Top medicine articles for April 2014

A collection of some interesting medical articles published recently:School children who are bullied are twice as likely to think about killing themselves, and to make suicide attempts http://buff.ly/1gPc1gYA widely reported 43% decrease in obesity among U.S. preschoolers was "too good to be true" - increase is likely http://buff.ly/1gPcCzeHigher BPA Levels Associated with Prostate Cancer, due to centrosome amplification. BPA, found in many plastics and food and beverage containers, is detectable in the urine of over 90% of Americans http://buff.ly/1gPd7JKFormula for Decoding Health News: Final opinion on headline = (initial gut feeling) * (study support for headline) http://buff.ly/1fgBrEfRiccardo Muti: Music teaches us how to live in consonanza (consonance) in a world filled with dissonanza (dissonance) http://buff.ly/1gnOS9GAlmost 40% of the world's population is at risk of Plasmodium vivax infection http://buff.ly/1jStKawIncrease in daily ambulatory activity decreases cardiovascular events in people with impaired glucose tolerance http://buff.ly/1jSzl0xThe many faces of diabetes: a disease with increasing heterogeneity. Type 1 and 2 diabetes are extremes on a range of DM disorders that result from a collision between genes and environment. Many patients have genetic predispositions to both forms of diabetes, resulting in hybrid forms of diabetes (eg, latent autoimmune diabetes in adults). Obesity is a strong modifier of diabetes risk. http://buff.ly/1jSA6qqProSavin, a le...
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