Diseases: Chronic Diseases
01/27/2010
Adolescent obesity - a major European concern
Computer games, TV, fast food, lack of exercise – what will be the medical consequences of rising obesity in the young and what can be done about it? Pernille Due, at the …
10/12/2008
Rehacare International 2008
The number 1 fair for people with special needs, those requiring care and the chronically ill the REHACARE 2008, takes place from 15 to 18 October, Halls 3 to 7 of the …
09/04/2008
Obese people with asthma more often involved in asthma-related hospitalisation
A large-scale US study shows that obese people with asthma get hospitalised nearly 5 times more for the condition than non-obese sufferer from asthma. It is the first study …
09/01/2008
Obesity in adolescents leads to metabolic syndrome
Children are not born overweight. Dramatic weight gain in some children and adolescents tends to start only during school, puberty and after. The reasons are known: unhealthy diet …
11/15/2007
Easing life for patients with chronic respiratory problems
Detroit based Delphi Medical Systems is a world-class provider of technology, products, and product development and manufacturing for many major sectors of the medical industry. …
11/14/2007
Infant receives first systemic therapy to treat RDEB
Children with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bulosa (RDEB) lack a protein that binds the skin to the body, resulting in fragile skin that sloughs off with little movement or …
08/30/2006
Pulmotension
EU multidisciplinary lung research project aims to cure pulmonary hypertension. …
08/30/2006
Students immune defences hit by examination nerves
Researchers found out important links between mental stress and characteristic complex physical inflammation reactions of allergies. …
08/03/2006
Respiratory diseases
From burden to therapy. By Andrea Rossi MD, Director of the Respiratory Division at Bergamo General Hospital Bergamo, Italy, and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European …
07/01/2004
Obesity
The disturbing international comparative study on health behaviour in school children (HBSC), conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO), European regional offices, have …
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