Reuters - With the advent of folic-acid supplementation of certain foods, few Canadians are now getting too little of the B vitamin, a new study estimates -- in findings that question the need for children and men to get additional folic acid from vitamins.

AP - An apple a day? Apparently not in the United States.

Reuters - Medicare patients with more doctors to choose from do not necessarily get more or better care, researchers reported on Thursday in an analysis demonstrating how complicated U.S. healthcare reform will be.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- The FDA has issued a class I recall -- its most serious -- of a balloon catheter due to possible separation during use, which may lodge fragments in coronary arteries and result in serious injury or death.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies provide evidence that smoking can harm sperm - both in smoking men who may become fathers, and in sons born to women who smoked during pregnancy.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Here's yet another reason to avoid obesity throughout your life: Doing so may improve your chances of survival if you're diagnosed with colon cancer.

AP - John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study.

Reuters - Thousands of AIDS patients in India are not receiving treatment on time, underscoring huge challenges the country faces as it combats the disease, the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said on Thursday.

(MedPage Today) -- Treatment for pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting has little high-quality supporting evidence in the medical literature, despite multiple randomized clinical trials, authors of a systematic review concluded.

(MedPage Today) -- Patients who had a "complete" remission of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) after treatment with lenalidomide (Revlimid) still had circulating drug-resistant malignant stem cells -- and the disease resumed its progression in most patients despite continued treatment, a small study found.

(MedPage Today) -- Alcoholic patients can modestly improve their chances of staying abstinent after detox with acamprosate (Campral), according to a Cochrane review.

(MedPage Today) -- A multinational clinical trial found that treatment with the endothelin receptor antagonist bosentan (Tracleer) showed some benefit in preventing new digital ulcers in patients with systemic sclerosis.

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers joined The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and The Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) in a national public education campaign on the dangers of texting while driving. The partnership's initial efforts include placing the AAOS/OTA's already-successful "OMG: Get the Message" campaign signs in thousands of doctors' office waiting rooms nationwide and in dramatic, large-scale advertisements placed on more than 50 buses in the Washington D.C. metro area...

With fans anticipating the return of their favorite college and NFL players, thousands of young athletes also are conditioning for football programs of their own. The high-speed, full-contact plays may be an exciting aspect of the game, but also create a unique set of injuries that recent studies show are skyrocketing nationwide. According to U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission: - The 2009 football season saw over 1.2 million football-related injuries; - Such injuries resulted in more than $2...

Thank: Alicia Gayson for the invitation to launch Community Action on Suicide's second Annual Suicide Prevention Week. The presentations and discussions today will give you an increased awareness of the issue of self injury. As Minister for Disability and Mental Health, I welcome initiatives such as this which are designed to heighten awareness and increase understanding of mental health issues. I am particularly supportive of initiatives that encourage openness, discussion and help seeking...

A Department of Health review of the National Programme for IT has concluded that a centralised, national approach is no longer required, and that a more locally-led plural system of procurement should operate, whilst continuing with national applications already procured. A new approach to implementation will take a modular approach, allowing NHS organisations to introduce smaller, more manageable change, in line with their business requirements and capacity...

High levels of the stress hormone cortisol strongly predict cardiovascular death among both persons with and without pre-existing cardiovascular disease according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). In stressful situations, the body responds by producing the hormone cortisol...

Aine Brady, T.D., Minister for Older People, officially opened the newly refurbished Elphin Day Care Centre. The Centre was established in 1994 by Elphin Social Services Committee, a voluntary group based in and around the town of Elphin. The Centre is based in the former boy's national school in the town. It currently operates five days a week and caters for up to 80 people per day. The Centre has just been extensively refurbished following a successful application for a grant of €100,000 from the Dormant Account Funds, administered by POBAL...

The Alabama Department of Public Health is offering a Satellite Conference and Webcast program that will provide an overview of infant mortality issues that have faced Alabama for many years. The program, titled "Infant Mortality: Issues and Initiatives in Alabama," is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept.15, from 2 to 4 p.m. (Central). September is Infant Mortality Month, and this program has been designed for discussion about state initiatives that address infant mortality, community programs, high-risk populations and pregnancy, and outreach activities to the college community...