Many parents fail to set rules to limit children's exposure to tobacco smoke, according to new study
...0 parents and guardians in New York and New Jersey finds that in nearly half of homes and more than half of...are exposed to secondhand smoke. The research also finds that many parents consistently make no effort to protect their children from secondhand smoke in pub...More exhaust inhaled by kids inside school buses than by others in the area, says new UC study
...n that tracks statistics in school transportation, finds that California has the highest percentage of pre-1977 school buses in the country. Ten percent of California's fleet consists of pre-1977 buses, while second-place Missouri reports six percent of its fleet made up of pre-1977 buses. In comparison, 3...Study shows light therapy to effectively treat mood disorders, including SAD
...pril 1 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, also finds that the effects of light therapy, also known as phototherapy, are comparable to those found in many clinical studies of antidepressant drug therapy for these disorders. The findings were based on a meta-analysis, a systematic statistical review of ...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
... with modest financial assets. Instead, the study finds that people with relatively large financial assets before they became disabled reported substantially better well-being, and less sadness and loneliness, after they were disabled than was reported by people with fewer financial resources who also bec...Belgium doctors treating critically ill infants favour legalising euthanasia
...ical Centre Rotterdam, Netherlands) and colleagues finds that the frequency of the active ending of life of infants has not risen in the Netherlands despite its new, more liberal, regulatory system of such actions. In an accompanying comment Chris Feudtner (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA) outlin...Mediterranean diet leads to longer life
...th longer life expectancy among elderly Europeans, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. The Mediterranean diet is characterised by a high intake of vegetables, legumes, fruits, and cereals; a moderate to high intake of fish; a low intake of saturated fats, but high intake of unsaturated fats, p...Institute of Medicine news: Review of HIVNET 012 study
...current health problems in Uganda. The IOM report finds that the investigators' use of a narrow interpretation was reasonable, but it means that other researchers may not be able to generalize the study's total rate of adverse events to all settings. Other settings -- such as countries with lower rates o...Blood test can accurately diagnose heart failure in emergency patients
...esearchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds that measuring levels of a protein called NT-proBNP was significantly better at identifying heart failure than was standard clinical evaluation. The report will appear in the April 15 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology and has been released...Abnormal lung cancer screening results may help smokers quit
...viewed journal of the American Cancer Society, and finds smokers who receive one or more abnormal results on the screening test are increasingly likely to quit and remain abstinent from smoking over three years. Because up to 70 percent of smokers undergoing screening say they want to quit, many research...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
...h is often driven by adverse outcomes. "This study finds that adverse outcomes following modest errors in fibrinolytic dosing are often times not caused by the error, but by clinical factors that may contribute to higher likelihood of the error occurring," Mehta said. The ASSENT-2 trial was funded by Boehr...One-meter waistline predicts high risk of diabetes and heart disease
... in the development of diabetes and heart disease, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. No easy test exists for predicting the insulin resistance of an individual. Current guidelines suggest a cut-off for heart disease of 102 cm in men and 88 cm in women, but there are questions over the accura...Obesity adds risk of cardiovascular disease in siblings in families with a history of heart problems
A Johns Hopkins study finds that people who have a family history of heart disease have more reason than most to keep their weight down. In these families, the Hopkins team found that siblings who were obese or overweight had a 60 percent increased risk of suffering a serious ...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, April 19, 2005
...ensive strategy (Article, p. 601). An editorialist finds the analysis limited because it fails to consider factors such as social panic, disintegration of the medical infrastructure, evacuation and decontamination costs, and the current federal decision to stockpile only 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine...Brain imaging study explains Williams syndrome language gifts
...ms syndrome affects the cerebral cortex. The study finds sharply defined cortical thickening and complexity in the area of the brain important to language. Impact: The isolated, thickened cortical region in language areas is remarkable because patients with Williams syndrome show marked strengths in lan...'Virtual colonoscopy' effective in finding most polyps but may miss small ones
... to use of computer tomography as a method -- also finds that despite seeming advantage for the person being screened, there is no evidence that availability of the CT scan results in more screenings being done. CT scanning uses computers and software to display images of the colon as if the viewer were s...Day care in infancy protects against childhood leukaemia
...ely to develop leukaemia than children who do not, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. These results support the theory that reduced exposure to common infections in the first year of life increases the risk of developing acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). The study involved 6305 children (a...No evidence that calcium and vitamin D prevent fractures
A study in this week's BMJ finds no evidence that calcium and vitamin D supplements reduce the risk of fractures in older women living in the community. The researchers identified 3,314 women aged 70 and over and at high risk of hip fracture from primary care clinics. The women wer...Obesity in middle age increases risk of dementia in later life
... age increases the risk of dementia in later life, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. The study involved 10,276 members of Kaiser Permanente medical care programme in California who underwent detailed health checks from 1964 to 1973 when they were aged 40-45 and who were still members of the ...Prevalence of concussion effects linked to 'pot of gold' lawsuits, researcher says
...y to be producing fictitious symptoms." The review finds that well-motivated, younger patients, who experience no loss of consciousness, are less likely to suffer from postconcussional syndrome. By contrast, some predictors of persistent postconcussional syndrome include female gender, pre-existing psychia...A common bacterium leads to serious blood infection in many seniors, new study finds
SEATTLE--A new study finds that E. coli bacteremia--a potentially life-threat...e May issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, finds E.coli bacteremia may affect as many as 53,000 non-institutionalized people, aged 65 and older, each...