Sporting research aims to reduce childhood obesity
...ill participate in a series of questionnaires. The rate of childhood obesity has risen greatly in many nations in the past 20 years. Physical activity plays animportant role in preventing or reducing the severity of the condition but little is known about how to increaseand maintain childrens involvement ...Bypassing eggs, flu vaccine grown in insect cells shows promise
.... Together, the two vaccines reduced flu infection rate by 86 percent. Even though the study was small, the results are very promising, said Treanor, who is professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology and director of the Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit at the University of Rochester. ...Chance of hysterectomy predicted by multi-year study
...r four to eight years to understand not only their rate of hysterectomy, but also predictions of their qua...conditions lead to hysterectomy, Learman said. The rate of hysterectomy also has varied widely across the nation and worldwide, raising questions of the app...Drug used to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child damages DNA
...e transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI), have reduced the rate of transmission from mother to child to less than 2 percent in infants who are not breast fed. NRTIs work by inhibiting the viral reverse transcriptase and by incorporating into the viral DNA and terminating nascent strands, thus preventing the vir...Tai Chi boosts immunity to shingles virus in older adults, NIH-sponsored study reports
... The study further showed that the Tai Chi group's rate of increase in immunity over the course of the 25-week study was double that of the health education (control) group. The Tai Chi and health education groups' VZV immunity had been similar when the study began. In addition, the Tai Chi group report......ion, simple culture techniques, the high mortality rate of the associated pulmonary disease, availability of expert advice from former weapons scientists, or perhaps only the knowledge that many countries have investigated its use as a weapon. Untreated bubonic plague has mortality of 50 to 90 per cent;...Mild head injuries increase risk of sleep disorders
...ders in this study is considerably higher than the rate of these disorders among people attending sleep clinics for insomnia, which is seven to 10 percent," said Ayalon. Ayalon said these findings suggest that sleep disorders that involve changes in the timing of sleep may be relatively frequent among ...Hospital errors rise 3 percent -- HealthGrades patient-safety study
...'s top-performing hospitals had a 40 percent lower rate of medical errors when compared with the poorest-p...e patients in the nation's hospitals, an incidence rate of 2.86 percent. 247,662 deaths were potentially preventable over the three years, and Medicare pat...Study finds lack of health insurance may be associated with increased rates of stroke
...rs, poorer control of hypertension and an increase rate of stroke and death. We believe that our findings underscore the great importance of medical insurance in maintaining the health of the population, says Fowler-Brown. As medical science continues to advance, we fear that the health disparities betwe...Rapid response was crucial to containing the 1918 flu pandemic
...interventions applied and the resulting peak death rate seen. Perhaps more importantly, both studies showe... In the most extreme disparity, the peak mortality rate in St. Louis was only one-eighth that of Philadelphia, the worst-hit city in the survey. In contrast...Healthy schools project gets an 'A'
...th. They learn how to calculate their target heart rate and the different activities they can do to achieve it. Throughout the program period there are three interactive assemblies based on the Physical Education classes. Activities at these assemblies include exercises such as yoga, circuit-training, ...A new, nanoporous ceramic filter offers hope to kidney-dialysis patients
... dialysis and to double the glomulellar filtration rate (GFR), or rate of toxin removal. GFR is 100 percent in a normal person but only 15 percent at best for a dialysis p...Radiofrequency ablation effective treatment for inoperable lung cancer
...l School in Providence. The best two-year survival rate for early-stage lung cancer using EBT is 51 percen...derwent conventional EBT had a three-year survival rate of 34 percent. Patients with colorectal pulmonary metastasis, in which cancer began in the colon a...Rhode Island Hospital study confirms RF ablation effective for treating inoperable lung cancer
...and Hospital researchers noted a two-year survival rate at 57 percent compared to 51 percent using EBT. "With lung cancer screening for at-risk individuals on the horizon, we will be able to detect lung cancers at earlier stages. In my lifetime, I foresee image-guided radiofrequency ablation replacing ...Stem cells speed growth of healthy liver tissue
...nd stem cell injection had double the liver growth rate and gain in liver volume, compared with those who underwent PVE alone. As a result, the patients who received the combined treatment were able to undergo surgery an average of 18 days sooner than patients who received PVE only. Our research demonst...Lung cancer screening regimen provides opportunity for cure
... (ACS). According to the study, the estimated cure rate for lung cancer in the absence of screening is app...urnal of Medicine, demonstrated a 10-year survival rate of 92 percent among patients with Stage 1 lung cancer when diagnosed early and promptly treated. I...Children's Hospital Boston presents at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions
...on during the procedure, all regained normal heart rate and ventricular function within about half an hour, and the cardiac procedure had to be halted in only six of these 34 fetuses. There were six fetal deaths within 72 hours, of whom four had developed unstable cardiac function during the procedure. Fu...MERLIN TIMI-36 study provides new safety and efficacy data for unique anti-anginal therapy
...ginal therapy, does not significantly reduce heart rate or blood pressure. The MERLIN TIMI-36 study evaluated the safety and efficacy of ranolazine in the short- and long-term treatment of patients with non-ST elevation ACS. The placebo-controlled, double-blind study enrolled 6,560 ACS patients at 440 ...Patient adherence for successful tuberculosis treatment
...e to treatment was observed in the first case: the rate of cure from tuberculosis rose by 20% and the prop...ategy, by improving adherence to treatment and the rate of successful patient outcomes, should thus help restrict the spread of the disease and prevent the ...Who gets heart failure? Race takes back seat to diabetes and high blood pressure
... races, including Hispanics and Caucasians. Their rate was almost five times that of Chinese Americans (1 case per 1,000 per year) and almost twice that of Caucasians (2.4 cases per 1,000 per year). However, these apparent risk differences among races almost disappeared (dropping from twice as likely...