Moderate physical activity is critical for reducing the risk of chronic disease in older women
...tretching group, in contrast, experienced a slight gain in intra-abdominal fat. "The beauty of exercise as...alth and Community Medicine. "Most American women gain one to two pounds on average every year, and that adds up to dangerous levels over a lifetime. All w...For determining protein structures, a new method boosts precision and speed in high-dimensional NMR
...example, for the experiment published in JACS, the gain was a factor of 250, while we increased the precision of the frequency measurements three- to four-fold. "That's an incredible blend, which will allow us to bring the horsepower of our new 'NMR-Ferraris' equipped with cryogenic probes on the road." ...Surface treatments could make ready-to-eat products safer
...Safety Inspection Service as a validation study to gain support for the use of this material. USDA is presently considering policies on how to control L. monocytogenes in processing plants. In November, the USDA released an administrative directive outlining additional steps to be taken by its inspect...U of Washington establishes $9 million center to study hepatitis-induced liver disease
...HCV)-associated liver disease. The objective is to gain a detailed understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the progression from chronic HCV infection to end-stage liver disease, including cirrhosis and liver cancer. Hepatitis C has emerged as the most important cause of advanced liver disea...Other highlights in the November 20 issue of JNCI
...se may be to detect allelic imbalance, the loss or gain of chromosomal regions, in tumor DNA released into the blood after tumor cells die. In the November 20 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute , Hsueh-Wei Chang, Ph.D., Ie-Ming Shih, M.D., Ph.D., and their colleagues at the Johns Hopki...UIC awarded $4.5 million to create exercise technologies for people with disabilities
...e more than 54 million Americans with disabilities gain greater access to fitness and recreation opportunities through the use of existing and future technologies." Rimmer is principal investigator on the project. William Schiller, a UIC clinical assistant professor of disability and human development, i...Making therapeutic kitchens more like home aids Alzheimer's patients
...Marsden said. "The purpose of this research was to gain an understanding of physical features that typically comprise therapeutic kitchen design, and to explore how these features support activities programming and food-service systems in assisted-living and nursing-home facilities," said Marsden, who is ...Exercise shown to have positive effect on cholesterol
...y did in measurements of blood cholesterol, weight gain and overall health," he said. "This is characteristic of what is happening to the American population. So if we can get these people exercising, perhaps we can prevent bad things from happening." Kraus believes that during the next 10 years, physicia...Media invitation: The Movement Disorder Society's 7th International Congress
...th colleagues. Registered members of the media can gain access to sessions to listen to presentations by showing their Congress Press Badge to ushers. Questions from reporters will not be allowed during meeting presentations; however, presenters will be available to answer questions after sessions. The MD...Pituitary tumor cells in Cushings syndrome found to express large amounts of protein receptor
...an men by a ratio of 5:1. Symptoms include weight gain with rounding of the face; increased fat in the neck; thinning skin; excess hair growth on the face neck, chest abdomen and thighs; muscle weakness and bone loss (osteoporosis); high blood sugar; diabetes; and high blood pressure. These effects are ...$2 per dose vs. $1500 per dose: One doctor develops new therapy for macular degeneration
...nsive Visudyne treatment resulted in visual acuity gain with less treatments in the short term. The results of this new treatment appear similar to other investigational medications aimed at inhibiting the growth of vessels in the eye. The major difference is the other drugs need to be given as monthly in...Multivitamins improve weight gain patterns during pregnancy in HIV-infected women from Tanzania
...use was associated with a small increase in weight gain (averaging 304 g) when compared to the placebo. The risk of weight loss or low weight gain after 26 weeks of gestation was 30% less among women who took multivitamins. Though there was no po...Stanford researchers test drug to fight depression faster in elderly
... stay on the drug because it can cause some weight gain and grogginess. "Weight gain is a problem for younger patients," Schatzberg said. "There's less initiative to use the drug in the...Small babies are more likely to be stressed adults
... who had a higher birth weight and a faster weight gain from birth to 7 years old had a lower level of psychological distress into middle age. Previous studies could only demonstrate such a relation up to the age of 26 years, they conclude....California teachers at higher risk for breast, endometrial and other cancers
...dy participants over the next few years, we should gain insight into the causes of these cancers," says Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D., professor of preventive medicine and AFLAC Chair in Cancer Research at the Keck School of Medicine and lead author of the study. The study is the first to extensively examine ca...In blood pressure reduction, below standard is good
...ensive lowering of blood pressure may be needed to gain the full benefit of the therapy on blood vessels, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's 56th Annual High Blood Pressure Research Conference. In people who took medicine to lower blood pressure, those whose blood pressu...Equation rivals ultrasound in calculating birth weight
...al height, maternal weight, third-trimester weight gain rate, number of priorchildren and fetal sex. Using these six variables, the researchers could predict birth weight within an average of plus or minus 8.1 percent of actual birth weight. Ultrasound accuracy rates are typically not as good, while abdom...Researchers find trigger for devastating digestive disease, propose treatment
...ptoms include chronic diarrhea and an inability to gain weight or grow normally. When the disease arises in adulthood, symptoms can also include fatigue, weight loss, anemia and neurological symptoms. Over time, celiac sprue can lead to overall sickness and even intestinal cancer. In the small intestine...Futile cycle both fights diabetes and causes weight gain
...apies "Right now, our findings suggest that weight gain is an inherent part of how TZDs function and diabetics should bear in mind the role of a healthy diet in combination with drug therapy," said Lazar. "TZDs actually lower insulin requirements in diabetics, and this is likely to be beneficial in terms ...... patients should be advised to avoid future weight gain to minimize CVD risk. An associated editorial by Lean and Han considers certain practical problems involved in the measurement of WC in a clinical setting. In the future, similar studies should be directed at developing the same type of WC-disease ...