Health News
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7.5
Million Children Living With Parents Who Abuse Alcohol A new study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that was conducted in conjunction with Children of Alcoholics Week, February 12-18, 2012, reveals that 7. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Following Deployment National Guardsmen Face A High Risk
Of Developing Alcohol Abuse Problems: Risk Linked To
PTSD And Depression Soldiers in the National Guard with no history of alcohol abuse are at significant risk of developing alcohol-related problems during and after deployment, according to a new study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal. |
20 Feb 2012 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
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The
Importance Of Supportive Spouses In Coping With
Work-Related Stress The growth of two-income families and increasing levels of job stress are two of the most significant work trends affecting American businesses and families in recent years. Having just one stressed-out spouse can harm couple's work and home lives - but what about when it's both?A new study conducted by Wayne Hochwarter, the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration in the Florida State University College of Business, examines the role of support in households where daily stress is common to both spouses. |
20 Feb 2012 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
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Health
Behaviors Worse Among Female Cancer Survivors Women who survive cancer receiving mammography screening have "worse health behaviors", than those who had never had cancer and receiving mammography screening, according to a study by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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"DNA
Origami" Robots Target Cancer Cells Using a technique called "DNA origami", US scientists have made programmable molecule-transporting nanorobots that can seek out particular cell targets and deliver specific instructions for them to follow. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Living Model Of Brain Tumor Brown University scientists have created the first three-dimensional living tissue model, complete with surrounding blood vessels, to analyze the effectiveness of therapeutics to combat brain tumors. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Researchers Test Nanoscale Carbon Clusters For
Chemotherapy A mixture of current drugs and carbon nanoparticles shows potential to enhance treatment for head-and-neck cancers, especially when combined with radiation therapy, according to new research by Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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New
Guiding Principles For Cancer Genomics: Understanding
Chromosome Reshuffling, Looking To The Genome's 3D
Structure That our chromosomes can break and reshuffle pieces of themselves is nothing new; scientists have recognized this for decades, especially in cancer cells. The rules for where chromosomes are likely to break and how the broken pieces come together are only just now starting to come into view. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Virus'
Coats Used In Nano-Technology To Fool Cancer Cells While there have been major advances in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of tumors within the brain, brain cancer continues to have a very low survival rate in part to high levels of resistance to treatment. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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New Paths
To Treat Cancer, Other Diseases, With The Help Of Video
Games The cure for cancer comes down to this: video games.In a research lab at Wake Forest University, biophysicist and computer scientist Samuel Cho uses graphics processing units (GPUs), the technology that makes videogame images so realistic, to simulate the inner workings of human cells. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Major
Breakthrough In Nanosurgery And The Fight Against Cancer Researchers at Polytechnique Montreal have succeeded in changing the genetic material of cancer cells using a brand-new transfection method. This major breakthrough in nanosurgery opens the door to new medical applications, among others for the treatment of cancers. |
20 Feb 2012 |
| Eating Disorders News | |
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Eating Problems Persist 3 Months After Stroke And 56
Percent Still Face Malnutrition Risk People who suffered a stroke continued to experience eating problems and more than half still risked malnutrition after three months, even though there had been a marked improvement in most of their physical functions. |
20 Feb 2012 |
| Headache / Migraine News | |
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Migraine Self-Management Improved And Migraine-Related
Psychological Distress Reduced By painACTION.com painACTION.com* is a free, non-promotional online program designed to support self-management and improve overall function in people with chronic pain. This study tested painACTION.com's ability to increase the use of self-management skills in people with chronic migraine headaches. |
20 Feb 2012 |
| Heart Disease News | |
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In Obese And Diabetic Patients, Pancreatic Hormone
Linked With Severe Heart Disease Severe heart damage in people who are obese and diabetic is linked with a pancreatic hormone called amylin, UC Davis researchers have found.In the failing hearts of patients who were obese and diabetic, the scientists discovered strings of proteins, small fibers and plaques made of amylin, the hormone that produces the feeling of being full after eating. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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New Ability To Regrow Blood Vessels Holds Promise For
Treatment Of Heart Disease University of Texas at Austin researchers have demonstrated a new and more effective method for regrowing blood vessels in the heart and limbs - a research advancement that could have major implications for how we treat heart disease, the leading cause of death in the Western world. |
20 Feb 2012 |
| Hypertension News | |
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Discovery May Someday Lead To Prevention And Treatment
Of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered that brain cells commonly thought to play a supporting role actually are critically important for the growth of brainstem neurons responsible for cardiorespiratory control. |
20 Feb 2012 |
| Men's health News | |
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Following Deployment National Guardsmen Face A High Risk
Of Developing Alcohol Abuse Problems: Risk Linked To
PTSD And Depression Soldiers in the National Guard with no history of alcohol abuse are at significant risk of developing alcohol-related problems during and after deployment, according to a new study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal. |
20 Feb 2012 |
| Mental Health News | |
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Childhood Gender Nonconformity Linked To Higher Abuse
Risk Children who do not conform to their gender-expected behaviors and interests are at a higher risk of being abused and facing subsequent traumas, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and Children's Hospital Boston reported in the journal Pediatrics. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Suicide Rates Highest In 15 Years, US Between 2008 and 2009, the suicide rate in the United States rose by 2.4%, with a reported 36,909 suicide deaths, according to a report by the CDC. In 2008, 13.4% of individuals who committed suicide experienced job and financial problems, a report by the CDC revealed in August 2011. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Following Deployment National Guardsmen Face A High Risk
Of Developing Alcohol Abuse Problems: Risk Linked To
PTSD And Depression Soldiers in the National Guard with no history of alcohol abuse are at significant risk of developing alcohol-related problems during and after deployment, according to a new study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Mental Health Identified As A Primary Concern For
Canada's Youth Canadian girls report higher levels of emotional problems and lower levels of emotional well-being and life satisfaction, while boys tend to experience more behavioural problems and demonstrate less pro-social behavior, according to a new Queen's University-led national study of youth health behavior. |
20 Feb 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
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Dioxins Do Not Pose Significant Health Risk.. Generally,
Says EPA Although dioxins, even in small amounts, are dangerous to health, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emphasized that, overall, dioxin exposure does not currently pose an important health risk. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Electronic Health Record Use In US Hospitals Has Doubled
In Last Two Years The percentage of US hospitals using health information technology such as Electronic Health Records has more than doubled in the last two years, according to an announcement by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as she visited a Health Science Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Even Without Combat, Military Service Changes
Personality, Makes Vets Less Agreeable It's no secret that battlefield trauma can leave veterans with deep emotional scars that impact their ability to function in civilian life. But new research led by Washington University in St. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Researchers Discover That Cell Phone Hackers Can Track
Your Physical Location Without Your Knowledge Cellular networks leak the locations of cell phone users, allowing a third party to easily track the location of the cell phone user without the user's knowledge, according to new research by computer scientists in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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The Importance Of Supportive Spouses In Coping With
Work-Related Stress The growth of two-income families and increasing levels of job stress are two of the most significant work trends affecting American businesses and families in recent years. Having just one stressed-out spouse can harm couple's work and home lives - but what about when it's both?A new study conducted by Wayne Hochwarter, the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration in the Florida State University College of Business, examines the role of support in households where daily stress is common to both spouses. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Nanoparticles In Food, Vitamins Could Harm Human Health,
Warn Researchers Billions of engineered nanoparticles in foods and pharmaceuticals are ingested by humans daily, and new Cornell research warns they may be more harmful to health than previously thought.A research collaboration led by Michael Shuler, a professor of Chemical Engineering and chair of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University, studied how large doses of polystyrene nanoparticles - a common, FDA-approved substance found in substances ranging from food additives to vitamins - affected how well chickens absorbed iron, an essential nutrient, into their cells. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Link Between Common Flame Retardant And Social,
Behavioral And Learning Deficits Mice genetically engineered to be susceptible to autism-like behaviors that were exposed to a common flame retardant were less fertile and their offspring were smaller, less sociable and demonstrated marked deficits in learning and long-term memory when compared with the offspring of normal unexposed mice, a study by researchers at UC Davis has found. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Important New Therapeutic Tools For Physical And Mental
Health And Well-Being Millions of dollars and immeasurable hours of research and development are being invested to develop and employ increasingly sophisticated hardware and software technologies to deliver innovative new personalized health care interventions. |
20 Feb 2012 |
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Respiratory Disease 'Epidemic' Created By Energy Poverty
For Almost Half The World's Population Limited access to clean sources of energy, known as energy poverty, makes nearly half the world's population reliant on burning wood, animal waste, coal or charcoal to cook. This leads to severe respiratory diseases that kill roughly two million people worldwide each year, a problem University of British Columbia researchers are trying to solve. |
20 Feb 2012 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
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Less Addictive Cigarettes Preferred By Smokers Results from an International Tobacco Control (ITC) United States Supplemental Survey, published recently in the journal BMC Public Health , reveal that smokers strongly favor decreasing the addictiveness of cigarettes. |
20 Feb 2012 |