Children eating Mediterranean Diet high in fruit, nuts, vegetables and fish are 15 per cent less likely to be overweight, study Children eating more in line with the rules of the Mediterranean diet are 15 per cent less likely to be ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Sea Food
Many who suffer from allergies think moving would help them but U.S. researchers say people with allergies would have them no matter where they lived. "Before this study, if you would have asked 10 allergy specialists if allergy ...
Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing researchers are recruiting women for a study to better understand how early life adversity and stress over one's lifetime are related to risk of developing heart disease and ...
Tags: difficult life experiences, greater inflammation, psychosocial factors
Black children are twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to the hospital for asthma - a disparity due in large part to a greater burden of financial and social hardships, according to a new study. Researchers at Cincinnati ...
Tags: Likelihood, Black Children, GCARS, Cincinnati Children
Researchers consider infant mortality to be a key indicator of population health. Currently, the United States ranks 27th among industrialized nations in infant mortality, but rates within the U.S. vary significantly by race, socioeconomic ...
Tags: Infant, healthcare
LONDON, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- People who enjoy life maintain better physical function in daily activities and have faster walking speeds as they age, researchers in Britain say. Dr. Andrew Steptoe of University College London assessed the ...
Tags: Physical Function, CMA, socioeconomic status, Education
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Hospitalization Of Elderly Medicaid Long-Term Care Users Who Transition From Nursing Homes To compare ...
Many women are encouraged to quit smoking when they become pregnant using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) whether as gum, transdermal patches, nasal spray or lozenges. But new research from Western University in London, Canada, has shown ...
Tags: Smoking Mothers, Babies, Overweight
An analysis based on the first Spanish National Sexual Health Survey, carried out in 2009, confirms that socioeconomic factors affect sexual satisfaction. People with a lower economic status claim to be less sexually satisfied, particularly ...
Experts and social organizations have warned of the negative effects that the economic crisis could mean for the health of the population. But it was not easy to demonstrate with data what is happening. A new comparative analysis of the ...
By Eleanor McDermid, Senior medwireNews Reporter Levels of glutamine, but not glutamate, are elevated in the dorsal anterior cingulate of patients with established schizophrenia, say researchers. Most previous studies have measured ...
Minority and poor patients are more likely to have advanced thyroid cancer when they're diagnosed than white and richer patients do, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed data from nearly 26,000 patients in California who were diagnosed ...
Tags: Advanced Thyroid Cancer, Minorities, Poor
Racial disparities in patients' death risk after heart bypass surgery are affected by the quality of the hospital in which the surgery is performed, a large new study suggests. Racial disparities in death rates after bypass surgery are ...
Tags: Racial Disparities, Heart Surgery, Deaths After Heart Surgery
Girls who hit puberty early might be more likely than their peers to get into fights or skip school, a new study suggests. Researchers found that girls who started their menstrual periods early -- before age 11 -- were more likely to ...
Tags: early puberty, bad behavior, girls'behavior
Controlling dietary acid intake by increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables could help improve kidney health, according to three new studies from the US and Japan. The studies were presented at the ASN Kidney Week 2013 held at the ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food