Childhood Obesity :: Obesity risk more for children of overweight or single parents
Children of overweight or single mothers have a greater likelihood of being overweight or obese, new research has found.
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Avandia :: GlaxoSmithKline response to New England Journal of Medicine Editorials
The following is GlaxoSmithKline?s [NYSE:GSK] response to editorials written in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) regarding Avandia? for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
Healthy :: How birth weight affects adult health and success
Birth weight has significant and lasting effects, a new study finds. Weighing less than 5.5 pounds at birth increases the probability of dropping out of high school by one-third, reduces yearly earnings by about 15 percent and burdens people in their 30s and 40s with the health of someone who is 12 years older.
Psychology :: Divorce increases risk of Ritalin use
Divorce puts children at higher risk of Ritalin use compared to kids whose parents stay together, says new research by a University of Alberta sociologist, who cautions that this doesn?t necessarily mean that divorce is harmful to a child. The study appears in this week?s issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Snoring :: Snoring in children might be an allergic type disease
The research found that snoring is in fact part of the spectrum of childhood allergic diseases. So whilst the condition looks and sounds similar in adults and children it can have quite different causes and risk factors.
Neurology :: Strengthening exercises may slow progression of ALS
Moderate strengthening exercises may help people with early stage ALS maintain function and quality of life longer, according to a study published in the June 5, 2007, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Epilepsy :: After epilepsy surgery, quality of life related more to seizures than memory
Epilepsy surgery can eliminate seizures for 60 to 85 percent of people with temporal lobe epilepsy who do not respond well to medications. But surgery leads to memory problems in 25 to 40 percent of people. New research helps doctors and patients weigh the risks and benefits of surgery.
Health :: Medicalizing the human condition
Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems — birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism and obesity — are now considered medical conditions. For better or worse, medicine increasingly permeates daily life.
Myeloma :: Transplantation does not benefit patients with refractory myeloma
A study, led by Dr. Joan Blad?, researcher of the Haematooncology Group of Hospital Cl?nic-IDIBAPS (Barcelona), in collaboration with Dr. Laura Rosi?ol, researcher of the same group, assessed the efficiency in terms of response and survival of autologous bone marrow transplantation in patients suffering from refractory myeloma previously having undergone high-dose chemotherapy (HDT).
Liver Cancer :: New treatment increases life time expectancy of patients suffering from advanced liver cancer
A clinical trial led and coordinated by Hospital Cl?nic-IDIBAPS, using a drug named Sorafenib, revolutionizes the reality of patients suffering from advanced liver cancer. The results increase overall survival of treated patients by 44 percent in comparison to the control group. The results have been hand selected to be included on the “Best of ASCO” program.