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Adolescents Who Walk To School Are Fitter, More Active

...rate to vigorous physical activity among 92 pupils aged 13-14 years, from four schools in the Edinburgh area of Scotland. Pupils were asked to wear accelerometers (an instrument used to measure vertical movement) throughout the day and were surveyed about their journey to school. Pupils were split into t...

Early Screening For Hearing Impairments In Newborn Can Be Helpful

...dy the researchers reviewed a group of 66 children aged between 7–9 years with bilateral PCHI that had undergone physiological screens of hearing soon after birth, and compared them with a group who only had distraction tests at age 7–8 months. The investigators found that the proportion of children with ...

Latest Research Shows That Multivitamins Might Not Prevent Infections In All Elderly

... the study researchers recruited 910 men and women aged 65 or over who did not take vitamins or minerals and randomised them to receive either a daily multivitamin and multimineral supplement or a placebo for one year. While on the study participants were asked to record contacts with primary care for inf...

Chicken Pox Hospitalizations Are Becoming Less

...s recommended for routine immunization of children aged 12 to 18 months and for older susceptible children...eadily, reaching 81 percent in 2002 among children aged 19 to 35 months nationally, while varicella disease incidence has declined in all age groups. Howeve...

"An Armour against pleasure, and a cobweb against infection" – Has the condom withstood the test of time

...pping method . These condoms were thicker and also aged quickly and quality was an issue often raised. However Frederick Killian in 1919 started a new process and the latex condoms came into vogue. It had the advantage of ageing less quickly and being thinner and odourless. The condoms started selling i...

A Latest Study Links Fish To Stroke

...arotene, vitamin C and vitamin E by 4,028 children aged between 0 and 19 years, estimating intake from total household dietary intake. The main aim of the study was to find out whether there was any correlation between consumption of these foods and nutrients in childhood and cause of death in adulthood...

The Link between obesity and Breast Cancer

...d with a 65 per cent reduction in cancer risk when aged 30-40 years old. But the women in this group who gained 10 pounds or more during the same time of their lives were 44 per cent more at risk of developing breast cancer if they had two children or more. However there was no association seen between ...

Fat Consumption Could Play A Vital Role In Affecting A Child’s Memory

...intake of different types of fat in 3,666 children aged six to 16 years old who were interviewed about their diets for the Third National Health and Nutrition Survey between 1988 and 1994. Researchers then assessed the children’s psychosocial functioning through interviews with each child’s mother. Cognit...

Natural Sulfur Can Treat Pain From Osteoarthritis

...nd, placebo-controlled trial. Fifty men and women, aged 40-76 with documented knee OA and arthritis pain were enrolled. Patients with any other type of arthritis or chronic pain were excluded. Twenty-five of the test subjects were administered MSM 3g twice a day and 25 were given placebo twice a day for...

Zinc Supplements Once A Week Can Fight Illness In Children

...ust 2000 the investigators recruited 1621 children aged 2–12 months from Kamalapur, Bangladesh. Half the children were assigned to a weekly 70mg dose of zinc and half to placebo. The investigators found mortality was reduced by 85% in the group assigned zinc. Children younger than 12 months in this group ...

Hollywood Actress Hunter criticises Hatcher for weight loss.

...en for their obsession to be thin saying that this aged their faces prematurely. "Catherine Deneuve once said that as a woman gets older, she has to choose between her face and her bottom. I would choose my face within two seconds. When women get too skinny, like Teri Hatcher, it shows on their faces an...

The Link Between Caffeine Drinks And Obesity

...atest study researchers recruited 10 healthy women aged 18 to 22 from a range of ethnicities. The subjects fasted overnight and were randomly given either 250ml of an energy drink containing 28g sucrose and 81mg caffeine per 250ml can, which is similar to the amount of sugar in soft drinks and caffeine in...

Obesity Can Be Caused By Consumption Of Energy Drinks

...tment of Surgery. They recruited 10 healthy women aged 18 to 22 from a range of ethnicities. The subjects fasted overnight and were randomly given either 250ml of an energy drink or lemonade on the first day and the alternative on the second day of testing. Lemonade was chosen because while both drinks c...

Cannabis to be tested to help patients with respiratory diseases

...sease (COPD). The team is looking for volunteers aged between 50 and 70, who don't have breathing difficulties. The volunteers will be hooked up to a circuit to regulate and measure their breathing. Carbon dioxide will be added to the air breathed by the volunteers, causing the sensation of breathlessne...

A Protein-Rich Diet Combined With Exercise Found To Be More Effective In Weight Loss

...scle. For the study researchers recruited 48 women aged around 46 years with a body mass index of 33 kg/m(2) during weight loss. Half the women were asked to eat a protein-rich diet containing specific levels of leucine, one of the essential amino acids, for four months. The others were asked to follow a ...

New Drugs For High Blood Pressure Better Than Old Ones

...dopril. The investigators recruited 19257 patients aged between 40–79 years who had a least three other risk factors for cardiovascular events. Half of the patients were assigned the atenolol based regimen and half the amlodipine-based regimen. After 5 years the investigators found those allocated the aml...

Mental exercises reduces brain ageing

...sor Robertson conducted a study with 3000 recruits aged between 65 to 94, the study recruits were given va...in function of 7 to 14 years younger than the same aged control groups. “As the population ages, people are going to have to stay mentally active longer....

Do not regret growing older, It is a privilege denied to many

...rried out by researchers has found out that people aged 65 to 93 years were more likely to ask each other ... questions in a public setting than younger people aged 18 to 25. Yet the study also found that older people were just as likely as younger ones to agree ...

Obesity Linked To Deep Vein Thrombosis

... 2.02. Obesity had the greatest impact on patients aged less than 40 years, in whom the relative risk for ...and the relative risk for DVT was 5.20. In females aged less than 40 years, the relative risk for DVT comparing obese with non-obese patients was 6.10. In m...

Heart Patients More At Risk Get Fewer Medicines

...failure. The researchers evaluated 1,418 patients, aged 79 years or younger, with documented left ventricular ejection fraction (a measure of the heart's pumping ability) of 40 percent or less and with low-, average-, and high-predicted risk of death within 1 year. All patients survived to hospital discha...

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