CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Volkswagen's use of software to evade emissions standards in more than 482,000 diesel vehicles sold in the U.S. will directly contribute to 60 premature deaths across the country, a new MIT-led study finds.
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GW-ICC is being held in Beijing from 29 October 2015 to 1 November together with the Asia Pacific Heart Congress and the International Congress of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation. Experts from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) will present a special programme.1
"Stroke is the leading cause of death in China and a significant source of disability," said Dr Tang. "Our study investigated the levels of risk factors patients had before being hospitalised for stroke, whether patients knew about their risk factors, and whether the risk factors were under control."
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- If you don't have health insurance, or your insurance coverage still leaves you with big bills, hospitals are supposed to let you know if you qualify for free or reduced-price care, and to charge you fairly even if you don't.
That is, if they want to keep their tax-free nonprofit status under the Affordable Care Act's new Section 501(r) rules.
But a new study from the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation finds many nonprofit hospitals have room to improve.
New research shows that drug abusers are not completely abandoning prescription opioids for heroin. Instead, many use the two concurrently based on their availability, according to a survey of 15,000 patients at drug-treatment centers in 49 states.
The findings, from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, also reveal regional variations in the use of heroin and prescription painkillers. The research is published Oct. 29 in a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A new Emory University study could help provide a clearer understanding of why black and Latino patients are less likely to trust their physicians than white patients.
Abigail Sewell, an assistant professor of sociology at Emory University who specializes in health inequality, race and quantitative data analysis, used a new method to examine social survey data and found that race differentiates beliefs in physician trust even after adjusting for income, education and marital status.
It's not a bad guess to assume if your husband is sexting it isn't with you, but some married couples do report it. It's just much less common than in young relationships and consists more of intimate talk than sending nude or nearly nude photos via mobile phones, according to new survey results published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.
Seeking to improve the reliability of medical testing, an international team of top experts is releasing new guidelines for doctors and scientists on how to best report their assessments of new and existing diagnostic tests.
"This is really the question of how do you know the test to diagnose disease really does diagnose disease?" said David E. Bruns, MD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Pathology. "It sounds like such a simple question to ask, but like most simple questions, it turns out it's not so easy."
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Amsterdam, October 28, 2015 - Your job could be having an effect on your waistline, suggests new research published in Social Science & Medicine - and it could be bad or good news depending on the sort of control you have over your work.
The new study, by researchers at the University of Adelaide, Central Queensland University and the University of South Australia, shows that having skills and the freedom to use them at work is linked to lower BMI and smaller waist size, whereas needing to make a lot of decisions is linked to bigger waist size.
Amsterdam, October 28, 2015 - A study published in the journal Biomass & Bioenergy sets out to calculate the true costs and benefits associated with replacing fossil fuels with bioenergy in varying forms for numerous s applications. The life cycle assessment (LCA) approach takes into account entire bioenergy systems, including every step along the supply chain.
The study led by Patricia Thornley of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester has been selected for Elsevier's Atlas Award.
GAINESVILLE, FL - Smart irrigation controllers, technologies used to decrease landscape water applications, are catching on in Florida. Incentivized by governmental agencies and water utilities in an effort to reduce public-supply water demand and conserve water resources, the controllers are becoming more popular with homeowners in this high water-use state. A new study evaluated homeowners' satisfaction with evapotranspiration (ET)-based and soil moisture sensor (SMS)-based smart technologies, and recommends strategies to promote consumers' use of the controllers.
Communities with more self-employed workers can better withstand economic shifts caused by imports than communities that have fewer self-employed people, according to Penn State economists.
Los Angeles, CA (October 28, 2015) Ahead of an important election year, many are turning to political data for insight on the American political system--data that is vast and at times, complex. SAGE today announces the release of Vital Statistics on American Politics 2015-2016, containing easy-to-understand, statistical data about many topics in American politics in one volume.
Philadelphia, PA, October 28, 2015 - Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can be a stressful experience for many people, but clinicians have few ways to track the thoughts and feelings of their patients regarding this procedure. While the social networking site Twitter is known for breaking news and celebrity tweets, it may also prove to be a valuable feedback tool for medical professionals looking to improve the patient experience, according to a new study published in the December issue of the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences.
In a new study from the University of Montreal, infants remained calm twice as long when listening to a song, which they didn't even know, as they did when listening to speech. "Many studies have looked at how singing and speech affect infants' attention, but we wanted to know how they affect a baby's emotional self-control," explained Professor Isabelle Peretz, of the university's Center for Research on Brain, Music and Language.
British parents encourage their children to play musical instruments as part of a family tradition and not to boost their social status as Americans do, research says.
Dr Aaron Reeves, of the University of Oxford, found that UK parents did not see musical achievement by their children as character building or useful in getting university places or jobs.
Instead, it was usually only those parents who played instruments who encouraged their children to follow suit, he says in an article in the journal Cultural Sociology.