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Insufficient Sleep Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Study

...occurring beat-to-beat changes in heart rate which reflect the body's adjustment to a host of stresses and stimuli. Reduced variability can be a marker for cardiac problems and other diseases and has been linked to high blood pressure. "The effect of the sleep deficit was to increase the stress on the he...

Soot-infused Snow Responsible for Arctic Warming: Study

... sunlight and cause warming, while bright surfaces reflect heat back into space and cause cooling. The study, which appears in this week's issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, further goes on to say that dirty snow has had a significant impact on climate warming since the Industrial Revolution. ...

US Climate Plan Must Not Substitute UN Treaties: China

...c planner Ma Kai said Monday. The US plan should reflect the common but differentiated responsibilities in the UNFCCC and some details in the plan are to be communicated and discussed with other countries, Ma said at a press conference. He said the US new proposal showed positive changes, such as the not...

New Strategy To Tackle Rheumatic Heart Disease

... Ongoing disparities in the burden of ARF and RHD reflect a number of failures in the development and delivery of health and health-related services, they say. Failure in primary prevention of ARF and RHD . . . reflects the failure to provide Indigenous communities with the appropriate type and level of h...

Refugees No Burden On Health System

... was not able to clarify whether low levels of use reflect reduced levels of need or unidentified barriers to hospital utilisation.' The health screening process undergone by refugee applicants may be filtering out those with poor health, Dr Correa-Velez said. 'There is, however, increasing evidence of p...

India Main Source of Counterfeit Medicines Seized in Europe

...in 2005. "The emergence of India in this sector, reflect the developing industrial capacity of this nation and highlights the reality that counterfeiting is carried out at an industrial scale where a potential profit is perceived,'' noted the EU report. However, China remains the main source for counterf...

Researchers Find How the Brain Hears Shapes

...sing pitch to represent up and down, and volume to reflect brightness. The team then performed fMRI scans of the volunteers' brains, plus those of two expert blind users of the device, as they listened to these soundscapes. The scientists also scanned seven controllers, who had been taught to associate s...

Choice is a Key Element in Success for Smokers Who Want to Quit

...were counseled in a manner that encouraged them to reflect on whether they wanted to smoke or not, and if not why they were trying to quit, were more likely to maintain their abstinence for two years than those who received usual care. Participants in the control group were simply given a list of quit reso...

Binge Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive Deficits Among College Students

...ding author for the study. These choices tend to reflect more serious problems with executive functioning, added Jenny Larkins, a graduate student in clinical psychology at the University of Missouri. "Executive functioning involves skills such as planning for the future, abstract reasoning, inhibiting or ...

Stress of Deployment Increases Risk of Child Abuse, Neglect in Military Families, UNC Study Shows

...ucted only among active duty personnel. It doesn't reflect what may be occurring in families of National Guard and inactive reserves. These families may have less access to support services than families of active duty personnel have. The primary data source for information on child maltreatment were file...

Smokers Who Have a Say in How They Quit More Likely to Kick the Habit

...were counseled in a manner that encouraged them to reflect on whether they wanted to smoke or not, and if not why they were trying to quit, were more likely to maintain their abstinence for two years than those who received usual care. "I don't think they get enough time and I don't think they get enough i...

Most Parents in U.S. Not in Favor of HPV Vaccine Mandates

...gePanelSM. The sample was subsequently weighted to reflect the U.S. population figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. About two-thirds of the sample were parents. Parents were asked if they would support a state law that requires girls to get the HPV vaccine before entering into ninth grade. They also were a...

Cosmetic Genital Surgery may Be Fuelling Womens Insecurity About Their Bodies

...The increased demand for cosmetic genitoplasty may reflect a narrowing social definition of normal, or a confusion of what is normal and what is idealized, they write. And the provision of genitoplasty could narrow acceptable ranges further and increase the demand for surgery even more. Surgery is an extre...

Watch Out for Signs of Autism in Babies!

... and medicalizing children's lives, which seems to reflect difficulties of parents and teachers in dealing with familiar problems of childhood development." Dr. Stanley Greenspan, a psychiatry professor at George Washington University and a co-author of the CDC-Interdisciplinary group report, said the idea...

Workplace Stress Leads to Rising Suicide Rate in Japan

...urden from work is also increasing." The numbers reflect a push by the government to get more workers or th...it, and Kurashige said the recorded cases probably reflect only a tiny fraction of the overall problem. Japan's suicide rate is among the highest in the indu...

Survey Shows That Patients Have Trust and Confidence in Their Doctors

...s and fears and improving accessibility. They also reflect the improvements of the whole healthcare team, so often led by doctors. We need to build on these results. Consultants always wish to achieve more for their patients, but the truth is innovative and progressive practices are often held back by the ...

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

...illareal thinks the health-care system may need to reflect what research is now revealing about estrogen in men. "It 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 ...

New Survey List Out Cities That Take Sun Protection Seriously

...ough light clouds, mist, and fog and that snow can reflect more than 80 percent of the suns damaging ultraviolet radiation. "The bottom line is that everyone needs to be concerned about protecting themselves from skin cancer, no matter where you live."...

Three Steps To Better Health Care

...ments of health care payment need to be revised to reflect the way sick people need care. Patients with chronic illness require continuing care, often increasing over years, and involving multiple health service elements, they say. These three steps offer one way forward in confronting the rising tide ...

Major Change Needed to Achieve Dignified Care for Older People

...verdue and major change in culture and practice to reflect the central position of older people in systems of care. How might this be achieved in care homes? Firstly, we need to stop blaming individual practitioners and care homes, they say. A whole systems approach is much more likely to succeed; for ex...

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