Study Casts Doubt on Low IQ's Role in Early Death

Adjustments for behavior dampen the negative effect, study finds THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Low IQ alone doesn't increase a person's risk of early death, says a new study that challenges findings suggested by previous research. The Swedish study of data on nearly 44,000 me...

Study Casts Doubt on Influential Hospital Safety Survey

Those with the best rankings had similar death rates to those with the worst marks TUESDAY, March 31 (HealthDay News) -- The task just got harder for patients trying to figure out which hospital will provide the best care. A new study casts doubt on a hospital safety rating conducte...

Two Studies Cast Further Doubt on the Effectiveness of Low GI/GL Diets for Weight Loss

The Studies Provide Good News for Potato Lovers. DENVER, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A study published in the September 2007 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition provides further evidence that the glycemic index (GI) of a diet is not important; when it comes to weight lo...

Study Casts Doubt on Vaccine-Autism Link

Research adds to growing body of evidence thats finds no connection between the two MONDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Adding to a growing body of evidence that rejects the idea that immunizations boost autism rates, a new study finds no proof that incidences of the disorder dropped af...

For the Obese, Holiday Tables Serve Platefuls of Doubt

But fear of social pressures can be overcome with honest approach to food, expert says SATURDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- The holiday season can be especially difficult for overweight or obese people as they struggle to control their eating habits and cope with widely held misconcep...

Study Puts 1 Alzheimer's Theory in Doubt

Results in mice suggest a key gene might not be to blame, researchers say MONDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Research with mice is poking holes in a prevailing theory on the origins of Alzheimer's, scientists say. Mice without a gene thought to rein in cell-damaging free radicals a...

Fate of France's Cheeses in Doubt as Producers Cite Health Risks

The fate of one of France's best-loved cheeses is in question after the two biggest manufacturers of "real Camembert" -- the traditional variety made with untreated "raw" milk -- stopped production, citing health risks for the consumer. To the fury of purists, Lactalis and the Isigny Cooperat...

British Scientists Doubt Delhi Doctor’s Stem Cell Claim

A Delhi-based doctor’s claim of having produced and purified stem cells from human embryos to treat incurable diseases does not have many takers in the British medical fraternity. The Guardian reported Friday that experts here have called // on Indian authorities to impose tighter curbs on clini...

Study casts doubt on keyboard ills

Using a computer does not appear to pose a severe occupational hazard for developing the wrist and hand ailment known as carpal tunnel syndrome, according to a Danish study published Tuesday. The finding was based on a survey of nearly 7,000 workers at 3,500 locations who were questioned initially...

Men With Angina Do Worse Than Women

...urgery, but the study found no difference in survival for those who had either intervention. "Bypass surgery does work for many people, there is no doubt about that," Buckley said. "Maybe people who have it should be chosen more carefully than they are. Angina is an early stage of heart disease. At that...

Omaha School of Massage Therapy Adds Healthcare Programs, Joins Herzing University, and Changes Name

...ch offers online degree programs and diplomas. "The Herzing motto is to provide a career-focused, convenient, and caring education, and there's no doubt OSMHC is doing exactly that," she commented. When asked about the integration with Herzing University, President Carper stated, "We are both pr...

STAAR Surgical Generates Cash From Operations During Second Quarter

... risks and uncertainties include our limited capital resources and limited access to financing, the fact that our public accounting firm has expressed doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern in their opinion on our financial statements, the broad discretion of the FDA in approving any medica...

Once Again, House Rejects Amendment Preventing Taxpayer Funding for Abortion

...e majority of Americans, we believe that health care legislation should not cover abortion. The actions of the House Committee demonstrate beyond any doubt that it intends for the federal government to fund coverage of abortion on demand. "Whatever their position on the legality of abortion, we sh...

Multiple Myeloma Genome Unlocked

...Trent, co-principal investigator on the Multiple Myeloma Genomics Initiative. "Such a remarkable dataset exists for very few other cancers; it will no doubt pave the way toward personalized medicine for multiple myeloma patients." More information The American Cancer Society has more about multipl...

Los Angeles County Launches Its Most Comprehensive Campaign Ever to Encourage HIV Testing

...," the multi-faceted campaign is designed to raise doubt and make Angelenos ask the question: "Could I hav...ion of the AIDS ribbon and the question mark imply doubt about one's HIV status while the arrow directs one to erase any doubt by going to the campaign's Web site to locate a te...

TELEHOUSE America Offers Integralis' Data Loss Prevention Consulting Services as Part of its Manage-E Solution

... executives when it comes to compliance. "Compliance is about controls on risk and accidental risk is uncontrolled risk," says Greenberg. "There's no doubt that organizations without Web 2.0 policies, processes and technologies in place, and ways to enforce them, are creating vulnerabilities that can lead...

The Friendship Stone Helps Friends Remain Healthy

...mark the week and celebrate their friendship. The party will be broadcast at http://www.livestream.com/thefriendshipstone . “There is no doubt that my friends made my experiences much easier,” said Cathy Raff, founder of My Stone Company. “I even had one friend who came for all my...

Review of STAAR's Application for the Visian(R) Toric Implantable Collamer(R) Lens by FDA to Resume

...ents such as third party audits, our limited capital resources and limited access to financing, the fact that our public accounting firm has expressed doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern in their opinion on our financial statements, the cost of defending pending litigation and satisfying...

Review of STAAR's Application for the Visian(R) Toric Implantable Collamer(R) Lens by FDA to Resume

...ents such as third party audits, our limited capital resources and limited access to financing, the fact that our public accounting firm has expressed doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern in their opinion on our financial statements, the cost of defending pending litigation and satisfying...

ISSA Announces New Specialist in Fitness Nutrition Certification

...rition curriculum offers the fitness enthusiast and personal trainer a proper education, empowering them to become experts on a topic that raises much doubt and confusion." In a society with an abundance of diet programs, including the South Beach diet, the Abs diet, Pritikin, Atkins, Liberation D...

MTV's Season Finale of '16 & Pregnant' Hit Series Highs Among Both P12-34 (1.9) and Total Viewers (2.1 Million) Thursday, Ranking as the Number One Primetime Cable Program

...funny moments that the girls faced during the filming of "16 & Pregnant." Topics covered will include dreams deferred, family tensions, moments of doubt and the challenges of being pregnant at a young age. Doubling up on the drama, a unique episode of True Life will follow with "True Life: I'm Having T...

New Web site launches $1.7 million project to improve European cancer communications

...his will be the first time that lots of very large groups involved in cancer in Europe have come together to improve cancer communications. There's no doubt that people of all ages and demographic profiles are using the internet, including cancer professionals. We need to understand 21st century communicat...

New drug candidate prolongs the lives of pancreatic cancer patients

...rgetable," says Prof. Kloog, "but our concept takes a different approach. Now that we've shown it works in human subjects, I am definitely excited no doubt about it." Prof. Kloog developed the Ras antagonist more than 15 years ago. No toxic side effects In the latest study, researchers tested for...

Waging War on Wrinkles: Infini Cosmetic Associates Now Offers Recent FDA Approved Dysport - The Botox Alternative

...inkles, chin creases and dimpling, lip lines, and lower facial shaping. The arrival of Dysport™ into the U.S. aesthetics marketplace will no doubt increase competition between the two wrinkle treatments and multiply physician choices and cosmetic options within the same medical practice. &qu...

Pelosi House Leaders, Committee Chairs Remarks at Press Conference on America's Affordable Health Choices Act

...e'll see what people are putting forth to stipulate to a set of facts what really is the case and then go forward. I have full confidence -- I have no doubt that we will come to agreement on all these issues. And this legislation -- for example, that Congressional district I mentioned where over ...

KarenZupko & Associates, Inc. and ReachMD XM 160 Announce New Radio Programming Series, "Practice Success" hosted by Karen Zupko

...gh healthcare environment," said Gary Epstein CEO of ReachMD. "We're thrilled to bring our listeners this kind of expertise and there is no doubt her dynamic and humorous style will be well received," he said. Zupko is a seasoned, senior advisor who has been helping physicians naviga...

Diabetes Advocates Call For National Strategy, Leadership to Reduce Diabetes and Advance Detection and Treatment

... is designed to show a groundswell of support for a National Diabetes Coordinator, is available at www.ncdp.com/coordinator . "There is no doubt that diabetes is an epidemic that needs to be addressed at the highest levels of government," Haza said. "Today there are 24 million Americans diagno...

FRC Says Planned Parenthood, Desperate to Hide Agenda, Attacks Hatch and Hides Intent

...o thinking that abortion is not part of the equation. "Because the bill as written has no exclusion for abortion in its language, there is no doubt that Sen. Milkulski's amendment opens the floodgates to massive public underwriting of abortion, a position Planned Parenthood has always favored. Se...

The Max Cure Foundation Announces Its First Charity Benefit: The 'Roar for a Cure' Carnival to Be Held on Saturday, August 22, 2009

...e appeared on MTV's TRL and in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. They have performed in concert with Miley Cyrus and alongside such groups as No doubt and Fall Out Boy. Their MySpace page ( www.myspace.com/pushplayrox ) has received over five million plays and as many profile views to date and their ...

NIA Says Health Care Will Cause U.S. Dollar Collapse

...flation.us members: "It is becoming increasingly likely that health care will be the straw that causes the U.S. Dollar to collapse. There is no doubt about it that health care costs are out-of-control in America. Unfortunately, most Americans are calling for the government to do something about astr...

New Clues to Race Gap in Breast Cancer Outcomes

...blacks were 21 percent to 61 percent more likely to die from gender-specific cancers than white patients. Those findings, the researchers say, cast doubt on the theory that the lower survival rates for certain cancers are due solely to factors such as poverty and poor access to quality health care. D...

Heartburn Drugs May Contribute to the Problem

...escribing may be causing harm, the study authors said. "It is beyond any doubt that subjects with reflux disease benefit from and need treatment with acid...stina Reimer of Copenhagen University in Denmark. "But it is equally beyond doubt that PPIs are prescribed more or less uncritically for a wide variety of sy...

Drug Limits Stomach Trouble in Patients Taking Low-Dose Aspirin

...), another anti-clotting drug that's often prescribed with aspirin, according to background information in a journal news release. "There is little doubt that aspirin and other anti-clotting drugs are very useful in the prevention of heart, brain and other vascular diseases, hence their increasing use w...

THCA on 2009 Legislative Session: Seniors' Medicaid-Financed Nursing Home Care Requires Substantially More Investment as Population Ages, Care Needs Grow

...owing care needs. "While Texas seniors and the providers who care for them are thankful for a small increase in Medicaid funding, let there be no doubt that the Legislature is still hundreds of millions short when it comes addressing seniors' needs today and the growing level of care they will require...

Americans' Right to Access Natural Health Alternatives in Peril, Says Natural Health Freedom Movement

...mon humanistic values, including their determination for peace and justice. In 1994, shortly before his death, Linus Pauling stated: "There is no doubt in my mind that I was thinking about Dr. Rath as my successor." Today Dr. Rath heads a research and development institute in nutritional and ...

Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York and Mentice, Inc. Announce the Successful Completion of Their 1st Trans-septal Cardiac Catheterization Training Course: A Comprehensive Hands-On Tutorial with Certification on June 12th and 13th 2009 in

...hirty years of training physicians in many different catheterization procedures, this has been one of the most gratifying experiences. We can without doubt corroborate that well recorded live cases, good didactic step-by-step teaching and reliable simulators can provide the necessary learning experience a...

Richard A. Meier Appointed to STAAR Surgical Board of Directors

... risks and uncertainties include our limited capital resources and limited access to financing, the fact that our public accounting firm has expressed doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern in their opinion on our financial statements, the need to defend litigation and the risk of adverse ...

California Shock Trauma Air Rescue (CALSTAR) Leads the Way in Pioneering Helicopter Modification Which is Expected to Greatly Enhance Safety and Save Lives

...dent and CEO announced today. The modification, according to Cook, will no doubt save countless numbers of lives. With CALSTAR having served as t...icult process but it was well worth it," Likens said. "Without a doubt we will be able to more safely complete the transportation of the gravely i...

Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. Elects New Members to Board of Directors

...ecutive Officer James L. Weidner. "Each incoming member has already demonstrated his or her commitment to the success of our organization and they no doubt will enable CAP to continue to provide superior coverage and service to our members well into the future." For complete biographies of all CAP an...

Women More Likely Than Men to Reject Unattractive Babies

... Study casts doubt on notion of moms' unconditional love WEDNESDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) -- Women are more likely than men to look away from less-than-c...