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Aerobic exercise helps healthy aging adults improve memory, brain health and physical fitness

A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas published online in the open-access journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience found that engaging in a physical exercise regimen helps healthy aging adults improve their memory, brain health and physical fitness.

13 Nov 2013

University of Sydney lecture to focus on the minds of teenage girls

Imagine a classroom of normal healthy teenage girls. As many as half of them may grow up and develop anxiety and depression. But which ones will they be?

12 Nov 2013

JGU joins with 3 Chinese universities in fields of research and teaching

The Institute of Sports Science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) will be collaborating with three Chinese universities in the fields of research and teaching. The agreements cover such as aspects as research projects in high-performance sports to health care courses for students.

12 Nov 2013

Xin is muscle damage biomarker

Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a protein that is only detectable after muscle damage, and it may serve as a way to measure injury.

12 Nov 2013

Lifestyle changes boost QoL during long-term ADT

A study shows that a lifestyle intervention, involving an exercise program and dietary advice, improves disease-specific quality of life in sedentary men with advanced prostate cancer who are receiving long-term androgen-deprivation therapy.

11 Nov 2013

ERBA Diagnostics’ net revenues increase 83% to $6,941,000 in third quarter 2013

ERBA Diagnostics, Inc., a fully integrated in vitro diagnostics company, reported its financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013.

11 Nov 2013

Cycling champion Cadel Evans takes part in cutting edge cardiopulmonary research

As the first Australian to win the Tour de France, cycling champion Cadel Evans has already pedalled his way into our hearts. Now he is taking part in world-leading cardiopulmonary research – by pedalling inside an MRI scanner.

11 Nov 2013

Research roundup: Pricing and the SHOP exchange; health use in rural vs. urban areas; the health law and AIDS care

Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.

11 Nov 2013

ReShape Duo Intragastric Balloon treatment for weight loss meets primary efficacy endpoints

ReShape Medical, Inc. today announced that its REDUCE Trial for the ReShape Duo Intragastric Balloon, a non-surgical treatment for weight loss, has met its primary efficacy endpoints.

11 Nov 2013

New research describes neural mechanism by which sleeping brain locks in learning visual task

As any indignant teacher would scold, students must be awake to learn. But what science is showing with increasing sophistication is how the brain uses sleep for learning as well.

10 Nov 2013

Lifestyle changes in diet and exercise show promise for learning, depression in teens

New studies released today underscore the potential impact of healthy lifestyle choices in treating depression, the effects of aging, and learning. The research focused on the effects of mind/body awareness, exercise, and diet, and was presented at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

10 Nov 2013

Moderate exercise during pregnancy enhances newborn child's brain development

As little as 20 minutes of moderate exercise three times per week during pregnancy enhances the newborn child's brain development, according to researchers at the University of Montreal and its affiliated CHU Sainte-Justine children's hospital.

10 Nov 2013

New recommendations for patients with congenital heart disease

The diagnosis and treatments of congenital heart disease have improved so much that many babies now born with heart defects can still look forward to a long and fulfilling life. Just two generations ago, the majority of babies born with heart defects died before their first birthday, but today many of these conditions can be corrected.

8 Nov 2013

Cancer research leaders announce the opening of ICGC-TCGA-DREAM SMC Challenge

Cancer research leaders from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and the University of California, Santa Cruz, in collaboration with Sage Bionetworks and IBM's DREAM, will announce tomorrow the opening of the ICGC-TCGA-DREAM Somatic Mutation Calling Challenge at the Sixth Annual RECOMB/ISCB conference.

8 Nov 2013

Vitamin C can improve skeletal muscle fatigue in COPD patients

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—a health problem in which the lungs lose their inherent springiness, making it progressively harder to breathe—can have a dramatic effect on the ability to exercise and even perform simple activities of daily life because of the disease's fallout effects on skeletal muscles.

8 Nov 2013

Aerobic exercise may be superior to resistance exercise for obese teen girls

Obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the United States in the past 30 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The growing rate of childhood obesity is a major health concern since overweight and obese youth are at increased risk of developing several diseases once considered reserved for adults. These new pediatric diseases include type-2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition in which fat builds up in the liver, potentially impairing its function over time.

8 Nov 2013

Diets and the famine reaction: an interview with Associate Professor Amanda Salis, University of Sydney

The statistic that you often hear is that 95% of diets fail, but in actual fact, emerging research is now showing that it’s around 70% of diets that fail. That means that around 30% of people who are losing weight are actually keeping it off. So we’re doing better now than we were doing in the past, but there’s still work to be done.

7 Nov 2013

Study focusing on safety of adolescent bariatric surgery published in JAMA Pediatrics

Initial results of a first and largest of its kind study focusing on the safety of adolescent bariatric surgery were published this week in JAMA Pediatrics. The "Teen Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery" study is funded by the National Institutes of Health and is being conducted at five sites in the U.S., including Nationwide Children's Hospital.

7 Nov 2013

Endocrine Society publishes Clinical Practice Guideline on diabetes and pregnancy

The Endocrine Society today issued a Clinical Practice Guideline to help health care professionals provide the best care to pregnant women who have diabetes.

6 Nov 2013

Olympic gold medallist opens new Leicester Diabetes Centre

Five-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Steve Redgrave will officially open the new Leicester Diabetes Centre on Thursday 7 November 2013.

6 Nov 2013

Exercise News and Research

Latest Exercise News and Research

Aerobic exercise helps healthy aging adults improve memory, brain health and physical fitness

University of Sydney lecture to focus on the minds of teenage girls

JGU joins with 3 Chinese universities in fields of research and teaching

Xin is muscle damage biomarker

Lifestyle changes boost QoL during long-term ADT

ERBA Diagnostics’ net revenues increase 83% to $6,941,000 in third quarter 2013

Cycling champion Cadel Evans takes part in cutting edge cardiopulmonary research

Research roundup: Pricing and the SHOP exchange; health use in rural vs. urban areas; the health law and AIDS care

ReShape Duo Intragastric Balloon treatment for weight loss meets primary efficacy endpoints

New research describes neural mechanism by which sleeping brain locks in learning visual task

Lifestyle changes in diet and exercise show promise for learning, depression in teens

Moderate exercise during pregnancy enhances newborn child's brain development

New recommendations for patients with congenital heart disease

Cancer research leaders announce the opening of ICGC-TCGA-DREAM SMC Challenge

Vitamin C can improve skeletal muscle fatigue in COPD patients

Aerobic exercise may be superior to resistance exercise for obese teen girls

Diets and the famine reaction: an interview with Associate Professor Amanda Salis, University of Sydney

Study focusing on safety of adolescent bariatric surgery published in JAMA Pediatrics

Endocrine Society publishes Clinical Practice Guideline on diabetes and pregnancy

Olympic gold medallist opens new Leicester Diabetes Centre

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