US study highlights clear link between increased fast-food consumption and obesity
...n can be linked to adverse health outcomes through plausible mechanisms, and results from other studies lend support to our findings. In view of the high and increasing rates of fast-food consumption, further research into the effects of this dietary pattern on public health should be given priority." In an a...Complementary and alternative therapies and conventional medical therapies
...tive or may have safety issues; whether there is a plausible biological mechanism by which the therapy might work or the likelihood that research will discover a mechanism; and the likelihood that research will yield unambiguous results. Inability to meet any one of the criteria should not necessarily exclude...New theory chalenges current view of how brain stores long-term memory
...model proposed to energize the search for yet more plausible models of long-term memory storage, and to redirect and reinvigorate the quest to understand the brain substrates of information storage," Routtenberg said....January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...es decreased from 52 to 46 years. They offer three plausible explanations for the dramatic decrease, including: 1) earlier onset of type 2 diabetes, 2) improved recognition and earlier detection of the disease by clinicians, and 3) increased public awareness and education about the disease. Changes in Age at ...Two studies find evidence that sunlight may have beneficial influence on cancer
...n a melanoma. Which, if either, hypothesis is more plausible remains to be determined." Non-Hodgkin lymphoma has also been on the rise worldwide, and it has been suggested that increasing ultraviolet (UV) radiation and sun exposure may be partly responsible. To investigate this hypothesis, Karin Ekstrm Smedby,...HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research
...nd the non-white groups. The authors suggested two plausible explanations, one for each group. Those with high-risk behavior may have been exposed frequently to HIV and a primed immune response, probably cellular or humoral, could have worked with the vaccine and caused a greater ability to resist the virus. F......of their findings may have arisen by chance, it is plausible that the associations between birth weight and adult cancer are related to some aspects of the fetal environment or the number of cells at risk of carcinogenesis. "We have found some evidence supporting the hypothesis that larger birth size is associ...