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• People Who "Look Younger" May Live Longer

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 769
  A study published this month in the British Medical Journal reports that the survival of 1826 twins correlated with the “perceived age” of the subjects. …perceived age was significantly associated with survival, even after adjustment for chronological age, sex, and rearing environment. Perceived age was still ...
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• Santa Claus is Obese

  
  Fooducate — Authority: 499
  Santa Claus, one of the most popular children’s icons, is not an appropriate role model for kids these days, a comical holiday report from the British Medical Journal says. A review of literature found that: Santa made a reckless role model, noting his frequent cookie snacks, occasional cigars and refusal to ...
  5 days ago

• Data showing Tamiflu effective "lost;" PR firm claims they wrote studies

  
  Corrente — Authority: 637
  Natural News : When it comes to selling chemicals that claim to treat H1N1 swine flu, the pharmaceutical industrys options are limited to two: Vaccines and anti-virals. The most popular anti-viral, by far, is Tamiflu, a drug thats actually derived from a Traditional Chinese Medicine herb called star anise. But ...
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• “Concern that sharing information with patients may cause sustained psychological distress is probably unfounded”

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 491
  Cross-posted, with prolog, from the blog of Ted Eytan MD . Yesterday the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s “WIHI” series hosted a terrific webcast on the Open Notes project that’s being funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (I need to dig up the link to the event’s archive, but I’m in a ...
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• Drinkable Gold May Have Killed Kings Mistress

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 165
  A British medical journal has published findings saying a mistress of 16th-century French King Henry II may have died from consuming too much drinkable gold. Experts examining the exhumed remains of Diane de Poitiers, found deadly levels of gold in her hair. The popular drink was believed to preserve youth. » ...
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• Grasso e brillo: Babbo Natale alla gogna. Ma ecco la vera storia del vecchio in rosso

  
  DaringToDo.com — Authority: 147
  La notizia capace di sconvolgere le certezze d’intere generazioni in Italia è rimbalzata con un certo clamore  nel pomeriggio di ieri: Babbo Natale sarebbe un pessimo soggetto, un esempio deleterio per le giovani menti dei fanciulli che credono nella sua esistenza.  A rilevarlo è il professor Nathan Grills ...
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• Here comes Santa and his ho-ho-harmful messages

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Sydney, Dec 18 (DPA) Santa Claus is a fat, heavy-drinking smoker who drives his sleigh dangerously and is into extreme sports like roof-surfing and chimney-jumping, warns an Australian public health specialist.He is not a jolly fellow who spreads happiness but an agent of global capitalism with the potential to ...
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• International Society for Medical Publication Professionals – Good Publication Practices Guidelines Released

  
  Policy and Medicine — Authority: 128
  The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) recently published a revised Good Publication Practice document known as “ GPP2 ,” which was developed in a Steering Committee, and independently peer reviewed and published in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ). The goal of GPP2 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Swine flu less lethal than expected

  
  ICM Commercial & Business News — Authority: 436
  The UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has reported that the swine flu epidemic is less lethal than first anticipated, causing the death of 26 out of every 100,000 people – just 0.026% – who contract the virus. Statistically, swine flu compares favourably in terms of mortality when compared to ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘You’ll live longer if you look young’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, December 14 (ANI): A new study ha shown that people who look young for their age enjoy a longer life than those who look older than their years.The study, conducted by a team from the Institute of Public Health at the University of Southern Denmark, observed 387 twin pairs, aged between 70 and 99, [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Hidden Asbestos – New Warnings

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 149
  Mid term exposure to asbestos, a building material causes major health problems related to the respiratory tract. This building material when moved or disturbed causes small particles of fibers to be dispersed in the air, which, when inhaled causes inflammation, scar-tissue build up or in some cases the deadly cancer. ...
  2 weeks ago

• H1N1 drug Tamiflu effectiveness questioned

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 12 (ANI): The medical journal BMJ (British Medical Journal) has claimed that anti-viral drugs, such as Tamiflu, may be ineffective against influenza viruses, including the H1N1 swine flu virus, when taken by otherwise healthy people.The prestigious journal has, in a series of articles, said that the Swiss ...
  2 weeks ago

• Boozy Punjabi weddings are now a British problem

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  By Dipankar De SarkarLondon, Dec 11 (IANS) Punjabis in Britain have been ticked off for serving too much alcohol at their weddings - a practice that is not only threatening lives but also putting pressure on families to dish out the drink.A British charity serving a West London suburb with a large population of ...
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• More 20 mph zones in London would prevent 100 killed or seriously injured casualties each year

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 617
  20 mph traffic speed zones reduce casualties by 41.9% with the greatest reduction in child casualties, according to research published today in the British Medical Journal . Link:  http://www.lshtm.ac.uk
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• Tamiflu effectiveness questioned

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 9 (ANI): A new study has found no clear evidence that Tamiflu prevents complications like pneumonia in people infected with flu.The study conducted by British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Channel 4 has appeared online in the BMJ and questions the accuracy of the research from Roche, the manufacturer of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cleanliness and Dry Skin ? Too Much of a Good Thing?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 166
  If you?re using antibacterial soaps and household cleaning products, dry skin may become the least of your problems. Studies of the effects of what some now call ?obsessive? cleanliness have shown that the resultant formation of superbacteria ? bacteria resistant to almost all antibiotics ? actually increases our risk ...
  3 weeks ago

• Weight loss effective in overcoming sleep apnoea

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 7 (IANS) Dramatic weight loss can reverse the effects of severe sleep apnoea, says a new study.“Our findings suggest that weight loss may be an effective treatment strategy for sleep apnoea in obese men,” says study co-author Kari Johansson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.Obstructive sleep apnoea ...
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• Risk of blood clot after surgery higher than previously thought

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 4 (ANI): The risk of developing potentially fatal blood clot following a surgery is higher than previously believed and it lasts for a longer period, says a new study.The risk of venous thromboembolism (a collective term for deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) is known to increase after surgery, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Opening of the Wellcome Historical Medical Library

  
  Wellcome Library — Authority: 494
  As we often celebrate anniversaries on this Blog, it seems only fitting that we draw your attention to a short article from the British Medical Journal , 10th December 1949 (and freely available through PubMedCentral ). The piece reports on the formal opening of the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, at 183 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Preterm births higher among women from deprived areas

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 2 (ANI): Women from deprived areas are twice as likely to have very preterm births than those from more affluent areas, say researchers.They say that receiving equal care, poor women are still more likely to give birth to a very preterm baby, which suggests that there is an urgent need to better understand ...
  3 weeks ago

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