New study weighs benefits of exercise, diets
...T. LOUIS -- Those in their 50s and 60s who want to lose weight might consider heading to the cardio workou...y wants to know if they should diet or exercise to lose weight, I would suggest exercise, provided they are willing to put in the extra time and effort and ...Policy makers, networking agencies told to get their act together for nanoscience
...form healthcare and everyday lives but Europe will lose out to countries such as the US and Japan unless it can mount a coherent approach. Instead of the usual self-congratulatory rhetoric and gushing about the blue-sky potential of nanotechnology, participants were treated to several topics by expert...More insight into Alzheimer's disease with Stanford discovery of possible cause
...nk that are likely to cause brain cells to die and lose their connections to other neurons. But for the most part, scientists do not understand the underlying biological problems behind Alzheimer's, making it difficult for doctors to treat, let alone cure. "We don't have a treatment that alters the cours...'Mindless Eating' is a nourishing read
...e clues to ways we can continue to munch and still lose weight. Unlike the typical "diet book," his volum... should be packaged. Some 95 percent of those who lose weight on a well-meaning but short-lived diet soon gain it back, Wansink says; deprivation diets sim...New info on eating disorders in two Stanford/Packard children's studies
...cates that pre-teens with eating disorders tend to lose weight more quickly than adolescents with the cond... such sites reported learning about new methods to lose weight or to purge. "Parents and physicians need to realize that the Internet is essentially an un...Blacks less likely to recognize overweight and obesity, study shows
...essure exists in the black community for people to lose weight through diet and exercise because of a cultural acceptance of higher body weights and heavier body shapes. "We think that misperception can be very useful when it comes to protecting people against overly stringent body image ideals and eat...Natural protein stops deadly human brain cancer in mice
...eins, that cause neural stem-cell-like clusters to lose their stem cell properties, which in turn stops their ability to divide. First they pretreated human glioblastoma cells with bone morphogenic protein 4 (BMP4), then injected these treated cells into mouse brains. In mice injected with cells that wer...MGH study examines impact of infection with both HIV and hepatitis C virus
...infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, may lose that ability. In a report in the December issue of PLOS Medicine, a group of researchers from the Partners AIDS Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (PARC-MGH) report one of the first studies of how HIV infection impacts immune system f...Weight loss through calorie restriction, but not exercise, may lead to bone loss
Men and women who lose weight by cutting calories also may be losing bone density, but weight loss through exercise does not seem to produce the same effect, according to a report in the December 11/25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journa...Height loss in older men associated with increased risk of heart disease, death
Men who lose 3 centimeters or more of height as they age have an increased risk of death and of coronary heart diseases events, according to a report in the December 11/25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Changes in bon...Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible
...centration. Only one patient seemed to continue to lose some brain volume, and this was also the patient who had been an alcoholic for the longest time. The leader of the research, Dr Andreas Bartsch from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, said: "The core message from this study is that, for alcohol...Study offers window into human behavior, brain disease
...curs. "The social and behavioral skills that you lose in frontotemporal dementia are so characteristically human, or at least strongly associated with higher primates," he reflects. "I think it's fascinating from an evolutionary perspective that we have these new neurons that are involved in social be...Should smokers be refused surgery?
... Patients are not required to visit fitness clubs, lose 25 pounds, or take drugs to lower blood pressure before surgery. And many non-smokers cost society large sums of money in health care because of activities they choose to take part in. Discriminating against smokers has become an acceptable norm, h...Education does not protect against age-related memory loss, say USC researchers
...st that after age 70, educated adults may begin to lose the ability to use their schooling to compensate for normal, age-related memory loss. Study director Eileen Crimmins of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology says she wouldn't recommend halting any schooling based on the results. But they he...MU researcher placing eye implants in cats to help humans see
... that Narfstrom is working with typically start to lose their sight when they are around one or two years old and are completely blind by age four. To date, Narfstrom has performed surgeries in severely visually impaired or blind cats. During the surgery, Narfstrom makes two small cuts into the sclera,...Study suggests hip fractures not caused by benzodiazepine use after all
...bruptly terminated, as may be the case when people lose coverage of a drug, negative effects can occur, such as withdrawal reactions, seizures, emergency department visits, and hospital admissions. These may offset any potential savings achieved by limiting coverage of benzodiazepines. The investigators...Common blood pressure drug treats muscular dystrophy in mice
...e. As a person with DMD ages, their muscles slowly lose the ability to regenerate and repair, which leads to loss of muscle function, explains Cohn. TGF-beta never had been implicated as a cause of the inability to repair muscle in DMD. So the researchers examined muscles from mice genetically enginee...Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
...stipulate that those hospitalized at state expense lose their social welfare benefits during hospitalization (the median stay for a suspected case of MDR-TB: almost 200 days). As a result, many patients forego hospitalization and frequently default on treatment adherence. About one in six of the country...... recalling and understanding words. In PPA, people lose the ability to express themselves and understand s...y subway system. By contrast, Alzheimer's patients lose interest in their hobbies, family life and may become idle. As PPA progresses over a number of year...