Smoking may strongly increase long-term risk of eye disease
...stmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia, and colleagues examined 2,454 Australians age 49 and older to study the association between smoking and the 10-year incidence of AMD, as well as the possible links between smoking and other common risk factors. The participants answered a food frequency questionnaire and ha...RAND finds cases of undiagnosed diabetes drop sharply
... rapidly as often claimed, Smith said. The study examined reasons for the rising rate of diabetes over time....d to reduce the prevalence of the disease. Smith examined information from several waves of the federal National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys con...Pot bellies linked to early signs of cardiovascular disease
.... For the study, Dr. de Lemos and his colleagues examined data from the ongoing Dallas Heart Study, which is...osis in the walls of the aorta. Researchers then examined the relationship between body shape and early signs of arterial disease. They found that the likelih...Study says COPD testing is not measuring up
...y data collected from five health plans. The study examined patients aged 40 years and older, and determined if patients with a new diagnosis of COPD had received spirometry in the preceeding 720 days. Of the 5,039 eligible patients identified, only 32% were found to have received spirometry testing. Further...New treatment effective in counteracting cocaine-induced symptoms
...ood pressure and central nervous system. The study examined results from 22 healthy adults who reported to have never used cocaine. The investigators administered a small, medically approved dose of cocaine nose drops to the study participants, which doubled their sympathetic nerve activity, part of the bodys...MRI finds breast cancer before it becomes dangerous
... different conclusion. In the past five years they examined more than 7000 women with both methods. In a total of 167 women the doctors found early forms of breast cancer 152 (92 %) of these were found using MRT, 93 (56 %) with mammography. Breast cancer forms in the cells which line the inside walls of the ...Researchers suggest TB screening for all international adoptees
...have symptoms suggestive of tuberculosis should be examined for evidence of active disease and have a chest radiograph performed. Children with latent tuberculosis infection or active tuberculosis disease should be treated in accordance with the North American tuberculosis standards. If the child was previo...A woman who heard voices with her own speech impairments
...mpairments in her head after a bicycle accident is examined in a Case Report in this weeks edition of The Lancet. The woman was treated by Dr Daniela Hubl, University Hospital of Psychiatry, Bern, Switzerland, and colleagues, who authored the Case Report. It was in August 2006 that the 63-year-old woman, wi...Long heat waves boost hospital admissions
...and his team from the University of Padova, Italy, examined hospital discharge records for patients aged 75 or over during five heat waves which hit the Veneto Region in Northeast Italy between 2002 and 2003. They found that for each additional day of heat wave duration hospital admissions for disorders of...Better mobility keeps seniors healthier
...ournal of Preventive Medicine, researchers closely examined the factors that affected Health-Related Quality-of-Life for a group of older Americans. The study revealed that mobility is a key factor impacting quality of life for older adults. Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for EldersPilot study (LI...Study reveals gaps in vaccine financing for underinsured children
...arvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, and colleagues examined the status of financing and distribution of new pediatric vaccines at the state level. For the 2-phase study, the researchers interviewed nine state immunization program managers and subsequently interviewed and surveyed 48 state immunization program...Michigan-CDC study supports value of social restrictions during influenza pandemics
... In addition to quarantine and isolation, the NPIs examined in this study were school closures and cancellation of public gatherings. Public health is everyones responsibility. In a world faced by the threat of newly emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, it is critical to determine if costly and pot...Sports concussion research using fMRI provides insight for safe return-to-play decisions
...ncreasingly useful tool, no published studies have examined the relationship between changes in computerized neuropsychological testing completed in a medical clinic and brain function as measured by fMRI. The lack of studies using fMRI may be due to the fact that studies of this nature are very expensive and...Backache sufferers who fear pain change movements
...sity researchers Jim Thomas and Christopher France examined 36 adults who recently had experienced lower back pain. They split them into two groups: one that confessed a high fear of aggravating the backache and another that was less afraid of reinjury. The researchers next asked the participants to perfor...Inhaled nitric oxide safe for tiny preemie lungs, UCSF study finds
...ebo. Fluid from their lungs was then collected and examined for surfactant levels and properties. Findings showed that there were no significant differences between the two groups in surfactant amount and that inhaled nitric oxide may have a positive effect on surfactant function. This is very good news in...Shining light on pancreatic cancer
...t. The pancreas can become dangerously inflamed if examined directly, so routine inspections for at-risk patients are usually not an option. The results build upon prior studies with colon cancer and support the "field effect" hypothesis that suggests initial cancer stages, even pre-cancerous lesions, can c...Method shows promise for early detection of pancreatic cancer
... duodenum even though the cells appear normal when examined with a conventional microscope. The results, which will be published in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Clinical Cancer Research, show that the changes accurately predict the presence of cancer. More than 30,000 people in the United States die each...Study says normal but out-of-control enzyme may be culprit that signals some cells to become cancer
...ignaling process going. Dong and his colleagues examined the role of TOPK. This enzyme is not very active in normal tissues, but it is quite active in cancerous cells taken from blood, breast, prostate and colorectal tumors, among others. The onset of cancer could trigger the permanent turning-on of TOPK. ...RAND presents first Victor Fuchs Research Award to economists at Carnegie Mellon University
... save a substantial amount of money. The paper examined the effects of increased drug co-payments on drug ...ther medical spending, according to the study that examined the experiences of workers insured through 40 large employers from throughout the United States Th......t Gunther from the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined data from surveys of nearly 1,700 middle school students, and their results appear in the August issue of the journal Communication Research. Anti-smoking ads have the greatest impact on smoking attitudes and behavior when adolescents think that t...