Article in Medscape (www.medscape.com/viewarticle/842901?nlid=794691842;src=wnleditmedpwir;uac=17651BN;spon=17#vp1)”BETHESDA MD — Good news on the exercise front including for those who do a little and those who do lot with a new study showing that any amount of leisure-time physical activity is associated with a…
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Title of the paper: “Sleep duration and risk of fatal and nonfatal stroke: A prospective study and meta-analysis” www.neurology.org/content/84/11/1072.full.pdf+htm l”Conclusions: This prospective study and meta-analysis identified prolonged sleep as a potentially useful marker of increased future stroke risk in an…
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article by;J. Leonard Lichtenfeld MD Deputy Chief Medical Officer American Cancer Society in Medpage today
“http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/cholesterol-cutting-statins-found-to-raise-diabetes-risk-by-46-” time.com/3732605/statins-may-seriously-increase-diabetes-risk/ From DIA daily: Time adds “For patients who may not yet be diabetic but are vulnerable to developing the disease and also may need a statin Dr. Neil Stone lead author of the 2013 American College of Cardiology…
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Link to program:;http://www.thehumanmotioninstitute.org/sites/default/files/2nd%20Winter%20Symposium%20of%20the%20human%20motion%20projectflyer4.40.pdf Guest post at PeerJ – The Human Motion Collection:;http://blog.peerj.com/post/111268144058/human-motion-project-guest-post Link to human motion institute:;http://www.thehumanmotioninstitute.org/node/185
www.bionity.com/de/news/151726/fitness-schuetzt-vor-chromosomenschaeden.html?WT.mcid=ca0264 Interesting links to relevant papers: Franzke B et al.; The impact of six months strength training nutritional supplementation or cognitive training on DNA damage in institutionalised elderly. Mutagenesis. 2015; 30(1):147-53. Franzke B et al.; The influence of age and…
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www.academia.edu/10714856/Exercisetoreducefallsforcommunitydwellingpeoplewithdementia Exercise might help to decrease fall risk. Standardized outcome measures ; larger sample sized needed in future trials.
www.wissenschaft-aktuell.de/artikel/TherapiepsychischerStoerungenSchadetdieKenntnisbiologischerUrsachen1771015589703.html Original article: Effects of biological explanations for mental disorderson clinicians” empathyMatthew S. Lebowitz1 and Woo-kyoung Ahn www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/11/25/1414058111; “Significance:;This suggests that biological explanations might actually decrease empathy. Indeed we find that biological explanations significantly reduce clinicians” empathy. This is alarming…
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www.icsspe.org//content/growing-commitment-towards-physical-activity
“Neues Krankenversicherungsmodell: Generali erfindet den elektronischen Patienten” www.sueddeutsche.de/geld/neues-krankenversicherungsmodell-generali-erfindet-den-elektronischen-patienten-1.2229667