Inability to complete quarter-mile walk is significant predictor of death and poor health in elderly
...nts six years later compared to those who did. The former group also had a significantly higher risk of persistent limitations in their mobility and related disabilities than did those who completed the full 400-meters. "A significant portion of people in the study could not complete the walk, even though ...IOF announces Strong Bones Strong Women participants
...mber USA: Peggy Fleming, Olympic Gold Medalist and former World Champion Figure Skating UK: Baroness Julia Cumberlege, former UK Health Minister, prominent osteoporosis advocate Led by Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan, these...Smokers seven times more likely to receive jolt from heart devices
...t and can't carry as much oxygen. Both smokers and former smokers have more atherosclerosis in the blood vessels of the heart that lower the oxygen level. Any of these factors can result in an imbalance of oxygen supply compared to oxygen needed by the heart. This oxygen deficiency predisposes the heart to ...Newsbriefs from the journal Chest, May 2006
... AND PNEUMONIA New research shows that current or former alcoholics have a high risk for developing Strepto...). Among patients, 128 were current alcoholics, 54 former alcoholics, and 1,165 non-alcoholics. Results indicated that patients with a history of alcohol abus...Gender may impact lung function in patients with lung cancer
...older age were strongly associated with COPD. Both former and current smokers were about 10 times more likely to have COPD compared with nonsmokers. "The absence of COPD should not lower the risk in a female patient who is otherwise considered to be at increased likelihood for developing lung cancer," said...MSKCC received record gift of $100 million from Mortimer B. Zuckerman for cancer research facility
...ice properties in the United States. He is also a former associate professor of city and regional planning ...ernational Institute of Strategic Studies. He is a former lecturer of City and Regional Planning at Yale, and a past president of the Board of Trustees of the...CMA should reinstate CMAJ editors unless they have a valid explanation for their dismissal
...Singer (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada), a former CMAJ associate editor, and Gordon Guyatt (McMaster University, Ontario, Canada) state: "We believe the appropriate standard in judging whether a conflict is about editorial independence is whether an alternative compelling explanation is available. I...Study shows schizophrenia limits understanding of body language
...eactions to human posture and movement. Bigelow, a former UI fellow in psychiatry, is now a clinical neuropsychologist at the Indianapolis Community North Hospital, and Andreasen is the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the UI. In one test, participants watched a video of human bodies in motion. The i...New lifestyles, new data planners need a modern definition of the 'family'
...ents (and often with step-parents) and adults with former partners alive. And as average length of life increases and older people are less likely to be living with their children, who are major providers of informal care, their needs will be met increasingly from outside the household." Professor Ermisch ...FDA should approve emergency contraceptive Plan B quickly to demonstrate its independence
...in this week's issue of The Lancet.von Eschenbach, former Director of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), is President George W Bush's choice to lead the FDA. The Lancet believes he would bring considerable expertise and experience to the post. However, the FDA must be led by a commissioner willing to t...The Public Library of Science launches the new open access journal PLoS Clinical Trials
...cians founded in 2000 by Nobel Prize recipient and former National Institutes of Health Director Harold Varmus, M.D. Harold Varmus says, "Members of the public participate in clinical trials, believing the results will increase knowledge. However, results are often hard to find or worse still, are not repo...News briefs from Heart Rhythm 2006
...g exertion. Jurgita Plisiene, MD, cardiologist and former fellow at the Technical University in Aachen, Germany, concluded "Physical training should be taken into account in those patients in whom drug therapy does not allow the heart to reach adequate ventricular rate control during AF." Abstract 4539: Mod...MIT 'seeing machine' offers hope to blind
...erano, an optometrist at Joslin; William Mitchell, former dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning ...acclaimed optical physicist and MIT professor; and former MIT affiliate James Cain. She has also worked with dozens of MIT graduate students and undergraduat...UF addiction medicine chief honored for lifetime achievements
...award since it was first issued in 1983, including former first lady Betty Ford, alcohol recovery pioneer the Rev. Joseph C. Martin, alcohol and drug rehabilitation expert Rabbi Abraham Twerski, M.D., and U.S. Sen. Harold E. Hughes. "It's wonderful for a researcher to be in the same group as those 34 indivi...Global health gains offset by HIV/AIDS epidemic and mortality in Eastern Europe
...nd setbacks in adult mortality in countries of the former Soviet Union. The last Global Disease Burden study was done in 1990. In the latest study Alan Lopez (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) and colleagues analysed mortality, incidence, and prevalence for 136 diseases and injuries in seven ge...Women leaders call for global action on osteoporosis
... Baroness Julia Cumberlege, member House of Lords, former UK health minister, prominent osteoporosis advoca...e USA: Peggy Fleming, Olympic Gold Medalist and former world champion in figure skating, TV sports analyst, osteoporosis advocate USA: Dr Ethel Siris, pr...Homeless young people warn researchers about the dangers of cash incentives
...s are. "For example we have been working with a former homeless youth who is writing an article on our study for Mockingbird Times, a Seattle-based newspaper aimed at young people who are homeless or in foster care. It is also widely read by the people who look after them, which is equally important. " T...Study: Breast cancer in younger black women is more likely to be an aggressive variety
...ment of family medicine; and Dr. Joseph Geradts, a former UNC Lineberger member now at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y....New contrast agents may be on horizon for better medical imaging
...nology. Watkin's findings, the result of work with former graduate student Michael McDonald, who is now completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, were published recently in the journal Academic Radiology. "The goal of this work for me was to be able to create advanced methods for the trea...Organ transplants just as successful in those with mental retardation
...searcher at the Nisonger Center , and Linda Jones, former CEO of Lifeline of Ohio, an organization that coordinates organ recoveries. It will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Pediatric Transplantation. This study is the first to compile outcome results from around the world among mentally r...