( American College of Physicians ) Please find two summaries of studies being published in the Dec. 2, 2008 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The information is not intended to substitute for articles as sources of information. Information in press materials is copyrighted. Please note that Annals of Internal Medicine attribution is required for all coverage .

Older people who are depressed are much more likely to develop a dangerous type of internal body fat — the kind that can lead to diabetes and heart disease — than people who are not depressed, a disturbing new study found.

What do poetry, art, literature, film and history have to do with medical practice? "Everything," according to Richard S. Panush, M.D., Chair of Medicine at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, who has pioneered an innovative program bringing humanities to the bedside for residents in internal medicine.

In a survey of almost 400 people published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, almost half either misunderstood warning labels on prescriptions or ignored them altogether. It can be confusing, especially if your prescription bottle is covered with brightly-colored stickers. Here's a guide of what you need to know.

NYU Langone Medical Center released yesterday the findings of a study on the New York University/Bellevue Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program (Bellevue/NYU PC Program), published in the November 2008 issue of Academic Medicine.

Sigma-Aldrich has entered into a research collaboration programme with D-Finitive Cell Technologies, Inc. This collaboration is expected to support the development and commercial offering of 14 products over a two-year span, with a planned launch of many of these products in 2009. These additions to Sigma-Aldrich's growing portfolio of research tools for regenerative medicine are expected to ...

By By CARLA K. JOHNSON -- Older people who are depressed are much more likely to develop a dangerous type of internal body fat - the kind that can lead to diabetes and heart disease - than people who are not depressed, a disturbing new study found. The connection goes beyond obesity and suggests some biological link between a person's mental state and fat that collects around the internal ...

Disturbing evidence of higher mortality and lower surgery rates in women versus men with mitral valve prolapse and severe leakage may be related to the complexity of evaluating the condition's severity in women, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

( NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine ) NYU Langone Medical Center released today the findings of a study on the New York University/Bellevue Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, published in the November 2008 issue of Academic Medicine. This 23 year assessment of an extraordinary educational approach to residency training outcomes documents a unique ...

Dr. Rodolfo Llinas, the chairman of neuroscience and physiology at the New York University School of Medicine, said he believed that abnormal brain rhythms help account for a variety of serious disorders, including Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, tinnitus and depression.

In older individuals, exercise is associated with an increase in the number of large-diameter vessels in the cerebral region of the brain and with an increase in blood flow in the three major cerebral arteries, researchers announced at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, which is being held here this week.

Title: Older Adults Who Exercise Boost Blood Flow in Brain Category: Health News Created: 12/2/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 12/2/2008

MONDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults who exercise regularly have increased blood flow and more small blood vessels in the brain, a new study shows.

CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Exercise may help older adults prevent age-related brain changes, researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill said.

MONTREAL, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A majority of diabetics avoid physical activity because they worry about exercise-induced hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, Canadian researchers said.

Older adults who exercise regularly show increased cerebral blood flow and a greater number of small blood vessels in the brain, according to findings presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

CHICAGO | Exercise is known to help prevent cognitive decline and maintain the brain as people age, and now researchers think they know one reason why.

CHICAGO — Exercise is known to help prevent cognitive decline and maintain the brain as people age, and now researchers think they know one reason why. People who engaged in long-term, regular exercise had substantially more small blood vessels in their brains and more blood flow than people who performed little exercise over the years, according to a study presented Monday. "Exercise increases ...

Just one in five young doctors take enough exercise because of the pressures of work according to a new study.

Karachi, Dec.2 : An editorial in the Daily Times has said that the ethnic trouble in Karachi and the recent terror strikes in Mumbai are as different as chalk and cheese, and therefore making comparisons would be an exercise in futility.