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Expressive writing may improve functioning among combat veterans with reintegration problems

In a study of nearly 1,300 returning veterans reporting reintegration problems, those who completed online expressive-writing sessions showed more improvements than peers who had not written at all or who had engaged only in factual writing.

5 Nov 2015

Three out of four consumers not covered for evidence-based obesity treatment services

In one of the largest studies ever conducted to better understand insurance coverage of obesity treatments, researchers found that three out of four consumers report that they are not covered for necessary, evidence-based obesity treatment services, including access to a registered dietician (72% not covered), medical weight management (77% not covered), bariatric surgery (76% not covered) or FDA-approved obesity drugs (84% not covered).

5 Nov 2015

Nucala (mepolizumab) approved for treatment of asthma patients

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Nucala (mepolizumab) for use with other asthma medicines for the maintenance treatment of asthma in patients age 12 years and older. Nucala is approved for patients who have a history of severe asthma attacks (exacerbations) despite receiving their current asthma medicines.

5 Nov 2015

Addressing quality of life needs in prostate cancer: an interview with Professor Louis Denis

Modern patient-directed management is based on optimal, individual medical treatment and holistic personalised patient-centred care. This is certainly true in prostate cancer where most patients are over 60 years of age. They face a negative physical and functional impact from the diagnosis as well as from the treatment with emotional and social challenges.

4 Nov 2015

International research project examines effectiveness of tried and tested medicines for different diseases

The Medical University of Vienna is coordinating an international research project, which investigates the effectiveness of tried and tested medicines for the treatment of some of the heaviest burdens of our modern society including diseases such as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. One molecule that these disorders have in common is a receptor known as the calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR), which is the molecular starting point of this project.

4 Nov 2015

Deaths from avoidable risk factors: an interview with Dr Ali Mokdad, IHME

The study showed that about thirty percent to maybe half of the leading causes of death in the world are preventable. These are risk factors that you could manage and thus you could prevent a lot of premature deaths.

3 Nov 2015

Healthy food can help low-income people better control their diabetes

To determine whether healthy food could help low-income people better control their diabetes, a pilot study by UC San Francisco and Feeding America tracked nearly 700 people at food banks in California, Texas and Ohio over two years.

3 Nov 2015

Discovery may allow physicians to warn patients years before onset of diabetes

A panel of markers have been discovered that helps identify if a person is pre-diabetic by measuring the fatty acids in their blood. This discovery by University of Hawai'i Cancer Center researchers may allow physicians to warn patients years before the onset of diabetes, therefore allowing them to change their lifestyle patterns potentially avoiding the diagnosis of a chronic disease.

30 Oct 2015

Research abstracts on obesity, weight loss to be presented at ObesityWeek 2015

Nearly 1,000 research abstracts will be presented on new and emerging obesity treatments, the science of weight loss, new prevention strategies, metabolic surgery, digital health technology and public policy when thousands of leading researchers, policymakers and health professionals gather for ObesityWeek 2015 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California from November 2 - 7, 2015.

30 Oct 2015

New studies analyse life expectancy, causes of death and child mortality in different regions of China

Two new studies, published in The Lancet, reveal for the first time how health in different regions of China has changed in recent decades.

28 Oct 2015

Researchers uncover genes that can suppress HCV infection within the liver

University of Adelaide researchers have uncovered the role played by a family of genes, which can suppress hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection within the liver.

28 Oct 2015

Watching too much TV increases risk of death

On average, 80% of American adults watch 3.5 hours of television per day and multiple observational studies have demonstrated a link between TV viewing and poorer health. In this new study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, investigators reported an association between increasing hours of television viewing per day and increasing risk of death from most of the major causes of death in the United States.

28 Oct 2015

Reducing sugar intake reverses chronic metabolic diseases in children

Reducing consumption of added sugar, even without reducing calories or losing weight, has the power to reverse a cluster of chronic metabolic diseases, including high cholesterol and blood pressure, in children in as little as 10 days, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco and Touro University California.

27 Oct 2015

Localisation of policies crucial to China's health reforms, new studies suggest

Two new studies, published in The Lancet, reveal for the first time how health in different regions of China has changed in recent decades. The articles analyse life expectancy, causes of death, and child mortality for 31 provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions of China, and Hongkong and Macao special administrative regions, finding that in the last two decades, life expectancy has risen, and deaths in children under 5 years have fallen, in every province.

26 Oct 2015

Chronic diseases increased dramatically among poorest households in Bangladesh, suggests new research

The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension—long considered diseases of the wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to develop them—increased dramatically among the nation's poorest households over a 24-year period, suggests new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

23 Oct 2015

Melatonin and the circadian rhythm: an interview with Professor Kennaway, University of Adelaide

The production of melatonin is controlled by a part of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and its timing fine-tuned by our exposure to light during the morning.

20 Oct 2015

Chronic diseases in Bangladesh drag more households below poverty line

A new study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology shows that over the past decades Bangladesh observed a successful health transition while chronic diseases shifted from the rich to affect in excess also poor households.

20 Oct 2015

Study: Young Latinos in rural areas face discrimination when obtaining health care services

Young Latinos living in rural areas say they face discrimination when they obtain health care services - a factor that could contribute to disparities in their rates for obtaining medical care and in their health outcomes, a new study from Oregon State University has found.

16 Oct 2015

Retail health clinics best used as backup alternative to patient's primary care physician, ACP says

The American College of Physicians today said that retail health clinics - now commonly present in drugstores and/or big box retailers - are best used as a backup alternative to a patient's primary care physician for the diagnosis and treatment of episodic minor illnesses.

14 Oct 2015

IASLC commends pembrolizumab drug approval for cutting-edge lung cancer treatment

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) says the move by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to grant accelerated approval for a cutting-edge lung cancer treatment is a positive step forward that may help many patients improve their survival.

9 Oct 2015

Chronic Disease News and Research

Expressive writing may improve functioning among combat veterans with reintegration problems

Three out of four consumers not covered for evidence-based obesity treatment services

Nucala (mepolizumab) approved for treatment of asthma patients

Addressing quality of life needs in prostate cancer: an interview with Professor Louis Denis

International research project examines effectiveness of tried and tested medicines for different diseases

Deaths from avoidable risk factors: an interview with Dr Ali Mokdad, IHME

Healthy food can help low-income people better control their diabetes

Discovery may allow physicians to warn patients years before onset of diabetes

Research abstracts on obesity, weight loss to be presented at ObesityWeek 2015

New studies analyse life expectancy, causes of death and child mortality in different regions of China

Researchers uncover genes that can suppress HCV infection within the liver

Watching too much TV increases risk of death

Reducing sugar intake reverses chronic metabolic diseases in children

Localisation of policies crucial to China's health reforms, new studies suggest

Chronic diseases increased dramatically among poorest households in Bangladesh, suggests new research

Melatonin and the circadian rhythm: an interview with Professor Kennaway, University of Adelaide

Chronic diseases in Bangladesh drag more households below poverty line

Study: Young Latinos in rural areas face discrimination when obtaining health care services

Retail health clinics best used as backup alternative to patient's primary care physician, ACP says

IASLC commends pembrolizumab drug approval for cutting-edge lung cancer treatment

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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