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Practicing Spirituality may Help Smokers to Quit

...olleagues surveyed 104 current smokers, aged 18 or older and not attempting to quit, in smoking areas outside building on the OHSU Marquam Hill Campus. Study participants were equally male and female, on average 38 years old, and had smoked about 17 cigarettes a day for approximately 21 years. The anonymou...

Studies Reveal Inappropriate Use Of Drug-Coated Stents

... again. The newer devices quickly supplanted the older bare-metal versions, generating almost 90 percent of all stent sales by early 2006 and creating a $6 billion market. Yet studies reveal that off-label or untested use of drug-coated stents make up almost half of all uses of these devices for docto...

Younger Women At Risk Of Heart Disease

...ey're really at risk, because we mostly hear about older women," says study author Judith Lichtman, an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at Yale University School of Medicine. "But while it's a relatively smaller group, it's not an insubstantial group." Focusing only on chest pain cou...

Curb the Pocket Money, Curb the Problem Drinking

...of spending money, obtaining alcohol from friends, older siblings and adults outside shops were also predictors of risky drinking, according to the study published today in Online Open Access journal Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. Teenagers who were members of youth groups or who had ...

States' Spending may Help Keep Childless Seniors Independent

... in nursing homes, but there is a movement to help older people live at home and in the community," said Naoko Muramatsu, associate professor of community health sciences at the UIC School of Public Health and lead author of the study. "States vary greatly in their commitment to provide home- and communi...

Estrogen is Important for Bone Health in Men as Well as Women

...would be a good idea to measure estrogen levels in older men who present with low bone mineral density or osteoporosis," Villareal says. "Not only does estrogen and its metabolism affect bone health in men, but it may also influence the risk for prostate cancer."...

One Pill may Be Better Than Two for Treating Patients With High Blood Pressure

...sterol), previous stroke, male gender, 55 years or older and smoking. In ASCOT-LLA, researchers examined 10,305 patients with high blood pressure and additional risk factors for heart disease with lowto-moderate cholesterol levels and found the addition of atorvastatin to high blood pressure treatment re...

Large Intake of Calcium from Dairy Food Linked to Dementia in Elders

... and included tiny ones often seen even in healthy older people. However, the likelihood of having a huge...he effects of too much calcium, particularly among older adults, given the current emphasis on promoting high intakes of calcium and vitamin D," the Independ...

Multiple Sclerosis Could Be Checked Through Testosterone Gel

...icant problems. But about two in 10 men age 60 and older have testosterone levels below the normal range (t...claim that increasing the level of testosterone in older and healthy men provides these same benefits. Though potentially beneficial for some of these men, t...

Higher Intake of Fish and Vitamin D Reduces the Risk of Age-related Macular Disease

...me. It is the most common cause of blindness among older adults in the United States, affecting more than 7 million individuals older than 40 years, according to background information in the articles. The prevalence of AMD is likely ...

Women With Heart Disease and Diabetes Less Likely to Receive Proper Care: Study

... outpatient care. "As we become a nation with an older population, the type of routine preventive care we studied will become even more important," Bird said. "Understanding these gender differences may allow us to improve care." The RAND study is one of four published in the latest edition of Womens H...

Number of Children Hospitalized With Type 2 Diabetes on the Rise: Research

... as a decade ago occurred almost exclusively among older adults. This increase in numbers of affected children is well recognized. Pediatric researchers at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine utilized federally funded and collected data that demonstrates an approximately 200% increase in hos...

Soy Products a Double-edged Sword for Breast Cancer

...ve them as natural and safe. But women aged 50 and older are also most at risk of developing breast cancer. Helferich is evaluating the biological activity of some of these products, which are available in many forms, do not require a prescription, and in most cases are consumed without the knowledge of...

No Evidence Older Women Generate New Eggs

It is highly unlikely that older women generate new eggs, report researchers at the...as bone marrow transplantation might one day help older women regain their fertility. Since then, other papers have refuted Tillys surprising finding that...

Researchers Find Link Between Sleep Disorder and Dementia

...s study, researchers examined individuals, usually older males who strike out violently, often yelling, when they entered REM sleep, over many years. Researchers found that many of them develop symptoms of dementia. Post-mortems showed that they all had developed Lewy bodies but not the pathology of A...

Significant Differences in Stroke Prevalence Among U.S. States & Territories - CDC Report

...udy analyzed state-specific data for adults 18 and older collected from the 2005 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). Stroke prevalence ranged from a low of 1.5 percent in Connecticut to a high of 4.3 percent in Mississippi. "Strokes are the third leading cause of death in the United State...

Lipoic Acid may Help to Live Long, Free of Degenerative Disease

...age, glutathione levels naturally decline and make older animals more susceptible to both free radicals and other environmental toxins, but lipoic acid can restore glutathione function to near normal. "We never really expected such a surprising range of benefits from one compound. This is really unprece...

UK too Will Insist on Folic Acid in Bread

...it difficult to identify vitamin B12 deficiency in older people, a condition that can damage the nervous system. It was largely because of concerns about B12 deficiency that the FSA board rejected the idea of fortification five years ago. There are also fears that fortification could cause difficulties f...

Workplace Stress Leads to Rising Suicide Rate in Japan

...panese killed themselves in 2004, the bulk of them older Japanese suffering financial woes as the country struggled through a decade of economic stagnation. In response, the Japanese government has earmarked substantial funds for programs to help those with depression and other mental illnesses and is mo...

Hair Relaxers Not Linked With Breast Cancer Risk

...unger African-American women than they are used by older African-American women, a connection with increase...nd that younger women used hair relaxers more than older women did. They also discovered that the majority of women used hair relaxers before age 20 and a th...

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