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UK Sports Clubs Failing to Run Comprehensive Health Checks on Professional Players

...lar comprehensive health checks on their players, finds research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The findings are based on survey results from 65 professional clubs, covering football (premiership and championship), rugby (union and league), and County cricket. Unli...

UK Army Personnel Involved in Iraqi Invasion Not at Risk from Depleted Uranium

...not absorbed dangerous levels of depleted uranium, finds research published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Depleted uranium is used in military combat to pierce armoured vehicles, and spontaneously combusts on impact into fine aerosol particles. These can either be breathed i...

Australian Research Reveals AIDS, Cancer Link

...ly three cancers associated with HIV -- this paper finds that it is more like 20," he said. Grulich, who works at the university's National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, said the findings could overturn the previously held view that some of these cancers were linked to lifestyle risks...

Genetic Factors Behind Mosquitoes Resistance to Malaria Identified

...n that grabs the parasite. TEP1 is a scout that finds the enemy, in this case malarial parasites, then plants a homing signal on the enemy and calls in the air strike, said lead study author Dr. Richard Baxter, a postdoctoral researcher in biochemistry at UT Southwestern. He said that the understandin...

Pharmacogenomic Market Gaining Greater Acceptance Across Europe

...Personalised Medicine and Pharmacogenomics Market, finds that revenues in this market totalled $57.1 million in 2005, and are likely to reach $109.4 million in 2012. "Considering the imminent benefits of pharmacogenomic testing, governments across Europe have initiated campaigns to encourage the populati...

Radical Change in the Lifestyle Might Bring a Greener Future for Brits

... the industry "pulls something out of the hat" and finds a green fuel. And the diet of the country would have to change to include much more organically-grown, locally-produced vegetables, and less meat. The result of the new "carbon economics" would be to cut energy use by half, and this new demand ...

Brits Need to Change Lifestyle to Have a Greener Future: Report

... the industry "pulls something out of the hat" and finds a green fuel. And the diet of the country would have to change to include much more organically-grown, locally-produced vegetables, and less meat. The result of the new "carbon economics" would be to cut energy use by half, and this new demand ...

Late Nights may Make Preteens Antisocial and Aggressive

...the researchers factor in early puberty, the study finds that though it does not affect either the preference for mornings or evenings, or the cortisol ratio, earlier puberty is related to more antisocial behaviour in boys, and relational aggression in girls. "The link between eveningness preference and...

Patients Taking Inhaled Steroids may Develop Pneumonia

...rol exacerbations of the disease , but a new study finds that the anti-inflammatory drugs increase the chances that these patients will be hospitalized for pneumonia. In a large cohort of patients with COPD, we found that current inhaled corticosteroid use was associated with a significant 70 percent inc...

New Technology Transforming Life for the Deaf

...he deaf in the eastern city of Valencia. Minguet finds her little multi-function phone a godsend and like... World Federation of the Deaf under way in Madrid, finds new technology a boon bolstering face-to-face communication at an event such as this. Communicatin...

Questions Raised Over Safety of In-vitro Fertilization

...s tenfold; while from Denmark a study of young men finds those conceived through fertility treatment are 50 per cent more likely to be infertile themselves. Or is it just a 'mass experiment' with desperate women as the guinea pigs and the results a time-bomb that future generations will have to defuse? ...

Male Circumcision Overstated as Deterrent to Global AIDS Pandemic

...he number of prostitutes in a country. The study finds that the more Muslim countries of North Africa do indeed suffer much less AIDS than southern and western Africa, but this lower prevalence is not due to higher numbers of circumscribed males in these Muslim communities, but rather results from the fa...

US FDA Wants Vitamin Manufacturers to Test All Ingredients

... that were claimed. If, upon inspection, the FDA finds that supplements do not contain the ingredients they claim, the agency would consider the products adulterated or misbranded. In minor cases, the agency could ask the manufacturer to remove an ingredient or revise its label. In more serious cases, it...

Being Employed on the Moon can Cause Depression

...etched, Spell notes that existing research already finds that workers in earthbound, quasi-isolated work environments, such as remote Australian mining towns or Antarctic stations, experience higher levels of depression. Spell presented his research about the mental health implications of working in a lu...

Aspartame Probe Call Rejected by FDA

...d. He goes on to add "Therefore, at this time, FDA finds no reason to alter its previous conclusion that aspartame is safe as a general purpose sweetener in food." Jacobson said researchers in previous studies all killed rats at the age of two years. Allowing the rats to live longer may have been a bette...

Death Rates Will Rise Because of Global Warming

...l not be offset by fewer deaths in milder winters finds an analysis published online ahead of print in Occupational and Environment Medicine. The Harvard researchers analysed city-specific weather data related to the deaths of more than 6.5 million people in 50 US cities between 1989 and 2000. They fo...

Expand HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs, Experts Stress

...IV Prevention to Scale: An Urgent Global Priority, finds that scientifically proven prevention programs - such as those to reduce the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission - are not being implemented on a sufficient scale, meaning they do not reach enough people, with enough intensity, to curb the epide...

RNA Play a Vital Role in Gene Activity

... believe. "We are really interested in how ncRNA finds its putative target in the genome," said Chang. "There remains a whole level of biological complexity to be explored, including how HOTAIR knows where to go, how it talks to other factors and how it controls histones." The work will also provide in...

Alternative Treatments for Arthritis

...th Aspects of Rheumatic Disease in Liege, Belgium, finds the conclusions of the Vlad report to be inaccurate and misleading. The author points out that trials by pharmaceutical companies are designed to avoid the influence of confounders that could distort the true effect of the product being tested, and...

X-ray Mammography Aids in Breast Cancer Detection

...at while screening with MRI plus X-ray mammography finds more cancers, it also leads to more false-positive results. Adding MRI to the screening program will lead to more women undergoing unnecessary follow-up procedures. ECRI Institutes analysis suggests that for every 10 additional cancers detected by ...

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