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Increased obesity hindering success at reducing heart disease risk
— 18 Nov 2009 13:10 | HealthThe dramatic increase in overweight and obesity in adult Americans over the past 20 years has undermined public health success at reducing risk for heart disease, according to research... — full story
Researchers discover heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies
— 18 Nov 2009 13:05 | HealthHardening of the arteries has been detected in 3,500-year-old mummies, so we may have to look beyond modern risk factors to fully understand heart disease, according to research presented... — full story
Students with a lower socioeconomic background benefit from daily school physical activity
— 18 Nov 2009 13:00 | HealthGerman school students - especially those with low socioeconomic status (SES) - significantly improved their exercise capacity and body leanness after a year of daily physical activity... — full story
Immediate, aggressive spending on HIV could end epidemic
— 18 Nov 2009 12:55 | HealthMoney available to treat HIV/AIDS is sufficient to end the epidemic globally, but only if we act immediately to control the spread of the disease. That was the conclusion of a study... — full story
Study examines challenges of diagnosing neurofibromatosis type 1 - like syndrome
— 18 Nov 2009 12:50 | HealthAn analysis of patients with a syndrome similar to the genetic disorder, neurofibromatosis type 1, indicates that diagnosis may be difficult because of shared clinical findings, such... — full story
Solving the 50-year-old puzzle of thalidomide
— 18 Nov 2009 12:45 | HealthResearch into the controversial drug thalidomide reveals that the mechanism through which the drug causes limb defects is the same process which causes it to damage internal organs... — full story
Current cigarette smokers at increased risk of seizures
— 18 Nov 2009 12:40 | HealthA recent study determined there is a significant risk of seizure for individuals who currently smoke cigarettes. Boston-based researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard... — full story
Last-resort lower-body amputation effective in extreme cases of bone infection
— 18 Nov 2009 12:35 | HealthA landmark, 25-year review of cases in which surgeons had to remove the lower portion of the body from the waist down for severe pelvic bone infections shows the therapy can add years... — full story
Ticking stellar time bomb identified
— 18 Nov 2009 12:30 | Astronomy'One of the major problems in modern astrophysics is the fact that we still do not know exactly what kinds of stellar system explode as a Type Ia supernova,' says Patrick Woudt, from... — full story
Are teenagers wired differently than adults?
— 18 Nov 2009 12:25 | HealthParents have long suspected that the brains of their teenagers function differently than those of adults. With the advent of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, we have begun to appreciate... — full story