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(HealthDay)—Electroacupuncture reduces the duration of postoperative ileus and shortens hospital stay for patients treated with laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer, according to research published in the February issue of Gastroenterology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-electroacupuncture-duration-post-op-ileus.html Surgery Sat, 09 Feb 2013 07:00:02 EST news279613222 Among patients with chronic unilateral lateral epicondylalgia ("tennis elbow"), a single injection of corticosteroid medication was associated with poorer outcomes after one year and higher recurrence rates compared with placebo, while eight weeks of physiotherapy did not significantly improve long-term outcomes, according to a study appearing in the February 6 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-corticosteroid-physiotherapy-significant-tennis-elbow.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:00:20 EST news279302380 A new study found a high prevalence of sleep disorders and a startlingly high rate of short sleep duration among active duty military personnel. The study suggests the need for a cultural change toward appropriate sleep practices throughout the military. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-duty-military-personnel-prone-disorders.html Health Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:00:01 EST news278862494 (Medical Xpress)—There's no need to panic if you didn't get a solid eight hours of beauty sleep last night. According to new University of Sydney research, sleep duration naturally waxes and wanes over a period of days regardless of individual lifestyle, timing of sleep or waking, and social and environmental influences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-previously-unknown-pattern-revealed.html Health Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:35:03 EST news278663593 What are you doing to keep your relationship alive? A University of Illinois study highlights the importance of five relationship maintenance strategies that couples can use to preserve or improve the quality of an intimate relationship. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-expert-tried-and-true-strategies-relationship.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:42:30 EST news276950529 (HealthDay)—Exercise duration is improved by exercising with a virtual partner, especially with a moderately superior partner, according to a study published in the October issue of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-virtual-partner.html Health Fri, 14 Dec 2012 05:08:21 EST news274684093 Infants that are born preterm or with impaired growth have an increased risk of developing gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), possibly leaving them vulnerable to the development of esophageal adenocarcinoma later in life. Gestational age and size at birth affect the risk of an early diagnosis of esophagitis—inflammation of the esophagus—according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-children-born-prematurely-higher-esophageal.html Health Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:05:13 EST news274446305 Dartmouth researchers have found that duration of ibuprofen use was associated with a reduced risk of bladder cancer in patients in northern New England, which has a high mortality rate of this disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-explore-popular-pain-relievers-bladder.html Cancer Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:09:19 EST news271516148 (HealthDay)—For children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, the 90-minute mixed-meal tolerance test (MMTT)-stimulated C-peptide (CP; 90CP) is a highly sensitive and specific measure of area under the curve (AUC) and peak CP and may be used as an alternative to a full MMTT, according to a study published online Oct. 30 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-c-peptide-good-full-mixed-meal-tolerance.html Diabetes Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:30:04 EST news271078410 A new study suggests that increasing the amount of sleep that adults get could lead to reduced food intake, but the hormonal process differs between men and women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-duration-affects-hunger-differently-men.html Health Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:52:11 EST news270921125 A new study shows that both length of time and percentage of overall sleep spent in different sleep stages are associated with decreased metabolic rate, increased hunger, and increased intake of calories (specifically from fat and carbohydrates). The findings suggest an explanation for the association between sleep problems and obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-architecture-hunger.html Health Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:29:39 EST news270131324 New research shows that high school students experience excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), with most students sleeping fewer than 7 hours per night. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-excessive-daytime-sleepiness-common-high.html Health Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:06:13 EST news270097564 Results of one study indicate that the risk for developing pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia increased the longer a baby was fed formula and the longer solid foods were delayed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-prolonged-formula-solid-foods-pediatric.html Cancer Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:37:26 EST news269689033 Daily activities, such as fast walking and jogging, can curb the development of risk factors for heart disease and stroke by as much as 50 percent, whereas an hour's daily walk makes little difference, indicates research published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-fast-halve-heart-disease-factors.html Cardiology Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:05:10 EST news268999502 A new study suggests that increasing the amount of sleep that teenagers get could improve their insulin resistance and prevent the future onset of diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-lack-insulin-resistance-teens.html Health Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:02 EST news268062963 (HealthDay) -- Among patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAC), those with pre-existing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) for longer than five years have an increased mortality risk, according to a study published online Aug. 1 in Cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-long-term-diabetes-ups-pancreatic-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:27:15 EST news264259581 Persistent and loud snoring in young children is associated with problem behaviors, according to a new study published online in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-links-persistent-loud-young-children.html Pediatrics Mon, 13 Aug 2012 03:38:02 EST news264047798 As moms have always known, a good night's sleep is crucial to good health -- and now a new study led by a UCSF researcher shows that poor sleep can reduce the effectiveness of vaccines. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-affects-potency-vaccines.html Immunology Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:17:14 EST news263013325 (HealthDay) -- Evidence is building that poor sleep patterns may do more than make you cranky: The amount and quality of shuteye you get could be linked to mental deterioration and Alzheimer's disease, four new studies suggest. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-poor-age-brain.html Health Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:29:50 EST news261678185 Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequently sustained arrhythmia of the heart. It affects several million people in Europe. AF causes a loss of contraction in the atria and gives rise to heart failure. Moreover, it is associated with a high risk of stroke. One in five strokes is due to AF. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-atrial-fibrillation-flec-sl-trial-efficacy.html Cardiology Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:02:06 EST news259232516 Habitually sleeping less than six hours a night significantly increases the risk of stroke symptoms among middle-age to older adults who are of normal weight and at low risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a study of 5,666 people followed for up to three years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-normal-weight-adults-hours.html Health Mon, 11 Jun 2012 04:10:01 EST news258605233 (HealthDay) -- Short sleep duration may affect total daily energy expenditure or directly affect energy metabolism, although more study is required, according to a review published online March 22 in Obesity Reviews. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-evidence-lacking-length-energy-metabolism.html Health Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:50:01 EST news253195782 (Medical Xpress) -- University of Sydney researchers have debunked the widespread belief that technological devices such as computers and mobile phones are increasingly eating into our sleep. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-adult-shortages-debunked.html Health Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:04:45 EST news242892237 A collaborative European study led by LMU researchers has shown that ABCC9, a known genetic factor in heart disease and diabetes, also influences the duration of sleep in humans. This function is evolutionarily conserved as knock-out of the gene reduces the duration of nocturnal sleep in fruit flies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-abcc9-genetic-factor.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:56:12 EST news241664092 Sleeping less than 8 hours a night may be linked to weight gain in teens, shows a new study presented at CHEST 2011, the 77th annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). Furthermore, obesity was linked to short sleep duration in teen males, with the fewest hours slept linked to the highest BMI levels. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-teen-deprivation-weight-gain.html Health Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:18:01 EST news238648672 If a patient is not likeable, will he or she be taken less seriously when exhibiting or complaining about pain? Reporting in the October 2011 issue of Pain, researchers have found that observers of patients estimate lower pain intensity and are perceptually less sympathetic to the patients' pain when the patients are not liked. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-discount-pain-people-dont.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:23:58 EST news236859827 Just back from holiday? The chances are you felt that the journey home by plane, car or train went much quicker than the outward journey, even though in fact both distances and journey times are usually the same. So why the difference? Now it has been scientifically demonstrated why the return journey appears to be shorter than the outward one. Our expectation about the duration of the journey was found to be the determining factor. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-false-journey-shorter-outward.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:10:01 EST news233486863 New research finds breastfeeding doesn't appear to protect against multiple sclerosis (MS) relapses, despite previous studies suggesting there may be a protective role. The research is published in the July 6, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-breastfeeding-ms-relapses.html Neuroscience Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:01:09 EST news229190454 Sleep duration has a significant association with feelings of external pressure to obtain or maintain a thin body among adolescent girls, especially those who are white, suggests a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday, June 14, in Minneapolis, Minn., at SLEEP 2011, the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-white-adolescent-girls-pressure-thin.html Health Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:32:55 EST news227244765 Short sleep duration may contribute to the development or worsening of hyperactivity and inattention during early childhood, suggests a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday, June 14, in Minneapolis, Minn., at SLEEP 2011, the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-loss-early-childhood-contribute-adhd.html Health Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:29:26 EST news227244547