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Schools Help Hold the Line Against Childhood Obesity

...nning of first grade, the researchers were able to assess BMI changes during summer vacation. The study found that increases in BMI scores grew more than three times faster during the summer as they did during the kindergarten school year, and more than twice as fast as during the first-grade school year....

Antidepressants Help Men Decrease Alcohol Consumption, but Not Women

...ehind this study say further research is needed to assess whether this finding is due to drug effects or some other factor. “We do not know whether antidepressants have different pharmacological effects on men and women, whether depression differs by gender, or whether the differences in the process of be...

Fruit Flies May Pave Way to New Treatments for Age-related Heart Disease

...vely. “We now have a lot of methods to precisely assess heart function in the fly, which augments its usefulness as a genetic model for studying cardiac function,” said Ocorr, who conducted most of these studies. The study points to KCNQ as a major factor in heart disease, but Bodmer warns that much mor...

Single Slice MRI- Handy Tool to Identify Children at Risk

... is critical to be able to reliably and accurately assess this fat tissue in order to identify children at risk," said the study's lead researcher Marilyn J. Siegel, M.D., professor of radiology and pediatrics at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mis...

US Government Pushes Ahead With New Meat Inspection System

...cted. FSIS will use the daily inspection data to assess the relative risk of the products made at a plant, which when taken into account with the actions the plant is taking to control the risk, will help FSIS to target inspections where they will be most needed. "To continue to prevent foodborne illnes...

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Children Can Be Diagnosed With Eye Movement Tests

...infer, "Whereas oculomotor tasks have been used to assess brain function in a number of different clinical populations, this is the first such study to be carried out in FASD children.” The researchers also concede that the diagnosis of FASD with eye movement tests would be extremely difficult if alcohol ...

No Scientific Evidence to Support Drug Safety Recommendations

...e agency announced a new policy to comprehensively assess drugs 18 months after they are introduced. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Male Circumcision Promises Protection Against HIV

...etariat are due to hold a consultation in March to assess the implications of the findings and determine future policy on how male circumcision might best be implemented and promoted. Source-IANS...

An Aspirin a Day Keeps Heart Disease Away

...e criteria widely used by physicians to detect and assess a postmenopausal woman's chances of developing cardiovascular disease. According to Dr. Roger Blumenthal and colleagues a family history of heart disease and blood levels of a protein tied to vessel inflammation, C-reactive protein, should immediat...

Fish Intake Linked to Higher IQ in Offspring

...e women completed food frequency questionnaires to assess seafood consumption, and the development, behaviour, and mental function of the children were measured from age six months to eight years. "Maternal seafood consumption of less than 340 grams per week in pregnancy did not protect children from adve...

FDA: Rotavirus Vaccine May Harm Infants

...ases of intestinal twisting or blockage to help it assess any risks associated with the three-shot vaccine series. It also said the vaccine's label would mention the cases of intussusception. "It's a known serious, life-threatening adverse event that is being seen at an expected level postmarketing. But b...

More Women Opting for Caesarean, Unaware of Consequences

...women with extremely deformed pelvises. Doctors assess some medical indications differently. "One of them is breech presentation" (the baby's buttocks are at the bottom of the uterus, its head at the top), said Klaus Vetter, vice president of the Berlin-based German Society of Gynaecology and Obstetri...

First Treatment to Directly Target Tumor Blood Supply

...body with drugs or radioactivity, and then we will assess tumor response. We are already using such armed antibodies in patients with prostate cancer and have been able to show significant anti-tumor activity." The big news now is that J591, and compounds like it, could someday offer cancer patients a bra...

Carbon Nanoneedles For Drug Delivery

...come more refined over time. Although difficult to assess the cost of a potential drug delivery product resulting from the technique, Kostarelos noted that there is so many possible applications for carbon nanotubes that they can be produced in bulk very cheaply. Although functionalisation of the nanotub...

KADIAN Efficacy Not Affected by Alcohol Consumption

... by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to assess whether alcohol interferes with the extended-release mechanism of action in long-acting opioids, were presented yesterday at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) in New Orleans, LA. "This study demonstrated that t...

Wartime Raises Stress, BP Rates in Military Offspring

...ersonnel and modified for adolescents, a survey to assess psychosocial concerns such as sense of well-being ...wledging that the study size was small and did not assess non-war related stressors, the researchers note that the physical impact of the war on military offs...

Strep, Psychiatric Symptoms Possibly Linked in Some Children

...psychiatry in the College of Medicine. “We did not assess the children for particular neuropsychiatric disorders, so we’re not saying actual disorders were present in the children, but the symptoms were there.” The research adds weight to the existence of PANDAS, short for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychi...

Reading Hidden Intentions in Brain

...ed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess brain activity while subjects concentrated on their choice of intended mental action, but prior to execution of the action. Specifically, subjects were free to choose between adding or subtracting two numbers and were asked to hold in mind their i...

Mutation In PALB2 Elevates Risk of Cancer

...ld. However, we still need more research to better assess the effect on cancer development. As the comprehensive mutation analysis was originally conducted on only 113 cancer families, it may be that there still are other PALB2 genetic defects accounting for heritable breast and prostate cancer susceptibili...

Teens More Likely to Become Victims of Online Harassments

...dolescent health professionals should help parents assess their children's online behaviors globally in addition to focusing on specific types of behaviors." Source-Eurekalert SRI...

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