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Home fire deaths are higher in states that have a greater percentage of smokers, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study published this month in the journal Injury Prevention. If smoking at home is reduced or stopped, fewer residential fire deaths may result, the study said.read more

A study published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology adds weight to the theory that a child's reading ability is linked to their sensitivity to the rhythm of speech. Lead researcher Andrew Holliman from The Open University said: 'The link between children's reading ability and their ability to distinguish speech sounds - their phonological awareness - is well researched.

Cognitive behaviour therapy may fail if the client believes their therapist is responsible for the outcome. This is the finding of a study published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology. This study looked at the success rate of group cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for 49 individuals suffering from social anxiety disorder, and compared this to each patient's expectancies about the therapy.

Singapore - Soya bean, a perennial Asian staple, reduces the risk of breast cancer among Chinese women, a published study said on Tuesday. Conducted by the National University of Singapore (NUH), the University of Southern California and the Universi...

People who lose weight soon after a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes have better control of their blood pressure and blood sugar, and are more likely to maintain that control even if they regain their weight, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in Diabetes Care, the American Diabetes Association journal. This is the first clinical study to show that benefits remain even if patients regain their weight.

Physical frailty, which is common in older persons, may be related to Alzheimer's disease pathology, according to a study published in the August 12, 2008, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. For the study, researchers examined the brains of 165 people who had been participants in a larger community study of chronic diseases of aging.

(Infectious Diseases Society of America) Adverse events from antibiotics cause an estimated 142,000 emergency department visits per year in the United States, according to a study published in the Sept. 15, 2008, issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

According to an article published in the open-access journal PLoS medicine, children with drug-resistant partial epilepsy who are enrolled in trials tend to have a greater response to placebo than adults enrolled in such trials. Philippe Ryvlin (Hospices Civils de Lyon, France) and colleagues say in their systematic review of antiepileptic drugs that their findings should be considered when researchers are designing drug trials to be carried out with epileptic children.

Women who survive breast cancer for five years after treatment have a relatively low risk of the disease recurring, according to a U.S. study published on Tuesday.

Breast cancer survivors continue to have a substantial risk of disease recurrence after five years of systemic therapy, according to a study published in the August 12 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.