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• Women prescribed hormone therapy should use caution when taking apigenin supplement
• Scientists far from finish line in understanding anemia in female athletes
• Box office success linked to blogging, study finds
• Insomnia linked to mortality risk
• Coffee may help perk up your blood vessels
• Higher levels of control, support at work increases wellbeing
• Distracted driving killing more pedestrians, bicyclists
• Screens in the bedroom may contribute to sleep problems in boys with autism
• New research links smoking synthetic marijuana with stroke in healthy, young adults
• Sex of Speaker Affects Listener Language Processing
• Demand for details on food labels includes the good – and the bad
• Smaller bowls may help curb childhood obesity
• Many pediatricians uncomfortable providing care to kids with genetic conditions, study concludes
• Many sudden cardiac arrests preceded by warning signs
• Children's cardiovascular fitness declining worldwide
• Blood test accurately diagnoses concussion, predicts long term cognitive disability
• Hashtag health
• How poor mental health, casual sex reinforce each other
• Could basic fertility information be key to reversing late-parenthood trend?
• Tackling socioeconomic inequality is as important as encouraging adult smoking cessation
• Incentives may spur homeless to save more
• Higher than normal levels of Vitamin B12 may indicate cancer risk
• Atrial fibrillation hospitalizations, costs soar in United States
• Harlem charter school students more likely to attend college
• Like other offenses, cyberdeviance, cybercrime seem to start, peak in teens
• Meditation may help slow progression of Alzheimer's disease
• Program helps at-risk family members of patients with heart disease improve their own heart health

Women prescribed hormone therapy should use caution when taking apigenin supplement Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:52 PM PST In 2011, studies conducted found that a natural compound called apigenin, which is found in celery, parsley, and apples, could reduce the incidence of tumor growth in women receiving hormone replacement therapy. Now, based on subsequent studies, they are recommending that women not ingest pure apigenin as a supplement.

Scientists far from finish line in understanding anemia in female athletes Posted: 20 Nov 2013 10:40 AM PST When Kaitlyn Patterson's fatigue progressed to hyperventilating even during slow runs, and then forced her to quit high school distance running for the season, she knew something was very wrong. Patterson had exercise-induced iron-deficiency anemia, a common, perplexing problem among elite female athletes, especially endurance runners.

Box office success linked to blogging, study finds Posted: 20 Nov 2013 10:40 AM PST Though it would seem that studios have little control over public reaction to their movies, a new study reveals some factors that studios can control to boost how their movies perform at the box office, particularly in local markets.

Insomnia linked to mortality risk Posted: 20 Nov 2013 08:20 AM PST Insomnia, the most common sleep disorder, affects up to one-third of the population in the United States. In new findings, researchers have found that some insomnia symptoms are associated with an increased risk of mortality in men.

Coffee may help perk up your blood vessels Posted: 20 Nov 2013 08:19 AM PST A small study showed that a cup of coffee improved small blood vessel function. The study takes us one step closer to understanding how coffee might benefit cardiovascular health.

Higher levels of control, support at work increases wellbeing Posted: 20 Nov 2013 07:06 AM PST Research reveals positive aspects of working life -- such as high levels of control at work, good support from supervisors and colleagues, and feeling cared for -- support higher levels of well-being among Britain's workers.

Distracted driving killing more pedestrians, bicyclists Posted: 20 Nov 2013 07:03 AM PST From 2005 to 2010, the national number of pedestrians struck and killed by distracted drivers went up from 344 to 500 – an almost 50 percent increase. For cyclists, the numbers killed went from 56 to 73 — a 30 percent increase.

Screens in the bedroom may contribute to sleep problems in boys with autism Posted: 19 Nov 2013 12:30 PM PST Having bedroom access to television, computers or video games is linked to less sleep in boys with autism spectrum disorder.

New research links smoking synthetic marijuana with stroke in healthy, young adults Posted: 19 Nov 2013 11:22 AM PST Add stroke to the list of severe health hazards that may be associated with smoking synthetic marijuana, popularly known as spice or K2, a neurology team reports.

Sex of Speaker Affects Listener Language Processing Posted: 19 Nov 2013 11:19 AM PST Grammar and syntax have been thought for decades to be automatic and untouchable by other brain processes and that everything else — the sex of the speaker, their dialect, etc. — is stripped away as our brains process the sound signal of a word and store it as an abstract form. A study now suggests that even higher-level processes – in this case, grammar - are affected by information about the speaker.

Demand for details on food labels includes the good – and the bad Posted: 19 Nov 2013 10:08 AM PST It's no surprise that labels are becoming the "go to" place when people have questions about how food is produced. But new research finds that consumers crave more information, especially for the potentially harmful ingredients that aren't included in the product.

Smaller bowls may help curb childhood obesity Posted: 19 Nov 2013 10:08 AM PST Smaller bowl sizes may be the next weapon in the battle against childhood obesity, says a new study that found children not only ask for more food to fill larger bowls, but they also eat 52 percent more.

Many pediatricians uncomfortable providing care to kids with genetic conditions, study concludes Posted: 19 Nov 2013 10:08 AM PST A new study finds general physicians order few genetic tests, don't always discuss risks and benefits; take limited family histories.

Many sudden cardiac arrests preceded by warning signs Posted: 19 Nov 2013 08:28 AM PST More than half of the men who had a sudden cardiac arrest had symptoms up to a month before.

Children's cardiovascular fitness declining worldwide Posted: 19 Nov 2013 08:28 AM PST Around the globe, children are about 15 percent less fit than their parents were when they were young. In the United States, kids' cardiovascular endurance performance declined about 6 percent per decade between 1970 and 2000.

Blood test accurately diagnoses concussion, predicts long term cognitive disability Posted: 19 Nov 2013 08:24 AM PST A new blood biomarker correctly predicted which concussion victims went on to have white matter tract structural damage and persistent cognitive dysfunction following a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). If validated in larger studies, this blood test could identify concussion patients at increased risk for persistent cognitive dysfunction or further brain damage and disability if returning to sports or military activities.

Hashtag health Posted: 19 Nov 2013 06:33 AM PST A social media–monitoring program could help physicians and health officials learn when and where severe outbreaks are occurring in real time. The researchers demonstrated that this technique might allow officials to more quickly and efficiently direct resources to outbreak zones and better contain the spread of the disease.

How poor mental health, casual sex reinforce each other Posted: 19 Nov 2013 06:33 AM PST A new study suggests that poor mental health and casual sex feed off each other in teens and young adults, with each one contributing to the other over time.

Could basic fertility information be key to reversing late-parenthood trend? Posted: 19 Nov 2013 05:29 AM PST Increasingly, young people around the world are planning to have children later in life, despite the fact that fertility declines with age after young adulthood. But new research shows a simple brochure can prompt many to accelerate their planned timelines.

Tackling socioeconomic inequality is as important as encouraging adult smoking cessation Posted: 18 Nov 2013 04:31 PM PST Although health behaviors such as smoking are directly linked to the majority of early deaths in the UK, tackling these individual factors fails to address the underlying cause. To get to the root of the problem, childhood deprivation must be addressed because it promotes damaging health behaviors in adult life.

Incentives may spur homeless to save more Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:29 PM PST New research showing that competition can spur the homeless to save more offers a possible insight into helping the homeless improve their future prospects.

Higher than normal levels of Vitamin B12 may indicate cancer risk Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:28 PM PST Vitamin B12 (cobalamin [Cbl]) is essential for maintaining healthy bodily function, but higher than normal levels (reference range 200-600 pmol/L) may indicate that a patient is at risk of developing certain cancers, according to a study published. Previous studies had suggested an association between high Cbl levels and specific cancers.

Atrial fibrillation hospitalizations, costs soar in United States Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:25 PM PST U.S. hospitalizations and costs of care for atrial fibrillation nearly doubled from 1998 to 2010, according to research.

Harlem charter school students more likely to attend college Posted: 18 Nov 2013 11:18 AM PST A school in Harlem is seeing positive outcomes that stretch beyond test scores -- including higher college-acceptance rates and lower incidences of teen pregnancy and incarceration, according to study.

Like other offenses, cyberdeviance, cybercrime seem to start, peak in teens Posted: 18 Nov 2013 11:18 AM PST A snapshot survey indicates that cyberdeviance and cybercrime start among teens at about age 15 and peak at about age 18. This is in line with the traditional onset and peak ages for other types of misdemeanor and criminal offenses.

Meditation may help slow progression of Alzheimer's disease Posted: 18 Nov 2013 11:18 AM PST A new pilot study suggests that the brain changes associated with meditation and stress reduction may play an important role in slowing the progression of age-related cognitive disorders like Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

Program helps at-risk family members of patients with heart disease improve their own heart health Posted: 18 Nov 2013 10:29 AM PST Family members of patients with heart disease adopted healthier lifestyles and decreased their risk of a cardiovascular event after participating in a program to improve heart health, according to a clinical trial.

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