Archive: 07/11/2016
Accelerated immune aging may contribute to obesity-linked metabolic disease
Obese individuals are at an elevated risk of developing comorbid cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes. Some research suggests that these comorbid diseases develop in response to chronic inflammation ...
Nov 7, 2016
Study questions usefulness of 'rainbow draw'
University of Iowa researchers have shown that most of the extra vials of blood drawn for lab tests never get used and are instead discarded.
Nov 7, 2016
Childhood cancer survivors living longer but do not report improvement in health status
Long-term survivors of childhood cancer live longer thanks to improvements to cancer treatments, but a new study looking at three decades of therapy suggests patients do not report better health status. The findings from ...
Nov 7, 2016
Age at cancer diagnosis may affect the risk of death from heart disease
The age at which cancer survivors were diagnosed for cancer may help determine their risk of death from heart disease, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.
Nov 7, 2016
After Australia cut drug copays for indigenous people, hospital use declined
A new study finds that in regions where indigenous Australians most readily accepted a government incentive to lower drug copayments, hospitalizations to treat the population's chronic conditions declined by 40 percent in ...
Nov 7, 2016
Twenty percent of children with celiac disease do not heal on a gluten-free diet
Even after a year on a gluten-free diet, nearly 20 percent of children with celiac disease continue to have intestinal abnormalities (enteropathy) on repeat biopsies, reports a study in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology ...
Nov 7, 2016