Low physical activity can improve fitness levels for sedentary, overweight postmenopausal women
...niversity System, Baton Rouge, La., and colleagues examined the effect of 50 percent, 100 percent, and 150 percent of the NIH Consensus Panel physical activity recommendations on cardiorespiratory fitness in sedentary, overweight or obese postmenopausal women with elevated blood pressure. The Panel recommends...Tobacco and alcohol use independently increase risk of head and neck cancer
...or Cancer Research in Lyon, France, and colleagues examined head and neck cancer risk among smokers who never drank alcohol and people who drink but never used tobacco products. They pooled data from 15 casecontrol studies, which included 10,244 head and neck cancer patients and 15,227 controls. About 16 perc...Drugs users are increasingly more cautious with needles
...HIV and less hepatitis C. Hepatitis Smit also examined coinfections. Due to the increased life expectancy relatively more HIV patients have died from other causes in recent years. Infections as a consequence of a reduced immunity (AIDS) remained the number one cause, but the study also revealed an increa...AGA Institute takes leadership role in exploring obesity and its complications
...idemic. As the AGA Institute Obesity Task Force examined the current and potential roles of the gastroenterology community in addressing the severe worldwide problem of obesity and its complications, we were encouraged to find a growing commitment to obesity-related research and development within the fede...RAND study finds women with heart disease and diabetes less likely to receive proper care
...and Medicare managed care plans in 1999. The study examined 11 different screening tests, treatments or measurements of health status shown to be important to all people diagnosed with heart disease or diabetes. Among people enrolled in commercial health plans, women were significantly less likely than men ...Mailman School of Public Health researchers analyze air quality and weather changes by 2050
...y on land-use change, earlier research by the team examined the potential impacts of climate change on air quality and heat across the metropolitan area, as well as potential effects on summertime ozone-relateddeaths. For example, ozone-related deaths in a typical summer could increase by 55 deaths across the...States' spending may help keep childless seniors independent
...s occurring between 1995 and 2002, the researchers examined how variations in state spending affect risk of nursing home admissions and whether the effect is different for those who have family and those who do not. They found that higher state spending on home- and community-based services was associated w...One pill may be better than two for treating patients with high blood pressure
...rs or older and smoking. In ASCOT-LLA, researchers examined 10,305 patients with high blood pressure and addit...among adults with similar characteristics to those examined in ASCOT-LLA.Amlodipine (brand name Norvasc) is in a class of medications called calcium channel blo...Online education program better source of information for patients
...eir care, according to survey results. Researchers examined the association between use of the Heart Profilers program and patient knowledge and behavior. Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), atrial fibrillation (AF), heart failure (HF), high cholesterol or hypertension who registered to use Heart Pr...Dealing deadly cancers a knockout punch
...rd chemotherapies. In one study, investigators examined the tumor-killing ability of reovirus plus cisplatin, a standard chemotherapy agent, in a mouse melanoma model that included both cultured cells and live animals. The results of the preclinical study showed that the combination of reovirus and cispla...JCI table of contents: May 10, 2007
...or and is mainly expressed on B cells. The authors examined mice carrying a C76R TACI mutation (the equivalent of the human C104R mutation) and found that mutated TACI is unable to bind ligand. Both the human and mouse TACI mutants were shown to pre-associate with normal TACI, independent of ligand, indicatin...Hepatitis C increases risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma
...V, and 572,293 not infected with HCV. The research examined the risks of hematopoietic malignancies (relating to the formation of blood cellular components), related lymphoproliferative precursor diseases (referring to the proliferation of the bone marrow cells that give rise to lymphoid cells), and thyroid c...Double the death rate from cirrhosis for 'blue collar' men
...ms and Stockholm University's Professor Robin Room examined death rates among Australian men from liver cirrhosis between 1981 and 2002. Their results were published in the May 2007 edition of the prestigious journal, Drug and Alcohol Review. The men were categorised according to whether they were manua...Study evaluates why blacks do not successfully donate kidneys
... perhaps some other issue?" The researchers also examined reasons for non-donation between men and women. They found that more women than men did not donate because of reduced renal function, at 7.9 percent and 0.9 percent, respectively. Also, more women (6.4 percent) than men (1.8 percent) were excluded du...Meditation may fine-tune control over attention
... appears online May 8 in the journal PLoS Biology, examined the effects of three months of intensive training in Vipassana meditation, which focuses on reducing mental distraction and improving sensory awareness. Volunteers were asked to look for target numbers that were mixed into a series of distracting l...Employers who recognize the impact of migraine may help to improve workplace productivity
...and leading to missed workdays. The third analysis examined the impact of preventive treatment on workers who ...elp to improve workplace productivity. Researchers examined pooled results from three different trials, including data recently published in The Journal of Occu...Decrease in breast cancer rates likely reflect HRT reduction and saturation of mammography
...sed on women age 40 and above. The research team examined trends in breast cancer incidence in the National Cancer Institutes Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results database from 1975 to 2003. The database includes women from 5 US States (Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, and Utah) and 5 metropolita...Children from low income families more likely to have sleep problems
...ld. Parents were asked to fill out a survey, which examined amount of sleep, sleep anxiety, night awakenings, night terrors, bed wetting, sleep walking, sleep disordered breathing, daytime sleepiness, bedtime resistance, and the time it took their children to fall asleep. The study found children from low ...Eggs promote weight loss and help close nutrient consumption gap
...mption restrictions that are based on studies that examined dietary cholesterol and saturated fat together. Research on the independent effect of dietary cholesterol shows no significant effect on heart disease risk. A relative risk study conducted by the Washington, DC-based scientific consulting firm Ex......women with osteoporosis. The study also closely examined and put to rest several questions of other side effects of zoledronic acid, such as the renal damage and bone deterioration that has been seen at much larger doses in oncology treatments. The HORIZON study showed no such findings at the lower dose re...