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This week’s topics include an effective treatment for head lice, smoking in women, a mumps outbreak, and stroke and omega-3 fatty acids.

This week’s topics include the dangers of norovirus infection, peripheral arterial disease in men, the impact of studies on clinical outcomes, and neighborhoods and bystander-initiated CPR.

This week’s topics include the effects of multivitamins, reusing implanted cardiac devices, sleep and fat, and a new coronavirus.

This week’s topics include chocolate and Nobel prizes, hormone replacement therapy, a novel way to preserve lungs for transplant, and fibulin and mesothelioma.

This week’s topics include markers of cardiovascular disease, vitamin D and the common cold, patient access to physician notes, and diabetes screening impact.

This week’s topics include the dangers of sugar sweetened beverages, exercise, diabetes and mortality, steroids and tonsillectomy, and total knee replacements.

This week’s topics include the risk of pyloric stenosis in bottle feed infants, long term outcomes of gastric bypass surgery, restarting blood thinners and bleeding risk, and a new agent for MS.

September 2012 International Headlines

This week’s topics include the dangers of tattoos, no change in ovarian cancer screening guidelines, NSAIDS in people who’ve had a heart attack, and allowing your baby to ‘cry it out.’

This week’s topics include hypertension in the US, length of time of CPR in hospital, organic versus conventional foods, and gingko and memory disorders.

This week’s topics include screening adults for hepatitis C, circumcision in male infants, cannabis use in adolescence, and benefits of exercise in avoiding chronic disease in aging.

This week’s topics include hearing screening for older adults, colonoscopy related factors, lead levels and gout, and kids dying after tonsillectomy.

Topics include aspirin and cancer mortality, medical tests on the day of discharge from the hospital, PSA testing and quality of life issues, and stroke, bleeding risk, chronic kidney disease and atrial fibrillation.

This week’s topics include complications of diabetes in blacks, honey for coughs, knee injections for arthritis, and declining lipid levels in American youth.

Topics include response to giving the Malaria vaccine during other vaccinations