Born to lose: How birth weight affects adult health and success
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...er predictor of outcome than age, hormone receptor status or even how advanced the breast cancer was at diagnosis. The study results were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago today. "Hot flashes are a very common and disruptive problem in breast cancer...Harboring hostility may be linked to unhealthy lungs
...ing for age, height, socioeconomic status, smoking status and presence of asthma. People with higher leve...ampled. The authors speculate that people in lower status roles, Black women, White women, and Black men, who display hostility (and may be pushing against so...Adding medication improves recovery for elderly with depression, says Pitt School of Medicine study
...h participant received based on individual medical status and history. Thirty-six participants either declined new medicine or did not receive augmentation because of accompanying medical conditions. Half of the patients who did not respond to the initial treatment responded to the augmentation therapy. I...... be that the female mice because of their hormonal status have other pathways to death and disability, or need higher or lower levels of NDGA to see an effect. The large, carefully controlled study at three sites, called the NIA Interventions Testing Program, is intended to provide some of the first rel...Journal Sleep: Advanced cancer patients have less quality sleep
...he functional performance, mental health, and pain status of cancer patients. "The current findings could be of clinical importance, since in cancer, an initial sign of a symptom may hint the underlying cause of that symptom and, thus, indicating the need of a more effective symptom management," said Myst...Study: Who claims to be a pediatrician?
...line to check a pediatrician's board certification status via the ABP: www.abp.org. Finding a pediatrician that's right for you and your child While parents often opt to have a pediatrician to provide care to their child, many will instead choose a family medicine practitioner to handle their child's ...Risk of Parkinson's disease increases with pesticide exposure and head trauma
...etime exposure was then estimated blind to disease status and the results were adjusted, as appropriate, for age, sex, country of residence, tobacco use, ever having been knocked unconscious and family history of Parkinson's disease....Urgent need for guidance on mobile phone use in clinical care
...data is required. Specifically this must cover the status of consultations when clinician and patient are in different countries. At present a UK clinician may provide a consultation using a registered patient's mobile phone unaware that the patient is in another country, where their UK medical credentials ...Intake of vitamin D and calcium associated with lower risk of breast cancer before menopause
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... developing countries, and boosts three major iron status indicators, conclude authors of an Article publish... a cost-effective, sustainable way to improve iron status in developing countries." The children in the study were divided into four groups and each given t...ICU nurse working conditions linked to increase in patient infections
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...e researchers computed several variables. Drinking status was categorized as lifetime abstainers (women who reported never having 12 or more drinks in their lifetime or in any 1-year period); non-current drinkers (those who didn't consume at least one drink per month during the reference period), and curren...Emory University researchers find persistent and severe asthma associated with obesity
... no significant differences with regard to smoking status and family history of asthma. Other outcomes also found to be more common in obese patients with asthma included more frequent emergency room visits as well as greater use of both daily controller and as-needed rescue medications. Further, obese pa...Malaria 2007 -- Progressing research, persisting challenges
....D., M.P.H., Editor in Chief, JAMA, comment on the status of malaria in the world today. "Malaria remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. An estimated 3 billion individuals live in areas of risk and the disease causes more than 1 million deaths annually. Even in the United States, whe...Chronic gum disease associated with tongue cancer
.... "After adjusting for the effects of age, smoking status and the number of teeth, each millimeter of alveolar bone loss was significantly associated with a 5.23fold increase in the risk of tongue cancer. Other oral variables (the number of dental decays, fillings, crowns and root canal treatments) were not...Cigarette use may explain asthma epidemic in children, says Mailman School of Public Health study
...tes of cigarette smoking among lower socioeconomic status segments of the population within the United States are consistent with our theory, since these are the most vulnerable segments of the population among whom rates of childhood asthma are currently the most concentrated, she said. Although cigarett...The hepatitis C link: Diagnose, treat, transplant
... genotype-1 patients, separated by prior treatment status into non-responders or partial responders and randomized to three treatment groups: 1) celgosivir 400 mg once daily in combination with peginterferon alfa-2b and ribavirin (PRC); 2) celgosivir 400 mg once daily in combination with peginterferon alfa-...... the tumor. TITLE: Prostate cell differentiation status determines transient receptor potential melastatin member 8 channel subcellular localization and function AUTHOR CONTACT: Natalia Prevarskaya Universit des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France. Phone : 33-3-20-43-40-77; Fax: 33-3-20-43-4...