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Boffins Find Link Between Common Sleep Disorder and Hypertension

...ake or asleep. The 4-year joint study was led by boffins at Emory University who conducted the research along with colleagues at deCODE Genetics, Inc., an Icelandic genomics company, and Icelandic physicians at Landspitali in Reykjavik. The research team recruited 900 Icelanders for the study. Participants...

Gel Developed to Treat Male Menopause

...tored in most men in a matter of hours. However, boffins are warning that while Testosterone replacement therapies (TRTs) can improve libido and erectile dysfunction, some of them also come with side effects, such as acne, skin reaction, headache and hypertension....

Scientists Identify New Breast Cancer Gene

... less than 50 per cent of inherited breast cancer, boffins are of the opinion that the Rap80 gene is a candidate to investigate as another breast cancer disease gene in families that though have a history of the disease, do not have such mutations. "Thus Rap80, by interacting with a BRCA1 region that is es...

Boiling Makes Broccoli to Loses Its Anticancer Properties

... to 75 percent over 6 hours after shredding. The boffins conclusion cut out boiling if you want the maximum benefit from these veggies. "If you want to get the maximum benefit from your five portions-a-day vegetable consumption, if you are cooking your vegetables boiling is out. You need to consider sti...

Successful Dads Have Not So Successful Daughters

...cts when it comes to their female offspring. The boffins also state that though this study was carried out in deer, the same could also hold true for humans, and could explain why successful human dads don't have the same traits as them. The research carried out on deer showed that the female offspring o...

Morning Sickness may Signify Lower Breast Cancer Risk

...ng sickness is a good thing after all. Or so say boffins who have conducted a new study and found that women who suffer from morning sickness have a 30 percent lower risk of developing breast cancer later in life than expecting mums who don't. The study was conducted epidemiologists at the University at B...

Researchers Have Found the Role of Protein in Accelerating Breast Cancer Progression

...reast cancer had not been clearly established, and boffins are hopeful that the new findings could lead to a better understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of breast cancer and focus attention on PTN and its signalling pathway as possible targets for new cancer therapies. The study also found that the e...

Scientists Identify Broad Neural Response Behind Speech Reception

...ficity in response to the spoken sentences. When boffins degraded the intelligibility of the sentences, the theta band pattern lost its tracking resonance with the speech. The researchers conclude that the brain discriminates speech by modulating the phase of the continuously generated theta wave in resp...

2 Minute Delay in Cutting Cord can Give Babies a 'significant' Health Boost

... of blood disorders . The study was conducted by boffins at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and in...by and affect the brain. As a part of the study, boffins analysed 15 previous trials on cord clamping from 11 countries. About half of babies had immediate c...

Mild Stress During Pregnancy may Worsen Offspring's Risk of Cerebral Palsy

...pply to humans also. As a part of the study, the boffins adjusted the normal cycle of light and dark that the pregnant mice were accustomed to for half of the mice, subjecting them to a mild level of stress. They then exposed the brains of the developing foetuses to injury. When the brains of the young ...

Viagra Improves Heart Function, Finds Study

...nior author of the paper, said that another reason boffins were thrilled with the results of the study was because whiel there are a number of drugs and therapies available to treat the left ventricle of the heart from failing or afterwards, there are no current treatments for the right ventricle. "We have...

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