Most seniors now have drug coverage, U-M study shows
...6. The overall enrollment figures found in this study were quite similar to those reported by the U.S. D...coverage was that they used few or no drugs. The study also asked people about the difficulty of the decision process, and whether they were confident that...To gain muscle and lose fat, drink milk: study
Hamilton, ON. August 8, 2007 Part of an ongoing study into the impact of drinking milk after heavy weigh...nd that milk helps exercisers burn more fat. The study by researchers at McMaster University and published today in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrit...Stress may leave your mouth a mess
...ship between stress and periodontal diseases, said study author Daiane Peruzzo, PhD. However, patients who ...ection between stress and periodontal diseases. A study in the July issue of the JOP found that increased levels of cortisol can lead to increased destructi...Where's the beef? Not enough of it is on elders' plates, muscle-metabolism study suggests
... at turning protein-rich food into muscle. A new study published today suggests that a diet containing a ...addon-Jones is the senior author of a paper on the study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and now available online...Baby DVDs, videos may hinder, not help, infants' language development
... comes to acquiring vocabulary, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Washington and...abularies on toddlers 17 to 24 months of age. The study was published today in the Journal of Pediatrics. The most important fact to come from this study is...Refusal of medical and surgical interventions common among chronically ill elderly
...mmended by their physicians, according to a recent study by Yale School of Medicine researchers. The study suggests that physicians continue to recommend invasive or risky interventions for people with advan...Penn researchers discover novel pathway for increasing 'good' cholesterol
...t for ultimately controlling good cholesterol. The study appears in the current issue of Cell Metabolism. ...the risk of heart attack and stroke. Although this study was performed in mice, humans have the same proprotein convertases and endothelial lipase, and these...Not all 'drug-related deaths' are 'drug-related'
...he performance of Drug and Alcohol Action Teams, a study published in the online open access journal Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention and Policy suggests. DRDs are currently used to help evaluate the success of Drug and Alcohol Action Teams in England and Wales, but the term's exact meaning varies a...Obesity linked to hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease
...d deathincreases along with body weight, reports a study in the September Clinical Journal of the American ...al prognostic and therapeutic implications." The study was based on a database of 496 U.S. veterans with moderate to severe CKD who were not yet on dialysi...Better mobility keeps seniors healthier
...uality-of-Life for a group of older Americans. The study revealed that mobility is a key factor impacting q...yle Interventions and Independence for EldersPilot study (LIFEP) was a randomized, controlled trial that compared a physical activity intervention to a non-e......unemployment but caused more road accidents. The study also shows that as the socioeconomic status, measured here by unemployment rates, of the community changes, so do the demographics and mortality rates of the trauma population. There were more male patients, African American patients and deaths at ti...Researchers find vitamin B1 deficiency key to vascular problems for diabetic patients
...e researchers feel that important areas for future study are: confirmation of low plasma thiamine concentrations in diabetic populations of other countries independent of local diet; the evaluation of thiamine and thiamine derivatives to correct low plasma thiamine concentration in diabetes, reverse vascul...Geriatric health conditions have major effect on half of all seniors
ANN ARBOR, Mich. A broad study of adults ages 65 and older has found that half of...conditions, stroke and psychiatric problems. The study which appears in the Aug. 7 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine fills a major gap in research...Wireless technology shows promise in diagnosing pediatric intestinal disease
Parma, Italy August 07, 2007 - A new study in the American Journal of Gastroenterology sugges...apsule endoscopy is a useful and safe technique to study small bowel health in children. While the technology has become widely used in adult treatment, this...Even older women at high risk have little interest in being tested for HIV, study finds
...risk factors for lifetime exposure, according to a study published in the July/August edition of the Journa...he course of a single, face-to-face interview with study participants, most of whom said they were not currently sexually active. More than 60 percent of t...New research discovers independent brain networks control human walking
(Baltimore, MD) - In a study published in the August issue of Nature Neuroscien... incredibly exciting, said Dr. Amy Bastian, senior study author and Director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. These findin...Parents' depression can weigh on children
...orer quality of life than normal-weight peers. UFs study is one of the first to examine how factors such as parent distress, depression and bullying affect a childs well-being, giving researchers a better understanding of how to help overweight children. UF researchers surveyed 96 overweight or obese chi...Diets high in choline may increase risk for colorectal polyps
...ot alwayslead to colorectal cancer, according to a study published online in the August 7 Journal of the N...ased risk for colorectal polyps. This is the first study to examine the association between choline and colorectal polyps. Eunyoung Cho, Sc.D., of Brigham...Chemotherapy with bevacizumab increases risk of blood clots in arteries
...h treatment with chemotherapy only, according to a study published online August 7 in the Journal of the N...ese events, and the risk factorsidentified in this study should be considered when making treatment decisions for individual patients, the authors write. ...Study reveals gaps in vaccine financing for underinsured children
...University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, comments on the study by Lee and colleagues. Strong proponents of immunization will likely object to the concept of universally recommended vaccines ranked on their relative merits. Nonetheless, that position fails to acknowledge the implicit prioritization of recommend...