While moderate drinking can be heart-healthy — helping to boost HDL levels, for example — excessive drinking is not. The new findings suggest that drinking heavily early in life might contribute to metabolic syndrome later on.
She and her colleagues report their findings in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

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Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston said that Salsalate, an inexpensive anti-inflammatory drug similar to aspirin, may prevent type 2 diabetes.
The study, published in the February issue of Diabetes Care, concludes the double-masked, placebo-controlled study of 20 obese young adults found that Salsalate substantially reduced blood glucose levels as well as inflammation, and, as […]

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A new British study at King’s College London suggests people who are physically active in their free time may be biologically younger than couch potatoes.
The researchers reported a sedentary lifestyle increases the propensity to aging-related diseases and premature death. Inactivity may diminish life expectancy not only by predisposing to aging-related diseases, but also because it […]

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 A biomedical engineer quoted by Wired News revealed that he is developing clothing which, besides providing cover, warmth, and style, keep its wearers healthy. The suit reads the wearer’s vital signs, and beams the data wirelessly to a computer. The in-built sensors gather information on the wearer’s posture and movement.
The researcher has already developed a […]

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A recent study of more than 800,000 U.S. seniors found more than 25 percent received the wrong dosage or type of medication.
The results, published in the journal Medical Care, found 26.2 percent of elderly patients were given drugs identified as inappropriate or suboptimal for older patients.

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Experts, including the Food Standards Agency, revealed that parents are confused over the salt content of foods and the dangers of eating too much salt. They called for clearer food labeling to help parents moderate their children’s salt intake as evidence has suggested links to stomach cancer as well as osteoporosis and a worsening of […]

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A new study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston shows that adding hormone therapy to radiation treatment for fast-moving prostate cancer can save lives, but the benefit often doesn’t apply to men who have other serious medical problems. Study also revealed that the benefit was limited to men without other serious medical problems, such […]

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A new study at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City suggests that a “western” diet heavy in meat, fried foods and refined grains puts people at higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome.A person is thought to have metabolic syndrome if he or she has three or more of the following cardiovascular risk factors: large waist circumference, […]

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A new study reported in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, suggests that older people with sleep-related breathing problems may have a heightened risk of impairments in thinking and memory
This findings also open the possibility that treating these sleep-related breathing disorders could prevent mental impairment in some older adults.

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A study at the McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, reviewed 20 relevant studies involving 2,930 people who were prescribed aspirin (75 to 325 milligrams daily) as a way of preventing clots from forming in the blood.
According to the report published in this week’s British Medical Journal, people who are resistant to the blood-thinning effects […]

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