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AP - The Senate on Thursday passed and sent to the White House legislation that bans lead from children’s toys and seeks to ensure that chemicals posing possible health problems will not end up on toys and articles that kids chew on and play with.

Reuters - Children with asthma face a
number of barriers to participation in physical activity, from
family beliefs to school disorganization to their own
misperceptions about their symptoms, the authors of a new
research review say.

Reuters - People who have surgery to remove
stomach cancer can cut the risk that it will return by getting
antibiotics to eliminate a type of bacteria infecting the
stomach’s lining, researchers said on Thursday.

AP - Scientists working to help astronauts regain balance after extended flights in zero gravity say they’ve found a way to use the research to help elderly people avoid catastrophic falls.

AP - Mexican agriculture officials said Thursday that U.S. colleagues hunting for the source of a salmonella outbreak are rushing to a conclusion about finding the strain at a Mexican pepper farm.

AP - The homeless woman was nauseated, dizzy, drenched with sweat, dehydrated and sobbing with fear. She had heat exhaustion and was on the verge of heat stroke.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News)– New reports on very
different approaches to treating Alzheimer’s disease could one day lead to
better therapies for the mind-robbing condition, experts say.

AP - Using a new technique to reprogram cells, scientists are growing neurons from people with Lou Gehrig’s disease, a possible first step in understanding how the deadly illness develops.

AP - Here’s a couch potato’s dream: What if a drug could help you gain some of the benefits of exercise without working up a sweat? Scientists reported Thursday that there is such a drug — if you happen to be a mouse.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:

HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) — A test that helps identify
the type of cancer cells present in a tumor has been approved by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) — The increased risk of poor
health outcomes among single infants conceived through assisted
fertilization (AF) may be due to causes of infertility rather than the
procedure itself, say Norwegian researchers.

Time.com - In a field of inquiry that has yielded much disappointment, scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease announce some hopeful news

Dan Kohrman, Chair of the American Diabetes Association’s Legal Advocacy Subcommittee, issued the following statement to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the original passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“The Act was passed to provide an opportunity for all Americans to be judged on the basis of their abilities, rather than their actual or […]

NICE has published its final guidance on the use of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII or ‘insulin pump’) therapy. This is a review of guidance on the use this technology published in February 2003.
For adults and children 12 years and older with type 1 diabetes, the guidance recommends insulin pump therapy as a treatment […]