Montréal researchers find a link between pollutants and certain complications of obesity
• Obesity • Feb 27 14
This breakthrough could eventually help improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiometabolic complications associated with obesity
A team of researchers at the IRCM in…
Most Children Unaware of Cigarette Warning Labels
• Children's Health • • Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 27 14
An international study of children’s perceptions of cigarette package warning labels found that the majority of children are unaware that they exist. Children in…
Scripps Research Institute Scientists Describe Deadly Immune ‘Storm’ Caused by Emergent Flu Infections
• Flu • • Immunology • • Respiratory Problems • Feb 27 14
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have mapped key elements of a severe immune overreaction - a “cytokine storm” - that can both…
Making treatment of rare blood disorder more affordable and effective
• Immunology • Feb 27 14
A University of Pennsylvania research team has defined a possible new way to fight a disease that is currently treatable only with the most…
One in 5 US hospitals don’t put hand sanitizer everywhere needed to prevent infections
• Infections • • Public Health • Feb 27 14
Approximately one in five U.S. health facilities don’t make alcohol-based hand sanitizer available at every point of care, missing a critical opportunity to prevent…
CNIO researchers discover new strategies for the treatment of psoriasis
• Dermatology • Feb 27 14
Almost ten years ago, the group led by Erwin Wagner, currently at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), developed genetically modified mice showing…
Why dark chocolate is good for your heart
• Dieting • • Heart • Feb 27 14
It might seem too good to be true, but dark chocolate is good for you and scientists now know why. Dark chocolate helps restore…
Obesity rates remain high, but stable in the U.S
• Obesity • • Public Health • Feb 25 14
More than a third of U.S. adults and 17 percent of kids and teens are obese, rates that haven’t changed much in a decade,…
Breast-feeding Benefits Appear to be Overstated, According to Study of Siblings
• Children's Health • Feb 25 14
A new study comparing siblings who were fed differently during infancy suggests that breast-feeding might be no more beneficial than bottle-feeding for 10 of…
Vegetarian diets associated with lower blood pressure
• Dieting • • Heart • Feb 25 14
Eating a vegetarian diet appears to be associated with lower blood pressure (BP), and the diets can also be used to reduce blood pressure.
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Death of partner associated with increased risk of heart attack, stroke
• Heart • • Stroke • Feb 25 14
The risk of heart attack or stroke is increased in the 30 days after a partner’s death.
Bereavement is recognized as a risk factor…
New Study Supports Body Shape Index as Predictor of Mortality
• Mortality and Morbidity • • Obesity • Feb 25 14
In 2012, Dr. Nir Krakauer, an assistant professor of civil engineering in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering, and his father, Dr. Jesse Krakauer, MD,…
Climate change won’t reduce deaths in winter
• Mortality and Morbidity • Feb 23 14
New research published today (Sunday 23rd February) has found that climate change is unlikely to reduce the UK’s excess winter death rate as previously…
Computerized checklist reduces type of hospital infection, Stanford/Packard study finds
• Infections • Feb 23 14
A computerized safety checklist that automatically pulls information from patients’ electronic medical records was associated with a threefold drop in rates of one serious…
Children’s Mercy physician leads effort to update AAP policy
• Children's Health • • Drug News • Feb 23 14
With less than half of medications including specific labeling for children, Kathleen Neville, MD, MS, a physician at Children’s Mercy Hospital, recently led an…
Researchers Look to Reduce Hep C Infections with “Staying Safe Intervention” for Injecting Drug Users
• Infections • Feb 22 14
Despite a number of social/behavioral intervention and educational programs, the spread of hepatitis C (HCV) in people who inject drugs (PWIDs) remains a chronic…
Reducing HIV transmission among drug injectors lowers AIDS mortality in heterosexuals
• AIDS/HIV • • Mortality and Morbidity • Feb 22 14
The study examined longitudinal data from across the US, incorporating epidemic history, HIV prevalence rate, history of prevention programming, and socioeconomic contexts
Although community…
At-Home Exercise Helps After Hip Break: study
• Backache • • Pain • Feb 20 14
Simple at-home exercises could help seniors regain mobility and independence after recovering from a broken hip, according to a new study.
Participants who followed…
Flu activity highest among U.S. young and middle-aged: CDC
• Flu • Feb 20 14
Hardest hit this U.S. flu season are adults, from younger to middle-aged, in part because fewer have been vaccinated, a federal health agency said…
E-cig industry on tenterhooks ahead of U.S. regulation
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 20 14
Lobbyists for electronic cigarette companies have been beating a path to the White House, hoping to prevent the administration from imposing strict, and possibly…
Study Shows that Premature Infants Benefit from Adult Talk
• Children's Health • Feb 20 14
Research led by a team at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University has been…
Turning back the clock on aging muscles?
• Aging and Gerontology • Feb 20 14
A study co-published in Nature Medicine this week by University of Toronto researcher Penney Gilbert has determined a stem cell based method for restoring…
Better broccoli, enhanced anti-cancer benefits with longer shelf life
• Cancer • • Food & Nutrition • Feb 20 14
While researching methods to increase the already well-recognized anti-cancer properties of broccoli, researchers at the University of Illinois also found a way to prolong…
Color vision problems become more common with age, reports Optometry and Vision Science
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Aging and Gerontology • Feb 20 14
Abnormal color vision increases significantly with aging - affecting one-half or more of people in the oldest age groups, reports a study in Optometry…
LGBT Youth Face Greater Cancer Risks, CCNY-Led Study
• Cancer • • Cancer: Breast • • Sexual Health • Feb 20 14
A new study led by City College of New York psychologist Margaret Rosario found that youths of same-sex orientation are more likely to engage…