C M G Buttery

A report, published in the October issue of Diabetes Care, is among the first large-scale population-based studies to link diabetes prevalence with air pollution. It is consistent with prior laboratory studies finding an increase in insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes, in obese mice exposed to particulates, and an increase in markers of inflammation (which [...]

In  a letter to the editor of the New York Times (9/28, A28), Angela Gardner, MD, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, writes in response to a Sept. 22 editorial, saying that it “raises critical issues about the high costs” of the Medicaid “program, but misses an important point and a fundamental problem. [...]

Time reported, “Volunteering to be part of a medical research study has risks and benefits,” and according to a newly published paper in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the “one risk most people don’t consider is the possibility that the trial will uncover some health problem” they didn’t know about. “particularly relevant in research that [...]

From today’s issue of Science look at the editorial on the need for basic sciences in training of physicians ”there is an even more compelling reason to make basic science education essential for all physicians: stimulating curiosity and creating the scientific habits of mind that are essential for continual learning. Basic science research is a [...]

In USA Today Comments from Europe: Obesity rates have skyrocketed since the 1980s in almost all the countries where long-term data is available, says the report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which works on policies to promote better economies and quality of life. Countries with the fastest obesity growth rates: the [...]

A Congressional Budget Office report says that healthcare spending per capita grew by 65 percent between 1987 and 2007 for adults of normal weight. But for obese adults, spending increased by 111 percent in those two decades. This means that “by 2007, per capita spending for obese adults was far higher than spending for normal-weight [...]