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A novel gene found for childhood-onset asthma

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Pediatric researchers have identified a novel gene involved in childhood asthma, in one of the largest gene studies to date of the common respiratory disease. Because the gene, called DENND1B, affects cells and signaling ...


Genetic variant may control lung function and risk of COPD

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have discovered evidence that suggests a genetic variant may be associated with better preserved lung function among children with asthma and adults who smoke, according to a new study funded by the National Heart, ...


Disproportionate effects of global warming and pollution on disadvantaged communities

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 16

Global warming, pollution, and the environmental consequences of energy production impose a greater burden on low-income, disadvantaged communities, and strategies to prevent these inequities are urgently needed. A provocative ...


Marketing Professor Studying Adolescents' Sources of Happiness

Marketing Professor Studying Adolescents' Sources of Happiness

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lan Nguyen Chaplin, an assistant professor in the Eller College of Management, says children and teenagers, in finding happiness, do not always place material things before personal relationships.


Proximity to convenience stores fosters child obesity

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Childhood obesity is directly related to how close kids live to convenience stores, according to the preliminary findings of a major Canadian study presented at the Entretiens Jacques-Cartier in Lyon, France. The ongoing ...


Rate of autism disorders climbs to 1 percent among 8-year-olds

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 11

Autism and related development disorders are becoming more common, with a prevalence rate approaching 1 percent among American 8-year-olds, according to new data from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham ...


Volunteer program provides quality low-risk operative care to patients in need

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study published in the December issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that a volunteer program providing low-risk outpatient surgical procedures can deliver safe and effective health care t ...


Poor face greater health burden than smokers or the obese

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The average low-income person loses 8.2 years of perfect health, the average high school dropout loses 5.1 years, and the obese lose 4.2 years, according to researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. ...


Sleeping off childhood?

Medicine & Health / Health

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Are your 11- and 12-year-olds staying up later, then dozing off at school the next day? Parents and educators who notice poor sleeping patterns in their children should take note of new research from Tel Aviv University ― ...


In a first, key pancreatic cells inserted in wounded airman's liver

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In what medical officials say is a first, the bullet-scarred pancreas from a service member who was shot in Afghanistan was flown from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to the University of Miami, where insulin-producing ...



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