Health
Vegetarian diets can keep heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes at bay
Vegetarian can help prevent and treat chronic diseases including heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes, according to a report. The report was written by Winston Craig, PhD, MPH, RD, professor and chair of the department of nutrition and wellness at Andrews University; and Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, n
Cancer a major threat to wildlife too
"Cancer is one of the leading health concerns for humans, accounting for more than 10 percent of human deaths. But we now understand that cancer can kill wild animals at similar rates," said Dr. Denise McAloose, lead author and Chief Pathologist for WCS''s Global Health program....Pain-depression link strongest in middle-age women
For the study, researchers at Wayne State University examined a representative community sample of 1,100 Michigan residents and found that the incidence of chronic pain, defined as pain persisting for six months, was 22 percent....Being obese doesn''t worsen asthma
E. Rand Sutherland, an associate professor of Medicine at National Jewish Health who led the study, said: "With both asthma and obesity on the rise in recent years, there has been much interest in the possible link between these two conditions."...Malaria developing resistance to effective drugs, warn scientists
Studies of patients in western Cambodia suggest that malaria could be developing resistance to the most effective type of drug, putting millions of lives at risk. Scientists say tests indicate that treatments based on artemisinin are becoming less effective at combating the disease....Mothers may be inadvertently fuelling childhood obesity
In the study involving 96 low-income black and Hispanic mothers, the researchers analysed infant weight gain from birth to 6 months, and looked at the number of feeds per day along with mothers'''' sensitivity to their infants'''' satiety cues....Novel genetic risk factors for kidney disease identified
One of the discovered genes, the UMOD gene, produces Tamm-Horsfall protein, the most common protein in the urine of healthy individuals, which was recently found to be linked with chronic kidney disease risk....Non-smokers ''live longer, have healthy lives''
According to investigator Professor Haakon Meyer from the University of Oslo and Norwegian Institute of Public Health, the study''''s results provide a picture of the long-term, absolute "real life" risk....Novel TB test may provide results quickly, efficiently
The test, developed by Dr. David Alland, chief of the Division of Infectious Disease at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, can simultaneously identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and resistance to the common first-line drug for treating TB and a reliable surrogate marker of strains that are multidrug-...Low blood sugar may be dangerous for kidney disease patients
The problems in diabetes management could predispose CKD patients to episodes of hypoglycemia—a condition characterised by dizziness, disorientation, slurred speech, convulsions, and death....Log in
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