Explosion of child obesity predicted to shorten us life expectancy
...ity has already triggered an unprecedented rise in type 2 ("adult") diabetes in children. "The tsunami of childhood obesity has not yet hit the shore -- it takes many years for complications to develop," Ludwig says. "If the clock starts ticking at age 12 or 14, the consequences to public health are pot...Mechanism of RNA recoding: New twists in brain protein production
...t's more," she adds, "this work is revealing a new type of genetic code, which incorporates both sequence and structural signals." She anticipates this work, also funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, will "greatly increase our ability to interpret the information encoded in the genome." R...Aspirin's potential ability to prevent colon polyps may not apply equally to all
...se participants had been diagnosed with adenoma a type of colorectal polyp that may develop into cancer and their data was compared with a control group consisting of an equal number of women not diagnosed with polyps. While the incidence of polyps was significantly lower in those who took aspirin reg...Compound may help prevent diabetes in fast-food fans
...d of developing insulin resistance, a precursor to type 2 diabetes. The preliminary animal study was described today at the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Called HPMC (hydroxypropylmethylcellulose), the cellulose-derivative has been used fo...Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
...on whether they are insured (69 percent) or on the type of insurance they have (58 percent). "Although insurance is important, disparities in access to care and quality of care exist independent of insurance," Lurie said. Interestingly, Lurie said, more than 60 percent of the providers surveyed rated the ...Blacks less likely to get expensive, newer heart treatments
... YORK, March 15 Blacks who suffer the most common type of cardiac ischemia non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome are less likely than whites to receive expensive or newer evidence-based treatments, according to a report in a special disparities themed issue of Circulation: Journal of the American He...Drug therapy may be comparable to invasive cardiac procedures for elderly patients with heart attack
Although the type and intensity of treatment for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) [heart attack] varies widely across the country, elderly patients who receive intensive medical treatment may have comparable survival as those who undergo invasive cardiac procedures (...Study of obese diabetics explains why low-carb diets produce fast results
...ch was conducted in a group of obese patients with type 2 diabetes who followed the Atkins diet. Accordin... a week of typical eating, ten obese patients with type 2 diabetes followed the Atkins diet for two weeks, with carbohydrates limited to 20 grams per day an...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for March 15, 2005
...n-hospital study of ten obese volunteers with mild type 2 diabetes mellitus compared a usual diet with a very low-carbohydrate diet (Article, p. 403). During the first study week, participants ate about 3,000 calories and 300 grams of carbohydrates per day and remained at entry weight. In the following t...Malt liquor beers, and the people who drink them, are different
...onsumption in California and Louisiana by beverage type in order to explore if alcohol drinking patterns and consequences differ for MLB consumers. They will also continue to analyze data from this study, investigating gender differences in drinking behaviors and self-reported alcohol-related consequence...New study shows how very low-carb diets take off the pounds
...dy week, participants, who were obese and had mild type 2 diabetes mellitus, ate a regular diet in which they could eat anything and as much as they wanted. They ate about 3,000 calories and 300 grams of carbohydrates per day and remained at entry weight. In the following two weeks, when restricted to 20...Newly discovered pathway might help in design of cancer drugs
...ing that there is a way to efficiently create this type of damage by modifying the DNA itself." In the lab, Greenberg and his team used organic chemistry to create a synthetic, double-stranded DNA with special chemical characteristics and exposed it to long wavelength light that selectively switches on t...HIV-1 spread through six transmission lines in the UK
...ve been infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 or HIV-1 since the first identification of AIDS in 1982. Despite a recent increase in heterosexually acquired infections within the UK, predominantly originating in sub-Saharan Africa, one of the most prevalent clades (subtypes) of virus within th...Bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy prolongs survival for some patients with advanced lung cancer
...ience suggested that patients with this particular type of NSCLC had a higher risk of serious bleeding from the lung after bevacizumab therapy. Patients with a prior history of frank hemoptysis (coughing up blood) were also not enrolled on the trial. The most significant adverse event observed in this ...New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
...nts could reveal environmental clues, such as soil type and food particles, that help track a suspects movements. Even partial prints that cannot be used to identify a person might contain chemical artifacts that reveal useful crime clues, he says. The technique does have limitations, Worley says. Some fi...Routine dental panoramic X-rays not necessary, study shows
...rs at the University at Buffalo has shown that one type of X-ray patients receive routinely, called the panoramic X-ray, could be used selectively in some cases instead of as a routine diagnostic tool. Results of the study were presented today (March 11, 2005) at the International Association on Dental R...Cornea transplants can be improved
...cells in the cornea, they were performing the same type of assessment that eye banks perform to ascertain whether a cornea is healthy enough for a transplant. "Our results found that, over all, the current system for assessing quality and density of cells is good in the nation's eye banks," Dr. Lass says....Sex selection popular among infertile women
... nonmedical sex selection. They also looked at the type of sex selection method patients would choose. Of the 561 survey respondents, 229 would want to select the sex of their future child. Among the women who would choose, 45 percent did not have any children and 48 percent had children of all the same s...Common anesthetics appear safe for developing fetal brain
...conduct in humans, since you can't do the invasive type of monitoring you can in animal models, and it is difficult to separate the effects of the anesthesia from the underlying reasons for the surgery," Reynolds said. "So we felt that in order to come as close as possible to what might be expected in hum...Emergency clopidogrel could save thousands of lives46,000-patient heart attack trial results
...reduction in hospital mortality for any particular type of patient. He emphasised that there was already compelling evidence that long-term use of beta-blockers after a heart attack benefited patients. "Our finding of clear reductions in repeat heart attacks and ventricular fibrillation reinforces this ev...