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Ebola Vaccine Possible, But Many Doubts Persist
Being an eager, determined, and active male within my personal and professional roles, I understand the inherent challenges when it comes to living and maintaining a balanced lifestyle. It is also a frequent complaint encountered within my role as a therapist working with men. These…
Mental Health: Part of a Balanced Lifestyle
My friends at Vegan Grand Rapids were the ones who encouraged me to eat less meat.
Always an animal lover, I found as I got older, I had more and more guilt knowing how food got to my plate. It’s easy for us to not think about what goes into getting meat made into dishes, to…
What I Learned by Eating Less Meat
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Scripps Research Institute scientists find new calorie-burning switch in brown fat
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61-731-384-994Queensland University of Technology
New mums are being urged to be cautious about returning to work too quickly, after a QUT study found one in two were still excessively sleepy four months after giving…
New mothers still excessively sleepy after 4 months: QUT study
At the end of a rough day, the rhythmic swooshing of the elliptical, whir of a bike, or patter of feet on the belt of a treadmill might sound like music to your ears—for stress relief, cardio is tops. It’s also, of course, awesome for your heart (um, it’s in the name), and a…
5 Cardio Myths You Need to Stop Believing
In addition to alterations concerning the expression of oncogenes and onco-suppressors, melanoma is characterized by the presence of distinctive gangliosides (sialic acid carrying glycosphingolipids). Gangliosides strongly control cell surface dynamics and signaling; therefore, it could be…
Molecular subtyping of metastatic melanoma based on cell ganglioside metabolism profiles
Home (HBPM) and ambulatory (ABPM) blood pressure measurements have their advantages and disadvantages in diagnosing and managing hypertension. We studied HBPMs and ABPMs in volunteers taking part in a survey.
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Of 366 respondents, 270 provided a total of 5997 triplicate HBPMs (Part 1);…
Comparisons of home and daytime ambulatory blood pressure measurements
It is unclear whether response time is affected by a stimulus cue, such as a light turned on or off, or if there are differences in response to these cues during a muscle contraction task compared with a muscle relaxation task. The objective of this study was to assess the response time of a…
Muscle contraction and relaxation-response time in response to on or off status of visual stimulus
A study out of the University of Calgary suggests drivers who spend more time behind the wheel are more likely to be overweight.
Calgary traffic ranked 5th-most congested in Canada
Alberta researchers ask is sitting the new smoking?
Researchers conducted a review of 10 studies done in…
More time driving increases obesity risk, study suggests
An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned as presidents from the affected countries met Friday in Guinea’s capital.
Dr. Margaret Chan, the WHO’s…
WHO: Ebola moving faster than control efforts (Update 2)
Two Americans infected with Ebola in West Africa will be evacuated back to the United States in the coming days to be cared for in strict isolation, officials said Friday.
Kent Brantly, a doctor who was treating Ebola patients in Liberia, and Christian missionary worker Nancy Writebol, are…
US evacuating two Americans sick with Ebola (Update)
Botox and eye-drug maker Allergan is suing a Canadian drugmaker and a hedge fund over their hostile takeover attempt, alleging insider trading and other fraud before their plan became public.
Allergan Inc.’s lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California, names as…
Allergan sues Valeant, claims fraud in buy attempt (Update)
West Africa’s Ebola-hit nations announced a cross-border isolation zone on Friday, sealing off the epicentre of the world’s worst-ever outbreak as health chiefs warned the epidemic was spiralling out of control.
The announcement came at an emergency summit in the Guinean capital to…
West Africa seals off Ebola outbreak epicentre
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The WHO says that when well managed, an Ebola outbreak can be stopped
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is spreading faster than efforts to control it, World Health Organization (WHO) head Margaret Chan has said.
She told a summit of regional…
Ebola spreading too fast
(HealthDay)—Across the country, barbershops serve as a time-honored destination for a good cut and conversation.
Now experts want to see whether barbershops might also be the spot to tackle an often overlooked health concern: high blood pressure among black men.
In a novel partnership, the…
Barbershops join fight against high blood pressure in black men
Preventing weight gain, obesity, and ultimately diabetes could be as simple as keeping a nuclear receptor from being activated in a small part of the brain, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers.
Published in the Aug. 1 issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation…
Clues to curbing obesity found in neuronal ‘sweet spot’
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that dietary capsaicin – the active ingredient in chili peppers – produces chronic activation of a receptor on cells lining the intestines of mice, triggering a reaction that ultimately reduces the risk of…
Pepper and halt: Spicy chemical may inhibit gut tumors
New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis helps explain why brain tumors occur more often in males and frequently are more harmful than similar tumors in females. For example, glioblastomas, the most common malignant brain tumors, are diagnosed twice as often in…
Study reveals one reason brain tumors are more common in men
By Jillian Rose Lim, Staff Writer
Published: 07/31/2014 11:45 AM EDT on LiveScience
For many young people, birthday celebrations are synonymous with heavy drinking, but such binging at raucous parties can make birthdays a particularly bad day for your health, according to a new study…
Binge-Drinking Hospital Visits More Common During Birthday Weeks
By Christopher Wanjek, Columnist
Published: 07/31/2014 11:40 AM EDT on LiveScience
Nearly 40 percent of women in prison in Ontario, Canada, have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to a study published this month in the Journal of Correctional Health Care.
The study,…
Researchers Find Surprising Commonality Among Female Inmates
The other day, my husband suggested we take a Saturday day trip to a town in California’s central valley to pick peaches. We live near San Francisco. Most days in July and August, fog pours through the Golden Gate Bridge and covers our town with what I consider to be arctic air….
A Perfect Summer Day
(HealthDay)—A majority of categorical general surgery residents seriously consider leaving residency, according to a study published online July 30 in JAMA Surgery.
Edward Gifford, M.D., from the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, and colleagues anonymously surveyed 371 categorical…
More than half of general surgery residents want to quit
(HealthDay)—Florida health officials are cautioning visitors to the state’s beaches about the threat of Vibrio vulnificus bacteria in warm seawater this summer.
Vibrio vulnificus propagates in warm water and if swallowed can cause abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea, according to the…
Florida officials issue warning on Vibrio bacteria
(HealthDay)—There is considerable interindividual variation in the magnitude of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C), and apolipoprotein B (apoB) reductions achieved with statin therapy, which affects cardiovascular disease risk,…
Large variation in lipid reduction with high-dose statin tx
