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...hat have occurred in the past couple of years, are likely to become far more common." The study used the N...centrations. The researchers found that areas most likely to face substantial increases in the dangerous heat index were concentrated largely in coastal areas...How to market diet pills: Prescription and over-the-counter pills may increase unhealthy behavior
...r-the-counter drug for their condition become more likely to engage in bad habits like junk food and a sedentary lifestyle. This boomerang effect happens for two reasons. First, drug marketing undermines motivation to live a healthy lifestyle why bother eating low-fat foods when a drug exists to fight f...Sleep-related breathing disorder common among aggressive, bullying schoolchildren
...ior and bullying, common among schoolchildren, are likely to have multiple causes, one of which may be an un...methods, that schoolchildren who bully may be more likely to have an SRBD than their peers. "Treatment of an SRBD has been shown to improve other behavior...Going to bed late may affect the health, academic performance of college students
...Ill. College students who go to bed late are more likely to have poor quality sleep, which may affect their mental health and academic performance, according to a research abstract that will be presented Wednesday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS)....Late weekend sleep among teens may lead to poor academic performance
...ke up for it by sleeping late on weekends are more likely to perform poorly in the classroom. This is because, on weekends, they are waking up at a time that is later than their internal body clock expects. The fact that their clock must get used to a new routine may affect their ability to be awake early...Poor sleep hygiene in children associated with behavioral problems
...f children are found to snore. Almost everyone is likely to snore at one time or another. Snoring can, however, be indicative of a more serious condition, namely, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), which refers to a sleep-related breathing disorder that causes one's body to stop breathing during sleep. OSA...Extended duration work shifts risky to the safety, well-being of medical interns, patients
...erse patient outcome were more than three times as likely to report high stress in that month. "These results suggest that extended duration shifts negatively impact patient safety and the well-being of medical interns. They have important public policy implications for post-graduate medical education an...Students with medical-related majors more likely to have poor quality sleep
...lege students with medical-related majors are more likely to have poorer quality of sleep in comparison to those with a humanities major, according to a research abstract that will be presented Wednesday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS). The stud...Weill Cornell Medical College announces gifts totaling $400M
... researchers throughout Cornell University that is likely to contribute to the well being of generations to come of fellow Americans," said Peter Meinig, Chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees. "Those who dare to dream are the people who make a difference in this world. With this amazing gif...Sleep restriction affects children's speech
... not getting an adequate amount of sleep were more likely to phonetically code incorrectly different speech sounds. "Our research has shown that even minor sleep loss of one hour less per night for seven nights contributes to disruptions in neurocognitive functioning," said Waford. "The early school year...Catastrophic events can affect a person's sleep
...nts. Disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are more likely to affect the quality and the quantity of a person's sleep, according to a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS). Denise Sharon, MD, PhD, of the...Night shift nurses more likely to have poor sleep habits
...ER, Ill. Nurses who work the night shift are more likely to have poor sleep habits, a practice that can increase the likelihood of committing serious errors that can put the safety of themselves as well as their patients at risk, according to a research abstract that will be presented Monday at SLEEP 2007,...Physician-researchers often less successful in obtaining NIH funding
...cian researchers with only an M.D. degree are less likely to receive NIH research grants than researchers with a Ph.D. degree or those with both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, according to a study in the June 13 issue of JAMA. "Declines in the number of physician-scientist applicants and recipients of National ...Children with sleep disorder symptoms are more likely to have trouble academically
...Students with symptoms of sleep disorders are more likely to receive bad grades in classes such as math, reading and writing than peers without symptoms of sleep disorders, according to a research abstract that will be presented Monday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sl...Rising skin cancer rates are more likely to affect wealthy people, says 12-year review
...orthern Ireland since the early 1990s and are more likely to affect men, older people and those living in mo...cers. They found that men were 30 per cent more likely to suffer from basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer, which affected some 1,444 ...Avian influenza on people's minds
...The study focused on what American consumers would likely do if highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza were ...n parts. Instead, suggests Condry, Consumers are likely to try to eliminate the risk entirely by avoiding consumption of poultry altogether. In fact, the s...Split the difference: Pill-splitting study looks at cost-saving step that could be used by millions
...th center. They were also better educated and more likely to be white and female than the general U.S. adult...assigned to receive co-pay reductions were no more likely than the other patients to refill their prescriptions on time or to experience an increase in choles...Experts call for urgent research into anti-epileptic drugs given to children
... have proved popular, mainly because they are less likely to react with other prescribed drugs. However, these newer AEDs are subject to fewer licensing restrictions because there is more evidence about their benefits, gathered from controlled trials, than their more traditional counterparts. As new safet......and lives will be saved. While whites were more likely than either blacks or Hispanics to have had a colo...and lives will be saved. While whites were more likely than either blacks or Hispanics to have had a colonoscopy in 2003, the three groups screening rates ...Aging stem cells in mice may hold answers to diseases of the aged, Stanford study finds
...previous work points out why older people are more likely to get blood diseases, such as leukemia or anemia, and are less likely to make new antibodies that would protect against infections like the flu," said senior author Irvin...