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New research confirms high-fat diet can contribute to type 2 diabetes

A diet high in saturated fat is a key contributor to type 2 diabetes, a major health threat worldwide. Several decades ago scientists noticed that people with type 2 diabetes have overly active immune responses, leaving their bodies rife with inflammatory chemicals.

12 Apr 2011

Scientists discover how anti-depressants make new brain cells

For the first time in a human model, scientists have discovered how anti-depressants make new brain cells. This means that researchers can now develop better and more efficient drugs to combat depression.

12 Apr 2011

Children who consume white potatoes have more nutrient-dense diets

Research to be presented this week at The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Conference in Washington, D.C., demonstrates that consumption of white potatoes by children does not displace other vegetables from children's meals.

12 Apr 2011

Next up: New round of budget battles; Medicare, Medicaid spending debates

Democrats and Republicans are bracing for the next round of confrontations over federal spending, which will include issues involving the future of entitlement programs as well as the debt ceiling.

12 Apr 2011

Specific oestrogen might serve as effective treatment for osteoporosis

Oestrogen treatment for osteoporosis has often been associated with serious side-effects. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now, in mice, found a way of utilising the positive effects of oestrogen in mice so that only the skeleton is acted on, current research at the Academy shows.

12 Apr 2011

New research suggests iodine-deficiency in large UK population

New research suggests the UK population is now iodine-deficient and a full review and evidence-based recommendations are needed to safeguard public health.

12 Apr 2011

Healthways, Gallup present findings from Well-Being Index at RSA meeting

Executives and scientists from the Gallup and Healthways organisations presented findings from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index which has collected information from approximately 3,000 adults in the United Kingdom over the past three months.

12 Apr 2011

Media outlets examine growing number of overweight, obese in Brazil, Pacific region

The article describes the role the food industry and social programs targeting the country's poor have played in the dietary changes in the population, and the ways public health advocates are working to control the growing number of overweight individuals.

12 Apr 2011

Eagle and Cognizant partner with Pistoia Alliance for sequence services

Cognizant, a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services, and Eagle Genomics Ltd., a bioinformatics software company specializing in genomic data management and integration, today announced they are working with the Pistoia Alliance, Inc., a nonprofit, precompetitive alliance of life science companies and vendors, as one of the groups engaged to develop a conceptual cloud-based platform to facilitate access to public and proprietary sources of gene sequence data.

12 Apr 2011

PharMEDium joins ASA as a valued corporate supporter

PharMEDium Healthcare Corporation has become an Industry Supporter of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, as a part of a new Corporate Supporter program available to pharmaceutical, medical device and practice management companies.

12 Apr 2011

American Red Cross helps communities directly affected by severe spring weather

Severe spring weather continues to affect thousands of people across the country and the American Red Cross is responding on several fronts to help the communities directly affected by tornadoes, wildfires or flooding.

12 Apr 2011

Experts to discuss latest findings in IBD research at Rome meeting

Experts from 11 countries will gather this week in Rome to discuss innovative strategies for studying and treating Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.

12 Apr 2011

Research on workplace injustices

A woman, who's running a fever, shivering, and coughing, tries to call in sick, but her supervisor screams, "I don't care what illness you have, if you're not in the office today, I'll consider it your resignation!" These are real examples of workplace bullying that cause stress, depression, and anxiety. The National Mental Health Association estimates that each year, more than one billion sick days can be attributed to mental health disorders caused by work stress.

12 Apr 2011

Congress reaches deal on FY11 budget; short-term resolution passed

"Congress late Friday narrowly averted a government shutdown after Democrats and Republicans agreed to cut" nearly $39 billion in spending over the next six months, Roll Call reports.

12 Apr 2011

Study provides new insights into tuberculosis behavior

Patience may be a virtue in a person, but in an infectious disease, it is insidious. Witness tuberculosis, which can lie dormant in a human host for decades before bursting forth into infection. TB's stealthy nature has made it difficult to decipher how it spreads, seriously hampering efforts to control it. The World Health Organization estimates that a third of the people on Earth are infected.

12 Apr 2011

Sirolimus may help treat lymphangioleiomyomatosis in women

An Oregon Health & Science University researcher has co-authored an international study that revealed a drug approved to prevent rejection in organ transplant patients helped treat a rare lung disease in women.

12 Apr 2011

Changes in hormonal status have no impact on women's voice parameters

In recent years several studies have suggested that women's voices change at different times over the menstrual cycle, with the tone rising as ovulation approaches. Now a study conducted by researchers at the West Texas A&M University in which women's voices were subjected to computerized acoustical analysis contradicts those findings.

12 Apr 2011

KCDC, KT, Gyeonggi Province and Qualcomm sign MOU for Self Quality Care project

Qualcomm Incorporated, as part of its Wireless Reach initiative, Gyeonggi Province, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Korea Telecom today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for a project that will benefit patients suffering from chronic disease.

12 Apr 2011

Medicaid news: Govs split on block grants; Kansas begins 'makeover'

Even as states try to move forward with a Medicaid makeovers, transforming this state-federal program into a block grant comes with complications.

12 Apr 2011

Positive outcomes from Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in posterior fossa meningiomas

Meningiomas are the most common benign intracranial tumors, and in individuals ages 35 and older, the most common type of brain tumor diagnosed. They most often occur in people between the ages of 40 and 70.

12 Apr 2011