Heart study suggests city center pollution doubles risk of calcium build-up in arteries
City centre residents who took part in a study were almost twice as likely to suffer from coronary artery calcification (CAC), which can lead to heart disease, than people who lived in less polluted urban and rural areas, ...
Cardiology
Apr 26, 2012 |
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A report card on adolescents from UNICEF
In a Comment with The Lancet Series on Adolescent Health, Dr Tessa Wardlaw, Chief of Statistics and Monitoring, UNICEF, New York, USA, and colleagues discuss the forthcoming UNICEF publication Progress for Children: A Repo ...
Health
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Studies on resistance against influenza
There is a connection between age and susceptibility to the influenza virus. It can't be explained by frailty in general, because it is not obvious that very small children and the very old are the biggest risk groups. In ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Drug use in 50- to 64-year-olds has increased 10-fold in England since 1993
Until now, illicit drug use has not been common in older people. However, it is likely to become more common as generations that use drugs more frequently reach an older age.
Addiction
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Teen alcohol and illicit drug use and abuse examined in study
A survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. teenagers suggests that most cases of alcohol and drug abuse have their initial onset at this important period of development, according to a report published in the ...
Addiction
Apr 02, 2012 |
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In Taiwan, diabetes linked to increased Parkinson's risk
(HealthDay) -- Individuals with diabetes in Taiwan have a significantly increased risk of Parkinson's disease (PD), which is robust across most age and gender stratifications, according to a study published ...
Diabetes
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Suicide rates in Canada increasing in girls aged 10-19
Suicide rates in Canada are increasing for girls but decreasing for boys, with suffocation now the most common method for both sexes, according to an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Graduated drivers' licenses for seniors
Introducing graduated drivers' licenses for seniors in Canada might help improve road safety, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Health
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Adjuvanted flu vaccine associated with child narcolepsy in Finland
A sudden increase in narcolepsy in Finnish children at the beginning of 2010 was likely related to the Pandemrix vaccine used in response to the H1N1 2009 flu pandemic, according to two reports published Mar. 28 in the open ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Wide variation in emergency service response to elderly falls patients
The ambulance service response to emergency calls for elderly falls patients varies widely across the UK, reveals research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal.
Health
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Health groups issue cervical cancer screening guidelines
The American Cancer Society (ACS), the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), and the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) have released new guidelines for the prevention and early detection ...
Cancer
Mar 14, 2012 |
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Deaths from gastroenteritis doubles
The number of people who died from gastroenteritis (inflammation of the stomach and intestines that causes vomiting and diarrhea) more than doubled from 1999 to 2007. The findings of this study will be presented today at ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 14, 2012 |
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First findings released from Swaziland HIV incidence measurement survey announced at CROI 2012
The first findings from a nationally representative HIV survey were presented today at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2012) in Seattle, WA. The Swaziland HIV Incidence Measurement Survey ...
HIV & AIDS
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Any UK law on cycle helmets should apply only to kids
Any law to make the wearing of cycle helmets mandatory in the UK should apply only to children, because the evidence that cycle helmets significantly protect adults against serious head injury is equivocal, conclude researchers ...
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Mar 07, 2012 |
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Age affects risk of being diagnosed with cancer at advanced stage
Older women with breast cancer face a higher risk of being diagnosed with the disease at a late stage, while the risk of an advanced stage diagnosis of lung cancer decreases with age, a new study shows today.
Cancer
Mar 02, 2012 |
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