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Health clinic conditions may be to blame for decrease in primary care physicians

MAYWOOD Adverse work conditions may be to blame for the decline in the number of primary care physicians nationwide, according to a study published in the latest issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine . "Unfavorable work conditions are associated with stress, burnout and intent to leave f...

Girls and Math: Blame the Culture, Not Ability

Raise the bar and watch females succeed, researcher says THURSDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- Culture, not biology, might explain why females in some parts of the world don't perform as well as males in math. That's the conclusion of an analysis of math performance in the United ...

Can't Control Junk Food Cravings? Blame the Brain

Study attributes level of willpower to cerebral differences FRIDAY, May 1 (HealthDay News) -- Two areas of the brain work together to give some people the self-control to reject unhealthy foods, a new study has found. California Institute of Technology researchers used MRI to scan t...

RSV to Blame for 1 in 13 Pediatrician Visits

Respiratory virus strikes healthy kids, and it affects more youngsters than flu, study finds,,,, WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- It's called respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a childhood infection that's responsible for one of every 13 visits to a pediatrician, and one of every ...

Hormones May Be to Blame for Women's Cavity Rates

Reproductive pressures, dietary preferences all contribute, anthropologist suggests FRIDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Women can blame those extra cavities on their hormones, a new study suggests. A comprehensive review of dental records in prehistoric and current human populations...

Overeating? Blame Your Genes

Certain DNA may cause people to eat more to get the same pleasure from food THURSDAY, Oct. 16 (HealthDay News) -- A gene could help prod people to overeat and gain excess weight, new research shows. The finding probably won't provide a "magic bullet" for weight loss, but it does rei...

Bypass not to blame for heart patients' mental decline

Heart patients often experience lasting problems with memory, language, and other cognitive skills after bypass surgery. However, these problems arent caused by the surgery itself or the pump used to replace heart function during surgery, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests. The find...

Health Woes Not Always to Blame for Chronic Cough

In many cases, treating an illness doesn't ease the problem, experts say FRIDAY, April 18 (HealthDay News) -- The widespread belief that chronic cough is only connected to other conditions is hampering the development of new treatments, according to a paper by U.K. researchers. It's...

Alcoholics Not to Blame for All Drunk Driving Cases

CDC study found almost half just occasionally had too much THURSDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) -- It's easy to assume that drunk drivers are habitual drinkers, but new research suggests that people who only get drunk occasionally account for almost half of those who drive while intoxica...

Hot Flashes Not Always to Blame for Sleep Problems in Menopausal Women, Reports the Harvard Women's Health Watch

BOSTON, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hot flashes may be getting an unfair rap for disrupting women's sleep at midlife. Studies have often reported that sleep problems increase during the transition into menopause, reinforcing the idea that hot flashes are to blame. But even under cont...

Americans Grow Shorter, Blame It on Weak Healthcare

It is just not President George W. Bush who has suffered a disastrous decline in stature . It now turns out that literally too Americans have been growing shorter these days, falling behind the Europeans. The title of the study published by Benjamin Lauderdale at Princeton University and Joh...

Parents To Blame For Soaring Counts Of Binge-Drinkers And Smokers

Britain’s schools watchdog Ofsted, has revealed that smoking and binge drinking among teenage girls have scaled worrying heights all because parents// and teachers make the health risks seem less important than those of illegal drugs and unsafe sex. Accordingly, young people correctly see ciga...

Mothers of Rebellious Teens- Blame It on THP

Mothers of teenagers may find this hard to digest, but scientists have come out with findings that puts down their ‘raging hormones' and infamous// behavior, to an unexpected chemical reaction; the effect of one specific hormone-THP. The experiments, by Sheryl Smith, a physiologist at the State...

Drug Addicts-you Could Blame Your Genes

Drug addiction–are you born that way, do you acquire it somehow or is it thrust upon you? The question, which has baffled neuroscientists for so long// , may have some sort of an answer now-at least for rat junkies. Scientists working for the Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, UK,...

Food Outlets Not to Blame for Typhoid Cases

It now appears that food outlets in the South Auckland suburb of Clendon are not the source of a typhoid outbreak in the area//. Earlier this month health officials investigated four retailers for links to several cases of the disease but tests on 26 workers came up negative. Dr Greg Si...

South Asians, Don’t Blame Your Genes Anymor

South Asians have been known to get first-time heart attacks 5 to 10 years earlier than North Americans and Europeans, but this had been put down loosely to genes. Not any more say experts. // An international team of researchers has come out with findings published in Journal of the American ...

Lost That Lovin' Feeling? Don't Blame the Pill

When your sex drive is sputtering, you may want to take a closer look at several factors in your life.// In fact, it’s natural for people to ask: Is the loss of sexual desire due directly to taking the birth control pill? The answer to this question – which has been asked for more than 40 yea...

Why Blame Women If They are More Expressive

According to a study women talk three times men do, where an average man can talk around 7000 words per day, an average woman can talk up to 20,000 words. No wonder it is// common to find many women complaining of the men in their house not talking much. Dr. Luan Brizendine, psychiatrist at Un...

Sensitive Taste Buds Can Be The Blame for Lil'One Not Eating Vegetables

A new study has concluded that preschool children who are sensitive to bitter flavors are very likely to be among those who do not eat vegetables.// The researchers publishing their study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, have explained that their findings suggest that the natura...

Suffering from postpartum depression, blame fussy baby

A study conducted by a Brown Medical School professor and Rhode Island Department of Health family health experts say that postpartum depression is linked to fussy babies.// Pamela High, M.D., served as lead, a clinical professor of paediatrics at Brown Medical School and director of developm...

Obesity: Blame It On The Genes

A new study has revealed that one in ten people carry a gene variant pattern that has a relationship with obesity. Earlier research that located the gene variant // and suggested a link with obesity, had not probed deeper, and it was still ambiguous, whether people without the gene variant would ha...

Aggressive Teenage Behaviour: Blame It On The Anabolic Steroids

A new research has found that aggressive behaviour associated with teenage and young adulthood could be due to anabolic steroids. The effect may be only temporary// , but may have long-term consequences on the developing brain. The results of this study can be seen in the Behavioral Neuroscience jo...

Alzheimer’s: Blame it On the Genes; Lifestyle changes the only Saving Grac

It’s all in the Genes they say. In the first ever threadbare genetic study of Alzheimer’s, reports have it that late on set Alzheimer’s in 58% to 79% of the cases, is genetically linked. // Nearly 4.5 million people, over the age of 60 succumb to it. The disease is marked by apparent confusio...

Like a particular taste and hate the other: Well, Blame it on the Brain!

Scientists have now linked the liking of a taste to the brain and its neurons. So it is not you who will be blamed if you dislike the bitter gourd but just love the chocolate.// The study that demonstrated this relation was done on fruit fly Drosophila by Kristin Scott and colleagues. Ac...

Problem of acne blame it on milk!

Scientists at the University at Buffalo have investigated the possible relation between acne and milk. Dermatologists at the University// have come up with an explanation and the culprit is Iodine. Teenagers being plagued with acne can be a thing of the past if something concrete comes out. ...

Passion Fizzling Out? Blame The “Love Molecule

You look at the love of your life and find that the passion has fizzled out. You no longer feel the blood rush to your brain or your heart thud in your chest // and are at a loss to understand this. Well, help is at hand. Blame the "Love Molecule." Italian researchers have found that the first...

Sun The Reason To Blame for eye Disease

New research shows extended exposure to sunlight may lead to age-related maculopathy, also called age-related macular degeneration an eye // disorder that can cause blindness. Researchers observed more than 3,600 patients for five years and more than 2,700 patients for 10 years. Patients were betwe...

Don’t Blame the High Heels

Common sense tells us high heeled shoes are not good for the legs, knees, or feet. But a new study contradicts that assumption. British researchers find no relationship between wearing heels and subsequent development of knee osteoarthritis.// About 2 percent of people age 55 and older are both...

Dads to blame for longer pregnancies

Danish researchers led by Annette Wind Olsen have reported in the British Medical Journal that fathers might be responsible for pregnancies that last longer than 42 weeks or 294 days. The condition of prolonged pregnancies affects around 5% of pregnant mothers. The researchers conducted a study ...

Germs to blame for bad breath

A team of American researchers from The Forsyth Institute in Boston and the University of Michigan School of Dentistry have reported in the February issue of the Journal of Microbiology that bad breath or halitosis is caused by certain types of bacteria that dominate the back portion of the top of ...

Japanese Face High Risk Of Heart Attack And Stroke, Metabolic Syndrome to Blame

A new study has pointed out the alarming incidence of metabolic syndrome among the Japanese population. According to official statistics, more than 25 million people, approximating// to one-fifth of the total population face a high risk of heart attack and stroke. In view of this health threa...

Fumbled handoffs can lead to medical errors

...e study. Dr. Were is a Regenstrief Institute investigator and an assistant professor of medicine at the IU School of Medicine. While it is easy to blame busy health-care providers for poor quality of discharge summaries, the problem largely reflects a failure in the system, according to Dr. Were. Simil...

Men Around the World Seek Cosmetic Surgery

... Gynaecomastia currently affects 40-60% of men to varying degrees, although this figure is set to rise in line with obesity rates. Some scientists blame high levels of the female hormone oestrogen in food and drink for accentuating the problem. Men feel most inhibited by the condition in summer months,...

Charlotte Attorney Calls on North Carolina Senate to Pass "Comparative Negligence" Bill in Order to Better Protect Injury Victims in State

...veteran personal injury attorney, notes that North Carolina is one of just four states to deny any monetary award if injured party is even slightly to blame for accident Charlotte, N.C. (Lexis Nexis) July 23, 2009 -- The North Carolina State Senate needs to take prompt action and...

LCA Congratulates Nominee For Surgeon General

...at the President's understanding and sympathetic approach and your own tragic experience with lung cancer will signal an end to the decades of stigma, blame and neglect that has allowed lung cancer to become the most lethal yet least funded of the four top cancer killers. "Progress cannot be made ...

As Lawsuits Hit the MTA, Personal Injury Lawyers Consider How Much is Too Much, or Too Little

...l right to be exempted from personal injury lawsuits. If they are partly to blame they should pay their part . If the claimant is partly to blame they don't get compensated for their part. That's the law in this State. If...

Sad Dads May Lead to Crying Infants

... More factors should be considered than depression among moms, experts say TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Don't automatically blame mom: A crying, colicky baby can be just as much the result of dad's state of mind, Dutch researchers report. Other studies have found that depressi...

Retail Union Head Blasts Merchants Group for Opposition to Health Care Reform

...on and other merchants 23 percent of retail workers are now uninsured," Appelbaum said. "If Mr. Trautwein and his colleagues want to see who's to blame for the crisis of the uninsured they ought to look in a mirror," Appelbaum said. The RWDSU leader pointed out that, in 2007, at a time when it was ref...

Multivu Video Feed: JDRF International Chairman Mary Tyler Moore Testifies on the Need for Federal Funding for Type 1 Diabetes Research

... Alan Silvestri, Academy Award-nominated film composer (Night at the Museum, G.I. Joe), child with type 1 diabetes Jane Adams, singer of blame it On Jane, has type 1 diabetes B-ROLL INCLUDES: **Footage from Senate hearings**Song performance**Town Hall session VIDE...

Lung Cancer Alliance Hails Signing of Tobacco Control Legislation Into Law; Urges Action on Lung Cancer

...nt to this issue," said Fenton-Ambrose. "Now with the highly addictive drug of nicotine under federal regulation, we must put aside the stigma of blame that has hurt so many patients whether they smoked or not, and has caused lung cancer to be the least funded of the major diseases," she added. "I be...