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Cancer survival disparities for most minority populations increase as cancers become more treatable

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Racial and ethnic disparities in cancer survival are greatest for cancers that can be detected early and treated successfully, including breast and prostate cancer, according to a study by researchers at Columbia University's ...


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. ...


Exposure to tobacco smoke in childhood home associated with early emphysema in adulthood

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Children regularly exposed to tobacco smoke at home were more likely to develop early emphysema in adulthood. This finding by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health suggests that the lungs may ...


For older adults, participating in social service activities can improve brain functions

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Volunteer service, such as tutoring children, can help older adults delay or reverse declining brain function, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Using functional ...


School classroom air may be more polluted with ultrafine particles than outdoor air

School classroom air may be more polluted with ultrafine particles than outdoor air

Space & Earth / Environment

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

The air in some school classrooms may contain higher levels of extremely small particles of pollutants — easily inhaled deep into the lungs — than polluted outdoor air, scientists in Australia and Germany ...


Enzyme may create new approach to hypertension therapy

Medicine & Health / Research

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

New research from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has found that an alternative therapy may be possible for treating some types of hypertension using an enzyme called ACE2.


Sleeping off childhood?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | 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 ― ...


Pot and pop: New research finds stronger link between music and marijuana use among teens

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Teens who frequently listen to music that contains references to marijuana are more likely to use the drug than their counterparts with less exposure to such lyrics, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ...


Survey of young adults finds wide majority support health reform

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

An overwhelming majority -- 88 percent -- of young adults across the political spectrum think it is important for Congress and the President to pass health reform legislation that would assure affordable health insurance ...


Exposure to young triggers new neuron creation in females exhibiting maternal behavior

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Maternal behavior itself can trigger the development of new neurons in the maternal brain independent of whether the female was pregnant or has nursed, according to a study released by researchers at Tufts University's Cummings ...



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