Texas students are out of shape – and the older they get, the flabbier they get, according to the first statewide physical fitness assessments of public schoolchildren.
Based on evaluations of nearly 2.6 million students in grades three through 12, the testing found that fitness levels drop with each passing grade – Health Topics and elementary-age [...]
virtually every medical discipline, there are unanswered questions pertaining to women’s health and well-being. Closing the gender gap in medical research may require more than simply including women in research studies, says Teresa Woodruff, executive director of the Institute for Women’s Health Research, recently launched by Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Teresa Woodruff
Since the early [...]
Lisa Power: It would be reassuring to know in a way, since we seem to get a lot of complaints from gay men that we don’t deal with them enough, that we are giving too much time to somebody else.
We deal with HIV and sexual health, and HIV will always be central to our work, [...]
THE joint venture between Discovery Health and UK insurer Prudential, formed to market health insurance in the UK, has been so successful it now covers more than 160000 lives in just under four years of operation, PruHealth chief operating officer Trent Rossini said yesterday.
He said he expected a solid showing in the coming months as [...]
Sheri Raves is a third-year nursing student in the Athabasca University at Mount Royal College bachelor of nursing program. This piece on the role nurses play in our healthcare system is part of a class assignment to share with the public more about what nurses do.
What does nursing mean to you? Most people picture a [...]
Blocking a single brain enzyme helped short-circuit a key hunger signal in mice and made them eat less, lose weight and have better blood sugar control, US researchers have said.
While much more research lies ahead, they said the finding may lead to new treatments for obesity and diabetes in humans.
“We believe we have identified an [...]
Winter steelhead continue to attract anglers and fish are being caught.The steelhead fishery on the main Umpqua is about over, but spring chinook are gradually working their way up the river and some have been caught.In the county�s lower elevation lakes, reservoirs and ponds, there are plenty of trout to be caught following recent releases.Following [...]
In comparing the brains of these people to others who had all the memory-robbing symptoms of Alzheimers, the researchers said on Tuesday they found those who avoided dementia consistently had a larger part of the brain called the hippocampus.
It is a structure vital to memory formation located in the brains temporal lobe. Everyone has two [...]
The good news, however, is that blocking this gene may improve outcomes. In the study, the researchers gave an ODC1-blocking drug called DFMO to mice with the disease and actually cured some of them.
Dr Michelle Haber of the Childrens Cancer Institute Australia in Sydney and colleagues analysed neuroblastoma specimens from 209 patients before treatment and [...]
WINCHESTER: The Tioga Archery Club has scheduled a 3-D trail fun shoot for April 13 at the Roseburg Rod and Gun Club facility.Registration for the shoot will be from 7-11 a.m. There will be 40 animal targets set up along the trail.Entry fees will be $20 for a family, $16 for a couple, $10 for [...]
