Hearty feasts and couch-potato marathons are holiday traditions, but UT Southwestern Medical Center experts warn that packing on pounds and not exercising could be deadly for the 6 million Americans who have diabetes and don’t even know it.
Consumers should be able to afford their Thanksgiving dinner this year, the fuel to cook the feast and the gasoline to drive it to grandma’s, said a Purdue University agricultural economist.
The following are based on abstracts presented at the American Association for Cancer Research?s Fifth Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research held November 12 ? 15 in Boston.
New research at Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests that certain inhaled asthma medications ? as well as similar chemicals our bodies produce during times of high stress ? may worsen diseases such as asthma, heart failure and lupus that involve inflammation.
The news that the world’s first targeted therapy, trastuzumab (Herceptin), is now available for many women with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer “highlights a truly significant advance in the management of breast cancer,” says Edith Perez, M.D., director of Mayo Clinic’s Breast Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) was recognized today for its efforts in cervical cancer prevention, receiving the ?Women in Government Presidential Leadership Award for a Commitment to the Elimination of Cervical Cancer? from the non-profit, bi-partisan organization that represents women state legislators in the United States.
Tests on 10 duck egg samples collected at wholesale and retail outlets for dyes have all been found to be safe.
Ageing in the community is one of the primary concerns that needs be addressed in elderly care policy, Secretary for Health, Welfare & Food Dr York Chow says.
Fighting like a girl or fighting like a boy is hardwired into fruit fly neurons, according to a study in the November 19 Nature Neuroscience advance online publication by a research team from Harvard Medical School and the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna. The results confirm that a gene known as “fruitless” is a key factor underlying sexual differences in behavior.
People who have diets rich in fish would have a significantly lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. This new study findings are published in this month’s issue of the Archives of Neurology.