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Healthy snacks improve nutrition of kids

...Recent studies have shown that snacking is growing among US children, who consume a minimum of up to two sn...s. Researchers suspect obesity and poor nutrition among US children may be due in part to unhealthy snacking. But, as Sullivan and colleagues report in this...

Grapes, Melons Implicated in Outbreaks

...s showed the strain of S. senftenberg was the same among samples taken from people infected in California, Colorado and New Mexico. Cronquist suggested the bacteria may have infected the fruit during harvesting or in storage before it was distributed. In another case reported at the meeting, epidemiologis...

Gestational Diabetes linked to Chromosomal defici

...evalence of just over 4%, compared with roughly 2% among women without gestational diabetes. The increased risk was specifically for defects of the sex chromosomes, particularly anomalies in which the child had an extra X chromosome. In boys, this extra X can result in Klinefelter's syndrome, which is mar...

Care for footwear not required diabetic patients

According to a new study, shows that ulcer rates among diabetes wearing special shoes are no lower than among those wearing ordinary good quality footwear. People with diabetes should be well aware that good fo...

Decrease of 'Hunger Hormone' after Obesity Surgery

...ose sharply before meals and declined after eating among obese dieters and normal-weight adults but remained steady in individuals who had surgery. Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier from Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts notes that research into whether these drugs will mimic the effects of gastric bypass surgery...

Evading sports injuries

...rchers, at the Mayo Clinic, the rate sports injury among older Americans is rising. Henceforth, one has to ...ealed how sports injuries// went up by 50 per cent among those aged 60. Most injuries were due to inflammation and wear and tear aggravated by overuse. Bikin...

Exercise for patients with cancer

...r can improve bone mineral density and depression, among other quality of life measures. Roenann Roubenoff, from Tufts University, presented the finding of researchers from the University in Texas.// Dr. Roubenoff stood in, as the researchers were unable to present. He felt that exercise dramatically impro...

Birth weight may be influenced by genes

...e for about 11% of the variability in birth weight among the study animals. According to a report, this is ...ve a low birth weight baby, the odds were greatest among women with certain genetic make-ups. Environmental factors like maternal smoking certainly play key ...

Role of Diet in Oral Cancer

...er of control subjects matched for age and gender, among other factors. They assessed dietary information for each of the study participants using an extensive food frequency questionnaire. Participants indicated the frequency of consumption of approximately 100 foods over a one-year period. Results point...

A ray of light on Cardiology

...l. Adverse cardiovascular outcomes were also lower among those who did not develop LVH or experienced regre...ikely to be due to other risk factor modifications among the study participants. Since the regression of LVH found with the drug was independent of blood pr...

Detering memory problems

...t the onset of developing memory and its' problems among aged people. In a recent study, researchers from the University of New York, report middle-aged people with evidence of damage to the small arteries// in their retinas have lower scores on tests to measure cognitive abilities. Doctors have long sus...

Reduction in melanoma death rate

...nd there has been a 200 per cent increase in cases among men - from 2.0 cases per 150,000 population to 12.2 per 100,000. For women, the corresponding increase was about 300 per cent - from seven to 10 per 100,000. But mortality rates have fallen. For men, five year survival was 60 per cent in 1981, comp...

What makes young girls smoke

Smoking is always a day to day problem among the adolescents. Every day, more than 3,200 adoles...eveals weight concerns and a desire to be thin are among the driving forces causing young girls to become habitual smokers. The study, sponsored by the Nati...

New operation for kidney cancer

...g telemedicine. The team now reports on progress among the first 60 patients, since April 1998 when the first operation was performed. In all, 80 tumours have been treated and there has been no recurrence at the treated sites. Better still, kidney function has been preserved in all the patients (while co...

Fish rich diet lowers leptin

...did leptin levels not increase as weight increased among those eating the fish diets, but the fish had an even more marked effect on women, who normally have higher leptin levels than men. In this study "women's leptin levels were half that of men on the vegetarian diet," said Somers. The average leptin l...

Gene glitches connecting pot with Schizophrenia

... abnormalities in DNA sequences called nucleotides among the schizophrenics. Some of their nucleotides in the marijuana receptor gene appeared significantly more often than normal while others appeared less frequency. Clinical neuroscientist, Carol Tamming at the University of Maryland, found that this wa...

Hormone Therapy applicable for Prostate Cancer

...the more commonly known male hormone testosterone, among 400 patients in advanced stages// of their prostate cancer, meaning their chances of survival were deteriorating. The international study involved patients throughout Europe as well as in Canada and Israel. In the study, the men were randomly assign...

Supplements for Ear Infections

...nd that the reliance on antibiotics may be reduced among young children by using nutritional supplements....

Mental illness a key factor in suicide

...ng to researchers, suicide is more likely to occur among young people who have had a parent commit suicide, those whose mother died early, or those who have a history of mental illness in the family, including the individual, their parents or their siblings. The study also shows males are three and a half ...

Vitamin E helps the mind

...here was a 30 percent reduction in rate of decline among persons in the highest quintile of total vitamin E. They did not, however, find the same protective effects with vitamin C or carotene. The authors of this study thereby conclude that this would probably indicate that increasing vitamin E intake in t...

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