* Do you at any time think of new m...

* Do you at any time think of new medical breakthroughs as "space-age medicine"? According to American Medical of recent origins researchers are developing treatments to enable humans to make the longer-than-one-year round-trip journey to Mars, and any of those treatments can help the community on Earth today. For example, an ultrasound hypothesis created to assess bone weakness caused by way of near-weightless space conditions could help assess not sole bone density, but also bone quality in patients with osteoporosis. Also, research forward light treatment to modify circadian harmonious flow could help not only those catching their Z's in space, unless also the millions of persons on Earth suffering from insomnia. And for those who fear needle needle-free line and tissue testing may be forward the way thanks to space medicine research.

* Everyone knows that being overweight has health risks, if it be not that a new study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine indicates that obesity may have more risks for women than men The investigation of 1,000 patients aged nine to 26 years showed that visible form [i]or[/i] frame mass index was directly related to asthma risk in women The same association was not originate in male patients. Researchers plant that 28 percent of asthma cases in women and girls that unraveled after age nine were related to weight.

* An electronic nose has prolonged been used in the victuals wine, and perfume industries. Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation report that the technology also might be helpful in early detection of lung cancer. Scientists discovered that the breath of 14 lung cancer patients had distinct, identifiable characteristics that differed from 45 healthy patients and patients with other lung diseases. The electronic nose is a biosensor that bring forwards a "smell-print," which researchers room for expectation will eventually replace the circulating vague or invasive screening experiments for lung cancer.

* You may have heard about the dreaded "freshman 15" when you went against to college, but did anyone enumerate you how to prevent it? According to an ABCNews.com report, united school is trying to thwart students from packing on those extra 15 shut ups This fall, the University of Missouri-Columbia will show one of the first courses in the fatherland that will focus on the lifestyle costlinesss of neglecting exercise, including obesity, premature aging, chronic illnesses, frailty, and dementia. The instruct hopes that teaching students about these issues early will help them stay healthy for life.

* A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Adolescent males who have little objective knowledge about fit condom use but feel that they know a haphazard are three times less likely to use a condom at the time of their first intercourse than lads who feel that they know les The reflection published in Pediatrics included 404 striplings aged 15 to 17 years. Researchers refer to that sex education programs should focus not barely on objective knowledge about condom use, further also on students' perceived knowledge.

* Americans may have taken the advice, "Take it with a grain of salt," to heart-literally. A modern report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest states that many Americans devour twice the recommended daily amount of salt, which is raising house pressure and killing roughly 150000 family each year. According to the report, almost 80 percent of salt in the diet draw nears from restaurant food and suited foods, such as canned broths and frozen dinners. The report cites single in kind frozen dinner that contains three-and-a-half times the praiseed amount of daily sodium intake for healthy young adults. Researchers say that eating more well-preserved fruits and vegetables and avoiding transactioned foods are the best ways to lower sodium intake.

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