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Overweight girls are likelier than slimmer ones to start menstruating before age 12. They're also eight times as likely to become overweight adults. The early periods have often been blamed for the weight struggles, but a new study in Pediatrics reverses that. It's being overweight, the journal says, that appears to kick-start puberty...
Recently, British researchers wanted to see if there was a point of no return, at which it doesn't matter whether you quit. Their conclusion, published in BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) last year: timing is everything. The sooner you quit, the more damage you undo. A smoker who quits at age 50 reduces the risk of lung disease by half. Quitting by age 30 eliminates nearly all the smoking-related risk...
...Harvard research team—led by Professor of Genetics George M. Church, M.D.-Ph.D. student Jay A. Shendure, and fourth-year genetics graduate student Greg Porrec—announced last week, in the journal Science, that it has developed a faster and less expensive way to sequence...
...researchers, led by HMS Associate Professor of Pathology David A. Sinclair, published a paper last month in the journal Science that detailed a finding they believe sheds new light on the role of genes in regulating aging...
Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers have for the first time put a number on how fit a female should be. In the study of more than 5,700 women over age 35, those who couldn't reach 85% of their expected exercise capacity in a treadmill test were twice as likely to die within eight years as their fitter peers. --By Sora Song