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Starvation in pregnant women can cause heart disease to their children

...ater in their adult life, Starvation during mid or late pregnancy don’t have a telling effect. Thus children born to mothers who go hungry during early gestation are at increased risk of heart disease as adults....

Good sleep enhances task performance

... early and REM or Rapid Eye Movement, which occurs late in the night. The Researches found that slow wave sleep was sufficient for task learning, but both types are required for maximum increase in performance. It shows it need initial period of slow wave sleep followed by REM....

Beware of the oral patch! It could be cancer!!!

...nce between early detection leading on to cure and late detection leading on to death....

Prevention of cataracts

...hich the lens loses its clearness and often occurs late in life. Researchers found the prevalence of cataracts was significantly lower in the group who ate the most amount of nutrients than the group who ate the lowest amount. The nutrients studied included vitamin C, vitamin E, riboflavin, folate, carot...

Inadequate epilepsy treatment

...t regimes are outmoded, inappropriate or given too late to be of maximum benefit to patients. // The team monitored the treatment patterns of 564 epilepsy patients for up to 14 years after diagnosis. Their work forms part of the United Kingdom General Practice Study of Epilepsy – a long-term population-...

Smoking can depreciate intellegence

...ts indicate that persistent cigarette-smoking into late life increases the risk of cognitive impairment." Smoking contributes to vascular disease and atherosclerosis, conditions which narrow and harden the arteries and impair blood supply to all parts of the body, including the brain. The researchers sug...

Avoid stress to have strong babies

...' development. The study looked at foetuses in the late stages of development, but it could have more of an impact in the early stages when the placenta is being formed, said Dr Glover....

Health Officials Recommend Flu Vaccine

... season usually does not get into full swing until late December and vaccine is expected to be plentiful by early next month, health officials recommend waiting to get a flu shot....

Older men 'father' schizophrenics

...ry.Most people are affected when they are in their late teens or early 20s, though it can start at any age. Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder. Symptoms include hallucinations and delusions. Genetic and environmental factors are thought to be responsible. An additional finding in the study was that t...

Miscarriage linked to late embryos

...after.The researchers found no association between late implantation and clinical miscarriages that occurred later in pregnancy....

Altering genes through calories

It's never too late to diet. Cutting calories for only a few weeks late in life causes anti-aging changes in mouse genes.Even those averse to weight watching might have the...

Support therapy helps breast cancer patients

...ath rate has been dropping substantially since the late 1990s because of earlier detection and more effective treatments. David's research found that patients whose breast cancer had spread lived an average of 37 months if they got group therapy, compared with 19 months if they did not....

Cure for sleepless nights

...hat chronic insomnia can be effectively treated in late life with structured and sleep-focused interventions aimed at changing poor sleep habits and faulty beliefs and attitudes about sleep. "Although such behavioural intervention is more time consuming than drug therapy, it is worth the investment becaus...

Genetic disorder related with sleep patterns

...sible for people who find it impossible to stay up late or sleep in. The findings could lead to new treatments for jet lag//, insomnia and seasonal depression. The researchers from the University of Utah say people who cannot stay awake much after 8.30pm and who wake up around 5.30am may be suffering fro...

Pregnancy should not be confined

Women who are in the late stages of pregnancy may still be able to fly home for the holidays. Pregnant women can also exercise more than previously recommended. Until now, there were no formal recommendations on flying during pregnancy.// Most airlines in the United States a...

Coffee enhances memory

...memory is at its best in older adults compared to late afternoon.// For researchers at the University of Arizona have found that coffee can find out memory performance throughout the day. They had about 60-70 participants aged over 64 do a verbal learning test in the morning and and again in the eveni...

Early puberty more resistance

A recent study has found that early puberty and late menopause have better chances of surviving a broken hip.Broken hips are a common symptom of osteoporosis, or brittle bone disease.// Most women who sustain a hip fracture survive, but sometimes death can occur as a result. Researchers in Norway sou...

More People Seeking Treatment for Depression

...roducing the treatment trends was the debut in the late '80s of the antidepressant drugs called selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, such as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. About 30 percent of patients on these medications still have significant and problematic side effects, such as sexual dysfun...

Burden of lung disease

...Or it may be that people present with symptoms too late for the disease to be treated surgically....

Rubella nearly wiped out

...re routinely immunized against rubella. And in the late 1970s, doctors also began vaccinating women of childbearing age. In 1989, the United States set a goal of eliminating rubella by 2000. From 1992 through 1997, fewer than 300 cases were reported annually, with an all-time low of 128 cases in 1995. As ...

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