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Extreme Obesity Affecting More Children at Younger Ages
May 18, 2010PASADENA, Calif – Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls now classified as extremely obese, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 710,949 children and teens that appears online in the ...Read more...Pneumonia Vaccine Does Not Protect Against Heart Attacks or Strokes
May 4, 2010PASADENA, Calif. – The pneumococcal pneumonia vaccination is not associated with a reduced risk of heart attacks or strokes, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The five-year prospective cohort study, which followed 84,170 men aged 45 to 69, provides new insights about the association between pneumococcal vaccination ...Read more...