Taking a dip in indoor chlorinated pools may induce genotoxicity (DNA damage that may lead to cancer) as well as respiratory problems, revealed a study.
However, the authors of the study claimed that the positive health effects of swimming could be maintained by reducing pool levels of the chemicals behind these potential health risks.
DBPs form in pool water from reactions between disinfectants such as chlorine and organic matter that is either present naturally or is introduced by swimmers, such as sweat, skin cells, and urine.
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Five minutes in a scanner can reveal how far a child’s brain has come along the path from childhood to maturity and potentially shed light on a range of psychological and developmental disorders, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown.
Researchers assert this week in Science that their study proves brain imaging data can offer more extensive help in tracking aberrant brain development.
“Pediatricians regularly plot where their patients are in terms of height, weight and other measures, and then match these up to standardized curves that track typical developmental pathways,” says senior author Bradley Schlaggar, MD, PhD, a Washington University pediatric neurologist. “When
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It may still be hot in some parts of the country, but I’m definitely looking forward to the cooler weather. But for those of us that are used to exercising outside, Fall temps may be a bit of a shock. Here are a few tips to make sure your transition from Summer workouts to Fall workouts won’t be akin to taking a cold shower.
This year, flu vaccinations have started earlier than ever, most people need only one flu vaccination and the supply is expected to be plentiful.
Also new this year: Health authorities are urging nearly everyone (except babies younger than 6 months and people with severe allergies to chicken eggs) to get vaccinated, and there’s a new high-dose version tested in Rochester that’s an option for seniors. The Fluzone High-Dose vaccine, available for adults age 65 and older, contains four times the amount of antigen (the substance that prompts the body to make antibody to fight the virus) as regular flu shots.
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When it comes to designing health IT systems, more than a few organizations may be missing the big picture in terms of integrating care management workflows into their technology.
A new survey of how IT is changing case management largely corroborates findings from a 2008 survey that providers, payers, case managers and others that support care coordination are making only modest progress toward automating care management.
The study, conducted by TCS Healthcare Technologies on behalf of the Case Management Society of America and the awkwardly named American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians (ABQAURP), found that just 23 percent of IT systems are fully interoperable with external applications and that a similar share of organizations had gone paperless in care management.
While 54 percent of respondents automate record sharing by scanning medical records and other documents into information management systems, just 35 percent of those surveyed are able to share electronic clinical data with other healthcare providers.
“Despite the slower than expected integration, the survey data indicates progress is occurring,” CMSMA President Teri Treiger says, according to Healthcare IT News.
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While bullying in schools can shatter a child’s self-confidence, but a particular kind of bullying—related with weight—could actually have distinctive and significant effects on how pre-teens perceive their own bodies, according to a new study. The study is one of the first to specifically examine the impact of weight-based criticism on pre-adolescents, also hints that the practice can cause other health and emotional issues for its victims. “We tend to think of adolescence as the time when kids become sensitive about their body image, but our findings suggest that the seeds of body dissatisfaction are actually being sown much earlier,” said Timothy D. Nelson, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the study”s lead author. “Criticism
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Our eyes are simply amazing. Scientists estimate that the human eye can see over ten million colors, and distinguish between 1 million of them. Now, color is really nothing more that the brain’s interpretation of light of a certain wavelength. The human eye can only detect light with a wavelength between 380 nanometers and 740 nanometers.
Our eyes have cells called rods and cones which allow us to see the way we do. The cones can detect three kinds of light, red, blue and green – all the colors that we see are combinations of these three. Because of this, the average human being is a trichromat. New research shows, however, that some women have cones that can see a fourth color, a kind of orange. The
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