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Women suffer from sexual dysfunction too

...icago, said much of the problem with female sexual dysfunction is due to the failure of patients and doctors to communicate about this problem that both parties may be uncomfortable discussing. As women age and go through menopause, the lining of the vagina loses a robust pinkish to red color and becomes pale a...

Hypertensive Drug Improves Sexual Dysfunction in Hypertensive Men

..., a study evaluated hypertensive men with erectile dysfunction and found that their overall sexual satisfaction rose from about 7.3% before losartan therapy to 58.5 % after losartan treatment. It was also reported that the sexual activity atleast once a week increased from 40.5 % to 62.3%. The investigators sa...

New dimension in the treatment of female sexual dysfunction

Female sexual dysfunction is associated with loss of libido, low motivation ...h is needed to determine whether women with sexual dysfunction should receive this treatment....

Moderate Use of Analgesics - Not Associated With Kidney Dysfunction

...yday aches and pains is not associated with kidney dysfunction among healthy men. As analgesic use is so common,...even small increases in the relative risk of renal dysfunction could have a significant impact on rates of renal disease. Some earlier studies have suggested that...

Drug abuse leads to long standing changes in the brain

...ers indicates that in humans, too, the drug causes dysfunction in dopamine circuits, Dr. Volkow says. In a second study, Dr. Volkow and her colleagues used PET scanning to measure glucose metabolism in the brains of the same group of methamphetamine abusers and in control subjects. Glucose metabolism is a measu...

Sex life enhanced by cycling

...g has shown a beneficial effect in treating sexual dysfunction among men with chronic heart failure, Heart failure may produce sexual dysfunction in men because blood flow is restricted, in other words they may find it hard to get an erection. Th...

Gestational Diabetes linked to Chromosomal defici

...ational diabetes may have underlying immune system dysfunction or other anomalies that could affect fetal development. They call for more research into the possibility....

How to repeal male infertility?

...r Verma, used gene therapy to correct Sertoli cell dysfunction in mice. Their goal was to see if this could lead to sperm production and whether or not the sperm could be used to produce offspring. Researchers were also looking at whether or not the alteration would be passed on. Researchers corrected the sperm...

Control of anger disorder connected to Brain Dysfunction

According to a study, the scientists have bound dysfunction in a particular brain region to a psychiatric diso...atch-and-sniff" samples. All of this suggests that dysfunction in the OMPCC is involved in this impulse-control disorder, the researchers point out. In this study,...

Outcome of common medications

...ide effects such as depression, fatigue and sexual dysfunction and, therefore, do not take the drugs. A new study...l risks of depressive symptoms, fatigue and sexual dysfunction is not supported from data from clinical trials. The risks of these adverse effects should be put in...

Overweight can affect sex life

...weight men are more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction than slimmer correspondents. 40% of 1980 men surve...hes were nearly twice as likely to suffer erectile dysfunction compared with men whose girth measured 30 inches. Even after adjusting for age, smoking and hyperten...

Erectile dysfunction (ED) signals vascular disease

...ated with impotence. It is estimated that Erectile dysfunction affects 40 million men, yet just 10 percent seek treatment, partly because patients never tell and doctors never ask.// ED is one symptom of early vascular disease. Some men care more about ED than about heart attack or stroke. One study showed tha...

Hope for First New Melanoma Treatment in Decades

... important gene called PTEN and suggests that PTEN dysfunction may be responsible in 30 percent to 60 percent of melanomas. // The process leading to the formation of melanoma begins when a cell growing in the top-most layer of the skin is damaged, such as through severe sunburn. The damaged cells act as a melan...

Folic Acid helps Kids with Diabetes

...ng of the study. Researchers measured endothelial dysfunction using flow-mediated dilatation in each of the children. Endothelial dysfunction occurs in children with type 1 diabetes and is associated with folate status. Endothelial dysfunctio...

Work out to fight impotence

...West of England in Bristol found men with erectile dysfunction who did pelvic floor exercises had the same overal... men, average age 59, who had experienced erectile dysfunction for six months or longer. //The men were given five weekly sessions of pelvic floor exercises and di...

Age Affects Lung Disorder

...S is not a specific disease; instead, it is a lung dysfunction that is associated with a number of diseases including pneumonia, shock, sepsis and trauma. Researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine conducted a study to determine the role age plays in the development of ARDS after a trauma. ...

Troubled Childhood found to affect your Liver

...rveyed patients about abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction such as divorce or domestic violence during childhood. Overall, nearly 7 percent of patients reported liver disease. Researchers say, “An increased likelihood of reporting liver disease for each of 10 adverse childhood experiences was observed.” Th...

Sudden Cardiac Death due to inherited Heart Disease

...rt disease. Specifically, the relatives either had dysfunction of the electrical cardiac system or heart-muscle abnormalities. In those families diagnosed with inherited heart disease, there had been significantly more sudden cardiac deaths among relatives than in the other families. If these sudden deaths had ...

Troubled Childhood found to affect your Liver

... 17,000 people about abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction such as divorce or domestic violence during childhood. Overall, nearly 7 percent of patients reported liver disease. Researchers say, “An increased likelihood of reporting liver disease for each of 10 adverse childhood experiences was observed.” The...

A Little Weight Loss Found To Make A Significant Difference In Men

...rcise and weight loss // , obese men with erectile dysfunction may be able to improve their sexual function say r...d resulted in about one-third of men with erectile dysfunction regaining sexual function after treatment. ...

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