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Less Education May Mean Poorer Health

High school dropouts more than twice as prone to illness as college grads, study finds WEDNESDAY, May 6 (HealthDay News) -- American adults with the least education have the worst health, a new study finds. Almost half of U.S. adults ages 25 to 74 reported being in less than very g...

African-American women still have poorer breast cancer outcomes

CHICAGO (May 4, 2009) New research published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that dramatic disparities in breast cancer outcomes continue to exist for African-American women, regardless of the age at which they are diagnosed, extent of the cancer, type ...

Poor sleep quality leads to poorer prognosis after stroke

Stroke victims tend to do worse if they also have diagnosed or undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea prior to having the stroke, according to a study presented April 28, 2009, at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) annual meeting in Seattle. Latha Stead, M.D., professor and chair of the Depar...

Hispanics appear to face poorer quality nursing home care

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Nursing homes serving primarily Hispanic residents provided poorer quality care compared to facilities whose patients were mostly white, according to Brown University research. Details were published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Directors As...

Mortality rates higher for heart disease patients in poorer B.C. neighborhoods

Heart disease patients living in poorer areas of B.C. are up to twice as likely to die from chronic diseases than patients living in better-off areas, a University of British Columbia study has found. The research, released this week in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE , found ...

Marital problems lead to poorer outcomes for breast cancer patients

COLUMBUS, Ohio Breast cancer patients who have a poor relationship with their spouse may face a more difficult road to recovery than would other women, according to a new study. Researchers found that, over five years, patients in distressed marriages had higher levels of stress, less physical...

Minorities With Disabilities Report Poorer Health

Overall, 1 in 5 Americans lives with at least one disability, CDC says THURSDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- An estimated 43 million Americans -- one in five people -- have some type of disability, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And a new CDC study ...

Girls From Poorer Areas More Likely to Have Sex Earlier

Partners are usually older boys with conduct problems, study says THURSDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Girls who live in poor neighborhoods are more likely to have sexual intercourse in early adolescence and to have their first sexual experiences with older boys, a Canadian study sa...

Poorer Patients Have Poorer Survival After Cancer Diagnosis

Less affluent individuals had more advanced disease and were less likely to receive needed treatment MONDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- Low socioeconomic status increases a cancer patient's risk of dying, say U.S. researchers who analyzed data on almost 14,000 breast, prostate and col...

Antidepressants do work in depression while evidence for CBT is poorer say experts

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore (6 May, 2008) A new revision of clinical guidelines to help doctors manage patients with depression has challenged the rationale behind the UK governments policy of rolling out of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for milder depression. Accordin...

Blacks Awaiting Lung Transplants Face Poorer Outcomes

Findings point to significant barriers to accessing timely care for minorities FRIDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Blacks awaiting a lung transplant during a recent 10-year period were less likely to receive a new lung and more likely to die or be removed from the transplant list than ...

UNC faculty and students to develop plan to get clean water in poorer homes

CHAPEL HILL Faculty and students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are setting out to discover whether applying business principles to public health problems can result in solutions that will save lives in developing countries with limited access to safe drinking water. The ...

Journal SLEEP: disturbed sleep linked to poorer daytime function in older women

WESTCHESTER, Ill. One of the first large-scale studies to examine the association of sleep behaviors, neuromuscular performance and daytime function in a community dwelling of older women finds that poorer sleep is associated with worse physical function in older women during the daytime, accordi...

Cancer control in Europe works; now it is time to extend it to poorer countries

Barcelona, Spain: Only a few years ago cancer was considered to be a disease of westernised, developed countries, but now the burden is increasingly falling on less developed countries, a leading epidemiologist told ECCO 14, the European Cancer Conference, today (Monday 24 September). Professor Pe...

Poor indoor air quality means poorer health for patients with COPD

Poor indoor air quality can significantly worsen health problems in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), according to researchers in Scotland. High concentrations of fine particulate pollutionthe type of pollution associated with secondhand smoke and, in developing countries,...

Drinking Often Spurs Move to Poorer Neighborhoods

Alcoholism a common trigger for downward social mobility, study confirms TUESDAY, Aug. 28 (HealthDay News) -- While alcoholism and living in a downscale neighborhood often go together, a new study finds that it is the problem drinking that usually comes first. "The more alcohol prob...

Colorectal Cancer Survival Rates Poorer in African-Americans

A new Study led by Chyke A. Doubeni, M.D., M.P.H. of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Meyers Primary Care Institute in Worcester, MA, researchers from// the National Cancer Institute-funded Cancer Research Network investigated the association between tumor stage and risk of de...

Insufficient Sleep Associated with Poorer Blood Glucose Control

CHICAGO - Getting fewer hours of sleep or lower-quality sleep may be associated with poorer blood glucose control among African-Americans with diabetes//, according to an article in the September 18 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, a theme issue on sleep. Many individuals in modern soc...

Dental Hygiene Found Wanting In Children Of Poorer Communities In Scotland

A National research that was conducted in Scotland has found that the children in the poorer communities are twice as likely to suffer from tooth decay.// The research that was conducted by the National Dental Inspection Programme 2005 has shown that 64% of children in the most deprived areas...

Slide Into Debt Could Bring Wider Waistline

...ent of these factors." Her team speculates that certain lifestyle changes linked to debt, such as restricted daily activities, "comfort eating" and poorer available food choices may all contribute to packing on pounds during financial hard times. For example, "a person's ability to pick and choose the fo...

Kefir, a Probiotic-Rich Drink, May Benefit Specific Groups of Children

...eir parents, knew which Kefir was given to which participant until the study ended. The findings revealed that in the children whose health was poorer when they entered the study, 23% developed diarrhea in the group that received the active Kefir, compared with 31% in the group that got the placebo o...

Virus May Affect Survival in Head and Neck Cancer

... and neck cancer, U.S. researchers report. They said the finding may explain why black Americans, who have far less HPV infection than whites, have poorer head and neck cancer survival rates. "There is currently no consensus on why blacks fare worse with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck th...

Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc./Lymphoma Research Foundation funds lymphoma research

... group of small RNA molecules, called miR-17~92. Dr. Fu and his co-workers have found that higher expression of miR-17~92 is directly correlated with poorer patient survival. These findings indicate that higher miR-17~92 expression induces abnormal activation of a pathway in tumor cells that leads to incr...

Marriage Ends, Health Declines

... Study links divorce and widowhood to poorer health MONDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have long thought that marriage is good for your health, but it has been less clear...

Sedentary Kids May Take Longer to Fall Asleep

...chool-age children say their child has difficulty falling asleep, according to the researchers, who noted that poor sleep patterns have been linked to poorer school performance and an increased risk of a child becoming overweight or obese. "This study emphasizes the importance of physical activity for ch...

Leukemia cells evade immune system by mimicking normal cells, Stanford studies show

...uthor of one of the studies, which focused on acute myeloid leukemia. Patients whose cancer stem cells express higher levels of the molecule have a poorer prognosis than those whose cells express lower levels, and masking its presence makes the human cancer cells less deadly and more vulnerable to destru...

Molecule Helps Leukemia Cells Hide From Immune System

...them travel throughout the body undetected, the investigators found. Patients who had cancer stem cells with higher levels of this molecule have a poorer prognosis than those whose cells express lower levels, the researchers report in the July 24 issue of the journal Cell . "We call it the 'Don't ea...

The Friendship Stone Helps Friends Remain Healthy

...pany and Crohn’s Disease sufferer dedicates Friendship Week to her friends and family who accelerated her recovery. Lack of friends connected to poorer health Company aims to reduce number of lonely people in America. New York, NY (Vocus) July 22, 2009 –- My Stone Comp...

Teaming Up to Tackle a Deadly Cancer

...ts are males over 50, and surgery and radiation work in about half of all cases, Gardner said. Children make up only a handful of the cases and have a poorer prognosis. Gardner and his colleagues recently devised a new technique to get at the tumor by going through the nasal cavity, which reduces the ri...

A 'Heart Healthy' Diet and Ongoing, Moderate Physical Activity May Protect Against Cognitive Decline as We Age

...king, alcohol consumption, parity, and periods of amenorrhea, the researchers found that long-term strenuous activity was consistently associated with poorer performance on all eight of the tests; with statistically significant results on tests of semantic memory, working memory, delayed verbal recall, and ...

July/August 2009 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet

...eries' third installment, which explores the paradox of primary care the fact that when compared with specialty care, primary care is associated with poorer quality care for individual diseases, yet higher value health care at the level of the whole person, and better health, greater equity, lower costs an...

Sit 'n Sleep Refocuses on Consumer Sleep Health and Well-Being

...ions the following day. Academic performance: A study recently released from Hendrix College in Arkansas found that poor sleep was linked to poorer academic performance. ...

News from Cancer

...ptoms analysis performed better for distinguishing benign tumors (91.3% versus 74.4% specificity), adding symptom analysis to TVS actually resulted in poorer identification of malignancy (sensitivity = 16.7%), even as it improved the ability to distinguish benign tumors (specificity = 97.9%). The authors sa...

Team Sports Can't Compete With Films to Keep Kids From Smoking

..., smokers were more likely to be male, older, have parents with lower levels of education, have more friends who smoked, have parents who smoked, have poorer school performance and be more likely to engage in risky behaviors. Smokers were also less likely to be in school when they were 16 to 21, the researc...

AHRQ Launches Monthly Health Advice Column and Enhanced Web Site In Spanish

...oscopy and more than half of Hispanic women over 40 have not had a mammogram within the last year. "One factor contributing to why Hispanics have poorer health care than other groups is their lack of access to unbiased, culturally competent information in Spanish," said AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy,...

Too Much Texting Can Spell Neck, Arm Pain

...ssages. Stay active. "People who are more active outside of work and have good circulation will heal better than those who are less active and have poorer circulation," Turkopp said. If you experience soreness, stop texting. Anti-inflammatory medications such as Advil or Motrin can also help. Mo...

On Memory, Older Americans Outsmart the English

...ly quite surprising since U.S. adults had a higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, which is generally associated with cognitive decline and poorer mental function." More aggressive treatment of cardiovascular disease in the United States might help explain the Americans' higher average score, ...

Study examines liver transplantation after drug induced acute liver failure

...North Carolina , commends the authors for adding valuable information about acute liver failure caused by drugs. In particular, "the identification of poorer outcome for children with anti-epileptic drug induced acute liver failure is intriguing and points out the need for more focused research on drug indu...

NAMI Observes Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

...eceive diagnosis and treatment for their mental illness have less access to and availability of mental health services often receive a poorer quality of mental health care are underrepresented in mental health research. For additional information about National Min...

Eating Animal Fat May Lead to Pancreatic Cancer

... Association found that being overweight or obese as a young adult increases the risk for pancreatic cancer, and obesity in middle age is linked with poorer survival from the disease. Being overweight in your 30s was associated with a 60 percent increased risk for pancreatic cancer, and being obese was...