News tagged with expectation


The surprising ability of blood stem cells to respond to emergencies

A research team of Inserm, CNRS and MDC lead by Michael Sieweke of the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy (CNRS, INSERM, Aix Marseille Université) and Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch, ...

Immunology created Apr 10, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The adult generations of today are less healthy than their counterparts of previous generations

Sophia Antipolis, 10 April 2013. Despite their greater life expectancy, the adults of today are less "metabolically" healthy than their counterparts of previous generations. That's the conclusion of a large cohort study from ...

Cardiology created Apr 10, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Treatment leads to near-normal life expectancy for people with HIV in South Africa

In South Africa, people with HIV who start treatment with anti-AIDS drugs (antiretroviral therapy) have life expectancies around 80% of that of the general population provided that they start treatment before their CD4 count ...

HIV & AIDS created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

No proof China's H7N9 spreading between humans, WHO says

The World Health Organisation said Monday there is no evidence China's new H7N9 strain of bird flu is spreading between humans, as the death toll rose to seven and airline and tourism shares slumped.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Huge disparities in hypertension seen across US counties

One in five Americans are completely unaware that they are at risk for the second leading cause of premature death: high blood pressure. In the first ever analysis of awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension for ...

Health created Apr 05, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study examines change in cognitive function following physical, mental activity in older adults

A randomized controlled trial finds that 12 weeks of physical plus mental activity in inactive older adults with cognitive complaints was associated with significant improvement in cognitive function but there was no difference ...

Health created Apr 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The visual system as economist: Neural resource allocation in visual adaptation

(Medical Xpress)—It has long been held that in a new environment, visual adaptation should improve visual performance. However, evidence has contradicted this expectation: Adaptation sometimes not only ...

Neuroscience created Mar 30, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Fewer children mean longer life?

New research into ageing processes, based on modern genetic techniques, confirms theoretical expectations about the correlation between reproduction and lifespan. Studies of birds reveal that those that have ...

Medical research created Mar 27, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Health gap in Europe wider than ever

Life expectancy in Russia has marked time since the collapse of the Soviet Union but risen in its former eastern-bloc allies, The Lancet reported on Wednesday.

Health created Mar 26, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Higher mortality rate seen in middle-aged diabetes patients

(HealthDay)—Middle-aged people with type 2 diabetes, particularly women and those under the age of 55, have a two to three times higher risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality than people without ...

Diabetes created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Adults who experience stroke before age 50 have higher risk of death over long-term

In an examination of long-term mortality after stroke, adults 50 years of age and younger who experienced a stroke had a significantly higher risk of death in the following 20 years compared with the general population, according ...

Cardiology created Mar 19, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Primary health risks outweigh long-term radiation concerns

(HealthDay)—Immediate health risks supersede lifetime radiation-induced cancer risk in patients undergoing computed tomography (CT) surveillance for testicular cancer, according to a study published in ...

Cancer created Mar 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Younger doctors more likely to train and work closer to home

Younger doctors are more likely than older generations to train and work in the same region as their home before entering medical school. New research published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine investigating the ge ...

Other created Mar 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Downturn threatens Europe's life expectancy gains, WHO says

Gains in life expectancy across Europe could be reversed if cash-strapped governments cut health budgets, the World Health Organisation warned in a report on Wednesday.

Health created Mar 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study links US mortality rates under age 50 to life expectancy lagging other high-income countries

(Medical Xpress)—Higher mortality rates among Americans younger than 50 are responsible for much of why life expectancy is lower in the United States than most of the world's most developed nations.

Health created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1