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Safe Neighborhood Means Less TV For Preschool Children

Research suggests that if mothers feel that their neighborhoods are safe then their preschool children tend to watch less TV. However the study also points out that this does not mean that these children// play more outdoors or are less overweight in comparison with their counterparts in unsafe neighborhoods. Drawing from a study of three-year-olds in 20 U.S. cities, researchers report...

Lack Of Insurance Means Worse Care For Uninsured

A new study finds, that lack of insurance means worse care when it comes to preventive tests that can catch cancer and other diseases early, even for the relatively well off people. // The study author Dr. Joseph S. Ross, a primary care internist in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale University, explained that lacking in health insurance was associated with redu...

New Study To Find Means Of Reducing The Risk Of Diabetes In Youth

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is planning to conduct a fully sponsored study, in which hundreds of school children of the 6th grade from 42 middle schools are to take part //to determine as to how the risk of diabetes could be reduced in the youth. It was explained that the study would determine as to whether changes in school food services and physical education (PE) classe...

Hepatitis C : By No Means Lily-livered! Beware

Hepatitis C has become the scourge of multitude of Queenslanders, with nearly thousands of them fighting a relentless battle with the disease//, underlining the importance of early medical intervention in the successful treatment of the disease. Hepatitis C is caused by a virus that targets the liver, which can also turn fatal. The University of New South Wales have rolled out figures...

Depression After Heart Attack Means More Heart Problems

Depression following a heart attack indicates future heart problems, according to a study.This research appears in the Dec. 5, 2006 edition of the// Journal of the American College of Cardiology. People who experience their first-ever bout of depression after having a heart attack are at greater risk for future heart problems and hence have to undergo new depression-related screenin...

Alcoholics by All Means Should Avoid Stress During Early Abstinence

The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is a hormonal system that defends against stress, starvation and illnesses//. New findings of alterations in adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and cortisol secretion in alcoholic patients, which reflect changes in the HPA axis, prompt recommendations that alcoholics avoid excessive stress – both physical and psychological – during early absti...