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Normal weight teens who perceive themselves as fat are more likely to become obese

They're everywhere -- in magazines, on the Internet, on television-people with super-thin bodies who are presented as having the ideal body form. But despite the increasing pressure to be thin, more and more of us are overweight. Now, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have found that normal weight teens who perceive themselves as fat are more likely to grow up to be fat.

9 Aug 2012

Stressed individuals use different brain regions and strategies

Stressed and non-stressed persons use different brain regions and different strategies when learning. This has been reported by the cognitive psychologists PD Dr. Lars Schwabe and Professor Oliver Wolf from the Ruhr-Universit-t Bochum in the Journal of Neuroscience.

9 Aug 2012

Study sheds more light on diet and home ranges of early hominins in South Africa

An international team of researchers, including Professor Francis Thackeray, Director of the Institute for Human Evolution at Wits University, will be publishing their latest research on what our early ancestors ate, online in the prestigious journal, Nature, on Wednesday, the 8th of August 2012 at 19:00 (SAST).

9 Aug 2012

Older adults may be better at regulating emotions because of positive looking patterns

Research has shown that older adults display more positive emotions and are quicker to regulate out of negative emotional states than younger adults. Given the declines in cognitive functioning and physical health that tend to come with age, we might expect that age would be associated with worse moods, not better ones.

9 Aug 2012

Doctors sometimes fail to warn patients of particular risks before treatment

Australian doctors sometimes fail to warn patients of risks that could affect the patient's quality of life before providing treatment or surgery, a new study led by University of Melbourne researchers has shown.

9 Aug 2012

Regular clients of sex workers often develop feelings of romance and love

While it is commonly believed that men who pay for sex are attempting to avoid emotional commitment, a new study finds that men who become regular clients of sex workers often develop feelings of romance and love.

9 Aug 2012

First study to examine relationship of risky content in alcohol ads to youth exposure

The content of alcohol ads placed in magazines is more likely to be in violation of industry guidelines if the ad appears in a magazine with sizable youth readership, according to a new study from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, the study is the first to measure the relationship of problematic content to youth exposure, and the first to examine risky behaviors depicted in alcohol advertising in the past decade.

9 Aug 2012

The ALS Association announces new grants to support research on Lou Gehrig's Disease

The ALS Association announced today its latest research awards that include funding commitments of $4 million to researchers in 31 laboratories in the United States, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany and Canada. These awards are part of its Translational Research Advancing Therapies for ALS (TREAT ALS™) program, through which The Association funds a diverse portfolio of research to find treatments and a cure for Lou Gehrig's Disease.

9 Aug 2012

VEGF inhibitor fails to improve nonsquamous NSCLC overall survival

Adding motesanib to carboplatin–paclitaxel does not boost overall survival in patients with advanced nonsquamous non-small-cell lung cancer, including those with adenocarcinoma, say MONET1 investigators.

8 Aug 2012

Progression-free NSCLC survival boosted by dacomitinib

In patients with non-small-cell lunch cancer, dacomitinib confers a significant progression-free survival benefit over erlotinib across a range of clinical and molecular subgroups, the results of an international study indicate.

8 Aug 2012

Increases in NSCLC survival 'an artefact of PET assessment'

There has been no increase in survival among non-small-cell lung cancer patients in recent years, with evidence suggesting otherwise likely due to positron emission tomography-induced stage migration and selection bias, say US scientists.

8 Aug 2012

Lung cancer patients can be screened for ALK-inhibitor suitability

Anaplastic lymphoma kinase gene status in patients with lung adenocarcinoma can be determined non-invasively using circulating tumor cells, research shows.

8 Aug 2012

Elderly NSC lung cancer patients benefit from concurrent chemoradiation

Fit older adults with locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer reap similar benefit from concurrent chemoradiation with etoposide and cisplatin as younger patients, but experience higher rates of hospitalization and toxicity, research shows.

8 Aug 2012

Folate, excision biomarkers not predictive for small-cell lung cancer response

Biomarkers associated with the folate metabolism and excision repair pathways are not sufficiently prognostic to aid chemotherapy decisions for patients with extensive-stage disease small-cell lung cancer, results of a phase III trial show.

8 Aug 2012

Neutrophils help kick off insulin resistance in obesity

Experts have found that neutrophils play an important role in initiating the chronic inflammation that characterizes obesity-induced insulin resistance.

8 Aug 2012

Work solvent-related brain tumor concerns allayed

There is no consistent evidence for increased risk for glioma or meningioma following occupational exposure to chlorinated solvents, say researchers.

8 Aug 2012

Model predicts stuttering and fluency in school-age children

Children can be successfully screened for stuttering and fluency using Howell and Davis's risk factor model, particularly when whole-word repetitions are excluded, UK study findings indicate.

8 Aug 2012

Interface zone fibroblasts play key role in gastric cancer

Interface zone fibroblasts in gastric adenocarcinoma promote the invasion, migration, and proliferation of cancer cells, as well as prevent apoptosis, to a greater degree than normal or tumor zone fibroblasts, say researchers.

8 Aug 2012

Immigration influences HIV diagnosis demographics

HIV-positive individuals born outside the USA are a heterogenous population but have significant demographic differences to infected patients born within in the USA, research reveals.

8 Aug 2012

Ischemic lesions signal preventive needs in ICH patients

The finding of new ischemic lesions in patients with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage identifies patients at the greatest need of preventive therapy, research published in Neurology suggests.

8 Aug 2012