health - "medicine"

About one-third of colorectal cancers are inherited, but the genetic cause of most of these cancers is unknown. The genes linked to colorectal cancer account for less than 5 percent of all cases. Scientists at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of medicine and colleagues have discovered a genetic trait that is present in 10 to 20 percent of patients with colorectal cancer.

Treatment with medication over time is as effective as an angioplasty, which can cost $40,000, in the alleviation of chest pain in patients with stable heart disease, according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of medicine, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Research evidence suggests that good leadership has positive effects on employee health and well-being, including decreased sick leave and disability, reports the August Journal of Occupational and Environmental medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental medicine (ACOEM). Led by Dr.

School children across the world may speak different languages but there is one experience an estimated 90 percent of all students share: wearing a backpack. Researchers from the University of San Diego, California School of medicine say those students also share a common problem: low back pain due to overloaded backpacks.

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A study in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep medicine shows that the sleep patterns of older adults who live with and provide direct care during the night for a person with dementia are significantly worse than other older adults.

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A study in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep medicine shows that surgical weight loss results in an improvement of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), but most patients continue to have moderate to severe OSA one year after undergoing bariatric surgery. Results of this study suggest that it is the severity of the condition, rather than a patient's presurgical weight, that determines if OSA will be resolved.

(University of Texas health Science Center at Houston) Tao Lin, D.V.M., and Steven J. Norris, Ph.D., both with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, have been named grant recipients of the Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. They will receive $150,000 over two years to support their research into conflicting reports about the infectious nature and causative agent of Southern-Tick Associated Rash Illness in Texas and other southern states.