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PFASs, chemicals commonly found in environment, may interfere with body weight...
Boston, MA - A class of chemicals used in many industrial and consumer products was linked with greater weight gain after dieting, particularly among women, according to a study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The chemicals--perfluoroalkyl substances PFASs --have been linked with cancer, hormone disruption, immune dysfunction, high cholesterol, and obesity. The study also found t ...
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The end of yo-yo dieting? Monash researchers uncover brain switch that control...
Scientists have discovered a molecular switch in the brain that regulates fat burning - and could provide a way to control weight gain following dieting. Monash University researchers have identified a molecular switch in the brain that potentially controls the human body s capacity to store fat, particularly after long periods of famine or weight loss - a process that underlies yo-yo dieting, whe ...
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Investigators highlight potential of exercise in addressing substance abuse in...
Exercise has numerous, well-documented health benefits. Could it also play a role in preventing and reducing substance misuse and abuse in adolescents This is the intriguing question that a team of investigators from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic seeks to answer. In a review article recently published in Birth Defects Research , the trio of researchers sup ...
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Children's Colorado experts study loss of control eating & bariatric surgery s...
AURORA, CO Feb. 15, 2018 - Recent research led by Thomas H. Inge, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Bariatric Surgery Center at Children s Hospital Colorado Children s Colorado , examined the impact of eating behaviors on success rates related to bariatric surgery in adolescents. The five-year study involved 242 adolescents, ages 13-19 years, who underwent bariatric surgery at five different centers ac ...
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University of Pennsylvania researchers conduct comprehensive evaluation of pat...
PHILADELPHIA - A comprehensive evaluation by clinical researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania identified a neurological syndrome that left U.S. government personnel serving in Havana, Cuba with persistent memory and thinking dysfunction, as well as vision and balance problems after hearing unusual noises in their homes or hotel rooms. The team published the ...
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Reducing peanut allergy risks in children -- The Nurse Practitioner presents u...
Feb. 15, 2018 - New prevention and treatment approaches can reduce serious health risks due to peanut allergy in children , according to an article in the March issue of The Nurse Practitioner , published by Wolters Kluwer . Early introduction of peanuts into the diet can prevent the development of peanut allergy in high-risk infants, according to the article by Jaime Hopper, MSN, FNP-C, and Court ...
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Affordable Care Act lowered uninsured rate for cancer survivors
February 15, 2018 - The percentage of cancer survivors without health insurance decreased substantially after implementation of the Affordable Care Act ACA , reports a study in the March issue of Medical Care , published by Wolters Kluwer . Cancer survivors eligible for Medicaid expansion under the ACA had the greatest decrease in uninsured rate, according to the new research by Amy J. Davidoff, P ...
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First multiplex test for tick-borne diseases
A new blood test called the Tick-Borne Disease Serochip TBD Serochip promises to revolutionize the diagnosis of tick-borne disease by offering a single test to identify and distinguish between Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogen responsible for Lyme disease, and seven other tick-borne pathogens. Led by scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity CII at Columbia University s Mailman School o ...
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New treatment strategies for chronic kidney disease from the animal kingdom
The field of biomimetics offers an innovative approach to solving human problems by imitating strategies found in nature. Medical research could also benefit from biomimetics, as a group of international experts from various fields, including a wildlife veterinarian and wildlife ecologists from Vetmeduni Vienna, point out using the example of chronic kidney disease. In future research, they intend ...
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Expanding Hepatitis C testing to all adults is cost-effective and improves out...
BOSTON - According to a new study, screening all adults for hepatitis C HCV is a cost-effective way to improve clinical outcomes of HCV and identify more infected people compared to current recommendations. Using a simulation model, researchers from Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital MGH and Stanford University found that this expanded screening would increase life expectancy an ...
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Sleepless in Japan: How insomnia kills
Laypeople tend to think that insomnia is usually a symptom of something else, like stress, a bad diet or a sedentary lifestyle, but this may not be true at all. It is possible that insomnia itself causes many of the conditions that it is seen as a symptom of. Using previous research that shows that insomnia causes a decrease in blood flow in the front dorsal lobe of the brain, and correlates it wi ...
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Safe-sleep recommendations for infants have not reduced sudden deaths in newbo...
An analysis of trends in sudden unexpected infant death SUID over the past two decades finds that the drop in such deaths that took place following release of the 1992 American Academy of Pediatrics AAP back to sleep recommendations, did not occur in infants in the first month of life. The report from investigators from MassGeneral Hospital for Children MGHfC and Newton-Wellesley Hospital NWH , wh ...
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