August 2008 Entries
By JANE E. BRODY
Fact: Every hour of every day, 330 Americans turn 60.
Fact: By 2030, one in five Americans will be older than 65.
Fact: The number of people over 100 doubles every decade.
Fact: As they age, people lose muscle mass and ...
As Americans' collective waistline has continued to expand, so has the prevalence of obesity-related cancer.
According to the June issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter, an estimated 14 percent of cancer deaths in older men and 20 percent in ...
By Karla Gale
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Comprehensive diet and lifestyle modifications alter gene expression in prostate tissue of men with low-risk prostate cancer, investigators report in a prospective pilot study. The results showed that ...
7-year study found staying in good shape more important than weight
SUNDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- If you're a man with type 2 ...
BY PEGGY O'FARRELL
New approaches for treating and preventing drug addiction range from low-tech - regular exercise - to high-tech such as experimental vaccines aimed at helping to prevent former drug users from relapsing.
Nora Volkow, director ...
By JASON G. HOWE
DOVER - Ask world renowned public Health Professor Mariano Giacchi about the gravest problem facing societies worldwide and his answer may come as a surprise.
It's obesity.
Not AIDS, malaria or avian bird flu - ...