Children and teens who spend more than a couple of hours a day on average in front of a TV, video, or computer screen, are more likely to be overweight than their peers who limit their screen time.

Nurses’ significant influence on pregnant adolescents and the importance of establishing effective and therapeutic communication is the focus of an article in the April/May issue of Nursing for Women’s Health, the clinical practice journal of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN).

Pregabalin (Lyrica) is associated with significant pain reduction in patients with fibromyalgia, according to data released at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). What’s more, the pain reduction occurs even in patients with concomitant anxiety and depression. “Concurrent psychiatric disorders are common in patients with fibromyalgia,” Lesley Arnold, MD, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, said.

CMS officials on Monday proposed new rules that would add nine conditions to the list of preventable conditions that Medicare will no longer pay hospitals to treat, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports (Freking, AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 4/14).

Cynthia Nixon, who played Miranda Hobbes in the TV comedy series “Sex and the City”, in an interview during “Nightline”, a US TV show, said was diagnosed with breast cancer over 18 months ago but did not want to make it public. In fact, such was Nixon’s wish to keep the breast cancer private that she made sure her surgery did not clash with any of her acting performances.

The United Kingdom’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s July 2007 decision to allow two families to use in vitro fertilization and preimplantation genetic diagnosis to avoid a potential genetic risk of developing breast cancer is a “sign of things to come” and “not necessarily a bad sign,” Ronald Green, professor of ethics at

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Tuesday during a speech at Carnegie Mellon University plans to announce a proposal that would require higher-income Medicare beneficiaries to pay higher monthly premiums for the prescription drug benefit, the

Lacosamide is generally safe and well tolerated when used to treat patients with painful diabetic neuropathy, investigators announced here at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). Lacosamide (LCM) is an anticonvulsant under investigation for its potential effect in decreasing diabetic neuropathic pain. The drug is believed to exert its positive therapeutic effects through a unique dual mechanism of action.

The U.S. health care work force is “too small and woefully unprepared” to meet the geriatric care needs of the 78 million aging baby boomers, according to a report released on Monday by the Institute of Medicine, the Wall Street Journal reports (Francis/Fuhrmans, Wall Street Journal, 4/15).

An experimental vaccine that triggers the immune system to fight HER 2-positive breast cancer could reduce the risk of death for most patients, according to a study presented Sunday at an American Association for Cancer Research meeting in San Diego, Reuters reports.