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Obesity will snuff out health benefits gained by smoking declines

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

If obesity trends continue, the negative effect on the health of the U.S. population will overtake the benefits gained from declining smoking rates, according to a study by U-M and Harvard researchers published today in the ...


Widowed facing higher mortality risk, MSU researcher finds

Widowed facing higher mortality risk, researcher finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Married people in the United States are living longer these days, but the widowed are experiencing a higher mortality rate, according to new research by a Michigan State University sociologist.


New safety concern related to antipsychotic treatment

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Overall, antipsychotic medications are reasonably effective, and fairly well tolerated treatments for mood and psychotic disorders. However, treatment with a number of antipsychotic medications is associated with weight ...


Tuberculosis: On the path to prevention

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why do some people who are exposed to tuberculosis not become infected or develop the disease? Dr. Erwin Schurr and his team at the Research Institute from the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), in collaboration with ...


Study shows dream-enacting behavior is common in healthy young adults

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A study in the Dec.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that dream-enacting behaviors are common in healthy young adults, and the prevalence of specific behaviors differs between men and women.


Montreal Heart Institute performs its first implant of new prosthesis for cardiac arrhythmia

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A multidisciplinary team from the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI), which is affiliated to the Université de Montréal, performed its first catheter implantation of a new prosthesis (Amptlazer Cardiac Plug) closing ...


Europe's device therapy use for heart failure doubles 2004-2008, some countries have low uptake

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created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The use of implantable devices for the treatment of heart failure increased "enormously" in Europe between the years 2004 and 2008, but there still remain large differences between countries, according to a study reported ...


Leaders say momentum building on climate change (AP)

Leaders say momentum building on climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (13) | comments 12

(AP) -- Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change and a global fund with billions of dollars to help poor countries meet its mandates.



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