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Study of 21 retired NFL and NHL players doesn’t find evidence of early onset dementia

07.08.2018 Health Problems

New University at Buffalo research is adding important information to the body of knowledge about the cognitive and behavioral status of a group of retired professional athletes who spent their careers in contact sports. The study findings, from UB’s Healthy Aging Mind Project, were published today online before print in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. The study assessed 21 […]

Early Signs of Autism Every Parent Should Know

16.07.2018 Kids Health

Autism spectrum disorder rates continue to rise. The latest data from the CDC, the most comprehensive surveillance of diagnostic rates in the U.S. to date, reveals that 1 in 59 8-year-olds were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in 2014, up 15 percent from 2012 and up 150 percent from 2000. Naturally, the results triggered much media debate: Do the ever-increasing […]

Researchers identify method to diagnose cancer in patients with early onset diabetes

21.06.2018 Health Problems

Patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer can develop elevated blood sugar levels up to three years before their cancer diagnosis, according to the results of a study by Mayo Clinic researchers published the journal Gastroenterology. “Pancreatic cancer is rapidly fatal after its diagnosis, with average survival of six months,” says Suresh Chari, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic. “It has also […]

Blood signature could improve early tuberculosis diagnosis

19.06.2018 Health Problems

A gene signature in the bloodstream could reveal whether someone is going to develop active tuberculosis (TB) disease months before symptoms begin. Such a signature has now been developed by a team led by the Francis Crick Institute and University of Leicester, in collaboration with BIOASTER and bioMerieux in France and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. The […]

Few early parent education programs available to help dads

17.06.2018 Kids Health

Umpteen books and programs are available to help new moms before and after their child is born, but the same can’t be said for fathers, a new University of Michigan study found. Research suggests that men typically rely on women for parenting knowledge and thus could benefit from encouragement to participate directly in programs and health care visits, said Joyce […]

Early, intensive treatment of RA offers long-term benefits, may normalise mortality rates

17.06.2018 Health Problems

The results of a 23-year, follow-up study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) suggest early, intensive treatment of rheumatoid arthritis has long-term benefits including the normalisation of mortality to levels consistent with the general population. “We know that the adverse effects of rheumatoid arthritis on the body only become truly apparent after more than a […]

Lineage of TB traced and compared to early human migration

13.06.2018 Health Problems

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin, the University of Iowa and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health has carried out genetic studies of tuberculosis to learn more about its lineage and to compare it with transmission pathways through early human migration. They have outlined their study and results in a paper available on the bioRxiv preprint server. […]

TAILORx trial finds most women with early breast cancer do not benefit from chemotherapy

04.06.2018 Health Problems

New findings from the groundbreaking Trial Assigning Individualized Options for Treatment (Rx), or TAILORx trial, show no benefit from chemotherapy for 70 percent of women with the most common type of breast cancer. The study found that for women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative, axillary lymph node¬-negative breast cancer, treatment with chemotherapy and hormone therapy after surgery is not more […]

Breath test breakthrough for early diagnosis of oesophageal and gastric cancer

18.05.2018 Health Problems

A breath test can successfully detect oesophageal and gastric cancer and could be used as a first-line test for patients, say researchers. In a multi-centre clinical trial of 335 patients, the breath test can identify cancer from benign diseases with 85 per cent accuracy. Unlike other methods, the test is non-invasive. The study was led by researchers at Imperial College […]

Minority children develop implicit racial bias in early childhood

16.05.2018 Health Problems

New research from York University suggests that minority children as young as six years old show an implicit pro-White racial bias when exposed to images of both White and Black children. But how ingrained these biases become and whether they persist into late childhood and adulthood might depend on their social environment. Faculty of Health Professor Jennifer Steele conducted two […]

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