Archive: 05/09/2018

Globally, 1.4 billion adults at risk of disease from not doing enough physical activity

More than a quarter (1.4 billion) of the world's adult population were insufficiently active in 2016, putting them at greater risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia, and some cancers, according to the first ...

Sep 5, 2018

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Shorter life expectancy linked to 2016 presidential election outcome

Concerns about health and rising death rates may have helped tilt the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald J. Trump, according to an analysis of voting patterns and mortality rates in counties across the U.S.

Sep 5, 2018

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Study: Ways to maximize nutrition and growth for the smallest preemies

The tiniest of premature infants—weighing just over two pounds at birth on average—start out receiving nutrition intravenously. Over the next several days or weeks, they are transitioned to enteral (or through the gut) ...

Sep 5, 2018

Marmosets serve as an effective model for non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease

Small, New World monkeys called marmosets can mimic the sleep disturbances, changes in circadian rhythm, and cognitive impairment people with Parkinson's disease develop, according to a new study by scientists at Texas Biomedical ...

Sep 5, 2018

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Hormone therapy can make prostate cancer worse, study finds

Scientists at Cedars-Sinai have discovered how prostate cancer can sometimes withstand and outwit a standard hormone therapy, causing the cancer to spread. Their findings also point to a simple blood test that may help doctors ...

Sep 5, 2018

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Half of over-60s ignore lifesaving bowel cancer screening

Half (51%) of people invited to bowel screening for the first time in 2015 didn't take part, according to the latest figures from Cancer Research UK published today (Wednesday) in the European Journal of Cancer.

Sep 5, 2018