(July 8, 2010 - Insidermedicine)

From Florida - According to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, genetic data improves diagnosis of asthma and lung disease. Researchers studied over 3000 African American patients and found that their precise genetic ancestry was connected to pulmonary measurements.

From Iowa - Too much television and video games may lead to attention problems in children, according to a report published in Pediatrics. Researchers studied over 1300 children, finding that those who were in front of the television screen for over two hours a day had up to 2x increased risk of having attention problems.

And finally, from Ohio  - According to a report published in the journal Cell, changing living conditions in rodents with cancer appears to shrink their tumors. Researchers studied 20 mice with cancer, finding that switching them to a bigger space and providing them with more things to do actually shrank tumor mass by 77% and volume by 43%.