WSBT - News - Your Health Matters http://www.wsbt.com/news/health RSS Feed for WSBT-1 - News - Your Health Matters en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:25:39 GMT Your Health Matters SickWatch http://www.wsbt.com/news/health/5250061.html WSBT News and the Memorial Medical Group are teaming up to bring you a weekly feature, the Your Health Matters SickWatch. The Memorial Medical Group’s network of doctors and clinics provide WSBT News with information about high rates of certain illnesses in communities throughout Michiana. Plastic surgery being used to cure migraines http://www.wsbt.com/news/health/23178084.html Millions of Americans suffer migraines, but relief may be found in Britain. Doctors there claim to have a new procedure that can stop the debilitating headaches. Doctor fined for accidentally severing man's penis http://www.wsbt.com/news/health/23128734.html BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court has ordered a Romanian surgeon to pay $795,000 in compensation to a patient whose penis he accidentally severed during an operation. Haywire brain chemical linked to sudden baby death http://www.wsbt.com/news/health/22867154.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have new evidence that the brain chemical best known for regulating mood also plays a role in the mystifying killer of seemingly healthy babies — sudden infant death syndrome. Watermelon: Nature's Viagra? http://www.wsbt.com/news/health/22826159.html New research shows watermelons can have a Viagra-like effect. But there is a catch. Study finds long benefit in illegal mushroom drug http://www.wsbt.com/news/health/22730844.html NEW YORK (AP) — In 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project. CDC tests for sources of fumes in FEMA trailers http://www.wsbt.com/news/health/22860794.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Particleboard appears to be one of the main sources of potentially harmful fumes in government-issued travel trailers that have housed thousands of Gulf Coast storm victims, according to a study released Wednesday. Twin pregnancies — like Angelina Jolie's — are complicated, doctors say http://www.wsbt.com/news/health/22814059.html LONDON (AP) — A horde of paparazzi are the least of Angelina Jolie's worries these days. It's not easy giving birth to twins. First floods, now pesky mosquitoes for Midwest http://www.wsbt.com/news/health/22835739.html CHICAGO (AP) — First came the floods — now the mosquitoes. An explosion of pesky insects are pestering clean-up crews and just about anyone venturing outside in the waterlogged Midwest. Salmonella probe adds foods served with tomatoes http://www.wsbt.com/news/health/22784914.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Adding to tomato confusion, the government is about to start testing numerous other types of fresh produce in the hunt for the source of the nation's record salmonella outbreak — even as it insists tomatoes remain the leading suspect.