Posted on January 6th, 2009 by Health News
(University of Missouri-Columbia) University of Missouri researchers are using sensors, computers and communication systems, along with supportive health care services to monitor the health of older adults who are living at home. According to the researchers, motion sensor networks installed in seniors’ homes can detect changes in behavior and physical activity, including walking and sleeping [...]
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(Kansas State University) A Kansas State University researcher thinks games like Nintendo’s Wii Fit can help promote physical rather than sedentary activities for people of all ages.
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(American Roentgen Ray Society) The Framingham and National Cholesterol Education Program tools do not accurately predict coronary heart disease, according to a study performed at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.
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The FDA has approved revisions to the safety labeling for insulin glulisine [rDNA origin] injection (Apidra), denileukin diftitox (Ontak), and efalizumab (Raptiva). Medscape Medical News
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Fish oil supplementation is associated with a significant reduction in death from cardiac causes but has no significant effect on arrhythmias, a new meta-analysis has shown. Medscape Medical News
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In the Oslo Youth Study, childhood physical fitness had some inverse associations with obesity and blood pressure in early adulthood but much less so in middle age. Medscape Medical News
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(McGill University) Recent animal studies have shown that an 80-year old drug once used to treat gastrointestinal disorders can reverse the progression of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases. However, scientists had a variety of theories to attempt to explain how a single compound could have such similar effects on three unrelated neurodegenerative disorders. According to [...]
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(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly — and wrongly — lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs. Even paleontologists assumed that because the creatures flew, they were birdlike in many ways, such as using only two legs to take flight.
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(Children’s Hospital Boston) Do babies with febrile seizures need spinal taps? The largest study to date suggests that most can be spared these painful procedures — if the seizure is uncomplicated and if the baby is well-appearing. The researchers, from the Children’s Hospital Boston emergency department, hope the findings will reassure anxious parents, and are [...]
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(American Roentgen Ray Society) MR arthrography of the shoulder allows physicians to better identify tears and provides patients with an accurate diagnosis to determine whether or not surgery is needed, according to a study performed at Neuroskeletal Imaging in Merritt Island, Fla.
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