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Childhood Metabolic Disorders Predict Hardening Of The Arterial Walls
Date: Apr-29-2013Metabolic disorders, such as excess abdominal fat, raised blood pressure, higher levels of insulin, glucose and triglycerides and lower levels of the beneficial HDL cholesterol can be found in children as young as 6 to 8 years of age, according to a study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland. These metabolic risk factors often accumulate in overweight children and, in the newly published study, this accumulation was linked with mild artery wall stiffness. Of single disorders, higher levels of insulin, triglyceride and blood pressure were associated with artery wall stiffness...
Roadside Breath Testing For Drugs A Step Closer
Date: Apr-29-2013A group of researchers from Sweden have provided further evidence that illegal drugs can be detected in the breath, opening up the possibility of a roadside breathalyzer test to detect substances such as cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis. Using a simple, commercially available breath sampler, the researchers have successfully identified a range of 12 substances in the breath of 40 patients recruited from a drug emergency clinic in Stockholm. Their findings have been published in IOP Publishing's Journal of Breath Research...
New Rewards And Penalties For Hospitals Proposed By Medicare
Date: Apr-28-2013Hospitals that take part in CMS' Inpatient Quality Reporting Program will receive 0.8% in extra payments, while those not successfully participating would have payments reduced by 2%, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed on Friday to the USA's 3,400 acute care hospitals. CMS says its proposed Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) rule would represent an increase in payments to hospitals of almost $27 million in 2014 (fiscal). CMS says that the extra money has factored in an increase for inflation as well as an 0...
Mangos Help Regulate Blood Sugar Levels Among Obese People
Date: Apr-28-2013The positive health effects of Mangos have been recently explored and presented by researchers at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). They found that mangos have properties that can help regulate blood sugar levels among people suffering from obesity. * Spelling - the plural of "mango" is "mangos" or "mangoes". The study, which was led by Edralin Lucas, Ph.D., evaluated what effect eating mangos everyday would have on a total of twenty obese adult people. The participants ate 10 grams of freeze-dried mango everyday for 12 weeks...
Tamoxifen And Coffee Consumption May Help Prevent Return Of Breast Cancer
Date: Apr-28-2013Drinking coffee could decrease the risk of breast cancer recurring in patients taking the widely used drug Tamoxifen, a study at Lund University in Sweden has found. Patients who took the pill, along with two or more cups of coffee daily, reported less than half the rate of cancer recurrence, compared with their non-coffee drinking, Tamoxifen-taking counterparts. The team followed over 600 breast cancer patients from southern Sweden for an average of five years. Approximately 300 took Tamoxifen...
Research Shows Early Dialogue Between Parents And Children Most Effective In Deterring Teen Tobacco, Alcohol Use
Date: Apr-28-2013Early, substantive dialogue between parents and their grade-school age children about the ills of tobacco and alcohol use can be more powerful in shaping teen behavior than advertising, marketing or peer pressure, a University of Texas at Arlington marketing researcher has shown. The findings of Zhiyong Yang, an associate professor of marketing in the UT Arlington College of Business, are published in a recent edition of the Journal of Business Research. Similar findings were part of a 2010 study he published in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing of the American Marketing Association...
Hepatic Encephalopathy Reduced By Probiotics
Date: Apr-28-2013Probiotics could emerge as a treatment plan to manage hepatic encephalopathy (HE) therapy after a new study announced at the International Liver Congress™ 2013 found they significantly reduced development of the notoriously difficult-to-treat disease. The study analysed the efficacy of probiotics in preventing the development of HE in 160 cirrhotic patients over a period of approximately nine months and found significant improvements in reducing patients' arterial ammonia levels after three months of treatment with probiotics...
Alzheimer's Gene Discovery Offers Hope For Preventive Therapy
Date: Apr-28-2013Alzheimer's disease is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting more than five million Americans, but currently there is no way to prevent, delay or stop its progression. A study published online by the Cell Press journal Neuron shows that a gene called CD33 contributes to Alzheimer's disease by inhibiting the ability of immune cells to remove toxic molecules in the brain. The findings provide new insights into the molecular causes of the disease and reveal a novel potential therapy that could prevent cognitive decline and brain damage at early stages...
Natural Selection Evident In Women In Rural Gambia
Date: Apr-28-2013In many places around the world, people are living longer and are having fewer children. But that's not all. A study of people living in rural Gambia, published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology, shows that this modern-day "demographic transition" may lead women to be taller and slimmer, too. "This is a reminder that declines in mortality rates do not necessarily mean that evolution stops, but that it changes," says Ian Rickard of Durham University in the United Kingdom...
Genetically Engineered Crops May Be Necessary To Achieve Sustainable Agriculture In Europe
Date: Apr-28-2013The European Union cannot meet its goals in agricultural policy without embracing genetically engineered crops (GMOs). That's the conclusion of scientists who write in Trends in Plant Science, a Cell Press publication, based on case studies showing that the EU is undermining its own competitiveness in the agricultural sector to its own detriment and that of its humanitarian activities in the developing world...
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