Sentences with phrase «several medical studies»

However, did you know that there are several medical studies worldwide that clearly show that higher cholesterol levels in the body actually increases longevity instead of decreasing it?

But several medical studies have proven that Quorn's fungal ingredient is a common allergen.

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Chew tells me that one of the main reasons he's drawn to Omada is that the company has several wide - ranging studies published in actual peer - reviewed medical journals suggesting its system really works.

A review of several such studies found that viewing fictional medical TV programs had a negative influence on viewers» health - related knowledge, perceptions or behaviour in 11 % of studies, a positive influence in 32 % of studies, and mixed influence in 58 %.

A giant new study, reported in the New York Times, found that people who drank between three and five cups of coffee a day had a 15 percent lower risk of dying young from heart disease and several other medical conditions.

This has led to several new ventures, including launching a new post-conception app and gathering anonymized user information for use in studies for the medical community.

Apple (aapl) just released an iPhone feature offering users in several big health systems instant access to their own medical record — an effort that joins its ongoing heart study with Stanford, testing if wearables can detect serious cardiac conditions.

NerdWallet's 2017 household debt study shows that several major spending categories have outpaced income growth over the past decade; many Americans are putting medical expenses on credit cards; and the average indebted household is paying hundreds of dollars in credit card interest each year.

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

Among the many factors that influence my choice of milk to use in this recipe are several long - term studies (including the Harvard's Health Professionals Study and the one by Catherine S. Berkey of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital) that have shown that even low - fat dairy products can contribute to weight gain.

I was able to obtain his research papers and, through the help of several doctors, most notably William C. Buss, Ph.D., who is the head of pharmacology at the University of New Mexico Medical Center Hospital, I was began to understand the Mexico study.

Within several years of the NestlÈ disaster, WHO came out with its famous Code, an outpouring of studies suggesting the superiority of breastmilk hit the medical journals, and an international conference was convened to create the Innocenti Declaration, which could be considered the cornerstone of lactivism.

The New York Times reports that many studies have strongly suggested that the trillions of microorganisms that inhabit the human body influence our current and future health and may account for the rising incidence of several serious medical conditions.

Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.

Project opponents cited several studies that show benzene can cause cancer and aggravate other medical conditions such as asthma.

Two researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health published a review in the November 20th issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, of several hundred smoking studies.

It is, rather, a retention problem: Several studies, including one published in September 2008 in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), have found that substantially more women than men drop out before completing their M.D. - Ph.

In 1989, University of Wisconsin researchers launched a longitudinal study, called the Wisconsin Study of Families and Work, which collected medical and demographic data on several hundred children from birth to early adultstudy, called the Wisconsin Study of Families and Work, which collected medical and demographic data on several hundred children from birth to early adultStudy of Families and Work, which collected medical and demographic data on several hundred children from birth to early adulthood.

Several large cohort studies of medical x-ray technicians and nuclear industry workers suggest a slight increase in cancer risk at exposures below 100 mSv, Shore says.

Also in 2004, the foundation funded several studies of international outsourcing, called «offshoring,» and the factors that went into the offshoring decisions in the medical imaging and semiconductor industries.

The results have just been published in the International journal Addiction Research and Theory, and are one of several studies from Aarhus University focusing on medical doctors» consumption of substances and substance use disorders.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

What began in 1964 with three programs has now grown to 41 MSTP programs across the U.S., funded through the National Research Service Act.2 Traditional MSTP programs are organized in a standard format: 2 years of medical school followed by several years of study and research toward the PhD degree, then the completion of the last 2 years of medical school.

By 1994, having published several more studies in prominent medical journals, Rosenbloom and Guevara - Aguirre could have been satisfied with their once - in - a-lifetime discovery and moved on to other projects.

According to a review of several studies, up to 30 percent of medical errors are errors of diagnosis.

Ford, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and an investigator at the Neuroscience Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia, says that when he came to the historically black MSM four years ago he chose stroke research as the area he wanted to concentrate on for two reasons: The medical school recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and interests.

Nazi doctors, who horrified the world with their own medical experiments, including malaria tests that killed several hundred people, cited the U.S. studies in their defense when they were put on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1947.

Both studies were based on the review of medical records of all HIV - infected women delivering babies in Philadelphia over several years (2005 - 2011 and 2005 - 2013, respectively).

The research is among several recent observational studies showing an association between medical cannabis use and decreased dependence on opioids.

Several of the studies were retracted after investigations by the medical schools and the health ministry turned up data manipulation that skewed results.

Although the study was not designed to explain why the lifespan differs in the two countries, Dr. Stephenson said there were several possible reasons: transplants, diet and medical insurance.

However, the study highlights opportunities to improve access to care for patients older than 85, who are likely to have several medical ailments, Periyakoil said.

Several large studies have failed to find the link, Wakefield's paper was retracted in 2010, and he was disbarred as a physician after the U.K. General Medical Council found him guilty of dishonesty and endangering children.

«Several years ago, we and others described the correlation between nuclear positioning and gene activation,» said study author Harinder Singh, Louis Block Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and an Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago.

The idea for a spinoff medical technology company originated several years ago when Medlin and his adviser, Endre Takacs, were working in Clemson's Atomic and Medical Physics lab on an experiment with bioengineers to systematically study the effects of low - dose radiation on living cell cumedical technology company originated several years ago when Medlin and his adviser, Endre Takacs, were working in Clemson's Atomic and Medical Physics lab on an experiment with bioengineers to systematically study the effects of low - dose radiation on living cell cuMedical Physics lab on an experiment with bioengineers to systematically study the effects of low - dose radiation on living cell cultures.

The study was supported by funding from several bodies including the UK National Institute for Health Research, UK Medical Research Council, and The Wellcome Trust.

«Although we first became aware of prions because they cause several bizarre neurological diseases, the discovery that something so awesomely similar happens in organisms as different as humans and yeast makes us suspect that there is a fundamental, common biochemical process at work here,» said study director Susan Lindquist, PhD, professor of molecular genetics and cell biology and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago.

«This study allowed us to evaluate the protective efficacy of several prime - boost vaccine combinations, and these data will help guide the advancement of the most promising candidates into clinical trials,» noted lead author Dr. Dan Barouch of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard.

Our study has several strengths despite the limitations, including population - based identification of cases from a large birth cohort and the use of prospectively collected information on influenza infection and vaccination documented in medical records.

In a study published recently in Cell, researchers at the University of São Paulo's Ribeirão Preto Medical School (FMRP - USP) in Brazil and collaborators in several other countries describe a method that objectively measures the degree of similarity between tumor samples and pluripotent stem cells (cells that can differentiate into nearly any type of tissue in the body).

Technical coordinator of a national convention in France involving industry and universities on the same subject Since 1992: Organizer of a cycle of international conferences on «Heavy scintillators for scientific and industrial applications» First one in Chamonix, France in 1992 (200 participants), 9th one in Winston Salem (NC, USA) in 2007 (300 participants) 1994 - 2007: As Technical coordinator of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter at the LHC Large Hadron Collider, responsible for the technical development and the mass production of 76» 000 Lead Tungstate crystals (100 tons) 1994 - 2000: Organizer of the development and mass production organization of Lutetium Aluminum perovskite crystals, in particular for PET scanner applications Since 2000: Strong involvement in the development of dedicated breast imaging camera combining several modalities for a multiparametric evaluation of breast tumors (anatomic, structural and functional) Since 2002: Feasibility study and setting - up of an international medical imaging research centre, presently being built in Marseille (Cerimed)

Mathias Nielsen, an assistant professor of political science at Denmark's Aarhus University, led the research team, who analyzed records of medical studies on a variety of global diseases gathered from several online databases.

«There's no research to show that this type of treatment works — several studies have shown that people taking long - term antibiotic for Lyme disease to treat lingering symptoms fare the same as those who take placebo,» states Chris Ohl, MD, an infectious disease expert at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

In January 2010, Michael F. Holick, MD PhD, a vitamin D researcher whose work I have cited in previous articles, Linda Linday, a medical doctor whose cod liver oil study formed the starting point for Cannell's 2008 commentary, and several other colleagues, even including one researcher from the National Institutes of Health, made a direct response to Dr. Cannell and his colleagues in the pages of the same journal.

Study co-author Dr. Yonit Lax, a pediatrician at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City, said her team has several ideas why the results indicated kids with ADHD benefit from after - school activities.

In January 2010, Michael F. Hollick, MD PhD, a vitamin D researcher whose work I have cited in previous articles, Linda Linday, a medical doctor whose cod liver oil study formed the starting point for Cannell's 2008 commentary, and several other colleagues, even including one researcher from the NIH, made a direct response to Dr. Cannell and his colleaugues in the pages of the same journal.

Digestive health: As reported in several issues of the Journal of the American Medical Association, digestion is the area where the most probiotics studies have been performed, with the strongest evidence to date occurring in the treatment of antibiotic - associated diarrhea.1 The use of antibiotics to clear an infection, especially over a long period of time, can destroy many of the natural bacteria in the gut, leading to an imbalance in the gut flora, favoring «bad» bacteria and allowing them to thrive.

The strengths of the present study include the large size and the relatively homogeneous nature of the cohort, which reduced confounding by several variables, such as access to medical care, educational attainment, and socioeconomic status.

The keto diet is also used to treat various medical conditions and several studies have shown low carb eating to promote heart health and healthy blood pressure as well as reduce risks for heart disease and some cancers.

In another study, Harvard Medical School researchers found that people age 50 or older who drank several cups daily of flavanol - rich cocoa had a «striking blood flow response» that evolved over several weeks — a 10 - 15 % increase in blood flow to the brain.