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Risky Driving Puts Young Drivers At High Danger Of Crashing
Australia's largest study of young drivers has shown that risky driving habits are putting young drivers at a significantly increased risk of crashing, irrespective of their perceptions about road safety....
UTMB study identifies women at risk of gaining excessive weight with injectable birth control
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have identified women who are likely to gain weight while using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, more commonly known as Depo-Provera or...
Ovary Removal Linked to Increased Lung Cancer Risk
Women who underwent hysterectomies who had their ovaries removed were at nearly double the risk of developing lung cancer.
Feds urged to OK swine flu vaccine
WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should approve the new H1N1 vaccine without waiting for safety data from clinical trials, a federal panel said.
Study finds rapid growth in health costs hurts economic performance of US industries
A first-of-its-kind RAND Corporation study has linked the rapid growth in health care costs in the United States with job losses and lower output among industries that commonly provide workers...
Genetic Marker Linked To Problem Behaviors In Adults With Developmental Disabilities
A common variation of the gene involved in regulating serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain may be linked to problem behaviors in adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities, new research...
Refining Most Effective Methods To Predict Alzheimer's Disease
A new study found that the clinical criteria for mild cognitive impairment is better at predicting who will develop Alzheimer's disease than a single memory test. This is one more...
Parental Stress And Air Pollution Linked To Children’s Risk For Developing Asthma
Children with stressed out parents may be more susceptible to developing asthma associated with environmental triggers such as high levels of traffic-related pollution and tobacco smoke, according to a new...
University of Minnesota research leads to new technology to protect human health
Larry Wackett and Michael Sadowsky, members of the University of Minnesota's BioTechnology Institute, developed an enzyme that is used in Bioo Scientific's new MaxDiscovery Melamine Test kit, which simplifies the...
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis may pose neurological risks
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has helped many couples conceive healthy children and is generally considered a safe practice. However, a new long-term analysis of PGD in mice suggests that this...
Adhering to healthy lifestyle habits associated with reduced lifetime risk of heart failure
Men who exercised regularly, drank moderately, did not smoke, who were not overweight and had a diet that included cereal and fruits and vegetables had a lower lifetime risk of...
Pre-chewed food could transmit HIV
Researchers have uncovered the first cases in which HIV almost certainly was transmitted from mothers or other caregivers to children through pre-chewed food. The source of HIV in the pre-chewed...
Daily potassium citrate wards off kidney stones in seizure patients on high-fat diet
Children on the high-fat ketogenic diet to control epileptic seizures can prevent the excruciatingly painful kidney stones that the diet can sometimes cause if they take a daily supplement of...
Rock Climbing-related Injuries Increasing
The popularity of rock climbing has increased in the last ten years, and so have the number of injuries. A new study finds a 63 percent increase in the number...
Are We What Our Mothers Ate?
Mothers' health in the days and weeks prior to becoming pregnant may determine the health of offspring much later in life, according to new research. The studies demonstrate that maternal...
More evidence in favor of a healthy lifestyle in the prevention of cardiovascular disease
21 July 2009: As the ESC Congress 2009 draws ever closer, the evidence in favour of a healthy lifestyle for the prevention of cardiovascular disease grows ever stronger. Prevention is...
US quashed report on dangers of phone use while driving
The federal agency tasked with keeping US roadways safe suppressed research seven years ago on the dangers of cellphone use while driving, fearing political fallout from the study, The New...
Mayo Clinic researchers find first potential pathogenic mutation for restless legs syndrome
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- An international team of researchers led by scientists at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have found what they believe is the first mutated gene...
New way to kill cancer found using body's immune system
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a new way of killing cancer cells in a breakthrough that could eventually lead to new treatments for a range of different cancers.
Reducing p38MAPK levels delays aging of multiple tissues in lab mice
In the new issue of the Developmental Cell journal, a team of scientists at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the University of North Carolina School of...
Insulin resistance linked to ulcer bacteria
Helicobacter pylori bacteria, which can cause gastric ulcers, have been linked to type B insulin resistance syndrome in diabetics, researchers reported in the British medical journal The Lancet.
Pupils reveal eye damage
A new technique has been developed that can assess the damage that eye disease has caused just by examining the pupil.
Study aims to induce recovery from ankylosing spondylitis
Chinese patients will soon have the opportunity to take part in a study of a novel therapy aimed at reversing the autoimmune disease, ankylosing spondylitis. Approximately 200 patients will be...
A genetic basis for schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a severely debilitating psychiatric disease that is thought to have its roots in the development of the nervous system; however, major breakthroughs linking its genetics to diagnosis, prognosis...
1 step at a time: Motor molecules use random walks to make deliveries in living cells
Cells rely on tiny molecular motors to deliver cargo, such as mRNA and organelles, within the cell. The critical nature of this transport system is evidenced by the fact that...
Seat Belt System Aims To Make Child Seats Safer In The Event Of Frontal Impacts
Researchers have designed a load limiter that reduces the pressure on the chest area by absorbing part of the energy produced in a frontal impact. The system reduces the speed...
Infection-Causing Amoeba May be Resistant to Multiple Contact Lens Solutions
Some contact lens solutions do not properly disinfect against Acanthamoeba, a free-living organism in the environment that can cause a painful vision-threatening infection, according to new reseearch.
Immune Protection Against Lethal Parasitic Disease
Kala azar is a lethal disease caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani. Scientists have now obtained new insight into the human immune responses responsible for protection against...