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Boys reach sexual maturity younger and younger

(Medical Xpress) -- Boys are maturing physically earlier than ever before. The age of sexual maturity has been decreasing by about 2.5 months each decade at least since the middle of the 18th century. Joshua ...

Health created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Vitamin D: More may not be better

In recent years, healthy people have been bombarded by stories in the media and on health websites warning about the dangers of too-low vitamin D levels, and urging high doses of supplements to protect against everything ...

Health created May 01, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Ulcerative colitis, not crohn's, deaths down from 1982

(HealthDay)—Over the past 30 years in Denmark, mortality from ulcerative colitis (UC) has decreased, but mortality from Crohn's disease (CD) has remained persistently higher than the general population, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 21, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Education, wealth levels impact mortality in diabetes patients

(HealthDay)—Socioeconomic status, as measured by education and financial wealth, is a strong independent predictor of mortality risk among adult diabetes patients, according to a study published in the ...

Diabetes created Jan 16, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

C-peptide levels linked to death and heart disease in nondiabetic adults

High blood levels of the serum C-peptide are linked to heart disease and death in people without diabetes, according to a large study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 15, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Burden of antibiotic resistance in Europe

Hospital associated infections (HAI) are often in the headlines, but what is the burden of mortality, morbidity and costs due to HAIs? In this week's PLoS Medicine, Marlieke de Kraker, Peter Davey and Hajo Grundmann, on beh ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Doctors happily cite alcohol as cause of death, but not smoking, for fear of stigmatization

UK doctors are willing to cite alcohol as a cause of death on death certificates, but not smoking, for fear of stigmatising the deceased, shows research published online in the Journal of Clinical Pathology.

Addiction created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Deaths from heart attacks halved in last decade

The death rate from heart attack in England has halved in the last decade, claims a research paper published today in the British Medical Journal.

Cardiology created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast