The largest scale study in Europe of the prevalence of a potentially fatal disease known as Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) has just begun. The European, multi-centre, prospective bi-annual point prevalence study of Clostridium difficile Infection in hospitalized patients with Diarrhea...
Patients with diabetes have a significantly higher prevalence of hearing impairment than patients without diabetes, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). Study authors note that the finding is likely...
Scientists working with Professor Dr. Dr. Perikles Simon, head of the Sports Medicine Division of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany, suggest in the light of recent analyses that German children gain weight soon after entering elementary school. From birth up to the age of five...
The first U.S. population prevalence study of mutations in the gene that causes fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of intellectual disability, suggests the mutation in the gene - and its associated health risks - may be more common than previously believed...
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In a study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition[i], researchers compared risk factors for heart disease, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome of nut consumers versus those who did not consume nuts. Tree nut (almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans...
Eight million Americans, almost 6% of men and 2% of women have got the gout, a painful affliction in which uric acid crystals are deposited in the joints. In a self reported survey, the prevalence of gout continues to climb along with rates of related conditions such as hypertension and...
An estimated 350 million people in the world have diabetes, according to a major new international study published Online First by The Lancet. The study shows that diabetes prevalence has risen (in many cases sharply), or at best remained unchanged, in virtually every part of the world during...
Children who are overweight or obese have a significantly higher prevalence of psoriasis, and teens with psoriasis, regardless of their body weight, have higher cholesterol levels, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in the Journal of Pediatrics. The study findings suggest...
the MTV "reality shows have been exposed as faked, Operation Repo is another notorious one. others have a mixture of "real" and "staged" segments (im thinking of this season's premiere of Billy the Exterminator, some scenes in Dog the Bounty Hunter). also, where do you draw the line? some...
the MTV "reality shows have been exposed as faked, Operation Repo is another notorious one. others have a mixture of "real" and "staged" segments (im thinking of this season's premiere of Billy the Exterminator, some scenes in Dog the Bounty Hunter). also, where do you draw the line? some...
the MTV "reality shows have been exposed as faked, Operation Repo is another notorious one. others have a mixture of "real" and "staged" segments (im thinking of this season's premiere of Billy the Exterminator, some scenes in Dog the Bounty Hunter). also, where do you draw the line? some...
Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) - such as influenza, pneumonia and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) - cause 4.25 million deaths each year often among young children in developing countries, according to the Acute Respiratory Infections Atlas, which was released on Tuesday by the World Lung...
UroToday.com - In the latest of on-going additions to the literature regarding prevalence of BPS, Dr.Jin Ho Choe and colleagues from Seoul and Busan, Korea report the results of a nationwide population-based telephone survey conducted in September/October 2008 to assess the prevalence of...
...(SMOKELESS AND SMOKING)? It's for my health homework. I've been searching the web for the last few days and i just can't seem to find anything useful.
i need to know the number of people in the U.S. that smoke and the number of people that chew (chewing tobacco). the internet isn't helping. i...
Schools are typically on guard against students who bully by inflicting repeated violence on other students. But technology has given rise to a relatively new form of bullying which inflicts emotional harm in a stealth manner, working through Web sites, chat rooms, e-mail, cell phones and...
Schools are typically on guard against students who bully by inflicting repeated violence on other students. But technology has given rise to a relatively new form of bullying which inflicts emotional harm in a stealth manner, working through Web sites, chat rooms, e-mail, cell phones and...
By 2034, the number of Americans living with diabetes will nearly double and diabetes spending will nearly triple to $336 billion, even if the prevalence of obesity in this country remains stable, according to a study published in the November issue of Diabetes Care.
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