Downstate.edu – Researchers have discovered that a drug combination of two FDA-approved medications – minocycline and N-acetylcysteine (also a supplement) – shows promise (in an animal model) in minimizing cognitive impairment from traumatic brain injury, when dosed one hour after injury. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious public health problem in the United States. [...]

NationwideChildrens.org – A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital examined basketball-related injuries treated in emergency departments among children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 19 from 1997 to 2007. According to the study, more than 4 million basketball-related injuries were treated in [...]

Vanderbilt.edu – It is widely known that a healthy lifestyle that includes not smoking, limiting alcohol intake, regular exercise, and maintaining a proper weight reduces disease risk. In the journal PLoS Medicine, Wei Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., and colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center now report results from a large study quantifying the impact of [...]

People who are better at simple physical acts such as gripping, walking, rising from a chair and balancing on one leg are more likely to live longer, according to a new study published at bmj.com. Measures of physical capacity, or basic physical function, such as grip strength, walking speed, chair rising time and standing balance [...]

AACR.org – Postmenopausal women diagnosed with colon cancer may be at increased risk of death if they fail to maintain a healthy body weight before cancer diagnosis, according to a study published in the September 2010 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The researchers found [...]

CHLA.org – The first study to demonstrate that obesity from overeating can directly accelerate the progression of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has been conducted at The Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and will be published in Cancer Prevention Research, on October 5, 2010. Obesity has been associated with an increased incidence of [...]