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Use of Cellular Phones associated with Increased risk of Brain Tumors

...further strengthened.” How does this affect the Indian physician? It just makes the differential diagnosis of headache just a little more intricate, especially when dealing with the successful, middle-aged businessperson with a headache....

PRIMARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION GENE DISCOVERED

...of child bearing age, although it is known to also affect men and people of all ages, including young children. Because its incidence is low, learning about the disease has been difficult. Although there may be more than one cause of PPH, the identification of a gene that is associated with the inherited ...

El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks

...tation and river discharge. Floods and drought can affect not only human interactions with water resources and therefore exposure to the pathogen, but also sanitary conditions and disease susceptibility. The discovery of a remote link between El Ni?o events and cholera outbreaks comes at a time when some ...

Teens turning to Internet for medical queries

...ducation, and the teen's own health status did not affect how often adolescents searched the Internet for answers.Results of the survey, which included more than 400 students, are being presented this week at the annual meeting of the Society for Adolescent Medicine in San Diego, California.Though it is to ...

Depression may cause delayed wound healing

...nd other psychological problems have been shown to affect the immune system, which may keep a wound from healing on time, they note. Another possibility, according to them, is that depressed people may not take care of themselves as well as non-depressed people. Poor appetite and an irregular sleep schedul...

Diabetes and Depression often go hand-in-hand

...In addition, Lustman said, diabetes and depression affect some of the same hormones and neurotransmitters. Depression can promote resistance to insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar. Insulin resistance is a precursor to type 2 diabetes. Getting proper treatment for both depression and diabetes in v...

One...just one cigarette can spoil the heart function.

... North Carolina, in a suspicion that smoking might affect the left ventricle of the heart ( an important chamber that pumps the blood to all parts of the body),also called LV diastolic dysfunction.The patient presents with shortness of breath. The reasearchers made their observation in a group of 27 subje...

Big and Bright

...tion of birth weight within the normal range could affect the distribution of intelligence in the population as a whole. The findings might also help shed light on the connection between foetal growth and brain development....

Headache decreases appetite

Researchers have found that headache stimuli also affect the appetite centre of the brain.It is always been a mystery as to why loss of appetite often accompanies pain. People with migraine, for instance, cannot face food and it is often assumed this must be because one common linked symptom is nausea. S...

Heart Attacks during Menstruation!

...dy shown that the time of the month can profoundly affect the symptoms of migraine, asthma and cardiac arrhythmia.The early follicular phase - the week during or immediately after a period-produced the worst exercise performance and the quickest time to angina pain: 290 seconds. This phase is when levels of...

Air pollution affects the heart

... reveals that the adverse effects of pollution may affect everyone and not only older people.// They studied the impact of particles called PM2.5s - with diameters less than 2.5 micrometres - on a group of apparently healthy boiler makers. This group of men with an average age of 38 were exposed to levels ...

Alcohol linked to brain activity

...lesions are areas of scarring or injury that might affect your voluntary and involuntary actions of the body such as ability to button a shirt or put a key in a lock. It is thought that alcohol exerts benefits through thinning the blood vessels and by increasing levels of high density lipoprotein (LDL, or '...

Voice may be improved by surgery

... resonate in this cavity, you might expect UPPP to affect the voice. Researchers at a number of centres in the US looked at the voice characteristics of patients undergoing surgery. They found that vowels were unaltered, as were most consonants save for 'm' and 'n' which became less 'nasal'. The subjects ...

Antidepressant helps obesity

...though it's known to alter brain chemistry and may affect the appetite centres or circuits involved in getting pleasurable feelings from eating....

Pollution could be a risk

...k on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon could affect the mental health of Americans over coming weeks and months. As the dust settles over New York and Washington, psychiatrists warn that people will start to feel the full psychological impact of the disaster. Keeping busy and trying to get the cities ...

Psychological consequence of terrorist attacks

...k on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon could affect the mental health of Americans over coming weeks and months. As the dust settles over New York and Washington, psychiatrists warn that people will start to feel the full psychological impact of the disaster. Keeping busy and trying to get the cities ...

No allergy at all !

...ymptoms of other upper respiratory conditions that affect the nasal cavity and sinuses, such as a runny nose and eyes. Almost anything can cause allergy-type symptoms - perfumes, sinus infections, exercise, dust, cold air - whether it's an allergy or not. Allergy tests come in many shapes and forms. One o...

Snake venom a treatment for digestive disease

...ially in the small intestine. The proteins did not affect the same type of muscles in the heart, arteries or lungs, indicating that the prokineticins played an exclusive role in regulating intestinal muscles. The researchers found two prokineticins that are chemically similar. In addition, the researchers...

Role of fats and oils in vision care

The balance of fats and oils in your diet can affect your vision, according to a new study. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a currently untreatable disease of the eye causing fuzziness, shadows and severe visual impairment. As the name suggests, it gets worse with age and diet has been implic...

Gastrointestinal ills more common in diabetics

...at hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar, is known to affect the gastrointestinal system. For example, high levels of blood sugar can promote feelings of nausea, they note....

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