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...think you're cutting calories by eating diet or low-calorie versions of your favorite foods, think again. A new study by Canadian scientists published in the journal Obesity suggests that our bodies can't be fooled that easily...
...Markel, director of the University of Michigan Medical School's Center for the History of Medicine, a team of public-health experts evaluated the U.S. response to the world's last great pandemic - the Spanish flu in 1918. The new report, published in the Aug. 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed the public-health measures taken by 43 U.S. cities, all with populations greater than 100,000, during the six months between Sept. 1918 and Feb. 1919. Markel found that cities that early on adopted "old-fashioned," non-pharmaceutical interventions - such as school closures, social...
...recent study, which was published in an online edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, asked over 200 mostly white resident physicians to prescribe treatment to hypothetical patients based only on a picture of a man’s face and a description of the patient’s sharp chest pain. All of the hypothetical conditions were the same, except for the fact that some of the men were white and others were black. A great deal more of the physicians prescribed thrombolysis for the white men than did for the black...
...study, which was published in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine, found that a mutual friend becoming obese correlated with a 171 percent increase in the probability of obesity in the other friend...
...study’s authors expressed great surprise at the intense press coverage their paper had garnered in a wide range of media outlets ranging from national and international newspapers to late-night TV. Stories about the study ran in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and was remarked about on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno...