A new study of some 93,000 postmenopausal American women found those with the highest amounts of sedentary time – defined as sitting and resting but excluding sleeping – died earlier than their most active peers.
The grant, awarded to four New York City medical centers, including Weill Cornell Medicine, aims to improve physicians' ability to prevent and treat disease based on individual differences in lifestyle, environment and genetics.
Most of the people bitten by dengue fever-transmitting mosquitoes in four Thai villages weren’t residents, but visitors, a finding that provides new clues about the spread of the dengue virus.
Three researchers have been awarded a five-year Transformative Research Projects Award of about $3.04 million to fight cancer by targeting the regulation of metabolic enzymes. (Sept. 21, 2011)
At 7 percent of the population, newly identified minority on the sexual-orientation continuum, the mostly heterosexuals, have more mental-health problems than most.
Spanning six continents, 32 countries and 54 cities, more than 12,000 samples of DNA, RNA and microbes from surfaces in subways, buses, airports and other well-traveled public meeting spaces were collected June 21.
The School of Hotel Administration and the Sloan Program in Health Administration have a collaboration with Health Care REIT Inc. The company will sponsor a two-credit senior living course this fall. (Sept. 14, 2011)