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Diabetics Had Decreased Blood Sugar And Improved Blood Lipids On High-Fat Diet

May 14, 2012
People with Type 2 diabetes are usually advised to keep a low-fat diet. Now, a study at Linkoping University shows that food with a lot of fat and few carbohydrates could have a better effect on blood sugar levels and blood lipids. The results of a two-year dietary study led ...

Ravens remember relationships they had with others

April 19, 2012
In daily life we remember faces and voices of several known individuals. Similarly, mammals have been shown to remember calls and faces of known individuals after a number of years. Markus Boeckle and Thomas Bugnyar from the Department of Cognitive Biology of the University of Vienna show in their recent ...

Ravens remember relationships they had with others

April 19, 2012
In daily life we remember faces and voices of several known individuals. Similarly, mammals have been shown to remember calls and faces of known individuals after a number of years. Markus Boeckle and Thomas Bugnyar from the Department of Cognitive Biology of the University of Vienna show in their recent ...

One-quarter of working-age adults had a gap in health-care coverage in 2011

April 19, 2012
(Commonwealth Fund) One of four working-age US adults experienced a gap in health insurance coverage during 2011, often because they lost or changed jobs, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. About seven of 10 of those who had a time without health insurance coverage had gone without coverage for ...

Your Stroke Risk Considerably Higher If A Sibling Has Had A Stroke

April 12, 2012
If your brother or sister had a stroke, you may be at least 60 percent more likely to have one too, according to research reported in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. The findings come from the first large study to examine the combined influence of age, gender ...

Stroke risk considerably higher if sibling had stroke

April 10, 2012
(American Heart Association) If your brother or sister had a stroke, your risk of having one may be at least 60 percent higher. Your risk of stroke at age 55 or younger is almost double if your sibling had a stroke at 55 or younger. Make sure to tell your ...

Asthmatic Children Had Lung Function Deficits As Newborns

April 2, 2012
According to a new study from researchers in Denmark published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, children who develop asthma by the time they are seven years old have deficits in lung function and increased bronchial responsiveness as ...

Nevada officials: Luxor guests had Legionnaires’

January 31, 2012
(AP) -- Health officials in Las Vegas said Monday that the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease was found in water samples at the Luxor hotel-casino this month after a guest died of the form of pneumonia.

Women Wheelchair Basketball Athletes Say The Inclusion Of Able-Bodied Athletes On The Team Had Many Different Types Of Advantages

January 18, 2012
Wheelchair basketball: It's a fast, skillful game, dazzling to watch, gruelling to play. It's also a sport that in Canada has become one of the most inclusive, welcoming athletes with disability and able-bodied athletes alike to its leagues and teams. And athletes like it that way...

‘Hundreds’ of Austrian women had PIP implants: report

January 15, 2012
Hundreds of Austrian women, many more than the eight as first thought, may have had potentially dangerous French-made breast implants in cheap operations in eastern Europe, a press report said Sunday.

Study shows early primate had a transitional lemur-like grooming claw

January 11, 2012
Celebrities are channeling a distant relative with what Harper's Bazaar describes as the latest trend in nail fashion for 2012: claws. But this may not be the first time primates traded their nails for claws.

Five women in Belgium have had PIP implants removed

January 10, 2012
Five women in Belgium have had potentially faulty breast implants made by French firm PIP removed since the beginning of December, the country's health watchdog said Saturday.