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1. Excellence Programs Do Not Identify Safest Hospitals for Bariatric Surgery (Results of Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative Study Show Hospital Surgical Complications are Similar Regardless of Designation as Center of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery)
Listed On: Thursday, July 29, 2010
Ann Arbor, Mich. – New data emerges this week about the safety of bariatric surgery and the quality of hospitals that perform the increasingly common weight loss procedures on obese patients....
University of Michigan Health System

2. Protein Identified That Can Result in Fragile Bones
Listed On: Thursday, July 29, 2010
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Too little of a protein called neogenin results in a smaller skeleton during development and sets the stage for a more fragile bone framework lifelong, Medical College of Georgia researchers report....
Medical College of Georgia

3. Emergency Care May be Failing to Spot Suicidal Patients
Listed On: Thursday, July 29, 2010
Emergency care may be failing to spot patients who go on to die by suicide – many of whom use these services in the year leading up to their death, suggests a small University of Manchester study....
University of Manchester

4. Why More Education Lowers Dementia Risk
Listed On: Thursday, July 29, 2010
A team of researchers from the UK and Finland has discovered why people who stay in education longer have a lower risk of developing dementia – a question that has puzzled scientists for the past decade....
University of Cambridge

5. ADHD, Conduct Disorder and Smoking Most Strongly Related to Dropping Out of High School
Listed On: Thursday, July 29, 2010
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Teens with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — the most common childhood psychiatric condition in the United States — are less likely to finish high school on time than students with other mental-health disorders that often are considered more serious, a large national study by researchers at the UC Davis School of Medicine has found....
UC Davis Health System

6. School-based Health Centers Prompt Students to Eat Better, Exercise More
Listed On: Thursday, July 29, 2010
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Students with access to school-based health centers experienced greater satisfaction with their health, more physical activity and greater consumption of healthy food than students who did not use such centers, according to a Michigan State University study....
Michigan State University

7. Scripps Research Study Shows Infectious Prions Can Arise Spontaneously in Normal Brain Tissue (Metal Surfaces Spur Conversion of Normal Prion Protein into Disease-Causing Prions)
Listed On: Thursday, July 29, 2010
JUPITER, FL, July 26, 2010 – In a startling new study that involved research on both sides of the Atlantic, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute in Florida and the University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology in England have shown for the first time that abnormal prions...
The Scripps Research Institute

8. Obesity Rise Linked to Disability Increase Among Elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean
Listed On: Thursday, July 29, 2010
Thanks to rising obesity rates in Latin America and the Caribbean, elderly people there are becoming more likely to suffer from disabilities, according to a paper recently published by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers in the American Journal of Epidemiology....
University of Texas Medical Branch

9. Inhibiting Fatty Acids in Immune Cells Decreases Atherosclerosis Risk
Listed On: Thursday, July 29, 2010
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a way to significantly reduce atherosclerosis in mice that does not involve lowering cholesterol levels or eliminating other obesity-related problems. They report their findings in the July 23 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry....
Washington University in St. Louis

10. World-first Vaccine Candidate for Newborns to Help Combat Deadly Rotavirus
Listed On: Thursday, July 29, 2010
Australian researchers have begun clinical trials of a new vaccine to protect newborn infants against rotavirus, a life-threatening diarrhoeal disease that kills half a million children worldwide each year....
University of Melbourne

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