ranbaxy have been recalled because of possible contamination with small bits of glass, the FDA said.

Youth More Aware of AIDS, but Too Many Still Don't Know Their HIV Status
http://www.sfgate.com/news/medical/article/Chinese-AIDS-patients-fight-hospital-rejections-4075689.php
As World AIDS Day approaches Dec. 1, public health experts are turning the focus on teens and young adults who make up a remarkably high proportion of HIV infections in the U.S.. According to a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Protection from Whooping Cough Vaccine Wanes Over Time
http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/29/protection-from-whooping-cough-vaccine-wanes-over-time/
The latest report shows not all children are receiving the recommended five doses of pertussis vaccine, but even among those who are, the effectiveness of the immunization wears off.

Aspirin can cut liver cancers and deaths study finds
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9708108/Aspirin-can-cut-liver-cancers-and-deaths-study-finds.html
People who said they had taken aspirin at least once a month in the past year were 49 per cent less likely to develop the most common for of liver cancer and 50 per cent less likely to die from chronic liver disease in the next ten years when compared with ...

Pediatrics group says morning-after pills should be prescribed in advance to ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57554340/pediatrics-group-says-morning-after-pills-should-be-prescribed-in-advance-to-teen-girls/
The morning-after pill should be prescribed in advance to teens just in case they one day need it, says the country's leading medical society of pediatricians.

Morning Jolt: Woman grows beard for 'Movember'
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4668602/siobhain-grows-moustache-and-beard-for-movember.html
In the news: A woman in England grew facial hair this month to support “Movember,” a prostate cancer awareness campaign. The 36-year-old woman, Siobhain Fletcher, has polycystic ovary syndrome, a condition that causes her to grow facial hair.