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'Fitness and fatness': Not all obese people have the same prognosis

People can be obese but metabolically healthy and fit, with no greater risk of developing or dying from cardiovascular disease or cancer than normal weight people, according to the largest study ever to have investigated ...

Cardiology created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smokers who value the future more likely to quit

Addiction researchers have known for many years that smokers are less likely than non-smokers to look to the future in planning their lives. New research has now shown that among smokers, those who have more of a future orientation ...

Addiction created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Expressing your emotions can reduce fear: study

(Medical Xpress)—Can simply describing your feelings at stressful times make you less afraid and less anxious? A new UCLA psychology study suggests that labeling your emotions at the precise moment you ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Longer resuscitation attempts could improve survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest

New research published Online First in The Lancet suggests that increasing the duration of resuscitation efforts could improve survival in patients who arrest in hospital, challenging the common belief that extending resusc ...

Cardiology created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New molecule with anti-cancer and anti-metastatic properties

A new molecule with anti-cancer and anti-metastatic properties has been discovered by teams from CNRS, CEA, the Institut Curie and Inserm, in collaboration with Australian and British researchers. This anticancer ...

Cancer created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Measuring glucose without needle pricks

Pricking a finger everyday is just part of everyday life for many diabetes patients. A non-invasive measurement approach could release them from the constant pain of pin pricks. The linchpin is a biosensor ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Your dinner date could make you put on weight

(Medical Xpress)—If your dinner date chooses unhealthily from a restaurant menu, you are less likely to stick to healthy options, according to University of Birmingham research published in the British Journal of Nutrition. ...

Overweight and Obesity created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FDA approves Pfizer drug for rare blood cancer

Pfizer Inc. says the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved its new drug to treat a rare form of blood and bone marrow cancer.

Medications created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neural signature of affiliative experience identified in human brain

How would you respond if someone told you that you have a very dedicated son and that he got the scholarship he most wished? Or that the company you worked for made great profits and you will receive a good salary raise?

Neuroscience created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rare genetic disease offers insight into common cancers

Fanconi anemia is a recessive genetic disorder affecting 1 in 350,000 babies, which leaves cells unable to repair damaged DNA. This lack of repair puts Fanconi anemia patients at high risk for developing ...

Cancer created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Elderly discharged home do well after heart valve surgery

(HealthDay)—People over the age of 80 generally do well after aortic or mitral valve replacement surgery, especially if they are discharged home, according to a study published in the September issue of ...

Surgery created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Addition of tiotropium effective in poorly controlled asthma

(HealthDay)—For patients with poorly controlled asthma, the addition of tiotropium to standard therapy is beneficial, according to a study published online Sept. 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coi ...

Immunology created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Southeast Asian ovalocytosis protects against P. vivax malaria

A multinational group of authors, led by Ivo Mueller from the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Australia and the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, have found a strong association between Southeast Asian ovalocytosis, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Overcoming barriers to point-of-care testing in low-resource settings

In a Policy Forum article in this week's PLOS Medicine Madhukar Pai from McGill University, Canada and colleagues discuss a framework for how point-of-care testing can be applied to infectious diseases in low- and middle ...

Health created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Benign' malaria key driver of human evolution in Asia-Pacific

The malaria species rampant in the Asia-Pacific region has been a significant driver of evolution of the human genome, a new study has shown. An international team of researchers has shown that Plasmodium vivax malaria, the mo ...

Medical research created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast