Children of obese mothers at greater risk of early heart death as adults
Children of obese and overweight women have a higher risk of early cardiovascular death as adults, finds a study published on BMJ website today.
Aug 13, 2013
Archive: 13/08/2013
Cervical cancer screening and treatment are neglected in low- and middle-income countries
While there have been substantial improvements in mortality rates and an increase in access to reproductive health interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the global health community is neglecting prevention, ...
Aug 13, 2013
Conflicts of interest common among panel members of guidelines that expand disease definitions
An assessment of expert members of panels making decisions about definitions or diagnostic criteria for common conditions in the US, which were published in guidelines used by physicians and other healthcare professionals ...
Aug 13, 2013
Ethical issues are often not addressed in national clinical practice guidelines for dementia
Twelve national dementia clinical practice guidelines included only half of 31 ethical issues the authors had identified as important in patient care, finds a study by Daniel Strech, of Hannover Medical School, Hannover, ...
Aug 13, 2013
Brain scans may help diagnose dyslexia
About 10 percent of the U.S. population suffers from dyslexia, a condition that makes learning to read difficult. Dyslexia is usually diagnosed around second grade, but the results of a new study from MIT could help identify ...
Aug 13, 2013
Study identifies new culprit that may make aging brains susceptible to neurodegenerative diseases
The steady accumulation of a protein in healthy, aging brains may explain seniors' vulnerability to neurodegenerative disorders, a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine reports.
Aug 13, 2013
Toxicologist says NAS panel 'misled the world' when adopting radiation exposure guidelines
In two recently published peer-reviewed articles, toxicologist Edward Calabrese of the University of Massachusetts Amherst describes how regulators came to adopt the linear no threshold (LNT) dose-response approach to ionizing ...
Aug 13, 2013
Study examines incidence of sports-related sudden death in France
"Although screening programs prior to participation in sports have been used for many years for young competitive athletes, it has been suggested that screening programs might also be worthwhile in the general population. ...
Aug 13, 2013
Heart failure patients who are more likely to benefit from implantation of pacemaker
In a large population of Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure who underwent implantation of a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator, patients who had the cardiac characteristics of left bundle-branch block ...
Aug 13, 2013
