That is a first encouraging finding in what has been unremittingly bad news," said Dr. David Ludwig, director of an obesity clinic at Children's Hospital Boston. "But it's too soon to know if this really means we're beginning to make
It's just the sickness. I can't get rid of it. It just keeps coming back," said Bouffanie, 27, who was pregnant with her now 15-month-old daughter, Lexi, while living in the trailer. "I'm just like, `Oh God, I wish like
They cited the incident as evidence that the devices, which are used by police who want to use less-than-deadly force to incapacitate people but are condemned by some civil rights groups as dangerous, may affect the heart as critics allege.
The germ, resistant to some antibiotics, has become a regular menace in hospitals and nursing homes. The study found it played a role in nearly 300,000 hospitalizations in 2005, more than double the number in 2000. The infection, Clostridium difficile,
Elderly ICU patients may not be given life-saving therapy, due to concerns that such treatments are "overly burdensome and not necessarily beneficial," Dr. Sophia E. J. A. de Rooij and colleagues from Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam write. However, they
Laboratory studies suggested that high doses of vitamin D may reduce the risk of prostate cancer, but epidemiological studies that have examined the relationship have reported inconsistent results. In a nested case-control study, Jiyoung Ahn, Ph.D., and Richard Hayes D.D.S.,
The researchers, led by Dr. Mark A. Rubin, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and vice chair for experimental pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College, also said that estrogen-linked signalling helps initiate a discrete and aggressive form of the disease
Dr Kim Cecil and colleagues studied the association between exposure to lead in the uterus and during early childhood and brain volume in adulthood. Childhood lead exposure has been linked to various types of brain damage, leading to problems such
Obesity rates remained essentially unchanged among boys and girls ages 2 to 19 from 1999 to 2006, researchers led by Cynthia Ogden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The
