Statistically, that would not matter too much if the amount of epigenesis were the same in identical and fraternal twins, but research published last year by Art Petronis of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and his colleagues, suggests it is not.
Dr David Webb, from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and colleagues, examined the medical records of 37, 000 women who had given birth at more than 25 hospitals in the city between 1994 and 1997.
And an article published last month in the Lancet, by Ties Boerma of the World Health Organisation and his colleagues, argues that the bias is systematic.
The rise in disabilities seen in the study points to the growing need for specialized health and social services (such as mental-health services and therapists), Boulet and her colleagues say.
The Health Committee (10am again) has a session with Andrew Dilnot, who chaired a Commission on Funding of Care and Support along with his colleagues Dame Jo Williams, and former Health Minister Lord Warner.
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Probably the most rigorous study of the impact of wellness programs on employer health costs is one that was conducted by Harvard health economist Katherine Baicker and her colleagues David Cutler and Zirui Song.
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Is the methodology used by Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, in Baltimore, and his colleagues, sound enough for reliable conclusions to be drawn from it?
Republicans stand ready to work with the president and our Democratic colleagues in Congress to improve the affordability, accessibility and availability of health care in this nation.
Writing in the journal Health Psychology, Dr Nicole Frazer and colleagues said further research was needed.
But a study by Ran Balicer and colleagues at the Israeli Ministry of Health, published in August in Emerging Infectious Diseases, concluded that in Israel it was worthwhile at 2004 prices to stockpile Tamiflu not just for essential workers, but for all patients.
Bryant Webber and colleagues analyzed autopsy reports and available health data from 3, 832 service members who died of combat or unintentional injuries in Afghanistan and Iraq and compared their findings to similar studies performed during the Korean and Vietnam wars. 8.5% of the newest group had evidence of coronary atherosclerosis, compared with 77% in the Korean War group and 45% in the Vietnam War group.
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Optimists say Japan's economic reconstruction would accelerate dramatically if reformers such as Mr Kato and like-minded colleagues from other factions, including Mr Yamasaki and Junichiro Koizumi, a former health minister, could only get their act together.
According to sources in the lunch, Cheney -- without prompting -- reassured his colleagues that his health is good and he is feeling fine.
In the first study, published in the journal Neurology, Dr. Kurth and his colleagues looked at 27, 798 female health professionals ages 45 and older, including 3, 568 who had migraines, from the Women's Health Study.
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Today, my colleagues Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins made an announcement that brings these forces together.
They think about how to use the insurance money to maybe install electronic health records with colleagues, or provide easier phone and e-mail access, or offer expanded hours.
Dr Mathew White and colleagues at the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health found that individuals reported less mental distress and higher life satisfaction when they were living in greener areas.
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My 15 colleagues and I on the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health, most of us former national leaders, call on our fellow leaders and negotiators not to ignore the elephant in the room.
Responding to the debate Environment Minister John Griffiths stressed that the government has a number of important initiatives to get to grips with fuel poverty and assured AMs that he would be working closely with colleagues in health to take matters forward.
They will ask health-care staff to keep an eye out for patients and colleagues who seem open to extremism.
Courtland Robinson and his colleagues, from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, could not get into North Korea, so they did the next best thing.
"Given the increase in sweet beverage consumption in Europe, clear messages on its deleterious effect on health should be given to the population, " Dr Romaguera and colleagues conclude in their research paper.
In a speech at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics on November 6, Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health and the man who headed the Human Genome Project, implored his colleagues in genetics to work to develop new treatments for rare diseases.
That first week several colleagues and I created an online database to register mental and behavioral health clinicians who wanted to volunteer for disaster relief work.
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Health care reform affects us all and I encourage everyone -- especially my colleagues in Congress -- to join me in the fight to pass this bill.
K. Rowling, of Harry Potter fame, visited Romania to congratulate Mr Basescu and his colleagues and to push for mother-friendly reforms in health care, another ill-run and corrupt public service.
He and his colleagues have launched a new air-pollution index that he says captures health risks better than the official index, which has not kept pace with the latest science.
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In Africa, it is a different story, as my colleagues and I found out in 2006 when we re-opened a rural health center in Rwanda that had been essentially abandoned.
Support from colleagues was also found to be instrumental, and the report recommends employers provide mental health training to staff to help improve understanding of the issues.
You can tell the flu season is in full swing when state and city governments declare a public health emergency, the evening TV news is filed with stories about pharmacies running low on vaccines and colleagues at work suddenly disappear for a few days.
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