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New Measure For Obesity: A Body Shape Index Strongly Correlated To Premature Death
Date: Jul-20-2012Researchers have developed a new metric to measure obesity, called A Body Shape Index, or ABSI, that combines the existing metrics of Body Mass Index (BMI) and waist circumference and shows a better correlation with death rate than do either of these individual measures. The full results are reported in the open access journal PLoS ONE, and the work was led by Nir Krakauer of City College of New York...
New Heart Failure Trigger Discovered That Could Change The Way Cardiovascular Drugs Are Made
Date: Jul-20-2012In their quest to treat cardiovascular disease, researchers and pharmaceutical companies have long been interested in developing new medicines that activate a heart protein called APJ. But researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) and the Stanford University School of Medicine have now uncovered a second, previously unknown, function for APJ - it senses mechanical changes when the heart is in danger and sets the body on a course toward heart failure...
Genomic Data For Colon And Rectal Cancers Point To Potential Targets For Treatment
Date: Jul-20-2012The pattern of genomic alterations in colon and rectal tissues is the same regardless of anatomic location or origin within the colon or the rectum, leading researchers to conclude that these two cancer types can be grouped as one, according to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project's large-scale study of colon and rectal cancer tissue specimens. In multiple types of genomic analyses, colon and rectal cancer results were nearly indistinguishable. Initially, the TCGA Research Network studied colon tumors as distinct from rectal tumors...
Dopamine-Releasing Nerve Cells Crucial To The Formation Of Both Punished And Rewarded Memories
Date: Jul-20-2012Children quickly learn to avoid negative situations and seek positive ones. But humans are not the only species capable of remembering positive and negative events; even the small brain of a fruit fly has this capacity. Dopamine-containing nerve cells connected with the mushroom body of the fly brain play a role here. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried have identified four different types of such nerve cells. Three of the nerve cell types assume various functions in mediating negative stimuli, while the fourth enables the fly to form positive memories...
$6.1 Million 'Innovation Grant' Awarded To Test Comprehensive Care Physician Model
Date: Jul-20-2012Patients who are frequently hospitalized account for a disproportionate amount of health care spending in the United States. Working with a $6.1 million grant, a new University of Chicago Medicine program will test whether an updated version of the traditional general practitioner can reduce spending while also improving care for these patients. Under the new model, funded by a Health Care Innovation Award from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, multidisciplinary teams led by a comprehensive care physician (CCP) will care for patients in both outpatient and inpatient settings...
New Preventive Treatments Available For Mild HIV
Date: Jul-19-2012According to researchers from Lund University in Sweden, they have opened the way for new methods to slow the development of AIDS in HIV-1 infected patients. The authors hope that their study, published in New England Journal of Medicine, can improve treatment methods and preventive measures to fight HIV and AIDS. HIV-1 is the most common type of the virus that causes AIDS, and when it infects someone who already struggles with the milder HIV-2, it is less aggressive...
Global Action Must Be Taken To Stop Physical Inactivity
Date: Jul-19-2012The fifth and final paper in The Lancet Series on physical inactivity explained that because of the global reach, high prevalence, and colossal harms of inactivity, it should be considered pandemic. Harold W. Kohl, III, leading author and from the University of Texas Health School of Public Health, said: "The role of physical inactivity continues to be undervalued despite evidence of its protective effects being available for more than 60 years and the evident cost burden posed by present levels of physical inactivity globally...
Hospitals See Increase In Child Abuse
Date: Jul-19-2012Researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's (CHOP) PolicyLab have discovered that the number of children who have been admitted to 38 of the nation's largest children hospitals because of serious physical abuse has a substantial increased over the last 10 years. The findings from the largest study to examine the impact of the recession on child abuse, published in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics, discovered a strong link between the rate of physical child abuse and local mortgage foreclosures, which have been typical in the recent recession...
Most Parents Believe HPV Vaccine Should Require Their Consent
Date: Jul-19-2012A poll revealed that the majority of adults in the U.S. are in support of laws that allow teenagers to get medical care for sexually transmitted infections without parental consent. However, most parents wanted to have final say on whether or not their child is vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV). The National Poll on Children's Health, conducted by the University of Michigan C.S. surveyed a national sample of adults as to whether they would allow adolescents between the ages of 12 to 17 years to be vaccinated against HPV without parental consent...
Physical Activity Levels May Increase Due To Mobile Phone Technology
Date: Jul-19-2012The fourth paper in The Lancet Series on physical activity reported on a new simulation model that explains how information and communication technologies, particularly mobile phones, could be a powerful way to encourage millions of people worldwide to become more physically active...
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