Metabolic syndrome points to heart health
Typified by high blood pressure, weight gain around the waist and problems regulating blood sugar, metabolic syndrome may also be associated with compromised heart structure and function, according to a paper published in the online open access journal BMC Cardiovasc...Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
...now in their mid-60s, who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957. In 2003-04, a random subsample of... college or a college degree were more likely than high school graduates to have a DPAHC. So were those who believed they could confide in a family member. ...UK and other European countries should introduce universal childhood hepatitis B vaccination
... of hepatitis B-positive individuals from areas of high endemicity. The Review also examines the role of drug users, short- and long-haul travellers, and tattoos and body piercing. The authors say that the advantages of a universal vaccination programme include that it is the most effective means of r...Meningitis: effectiveness of preventive vaccination demonstrated
...en Nesseiria meningitis (or meningococcus) provoke high mortality in children and young people under 20 ye...entive vaccination campaign. But it is costly. Its high price, at 11 to 22 euros per dose, means it remains inaccessible for African countries. These have a...Dartmouth's alternative breast imaging techniques sort abnormal from normal tissue
...the new methods of electromagnetic imaging offer a high contrast and the ability to distinguish between healthy breast tissue and abnormal tissue. Their study appears in the May 2007 issue of Radiology, the journal of the Radiological Society of North America. The interdisciplinary team includes resear...Folic acid supplements do not appear to reduce risk of colorectal tumors
...lorectum, this line of investigation should have a high priority," the authors write. (JAMA. 2007;297:2351-2359. Available pre-embargo to the media at www.jamamedia.org ) Editor's Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, ...Born to lose: How birth weight affects adult health and success
...birth increases the probability of dropping out of high school by one-third, reduces yearly earnings by ab...n are roughly one-third more likely to drop out of high school relative other children. Low birth weight has significant negative effects on adult heal...DFG approves 11 new Collaborative Research Centers
...tive optical techniques, which allow exceptionally high spatial or temporal resolution to be achieved or which use X-rays, are being developed for this study. (Host university: Georg-August University of Gttingen, Coordinator: Tim Salditt) Identifying a route to rapid and targeted development of a new c...Low-carb diets' effects linked to rise in newly identified 'starvation hormone'
...rs, the special diet resulted only in fatty liver, high blood lipids, and reduced blood ketones, due at le...tos-Flier said. In obese individuals, for example, high insulin levels may interfere with the liver hormone, she said....Study identifies new regulator of fat metabolism
...ng standard animal chow diets and diets moderately high in both fats and carbohydrates, as well as ketogen...es studied mice that had been fed a ketogenic diet high in both saturated fat and unsaturated fat and practically devoid of carbohydrates. Despite the h...USC researchers show that molecular markers predict tumor recurrence
...s not only help us to identify patients who are at high risk, but they may be critical to selecting the most efficient therapy. Angiogenesis refers to the blood vessel formation that provides nutrients and oxygen to cancerous growths. Researchers analyzed blood specimens that were obtained at USC medica...MU researchers find mechanisms that may unlock answers to Alzheimer's disease
...e effects of statin drugs, typically used to treat high cholesterol. Woods previous research showed that statins have other beneficial effects in addition to lowering cholesterol. His study will test if the drugs also combat the ill effects of A-beta and limit the progression of Alzheimers disease. Find...Benefits of school-based fitness programs fade after summer
...ular fitness, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol and hypertension. Aaron L. Carrel, M.D., and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin Childrens Hospital, Madison, previously conducted a randomized controlled trial in which 17 overweight children were assigned to participate in a lif...Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
...committed suicide. In 2005, more than 8 percent of high school students reported one or more suicide attem...ts (age 14 and older) from 87 New York City public high schools in 2005. The surveys measured different risk behaviors such as use of tobacco, alcohol and o...Study examines characteristics of female high school students who report steroid use
...s using a nationally representative sample of U.S. high schools completed in 2003. A total of 7,544 female students in grades nine through 12 completed the survey, which included questions about sports participation as well as steroids, ecstasy use and other illegal or unhealthy behaviors. A total of 5...Do financial incentives for physicians improve quality of care for patients?
... receive financial rewards in return for providing high quality medical care. In this study, which was conducted in London, Dr. Christopher Millett and colleagues investigated whether the introduction of a pay-for-performance incentive would improve the quality of care received by people with diabetes ...Hot flashes may be welcome sign in women with breast cancer, study says
...ulti-site randomized trial of the impact of a diet high in vegetables, fruits and fiber, and low in fat on the recurrence of breast cancer. The WHEL participating institutions are University of California, San Diego and Davis, Stanford University, Kaiser Permanente in Oakland and Portland, University of A...Snoring in children might be an allergic type disease
...ed more than three nights per week. This is a very high prevalence in five year old children and is partly due to all of the children having rhinitis which is often found in children who snore. Dr Nat Marshall, from Sydneys Woolcock Institute of Medical Research said the study aimed to investigate whet...AMPAKINE compounds a new potential treatment for respiratory depression
...nse Cortex will evaluate a number of novel low and high impact AMPAKINE compounds for a range of new respiratory applications, such as, respiratory depression induced by opiates and barbiturates to start and others to be named at a future time. In return, Cortex will provide the University with an und...New Orleans levee report finished by panel including University of Texas at Austin engineer
...he factors that directly or indirectly led to this high risk was a major goal of the ASCE panel as an esse...e informed decisions about the future. Given the high risk, some very significant decisions need to be made about how New Orleans is going to be redevelop...