A simple test that can be given by any physician predicts a person’s risk for developing dementia within six years with 87 percent accuracy, according to a…
Marcus Westin has studied health and the utilization of health care among single parents and their children to see if they differ from families with married or…
When the UK team studied antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) given to nearly 8,000 children over a 13-year period, they discovered that overall prescribing had risen by…
The work entitled “Effect of a Traditional Mediterranean Diet on Lipoprotein Oxidation” which has been published in the Archives for International Medicine on…
The study, conducted by a team of student researchers in the Department of Rural Economy at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, showed that the…
The study, published this week in the British Journal of Criminology, suggests that, although treatment is effective in reducing offending by drug users, it…
“Pay for performance” incentives, introduced in April 2004, mean that general practitioners are paid more if they succeed in meeting performance targets set by…
In a series of experiments appearing in the May issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, Gary Marcus and…
This research work, conducted within the frame of the PETHEMA network, was carried out from October 1999 to December 2000. It was coordinated from Hospital…
The study results were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago today. “Hot flashes are a very common and…
The study, published in the June 5, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology, shows that quality of life improves…
Eight years after being treated with a new drug for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 86 percent of patients were still alive and half had not had a relapse of their…
Women who follow strict exercise and diet regimens may harm their body’s ability to form new bone, which can lead to osteoporosis later in life. Researchers…
It’s totally understandable to feel ambivalent when presented with both positive and negative evidence. However, people often feel ambivalent even when all the…
It also creates habit – a critical, if often overlooked factor in the product and service choices consumers make. An important new study from the Journal of…
Prashant Malaviya (INSEAD, France) argues that ad repetition improves how we evaluate a product when two types of message elaboration work in concert. For…
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