| | | World Day Set for Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
November 19, 2008
To increase awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) -- which is expected to become the world's third-leading cause of death by 2030 -- Nov. 19 has been declared World COPD Day, according to a report in the Nov. 14 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | | AACR: Maternal Canola Oil Consumption Helps Offspring
November 19, 2008
Women who consume canola oil during pregnancy may have daughters with a lower risk of breast cancer, according to the results of an animal study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research held Nov. 16 to 19 in Washington, D.C. | | Scan Reveals Bone Anomalies in Anorexic Females
November 19, 2008
Anorexic adolescent females show abnormal bone structure, even in the absence of changes in bone mineral density, according to a report published in the December issue of Radiology. | | Brain Tumors Release Sacs of Cancer-Promoting Material
November 19, 2008
Glioblastoma cells release small membrane sacs containing proteins and genetic material that promote tumor growth and spread, and could be used in diagnostics, according to research published online Nov. 16 in Nature Cell Biology. | | Gene Variants Can Predict Risk of Diabetes
November 19, 2008
Gene variants can improve the prediction of type 2 diabetes, but not much better than risk predicted by clinical factors alone, according to two studies published in the Nov. 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. | |
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| | | | | Study: sleeplessness in children linked to overweight
November 20, 2008
Twenty-six percent of children ages 2 and a half to 6 who sleep fewer than 10 hours a night may be overweight, according to a University of Montreal study. | | Survey: many primary care doctors ready to scale back work or quit
November 19, 2008
Most primary care physicians feel they are working at maximum or have too much work, and nearly half plan to cut back on patient volume or quit their profession altogether, according to survey results from the Physicians' Foundation. | | Scan Reveals Bone Anomalies in Anorexic Females
November 19, 2008
Anorexic adolescent females show abnormal bone structure, even in the absence of changes in bone mineral density, according to a report published in the December issue of Radiology. | | Early Treatment of HIV-Infected Infants Beneficial
November 19, 2008
Early antiretroviral treatment of HIV-infected infants is more effective than deferred treatment in reducing mortality and disease progression, reducing both by 75 percent, researchers report in the Nov. 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. | | Protein Examined in Human Ovarian Cancer Survival
November 19, 2008
For the first time, researchers have identified a protein that can induce ovarian cancer cells to cannibalize, thereby increasing the chances of patient survival, according to a report published in the Nov. 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research. | |
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