Mayo Clinic study finds increase in forearm fractures among adolescents
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Forearm fractures are on the rise among both adolescent boys and girls, according to a Mayo Clinic study published in the Sept. 17 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). During childhood, the incidence of distal forearm fractures (those located near the wri...Study shows dramatic increase in wrist fractures over 30-year span
...se in wrist fractures among males and a 56 percent rise in females. The highest incidence rates were foun...y would be needed to investigate the causes of the rise in childhood wrist fractures. Also additional follow-up will be necessary to see if the increase in...Nearly 5 million deaths worldwide caused by smoking
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... these cell types, marginal-zone B cells, can give rise to a cancer called mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma when the cells abnormally over-express a gene called Bcl10. The current finding suggests that a drug that blocks the action of Bcl10 could be an effective treatment for this cancer....First relapsing fever outbreak in Montana identified
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...and by 2010, Medicare spending on Alzheimer's will rise to $49.3 billion (a 54% increase over costs for 2000) and Medicaid costs will rise to $33 billion (an 80% increase). According to Goldberg, the solution to Alzheimer's lies in findin...Solving the mystery of musical harmony
...e possible real world events that could have given rise to that particular stimulus. "This work on music perception represents a natural extension of the work on visual perception," said Howe. "Hearing presents many of the same challenges as vision, in that the physical world cannot be known directly; we...Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center study shows retinoids kill childhood brain tumor cells
...he development of nervous system tissue that gives rise to medulloblastomas. The addition of purified BMP-2 protein to medulloblastoma cells caused significant cell death, even to cells that were resistant to retinoids. Further, when retinoid-senstive cells were grown in close proximity to resistant cell...Researchers link the plaques and tangles of Alzheimer's disease
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...for AF increases with age so hospitalization rates rise with the aging population. Mensah and colleagues searched the National Hospital Discharge Surgery to identify AF associated hospitalizations that occurred in people age 35 or older. They found that more than half of the AF hospitalizations occurre...Anemia elevates risk of physical decline in older people
...nding balance, a timed 8-foot walk, and ability to rise from a chair. Each of these activities was scored on a 5-point scale (0= an inability to do the test; 4=top performance). These points were added together to create a 0 to 12 overall score. These scores were correlated with blood samples obtained fro...Anemia is risk factor for physical decline in older adults
... of standing balance, walking speed and ability to rise from a chair. Previous studies illustrated that these tests can predict the likelihood of nursing home admission, mortality, hospitalization and later disability. Penninx and colleagues found that in participants with anemia, the mean decline in phys...Freshman eating binge is real, with national implications
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...owing health care spending, costs are projected to rise 7 percent annually for the rest of the decade. Davis outlined several steps that could be taken to achieve a high-performance health care system--one that is high-quality, safe, efficient, and accessible to all. Those steps, which will require major ......of kilometres driven is alarmingly high. The rates rise steadily after age 70 and for drivers 75 and older it rivals or exceeds that for drivers aged 16 to 24. While age itself isn't an automatic reason for poor driving, older drivers are faced with more medical conditions such as stroke, cardiovascular d...