Fat is the new normal, FSU researcher says
...he full price of a calorie has dropped by about 36 percent relative to the price of consumer goods since 1977...ght, Heiland said, citing a previous study that 87 percent of Americans, including 48 percent of obese Americans, believe that their body weight falls in the s...It's time to look at health risks in a new light, authors say
... between these death rates, found by subtracting 1 percent from 2 percent, would yield the absolute risk reduction: 1 percentage point. But the authors learned that drugs companies, journalists and some medical professionals often rely on a different measure: relative risk reduction. This term compares onl...U of M report says early-childhood intervention improves well-being through young adulthood
...d higher rates of high school completion with 71.4 percent finishing high school compared with a 63.7 percent finish rate among those in the non preschool group. Those who attended preschool also were more like...Why women get more migraines than men
... sound, and aura. That means a staggering 18 to 25 percent of women suffer from migraines, making it one of the most common disabling conditions faced by women around the globe. This 3-to-1 ratio raises the obvious question: Why" The reason, suggest researchers at UCLA, is that women may have a faster trig...Statin drugs may delay progressive artery damage in children
... artery walls, premature cardiovascular disease (5 percent by age 30; 50 percent by age 50), and an increased risk of early heart attack, Hutten said. The disorder also interferes w...Many heart attack patients still not getting emergency clot-busting treatment
...an even a decade ago, a new study finds. But 10 percent of patients who could benefit from this urgent tre...y reperfusion but didnt declined from more than 20 percent to 10 percent a notable achievement that the authors attribute to the increasing evidence of the be...European heat waves double in length since 1880
... daily summer temperatures and show that nearly 40 percent of the changes in the frequency of hot days are likely to be caused by increases in summer temperatures variability. This finding demonstrates that even a small change in the variance of daily summer temperatures can radically enhance the number of e...Study shows radiofrequency ablation highly effective in treating kidney tumors
...latively new, minimally invasive treatment was 100 percent successful in eradicating small malignant kidney t...radicated after a second treatment, for a total 93 percent success rate for all 125 tumors. The results, reported in the August issue of the American Journal o...Shining light on pancreatic cancer
...atients. The new approach also predicted, with 100 percent accuracy, polyps in patients diagnosed with a simultaneous colonoscopy. Because the experimental procedure only scans the outer few centimeters of the colon and does not require the uncomfortable cleansing process required for a colonoscopy, the re...Method shows promise for early detection of pancreatic cancer
...ssfully removed, however, the survival rate is 100 percent if a precancerous lesion is found and 50 percent for a stage 1 cancer. Using endoscopy and taking biopsies of the pancreas are extremely risky proc...Medical residents score poorly in diagnosing and managing tuberculosis
...s gave the right answer (with a median score of 63 percent for both questions.) Despite the poor results for trainees, people cannot assume that lack of comprehensive knowledge about tuberculosis leads to poor patient care, says lead study author Petros Karakousis, M.D. Medical residents may be quick to...USC law professor battles schizophrenia
...t anymore. Schizophrenia affects approximately 1 percent of the worlds population more than 3 million Americans and is classified by the National Mental Health Institutes as one of the top 10 causes of disability in the developed world. A disorder of the brain, the illness causes psychotic episodes of va...HealthGrades study: Bariatric surgery patients have fewer complications at high-volume hospitals
...(July 30, 2007) Bariatric surgery patients had 64 percent fewer complications and a 26 percent shorter hospital stay if they went to a five-star rated hospital compared with a one-star rated hosp...National quality agenda, payment reform, care integration keys to improving quality, patient safety
...y would be a challenge to care integration, and 69 percent said the lack of financial incentives would be a b...consumer resistance would be a barrier. Seventy percent of opinion leaders said that the federal government should play a leading role in helping finance he...New grant fulfills wish of late Baltimore Orioles team photographer
...e survival rate is just 60 percent, compared to 91 percent for melanoma. The number of Americans diagnosed with MCC has grown rapidly in the past 15 years to about 1,400 cases per year, a number that is expected to grow in the future. MCC usually appears as a firm, painless lump on sun-exposed areas of the...The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation invests in gastroenterology's future
...of past participants in the program showed that 93 percent were, in fact, pursuing careers in science or medicine. We are aware of one high school grantee in particular who went to medical school and became a practicing gastroenterologist, he noted. Mr. Broad, a founder of KB Homes, Inc., established The...Landmark study finds adult Delawareans with disabilities in only 'fair' to 'poor' health
... (70 percent) were from New Castle County, with 19 percent from Kent County and nearly 11 percent from Sussex County. Most were unemployed or unable to work and earned less than $15,000 per year. ...Medical students respond positively to simulated patient experience
... expansion, he said. Survey results showed that 98 percent of participants rated the correlation to basic science concepts as very good or outstanding, and 99 percent felt the same way about the presentation. Fitch, whose Ph.D. is in neuroscience and who directs th...Childhood sun exposure may lower risk of MS
... twin who spent more hours outdoors had a 25 to 57 percent reduced risk of developing MS. For example, the risk of developing MS was 49 percent lower for twins who spent more time sun tanning than their siblings. Sun exposure appears to have ...Children and young people show elevated leukaemia rates near nuclear facilities
...er cent in zero to nine year olds and seven to ten percent in zero to 25 year-olds. Childhood leukaemia is a rare disease and nuclear sites are commonly found in rural areas, which means that sample sizes tend to be small says lead author Dr Peter J Baker. The advantage of carrying out a meta-analysi...