Walking :: Heart Association Urges Americans to Start! Walking
Start! is an American Heart Association movement calling on all Americans and their employers to live longer, more heart-healthy lives through walking and other healthy habits.
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Dementia :: Relationship between delirium and dementia
For the most part, dementia and delirium have been viewed as separate and distinct conditions. But a special section of the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, appearing in January 2007, looks at their interface, asking: Can delirium itself lead to the development of a cognitive disorder? Do delirium and dementia represent opposite ends of the same spectrum of disease, rather than two separate conditions?
Obesity :: Chewing gum may aid slimming, help control obesity
Now, overweight obese people can reduce their weight by just chewing chewing gums! These chewing gums will help them to reduce their weight by 25%.
Alzheimer’s Disease :: Alzheimer’s gene identified – study
An international effort led by scientists at the University of Toronto, Columbia University and Boston University has isolated another gene responsible for Alzheimer’s disease.
Cancer :: Cancer patients warned to avoid soy products
The Cancer Council, New South Wales, Australia, has new guidelines on soy and cancer. Cancer Council recommends soy foods as part of a healthy diet but warn against high-dose supplements for people who have breast or prostate cancer.
Alzheimer’s Disease :: New genetic clue to cause of Alzheimer’s disease
Variations in a gene known as SORL1 may be a factor in the development of late onset Alzheimer’s disease, an international team of researchers has discovered. The genetic clue, which could lead to a better understanding of one cause of Alzheimer’s, is reported in Nature Genetics online, Jan. 14, 2007, and was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health.
Alzheimer’s Disease :: New gene uncovered for late-onset Alzheimer’s
An international team of researchers, led by Columbia University Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine and the University of Toronto, has uncovered a major new gene — SORL1 — implicated in late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Replicated in four distinct ethnic groups, SORL1 is only the second genetic variant for late-onset Alzheimer’s, the type of Alzheimer’s found in 90 percent of people with this devastating disease. ApoE4, the first, was identified in 1993.
Alzheimer’s Disease :: Study links gene to risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
A gene that apparently can raise the risk of developing the most common form of dementia – Alzheimer’s disease, has been identified and this may help scientists develop new treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease.
E Coli :: Taco Bell E coli outbreak linked to California lettuce
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it has moved closer to identifying the source of illness for the Taco Bell E. coli outbreak. FDA and the state of California, working in conjunction with state health officials in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, have DNA-matched the strain of E. coli O157:H7 bacteria associated with the outbreak with two environmental samples gathered from dairy farms near a lettuce growing area in California’s Central Valley.
Health Plan :: California health plan ambitious and risky
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled a $12 billion-a-year plan to extend health care coverage to most of California’s 6.5 million uninsured and make it the second state, behind Massachusetts, to require everyone to carry insurance. Coverage for the poorest of the poor would be free; for many others, it would be heavily subsidized.