Exercise, weight control may help reduce risk of breast cancer, Meharry-Vanderbilt study suggests
...balance assessments," said Malin. "Self-reporting leads to under-reporting, particularly when overweight people account for their own energy intake. They have a tendency to give socially acceptable answers, or to respond based on their desire to lose weight and improve their eating habits." Extrapolation...Key to breast cancer prevention could hang in the balance
...balance assessments," said Malin. "Self-reporting leads to under-reporting, particularly when overweight people account for their own energy intake. They have a tendency to give socially acceptable answers, or to respond based on their desire to lose weight and improve their eating habits." Extrapolation...Research results from the 'Era of Hope' Department of Defense breast cancer research program meeting
..."We wanted to confirm that shortening of telomeres leads to genomic instability, which is a critical step in the progression to recurrent cancer," said Christopher Heaphy, a Ph.D. student in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque, NM...New technology can boost bottom lines for US hospitals
...that enables "Remote Concurrent Coding" (RCC). RCC leads to more comprehensive and accurate documentation, which is the key to hospital revenues. Under the current system, hospitals review patient charts and charges, and submit their claims to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers for services rendered o...Lowering resistance to insulin may delay or prevent onset of type 2 diabetes
...e under the heavy load and wear out. Their failure leads to type 2 diabetes. Pioglitazone makes the body's cells more sensitive to insulin, reducing beta cells' workload. Researchers saw further evidence of the importance of treating insulin resistance to protect beta cells, too. Under the previous study...Variations in four inflammatory genes may predispose Mexican Americans to insulin resistance
...lays a role in insulin resistance, a syndrome that leads to diabetes and heart disease and affects about on...ld up in the blood. Over time, insulin resistance leads to heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and polycystic ovarian syndrome. In fact, ...Diabetic retinopathy occurs in pre-diabetes
...in the small vessels in the back of the eye, often leads to loss of vision. Regular eye examinations to diagnose retinopathy are recommended for patients with diabetes because treatment with laser photocoagulation can often prevent blindness in more advanced cases. Diabetic retinopathy is still the most...Can't serve an ace? Could be muscle fatigue
...igued the brain must activate them harder and this leads to errors about where the different body parts are located." Professor Proske said the research could also offer insight into the symptoms of some motor system diseases such as Parkinson's disease. The abnormal movements were likely to relate, in par...Avoiding amputation: Early infection intervention can save feet & legs
...onditions, it can be the first step on a road that leads to the amputation of a foot -- or even a leg. Now...foot wound becomes an ulcer, exposes the bone, and leads to osteomyelitis," says Henke. About half of the U-M patients had been on antibiotics before being h...Insomnia may precede and prolong major depression
...r or not cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia leads to fewer, shorter and less severe bouts of depression, as well as to improved pain tolerance. In addition to the studies mentioned above, the sleep lab is also conducting clinical trials on insomnia secondary to cancer and a variety of treatment stu...Cancer researcher Susan Horwitz wins Alpert prize for Taxol work
... growth at various stages including mitosis, which leads to cellular stress resulting in eventual death. In fact the drug has become a valuable tool in basic cancer research to help delineate the function of microtubules. Work from Dr. Horwitz's laboratory revealed that Taxol binds specifically to beta-tu...Aging eye more susceptible to serious damage, scientists report
...hange in lens stiffness during a person's lifetime leads to a lens that is four times stiffer than at birth, and this has implications for the likelihood of eye injury," said Joel D. Stitzel, Ph.D., of the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest Center for Injury Biomechanics, and three colleagues, writing in the June i...Determining prognosis in patients with chest pain now easier and more accurate
...etect coronary artery disease - a risk factor that leads to heart attacks. This study, from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and supported by a local grant (Hubbard Foundation), performed dobutamine stress echoes in 158 patients presenting with chest pain and possible acute coronary syndrome usi...The promise of a tetracycline antibiotic for treating osteoarthritis
...t pain may serve as an indicator of synovitis that leads to cartilage destruction," observes the study's leading author, Kenneth D. Brandt, M.D. Throughout the trial, fewer than 5 percent of all subjects report...Researchers link nursing injuries to staffing levels
... the fewer the workplace caregiver injuries, which leads to better quality of care, say researchers from the University of Toronto and the University of Maryland. The study, which appears in the July 1 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, is authored by University of Maryland School of Nursing ...Medical malpractice concerns lead to more breast biopsies
...xtremely anxious about breast cancer. More testing leads to more anxiety among women." Dr. Elmore and colleagues surveyed 124 radiologists who regularly interpret mammograms in Washington, Colorado and New Hampshire. A majority (76.4 percent) of respondents expressed concern over the impact that medical m...Voice-to-voice translation machine perfects bedside manner
...n replies into spoken English. Shrikanth Narayanan leads the large multidisciplinary USC Viterbi School team that developed Transonics. One member of this team presented a report on the system June 25 at the Association for Computational Linguistics conference in Ann Arbor Michigan. "Fluent two-way machin...Health professionals believe gender bias limits women's progression in NHS
...onal role as caregiver on the domestic front often leads to part-time working patterns and this is one reason for their lack of progression. There is a strong perception that NHS managers do not view part-time workers for career advancement in the same way as full-time staff. "Those taking part in the stu...Animal research suggests new treatment target for epilepsy
...rmal communication to continue. "If this research leads to drugs that can target these newly discovered receptors, it would be an important advance in therapy," said William L. Bell, M.D., a specialist in epilepsy at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Godwin explained that design of improved ...Nature publication reports key links between mechanisms of aging and metabolic disorders
...f sustained excess blood glucose which, over time, leads to the deposition of visceral fat." Two major eff...authors note, "Eventually, this feed-forward cycle leads to an altered metabolic state involving very high levels of insulin (hyperinsulinemia) induced by re...