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Articles Written by: NICHOLAS BAKALAR
It is the perfect way to spoil a vacation, and it has happened 66 times since 2005: an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness aboard a cruise ship. Now a study suggests one possible culprit: dirty restrooms.
Most restrooms on these ships are not being ...
The first time the words “amyotrophic lateral sclerosis” appeared in The New York Times was in 1876, in an advertisement for a medical text; the disease had first been described by a French doctor in 1869. The Times did not mention it again until ...
Analysis shows disease most prevalent in southeast U.S.
physical activity, alcohol use and specific dietary risk factors in their research. Nonetheless, the report provides the only estimates of both diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes in the United ...
From NICHOLAS BAKALAR,
TwinCities.com,
13 Oct 2009
Among Americans 30 and older, 13.7 percent of men and 11.9 percent of women have diabetes. Almost one-third of them have never received a diagnosis of the disease.
By applying statistical techniques to two databases, one with numbers gathered at the ...
The 1918 flu epidemic was probably the deadliest plague in human history, killing more than 50 million people worldwide. Now it appears that a small number of the deaths may have been caused by not by the virus, but by a drug used to treat it: aspirin. ...
In recent years there has been a sharp rise in reported cases of malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. But a British study has found evidence that the epidemic may be due at least in part to “diagnostic drift,” a growing tendency to ...
Every year about 33 million Americans are injured badly enough to require medical attention, and the most common cause of nonfatal injury in every age group is falling down. Most falls happen at home.
For the most recent reporting period, 2004 to 2007, ...
— mental health, for example — that might reduce the risk for death.
In a study that will provide comfort to chocoholics everywhere, researchers in Sweden have found evidence that people who eat chocolate have increased survival rates after a heart ...
From NICHOLAS BAKALAR NEW YORK TIMES,
The San Jose Mercury News,
23 Sep 2009
In a study that will provide comfort to chocoholics everywhere, researchers in Sweden have found evidence that people who eat chocolate have increased survival rates after a heart attack and it may be that the more they eat, the better.
The scientists ...
The New York Times first used the word “vitamine” in 1916, four years after the term was coined by a Polish biochemist, in an unsigned article confirming that pellagra is caused by a deficiency of the substance now known as vitamin B3. But the ...
