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Don’t have time to workout? Yes, you do

... muscle's ability to resist fatigue. "Our study demonstrates that interval-based exercise is a very time-efficient training strategy," said Gibala. "This type of training is very demanding and requires a high level of motivation. However, short bursts of intense exercise may be an effective option for individu...

For Super-Obese Patients, Duodenal Switch Beats Gastric Bypass

...ve operation in severely obese patients. Our study demonstrates an advantage with regards to weight loss.” "We still need longer-term data on these patients,” he added. “We are currently comparing nutritional outcomes and improvement in obesity-related medical problems, including type 2 diabetes, high blood pre...

Physician Communication Spotty When Prescribing Medications

...ses in just 58 percent of the cases. “This study demonstrates spotty physician counseling about new medication prescription,” the researchers wrote. “Although physicians educated patients more about psychiatric and analgesic medications, the overall quality of communication was poor even for these medication ty...

High Resolution CT Accurately Diagnoses Shin Splints

...tibiae in patients with shin splints. 'The study demonstrates that CT is capable of revealing cortical abnormalities in medial tibial stress syndrome, thus representing a reliable diagnostic tool in patients with leg pain,' said Fabio Minutoli, MD, lead author of the study. The results are useful for the mana...

Better Ice Creams And Artificial Snow, Courtesy Bacteria

...explains Dr. Walker. One of the species identified demonstrates ice recrystallisation inhibition, a property useful in the production of ice cream as it prevents it from re-crystallizing and becoming crunchy. Other species isolated in this study promote the formation of ice crystals at temperatures close to mel...

Hooked on the Hookah, a’int no good

...le East and is gaining popularity in the West, and demonstrates that the amount of cellular chromosomal damage produced inside the mouth is the same as that seen in cigarette smoking. Yet water pipe cafes or bars have been popping up all over the Eastern Mediterranean region over the past decade, Loffredo said....

Chemotherapy causes mental fog

...d before chemotherapy," Silverman said. "Our study demonstrates for the first time that patients suffering from these cognitive symptoms have specific alterations in brain metabolism." This study, published on Thursday in the online edition of Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, was conducted on 21 women who ...

Obese kids at higher risk for Cardiovascular diseases

...nditions. “Together, this collection of articles demonstrates that morbidity from diseases traditionally thought to have expression in middle to late adulthood can now be demonstrated in children and adolescents,” adds Falkner. “An ideal outcome will be prevention of childhood obesity.” Source-EurekalertBR...

Chemotherapy's Effects on the Brain

...avid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "Our study demonstrates for the first time that patients suffering from these cognitive symptoms have specific alterations in brain metabolism." Silverman and his colleagues used positron emission tomography (PET) to scan the brains of 21 women who had undergone surgery t...

Medical Center Tops 3 Million IV Syringes Using IntelliFill i.v. Robotics

... Reaching this milestone is significant because it demonstrates our commitment to delivering high quality, controlled, and consistent IV doses for our patients,” said Michelle Kromelis, director of pharmacy, Children’s. “Robotic IV technology’s use of barcode scanning and various quality control protocols certain...

Virtual Colonoscopy in Colorectal Cancer Prevention and Screening

... colonoscopy screening covered by health insurance demonstrates its enormous potential for increasing compliance for colorectal cancer prevention and screening," said lead author Perry J. Pickhardt, M.D., associate professor of radiology at The University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison. "In addition, rece...

IBS Sufferers Benefited by Non-Absorbable Antibiotics

...entel said, "While this study being released today demonstrates that the non-absorbed antibiotic rifaximin has great promise in the clinical improvement of IBS, more research is needed. Next steps include multi-center studies to further assess short- and long-term benefits of this drug. Tests comparing rifaximin ...

Cell Wall of Pneumonia Bacteria Can Cause Brain and Heart Damage

...blood vessels of the animal models, a finding that demonstrates S. pneumoniae cell walls use this molecule to latch onto PAFr. “S. pneumoniae have learned how to exploit PAFr and use it as a ferry to cross the endothelium of the blood vessels and escape from the bloodstream,” Tuomanen said. “From there they ent...

Large Community Spirometry Screening Proves Successful

... American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), also demonstrates that community spirometry screenings can identify a large proportion of subjects with significant impairment. In a year-long study, co-authors Bob Cohen, MD, FCCP, John H. Stroger, Jr. Cook County Hospital and Diana Hackbarth, RN, PhD, Loyola Univer...

Minorities, Uninsured Less Likely to Receive Care at High-Volume Hospitals

...ed at high-volume hospitals for 9. “ … our study demonstrates robust findings in a large (12 percent of the U.S. population), ethnically diverse population that includes all patients undergoing the selected procedures without restrictions based on demographics, insurance, or sampling. While there is significant...

Emotional Problems Common Among Children With Developmental Disabilities

...th age in the TBPS, the small size of this decline demonstrates that psychopathology and behavioral disturbance in young people with intellectual disability is a phenomenon that largely persists through to young adulthood,” the authors write. “The observation that severe psychopathology was already present in a...

Adults with BPD may have undiagnosed ADHD

...ctually being diagnosed with comorbid ADHD clearly demonstrates that there is still a strong need for increased awareness of adult ADHD, and that physicians treating the adult population may benefit from additional training in evaluating and diagnosing this disorder," said Lenard A. Adler, M.D., lead researcher a...

Kids' Food: Saltier than the Deep Blue Sea

...r Consensus Action on Salt and Health, said: "This demonstrates for the first time just how much we stand to gain from keeping children's salt intakes down. "If we did not habituate our children to salty foods and snacks, some of which currently contain concentrations of salt around that of Atlantic seawater, we...

Nonfatal School Bus-Related Injuries To Children More Common Than Previously Thought

...rsity College of Medicine. “Importantly, our study demonstrates that these injuries are far more common than previously thought. Our results indicate that they are more than three times more common than earlier estimates.” The highest proportion of injuries occurred during the months of September and October. C...

A Novel Technique That Detects "Cancer Genes" From The Breath Of Smokers

...h is technically feasible, and if further research demonstrates the assay can measure DNA in such a way that it diagnoses or predicts lung cancer, this could be important for non-invasive lung cancer testing," said the study's lead author, Simon D. Spivack, M.D., M.P.H., a research physician at the Wadsworth Cent...

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