What You Don't Understand Could Kill You

July 23, 2007 By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer

(AP) -- Plenty of evidence suggests that having trouble understanding medical information is bad for your health. Now new research says it could even be deadly.

Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .

Similar stories from PHYSorg:

Fish consumption guidelines not environmentally sustainable

Mar 16, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer

Aug 24, 2009 | 1 / 5 (2) | 1

Diets bad for teeth are also bad for the body

Jul 09, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Smokers would rather give up for their pooch's health rather than their own

Feb 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

Swine flu worse in Mexico than US, but why?

Apr 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (9) | 21

Rate this story - 4.5 /5 (4 votes)

rank
1
2
3
4
5

view popular

Other News

New gene findings will help guide treatment in infant leukemia

Medicine & Health / Cancer

19 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

Pediatric oncologists have identified specific genes, dubbed partner genes, that fuse with another gene to drive an often-fatal form of leukemia in infants. By more accurately defining specific partner genes, researchers ...

Study: Believers' inferences about God's beliefs are uniquely egocentric

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 30, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (41) | 103

Religious people tend to use their own beliefs as a guide in thinking about what God believes, but are less constrained when reasoning about other people's beliefs, according to new study published in the ...

Popular diet product recalled in US amid bacteria fears

Medicine & Health / Health

18 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

Millions of cans of a popular ready-to-drink diet product are being recalled in the United States after tests showed the liquid meals could be tainted with bacteria, the manufacturer said Friday.

Vitamin D levels associated with survival in lymphoma patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

18 hours ago | 4 / 5 (1) | 1

A new study has found that the amount of vitamin D in patients being treated for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma was strongly associated with cancer progression and overall survival. The results will be presented at the annual ...

Why females live longer than males: is it due to the father's sperm?

Medicine & Health / Research

Dec 01, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (15) | 12

Researchers in Japan have found that female mice produced by using genetic material from two mothers but no father live significantly longer than mice with the normal mix of maternal and paternal genes. Their findings provide ...