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Gene Variation Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer

...tion or tissue damage. Our findings help explain how heavy smoking, for example, combines with a geneti...ding lung cancer, and could provide an explanation how damage to lung tissue leads to cancer, Engels said. Knowing more about the downstream effects of the...

Nutrition Education Has Proved to Be Futile

...y eat. But the program really made a difference in how kids were feeling about fruits and vegetables. They really had a more positive attitude toward fruits and vegetables," said Dr. Mike Prelip, a UCLA researcher who headed the evaluation team. This spring the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced...

A Drug That Helps Cut Alcohol Craving

...Raymond Anton said. Karhuvaara also talked about how the traditional goal of the treatment of alcohol dependence has shifted from abstinence to drinking reduction or harm reduction in the last two decades. Alcohol dependence is nowadays recognized as a chronic, recurring disorder where relapses almos...

Anti-depressants Do Not Increase the Overall Risk of Most Birth Defects

...ey are different birth defects. The studies show how important post-market surveillance is in assessing the safety of medications in pregnancy. During pre-approval, drugs are tested on relatively few subjects and only side effects with a large frequency are detected. Once approved, many people take the...

People With Higher IQs are More Patient in Financial Matters

...e more patient and tolerant of risk they were," is how the Bonn Professor of Economics, Dr. Armin Falk, s...long term, it is necessary to be able to recognise how things are interconnected. "Anyone who does not have this ability may be better advised to follow...

Major Gene Link Seen to Childhood Asthma

... "These novel findings do not explain completely how asthma is caused, but they do provide a further part of the gene-environment jigsaw that makes up the disease." In evolutionary terms, ORMDL3 appears to be a very old part of the human genome. Similar genes are found in primitive organisms such as ...

For Bangladeshis, a Nutritious Diet Would Cost 1,700 Pounds Per Week

...e supermarket each week. The research calculated how much a healthy diet, based on local produce and allowing for seasonal factors such as flooding or lean seasons, would cost in four impoverished countries and then worked it out as a proportion of the average national income. The ratios were multiplie...

Pediatricians Face Malpractice Crisis

...e same data with alarm and surprise. Regardless of how one interprets these findings, they are important in truly informing the debate with generalizable facts," the study concluded....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

...ies need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and by how much. The Democrats have consistently fought for mandatory regulations, while Schwarzenegger has advocated a cap and trade approach, in which limits are set on emissions but businesses can exceed the limits by purchasing credits from others that ha...

Great Lakes Fish in Canada Heavily Polluted

...lth. The report makes several recommendations on how to protect public health by: improving the information used in fish advisories; enhancing the delivery of fish advisories to high risk groups; preventing fish contamination advisories by reducing pollution from industry, sewage systems, agriculture...

Dietary Counseling Leads to Weight Loss

...d not been published until now. "We did not know how much weight people lost on average through weight loss programs or how long it took them to gain it back," said Michael L. Dansinger, MD, MS, one of the study authors and ...

Influenza Virus Samples of 1918

...ational Institutes of Health, narrate the story of how scientists discovered samples of the 1918 strain in fixed autopsy tissues and in the body of a woman buried in the Alaskan permafrost. The article places this discovery in the context of decades of research into the cause of pandemic influenza, and...

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

...team says, significantly shifts the perspective on how these cells could be used to develop cell-based br...ling and movement. If scientists could figure out how to create specific types of new neurons, they potentially could use them to replace damaged cells, s...

Low Income Family Adolescents Suffer Migraine

...ey relate to low income and migraine to understand how we might reduce the occurrence of migraine among these individuals....

Pre-packed Sandwiches Saltier Than Crisps

...r lunch most days of the week, but we need to know how much salt is in those sandwiches,' said CASH's Carrie Bolt. 'Choosing a high-salt version may take us over the daily limit of salt and could affect our long-term health.' The British Sandwich Association was critical of the findings and said that t...

Scientists Find Single Circuit Channeling Depression in Rats

...ssion. "It also helps us understand conceptually how something that seems as hard to get traction on as...d a research team to see if they could demonstrate how malfunctions in brain circuitry could be at the root of depression. They studied the electrical ac...

New Asthma Gene Identified

...o childhood asthma. The researchers also looked at how genes were being expressed within human blood cell... "These novel findings do not explain completely how asthma is caused, but they do provide a further part of the gene-environment jigsaw that makes up th...

Australian Patients Who Received Vitamin Injection Infected With Hepatitis C

...iple patients. Health officials are still unsure how the disease was transferred. Director of Public Health for South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Health Service Professor Mark Ferson said it could have been spread by a drop of infected blood on a tourniquet....

Snack Foods Fortified With Fiber

...m cheese puffs to pet food. Alavi is researching how this process can be used to make fiber-enriched fl... Alavi notes the increasing problem of obesity and how it can lead to diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other ailments."That's where there's a big push ...

Autophagy may Lead to Heart Disease

...s of heart disease, autophagy is taking place, but how much of it is occurring and whether it participates in disease pathogenesis is unknown, said the studys senior author, Dr. Joseph Hill, chief of cardiology, reporting in the July issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. In our study, we fou...

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