The Learning Blog

Remember the first Spiderman movie when the character played by actor Willem Dafoe was experimenting a gaseous chemical that can enhance endurance and strength? Well, that storyline may be partially true if the study by researchers from the  University of South Carolina would have us to believe. The study is published in the August 2009 issue of the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism.

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From Medpage Today:

If you’re in in your twenties and already unfit, meaning you’re not having an active lifestyle most of the time, then chances are that you’re going to be diabetic by the time you get to your forties.

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The Philippine’s Department of Health (DOH) has reported the death of a female patient of heart failure with an incidental finding of the presence of the A(H1N1) virus through throat swabbing.

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A Filipino Infectious Disease specialist from San Lazaro Hospital, Dr. Alexis Dimapilis, was interviewed by Ms. Pinky Webb in ABS-CBN’s Umagang Kay Ganda, a daily morning TV show for Filipinos.

Note:  This is an interview spoken in mixed Tagalog and English.

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Analyzing three studies, researchers from Herlev Hospital in Copenhagen,Denmark, found a causal relationship between a genetically-elevated lipoprotein(a) and the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) or heart attack.

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The American Journal of Physiology recently published online a study entitled “The influence of resistance and aerobic exercise on hunger, circulating levels of acylated ghrelin and peptide YY in healthy males“ and found that…
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Taken from Medscape’s heartwire

French researchers found a relation between heart rate (HR) and death by assessing HR changes over number of years. Dr. Xavier Jouven and colleagues of the Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France reported their findings in the American Journal of Cardiology, 7 November 2008. More »