States Are Making Progress Implementing Policies to Reduce Toll of Cancer
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Washington, DC - While a majority of states are still missing important opportunities to pass and implement legislative solutions proven to prevent and fight cancer, there is progress being made to move the nation closer to ending cancer as we know it, according to a report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). "How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality" rates states on the strength of proven policies that help prevent a disease that kills more than 1,600 people a day nationwide.
AMA and CDC Update Nation’s Physicians on Latest Zika Virus Guidance
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Chicago, Illinois - The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued the following statements Wednesday regarding the Zika virus as they hosted a webinar for American's physicians and clinicians on the current status of the outbreak.
NIH releases improved guidelines for diagnosing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
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Washington, DC - A group of experts on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), organized by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), has produced proposed clinical guidelines for diagnosing FASD, which can result when a mother drinks during pregnancy. The new guidelines clarify and expand upon widely used guidelines issued in 2005, which were the first to help clinicians distinguish among the four distinct subtypes of FASD described by the Institute of Medicine.
Researchers Find Brain’s ‘Physics Engine’
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Baltimore, Maryland - Whether or not they aced it in high school, human beings are physics masters when it comes to understanding and predicting how objects in the world will behave. A Johns Hopkins University cognitive scientist has found the source of that intuition, the brain’s “physics engine.”
Diet Designed To Lower Blood Pressure Also Reduces Risk of Kidney Disease
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Baltimore, Maryland - People who ate a diet high in nuts and legumes, low-fat dairy, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables and low in red and processed meat, sugar-sweetened beverages and sodium were at a significantly lower risk of developing chronic kidney disease over the course of more than two decades, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.
Planning for Successful Weight Loss
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Rochester, Minnesota - My mother, age 64, has been on a weight-loss roller coaster for years. She will stick to a strict diet for many months, sometimes losing 50 pounds or more. Then, those eating habits fade, she gains all the weight back and feels terrible about it. Right now, she’s quite overweight again and is thinking about starting another big diet. Would moderate weight-loss she can sustain long term, even if it doesn’t get her to an ideal weight, be healthier than these extremes?
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