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Particulate matter affects lung development

...es in air pollution exposure, on average, affected annual rates of lung function growth, the team reported in the Amerial Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.// “This study confirms our earlier work showing that air pollution can have long-term effects on lung health in children. It also show...

Final push to eradicate leprosy

...ation of Leprosy// are meeting in Brazil for their annual meeting. Brazil is one of six countries in the world where leprosy remains a major public health issue. The others are India, Madagascar, Mozambique, Myanmar and Nepal. WHO has committed itself to eradicating leprosy by 2005, a goal that public hea...

Honey curbs bacteria in the oral cavity

... at the American Association// for Dental Research annual meeting this month. An enzyme in honey that produces hydrogen peroxide is the key to the antimicrobial activity of honey, according to Dr. Peter C. Molan, associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Research resu...

Cholesterol Drug Helps After Angioplasty

... In reporting the results of the LIPS trial at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta, Serruys said doctors gave patients a placebo or fluvastatin, a proven cholesterol-lowering medication. After about four years of treatment, Serruys found: * A 22 percent reduction in death, h...

Meningitis C vaccine a cost-effective success

...least 88 deaths each year. The researchers say the annual cost to the health service of treating these cases was around ￡4.88 million. The team calculated that the campaign would prevent 9,980 cases of meningitis C and 666 deaths over the cohort’s lifetime, resulting in almost 23,000 discounted life years s...

Chewing gum found to increase brainpower

...a symposium at the British Psychological Society's annual conference in Blackpool Wednesday, said the improved performance in a range of memory tests could be attributed to an increase in heart rate coupled with a surge in insulin to the brain. The experiments involved 60 people split into groups of non-che...

A Compilation of recent Diabetes Research articles

...nflammation, Heart disease & Type 2 Diabetes An annual research conference of ADA investigators presented interesting facts about the relationship of type 2 diabetes, which is strongly linked to heart disease, to inflammation also. The research is based on the fact that when you get an infection your bo...

Use of CT scans to detect lung cancer questioned

...the scan far outweigh the number of lives saved by annual full-body CT screening. Following this, the National Cancer Institute has begun an eight-year trial comparing CT scans with chest x-rays in the diagnosis of lung cancer. The study's senior author Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, director of Johns Hopkins' Wel...

Lifestyle linked to prostate cancer risk

...exercise less than twice a week and do not undergo annual prostate screening. On the contrary, those who have kept their weight down, exercise regularly and were screened regularly for signs of the disease had the lowest risk. It appears to be important that men maintain a low body mass index, exercise to ...

Drop in global deaths from measles

...dest hit by measles and hopes to cut the number of annual measles deaths to 437,500 by 2005.Africa has about 10 percent of the world's population and accounted for 58 percent of measles deaths in 2000. WHO recommends children are given two rounds of measles vaccinations.About 15 percent of children who re...

Shorter infants have lower incomes in later life

...etres, or 28 inches, at one year earned an average annual salary equivalent to only about 75% of what men in the highest group, longer than 80 centimetres or 31 inches at age one, earned. Weight at one year in boys predicts their cognitive function. Boys who grow better between birth and one have better e...

Folic Acid helps Kids with Diabetes

...the weekend at the American Diabetes Association’s annual meeting in New Orleans. According to the American Diabetes Association, people with diabetes are two- to four-times more likely to have heart disease as compared to those without diabetes. More than 65 percent of people with diabetes die of heart dis...

Death Among the Homeless

...p. Researchers studied the information provided in annual reports for the registration group. Those in the interview group were asked questions about their upbringing, family history, education, and mental health.// Researchers found certain members of the homeless community face much different mortality r...

Early Detection of Lung Cancer

...s considered at high risk for lung cancer. All had annual CT scans for up to five years. As with previous studies of CT scanning for lung cancer, nodules were identified in a significant percentage of the group -- 29 percent. Most were small, and the protocol called for lesions up to five millimeters to be ...

Screening Cost-Effective for Lung Cancer

...that was conducted to look at the usefulness of an annual low-dose CT scan screening for lung cancer. The ELCAP found 80 percent of cancers detected were found in stage I and were small in size. For the current study, researchers used these findings to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the CT scan. Informa...

World's oldest turns 116 in Japan

...e age of the population is also steadily rising.An annual government survey released Monday in conjunction with Respect for the Aged Day, a national holiday, showed a record 24.31 million Japanese -- almost one in five -- have reached their 65th birthday.The changing demographic has raised fears the nation'...

Diabetes, obesity rates shooting up

The annual snapshot of the nation's health, put together by the National Center for Health Statistics, also shows that nearly a third of Americans are obese //and two-thirds overweight. But life expectancy at birth continues to rise, reaching a new record high ...

Enzyme Associated with Memory

...tist Medical Center reported on their study at the annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience in New Orleans. Researchers say the enzyme that helps turn a one-time experience into a long-term memory has been identified in mice. For the research, scientists studied female mice and how they remembered the...

Diabetes cases could double in developing countries in next 30 years

...direct health care costs range from 2.5% to 15% of annual health care budgets, and indirect costs such as loss of production may be five times this number. Diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by having too much glucose in the blood because the body is not producing insulin or not using insulin prop...

Partial-Breast Irradiation an Unproven Therapy

...ast. Freedman presented a study last month at the annual meeting of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology that compared whole-breast to partial-breast irradiation. He reported that the follow-up data on whole-breast irradiation is much longer than that for the newer technique. His res...

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