News tagged with life factors
Study reveals impact of socioeconomic factors on the racial gap in life expectancy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Differences in factors such as income, education and marital status could contribute overwhelmingly to the gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the United States, according ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Scientists offer way to address 'age-old' questions
Scientists have devised a method to measure the impact of age on the growth rates of cellular populations, a development that offers new ways to understand and model the growth of bacteria, and could provide new insights ...
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Many top US scientists wish they had more children
Nearly half of all women scientists and one-quarter of male scientists at the nation's top research universities said their career has kept them from having as many children as they had wanted, according to a new study by ...
Aug 08, 2011 |
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Attitude and adaptation keys to reaching 100 hundred years of age
University of Georgia research has provided new clues on surviving to be 100 years old, finding that how we feel about ourselves and our ability to adapt to an accumulation of challenging life experiences may be as or more ...
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Searching for life on Mars
The first and only attempts to search for life on Mars were the Viking missions launched in 1975. Now scientists are suggesting the next decade of robotic probes sent to the red planet should make the search ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2010 |
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Researchers discover new genetic factors associated with successful aging in the Amish
Avoiding disease, maintaining physical and cognitive function, and continuing social engagement in late life are considered to be key factors associated with what some gerontologists call "successful aging." While conducting ...
Nov 03, 2010 |
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How did higher life evolve? Scientists determine the complete genome sequence of brown alga
With the world's first complete sequencing of a brown algal genome, an international research team has made a big leap towards understanding the evolution of two key prerequisites for higher life on Earth ...
Jun 03, 2010 |
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Obesity now poses as great a threat to quality of life as smoking
As the US population becomes increasingly obese while smoking rates continue to decline, obesity has become an equal, if not greater, contributor to the burden of disease and shortening of healthy life in comparison to smoking. ...
Jan 05, 2010 |
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Research finds happiest US States match a million Americans' own happiness states
New research by the UK's University of Warwick and Hamilton College in the US into the happiness levels of a million individual US citizens have revealed their personal happiness levels closely correlate ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Obesity will snuff out health benefits gained by smoking declines
If obesity trends continue, the negative effect on the health of the U.S. population will overtake the benefits gained from declining smoking rates, according to a study by U-M and Harvard researchers published today in the ...
Dec 02, 2009 |
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What makes a successful society? Social scientists find health care only one piece of the puzzle
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research argues that the health of the population and the success or failure of many public health initiatives hinge as much on cultural and social factors as they do on doctors, facilities, ...
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Oct 15, 2009 |
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Diabetic patients require global care
Diabetes mellitus-associated coronary artery disease (CAD) is assuming epidemic proportions, especially in western countries. Both coronary revascularization and medical management have improved tremendously over the last ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Botox injections can significantly improve quality of life for people with overactive bladders
Botox is well known for its cosmetic uses, but researchers have now found that it can also significantly improve people’s quality of life if they suffer from another problem that increases with age, an overactive bladder ...
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Emotional health affects exercise patterns in breast cancer patients
The first study to monitor physical activity in breast cancer patients for five years suggests that patients with greater depressive symptoms and a lower emotional quality of life are less likely to exercise as part of their ...
Apr 21, 2009 |
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