Healio Minute Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 Edition: Marriage strengthens bones, pediatric heart recipients thrive, palm oil scrutinized

What just happened in medicine and why do you care?

Study links marital status, quality to bone health in men

Healio.com/Orthopedics: Good health depends not only on good health behaviors, such as maintaining a healthy diet and not smoking, but also on other social aspects of life, such as marital life and quality of relationships, researcher says. Read more.

Pediatric heart transplant patients surviving beyond 15 years

Healio.com/Cardiology: In a commentary, Thomas L. Spray, MD, of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, says survival rates are much better than what doctors were expecting when it became possible to perform pediatric heart transplants. Read more.

Blogger warns to watch out for palm fruit oil

Healio.com/Nutrition: Jeffrey Anshel analyzes the health risks associated with the processing of the widely used oil. Read more.

Home plate tags are most dangerous plays in professional baseball

Healio.com/Orthopedics: Researchers also discover that injuries from home plate collisions cost teams an average of approximately $2.3 million annually. Read more.

FDA panel recommends approval of Merck pill for ragweed immunotherapy

Healio.com/Allergy-Immunology: Ragwitek, a self-administered, under-the-tongue immunotherapy formulation for ragweed-induced rhinoconjunctivitis, does not require up-titration to achieve maintenance dosing. Read more.