Families whose meals frequently consist of fast food are more likely to have unhealthy eating habits, poor access to healthy foods at home and a higher risk for obesity, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
The phrase “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” has taken on new meaning for teenagers. A new study suggests that as teens enter adulthood, they are more likely to skip breakfast and increase their fast food consumption, and that both behaviors lead to an increased risk of weight gain. Researchers at the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at the Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School conducted the study.
Nutrition 21, Inc., today announced the results of a recent placebo controlled, double-blind, randomized, single center study that demonstrated that Diachrome, a patented combination of chromium picolinate and biotin, safely improves blood glucose levels and cholesterol metabolism in people with type 2 diabetes.
Scientists have discovered a new source of stems cells and have used them to create muscle, bone, fat, blood vessel, nerve and liver cells in the laboratory. The first report showing the isolation of broad potential stem cells from the amniotic fluid that surrounds developing embryos was published today in Nature Biotechnology.
The test results received today from the student at Hopkins Hill Elementary School in Coventry who contracted meningitis showed no connection to the illnesses in Warwick and West Warwick.
Attempts to address widespread and persistent health disparities between African Americans and whites has led to advocacy for increasing the number of African American physicians in the healthcare workforce. A recent article in Health Services Research proposes that this will improve health outcomes in African American communities and among the disadvantaged and poor.
Recent studies report that 4% of novice nurses in Japan quit within nine months on the job, while 8.5% quit within one year.
When a stroke strikes, the supply of blood to the part of the brain affected is interrupted, starving it of oxygen. Brain cells can be seriously damaged or die, impairing local brain function.
Research has shown that serum tests work effectively as a pre-screening method for atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer. These tests will foster the detection rate of early cancer in patients ? providing not only a far less invasive examination as compared to the conventional scope method, but also give patients a cheap, convenient and safe alternative.
Rhode Island State health officials in Rhode Island are preparing to open schools on Monday after a meningitis scare. They’ve also provided every school in the state with alcohol-based gels and dispensers.