Dieting danger: Female athletes limiting calories more likely to get stress fractures
...extremity overuse conditions in which pain is felt below the knee and above the ankle bone and is associated with exercise. Although it is often thought to be related to external factors such as training volume, playing/training surface or footwear, there is little scientific evidence to support these elem...Acupuncture relieves low back pain and is cost-effective
...ALY gained was 4,241 (6,223; $7,921). This is well below the lower threshold of 20,000 used by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to decide whether the NHS can afford to pay for a health technology. A short course of traditional acupuncture for the treatment of lower back p...Insufficient sleep associated with poorer blood glucose control in African Americans with diabetes
...bA1c level was 8.3 percent; 26 percent had a level below the recommended 7 percent. Thirty-nine patients reported that their sleep was frequently disrupted by pain; these individuals were excluded from further analyses. Among the remaining 35 men and 87 women, 67 percent had poor sleep quality. Higher ...Study adds to links between sleep loss and diabetes
...e under good control if they can keep their levels below seven percent. The researchers found that, on average, the 161 diabetes patients got very little sleep and had poor glucose control. Mean sleep duration was six hours a night. Only six percent reported getting eight hours of sleep on weeknights a...'Safe' blood levels need redefining, Tulane University study says
...t women of childbearing age keep blood lead levels below 10 g/dL. The Tulane study recommends reassessment of what levels ought to be considered safe, based on data correlating relatively low blood lead levels and death due to cardiovascular causes. The researchers used data from the Third National Healt...'Safe' blood lead levels linked to risk of death
...Heart Association. Researchers studied lead levels below 10 micrograms per deciliter (g/dL) which previousl... women of child-bearing age have blood lead levels below 10 g/dL. Researchers said the study questions the current belief about what lead levels are safe in ...Arctic summer ice anomaly shocks scientists
... fractures and openings in the sea-ice cover just below the pole in both the ASAR image, seen as splashes of dark grey and black, and the AMSR-E image (with British Isles shown for scale), seen by the high concentration of yellow, orange and green colours, signifying low ice concentrations. In the last ...Lower income means higher risk for heart disease
..., finds that among adults with income levels at or below the poverty line, 15.7 percent had very high levels of CRP, compared to only 9.1 percent of those in families above the poverty line. "We have long known that poor people have worse health," said Eileen Crimmins, corresponding author and professor...Early statin therapy for patients with acute coronary syndromes reduces death, cardiovascular events
...-C [bad cholesterol] level, of driving LDL-C level below a theoretical safe value," the authors continue. "Our study showed that intensive statin therapy and controls experienced comparable rates of hepatitis, myositis and rhabdomyolysis. Serious adverse events were rare." The statin regimen with the m...New study finds a positive association between periodontal disease and coronary heart disease
...ncreased risk of coronary heart disease for people below the age of 60 who have more than four millimeters of alveolar bone loss (the bone that holds the teeth in the mouth) from periodontal disease, according to a new study that is printed in the Journal of Periodontology. It was found that participants ...Restricted fetal growth increases risk of irritable bowel syndrome
... times greater among those whose birthweights were below 1500 g as it was among those weighing more than 2500 g at birth. And it was higher in the lower weight baby of the twin pair. The age at which symptoms started also seemed to be associated with birthweight. Those weighing in at less than 1500 g at...Health facility births key to substantially reducing maternal mortality worldwide
... and has the potential to bring maternal mortality below 200 per 100 000 live births. The paper also emphas... that this approach could bring maternal mortality below 200 deaths per 100 000 live births. How? Governments and donors need to prioritise the health f...Exercise prior to hip and knee replacement reduces need for inpatient rehabilitation
...ining for only 3 weeks (9 sessions), which is well below the recommended duration required to bring about significant strength gains. They suggest that the increase in strength was due to a combination of increased neuromuscular coordination and a reduction of fear about anticipated pain associated with in...Short episodes of manic symptoms may indicate bipolar disorder in some youth
...sented with symptoms of bipolar disorder were just below the threshold of meeting the two primary classifications of bipolar disorder, mostly due to the fact that their manic episodes did not last long enough. However, these youth with "subthreshold" mania were similar in most ways to children and adolesce...Transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria linked to previous intensive care unit room occupants
...nt cleaning methods generally reduce contamination below levels required for transmission," the authors write. "Based on our findings, the prevention of one case of acquisition due to room contamination could require more intensive cleaning of 94 rooms vacated by MRSA carriers and of 59 rooms vacated by V...Teens half as likely to smoke if they are wise to subliminal messages in cigarette ads
... or to be susceptible to future smoking than those below the median, even after controlling for over a dozen demographic, environmental and intrinsic risk factors for smoking. The analysis suggests that even minor intervention may be able to influence behavior. According to survey data, decrease in an S......for more than five years after vital capacity fell below 1 L. In all, 19 patients suffered from one or more... mean of 6.5 years after their vital capacity fell below 1 L. Twelve of these patients were ventilated 24 hours a day. Researchers concluded that the there i...Antiprotons 4 times more effective than protons for cell irradiation
... to irradiate cells at a greater depth (about 15cm below the surface). Experiments to compare the effectiveness of antiprotons with another form of treatment using carbon ions will begin next month at GSI (Gesellschaft fr Schwerionenforschung) in Germany. Further tests are planned to fully assess the effec...Systolic blood pressure level for patients with heart failure may help predict risk of death
...eased 21 percent for each 10-mm Hg decrease in SBP below 160 mm Hg. In the follow-up group, higher SBP at admission was also associated with lower risk of 60- to 90-day death. Patients with higher SBP were more likely to be female and black. Fifty percent of the patients had SBP higher than 140 mm Hg at ...DTI research and development scoreboard reveals extent of R&D in services sector
...ly above that of the rest of the EU although still below the USA. ...