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Obesity Might Lead to Severe Persistent Asthma Attacks: Study

...more days of work and 52 percent more likely to be classified as having either moderate or severe persistent asthma when compared to non-overweight people," Taylor said. "We also noted that obese patients were more likely to have less education, be unemployed and be African-American, he added. Researchers a...

Workplace Drinking Culture Influences Alcohol Intake Elsewhere

...y to do so. Around one in five (19%) workers was classified as a heavy drinker outside of work (4 or more drin...nd more than three in women). A further 8% were classified as frequent drinkers (some alcohol on five or more days of the week) outside of work, and 11% were c...

Appetite-regulating Peptides Influence Alcohol Cravings

...ssive Compulsive Drinking Scale, the study authors classified patients in accordance with Leschs typology of alcohol dependence, as well as their preferred type of alcoholic beverage. "The study showed that the involvement of appetite-regulating peptides in the neurobiology of alcohol craving is of different...

Low Weight Newborns at Greater Risk in Community Hospitals

...p 51 percent of infant deaths. Neonatal ICUs are classified according to the kind of care they can provide. The neonatal ICU at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford is a level-3D center - the highest level reserved for hospitals that perform on-site cardiac surgery and a type of heart/lung bypass fo...

High Level ICU Facilities Afford Greater Survival Chances for Small Infants

...fering medical care for newborn infants. NICUs are classified according to the level of services they provide. High-level neonatal intensive care units provide mechanical ventilationthe use of a device that assists with breathing. Depending on the level of care, some high-level NICUs provide major surgery. Ve...

"Pre-treatment Blood Test" A New Guide to Lung Cancer Therapy

...blind to the survival status of the patients. We classified the patients as being either likely to benefit (go... benefit. In the gefitinib-treated group, patients classified as good had a median survival of 207 days whereas those classified as poor had a median survival of ...

New Bacterium Discovered - Related to Cause of Trench Fever

...although the new bacterium is related enough to be classified with the other Bartonella bacteria, it is nevertheless distinct from all of them, the UCSF team found. The UCSF lab is one of the few in the world able to isolate and grow human Bartonella species, and culture of the new organism made study of the DN...

10 Year Sentence for Teen Sex Repealed

...lson has spent two years in prison for what is now classified as a misdemeanor, and without assistance from this Court, will spend eight more years in prison, is a grave miscarriage of justice,'' wrote Judge Thomas H. Wilson, no relation to Genarlow Wilson. ``If this court or any court cannot recognize the i...

Obesity Worsens Life Quality of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

...rouped according to Body Mass Index (BMI). BMI was classified into normal weight, overweight and obesity. Underweight patients (BMI Researchers grouped 541 patients in the normal weight category, 316 were considered overweight and 102 fell into the obese category. Overall, patient groups were compared using ...

Simple System Accurately Predicts Weight-loss Surgery Risk

...ctice in Scottsdale, Ariz. Of the 2,166 patients classified by the scoring system as being in the low-risk group, eight died. Twenty-six of the 2,142 patients in the medium-risk group died, and three of the 125 patients in the high-risk group died. While patients in the high-risk group represented less than 3...

Women Binge- Drinkers Warned Of Possible Link To Breast Cancer

...3,000 deaths. In this study, binge-drinking was classified as four or more units of alcohol in a session. UK health guidelines recommend no more than two or three units for women. A unit of alcohol is a half pint of lager, a small glass of wine or a pub measure of spirits. According to official UK figures...

Hospitals Make Positive Strides to Reduce Wait Times for Patients

... study of the progress. Five priority areas were classified by health ministers, - cardiac care, cancer care, sight restoration, joint replacement and diagnostic imaging. Now, benchmarks have been given for all these categories. The Alliance also addressed the impediments for improvement in the priority areas...

Fault the School System in US for Massacres, Say Sociologists

..." One recent study found that 60 percent of boys classified as bullies in middle school were convicted of at least one crime by the age 24. Other research found that one-fourth of American students are bullied at school because of their race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation or disability. Unch...

One-fifth of Obese Women Undergo Caesarean Due to Uterus Failure

...dbirth. Pregnancies among overweight women must be classified as high risk pregnancies and appropriate antenatal care should be provided so they receive the optimum care during maternity." Source-Eurekalert/B...

Ethanol Could Be Damaging for Human Health, New Study Says

... called E85 is created and can be used in vehicles classified by automobile manufacturers as Flexible Fuel Vehicles. 'We found that E85 vehicles reduce atmospheric levels of two carcinogens, benzene and butadiene, but increase two others - formaldehyde and acetaldehyde,' Jacobson said in a prepared statement....

When 'prevalence' Makes for Disparity in AIDS Care

...gies vary widely from state to state. States// are classified as "high prevalence" and "low prevalence", based on declared numbers of the HIV/AIDS infected. But there is a difference in attitude towards AIDS control from state to state. The budgetary allocation also differs, affecting awareness campaigns in n...

India to Hike Free Treatments in Fight Against AIDS

...ulation has been noted and 111 districts have been classified as of "unknown vulnerability" still. The NACP III programme will see several marked changes in the policy, which activists say will become more all encompassing. In India, 5.2 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, second only to South Africa, ...

Depression Increases the Risk of Disease Progression and Death in HIV-positive Women

...icipants if a clinic visit was missed. A woman was classified as alive on the day of contact if a home visitor reported talking to or seeing her. About two months after enrolment, every six months until 2001, and every twelve months thereafter, a psychosocial questionnaire was administered to assess depressio...

Impact of Exercise on Body Fat Is Different for Boys and Girls

... Running at 9 km per hour, or its equivalent, was classified as vigorous exercise. Overall, all the children who scored well on measures of cardiorespiratory fitness were significantly leaner and had smaller waists than those whose fitness levels were poor. Waist size is important, say the authors, because...

Doctors Hopeful for Elizabeth Edwards

...time it is located in the right rib bone and hence classified as metastatic or stage IV cancer. Mrs. Edwards, who battled breast cancer and underwent treatment, was cancer free for the last two years. Mrs. Edwards said at a press conference in North Carolina that she had sought medical treatment for pain o...

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