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Pregnant women more prone to depression

...ing event imaginable. Thirty-two weeks is when the reality of it is hitting home in a particularly vivid way." She added that over the last 10 - 15 years, the number of tests and lifestyle advice pregnant women faced could well have increased the anxiety associated with pregnancy....

Pill may replace exercise

... ultimate fantasy of the couch potato may become a reality some day, according to researchers who have found the chemical pathways that// muscle cells use to build strength and endurance. With this basic knowledge in hand, it now may be possible to develop a pill that pumps up muscle cells without all that...

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

...lls, and these folks will indeed get somewhat of a reality check from these findings," Dr. Arthur Lander, professor and chairman of developmental and cell biology at the University of California, Irvine, told UPI. The findings -- in separate studies by Smith and team and Naohiro Terada of the University of ...

Dad's Age Affects Baby

...person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality and relates to others. It is a life-long disease that cannot be cured, but usually can be controlled with proper treatment.// Investigators studied data from 7,704 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. They found an increased risk for the mental di...

Genetic Breakthrough in Common Eye Problem

...e of AMD. However recent research suggests that in reality a significant genetic cause of AMD may only affect 2 percent of the total. Researchers say the next step is to produce cell cultures and animal models that have the mutations identified in the study....

Doubts Cast On Benefits Of Vitamin E

... Journal Of American Medical association, says the reality of taking vitamin E supplements may be something very different. The researchers had studied patients with cardiovascular diseases through Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation or HOPE centers between 1993 and 1999, and the extended program of HOPE-...

Cystic fibrosis patients may require a new treatment for bacterial infection

...So every cell send to fight the Pseudomonas may in reality encourage the bacterial infection further for the patients of cystic fibrosis. The researchers feel that it is possible to break up the biofilm thus formed in the lungs by bacterial infection with the help of an enzyme called Dnase. This enzyme is a...

Screening For Prostate Cancer May Reduce Mortality Rate

...ed with having prostate cancer as a label. But the reality also is that they may never have actually died of the prostate cancer because it was so localized." The study is published in the August issue of the Journal of Urology. When the data of the study was compiled the two researchers Kopec and Goel, we...

Virtual Reality For Treating Stress Disorders

...ice of Naval Research are working on using virtual reality to help patients deal with Post Traumatic Stress D... reliving the past in a simulated world of virtual reality patients have been successfully treated for their stress disorders. The virtual reality recreates ...

The Potential Of Cadaver Transplantation Programme In India

... efforts 5. Liver and heart transplants are now a reality in India and could spearhead and give momentum to the cadaver transplant programme. Spain has the highest number of brain death patients going on to organ donation - 32 per million population. If we compare our cadaver donor rate per million populati...

New Diet Sensation Insists That Carbs Are Good For Health

...s called in Israel, also became the basis of a hit reality program in which Raz coached 20 obese people, and helped them lose a combined total of 880 pounds over a six-to-eight month period. Ironically, Raz developed her diet as a result of a scientific experiment she did to help come up with an explanatio...

Proper Validation of Generic Drugs Could Save Millions of AIDS Patients

...deadly”, though it is commented by some critics in reality generic drugs offer the most affordable and best treatment for infected people in developing countries. It is the fundamental right of the patient to know what drug they are taking and how effective and safe the drug is, and the patient should be a...

Hip Replacement Can Now Be Performed On Virtual Patients

...t has been made to perform the surgery as close to reality as is possible with current systems. It's a very advanced application of virtual reality. Up to now, most medical systems simply replicated specific conditions, like appendicitis, for educational uses. The system could prove very cost effective if ...

Generic Drugs Usage In US Can Save $20 Billion – Express Script Surve

...industries, who would not accept this fact but the reality is that billion of dollars can be saved by using generic drugs. On average, a generic drug costs approximately $60 less than a brand name drug. Consumers also pay a lower co-payment for generic medications, saving $10 or more per prescription on aver...

New DNA Breakthrough Can Change Future Of Medicine

...ure make the dream of personalized medicine into a reality said a report in Daily Mail. Details of the ‘Hapmap’ project are being presented to a meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics this wek....

Stem cells Can Generate Organs In Labs

...cinating and like science .fiction but this is the reality of stem cell research today. The scientists who are able to solve this mystery will instantly revolutionise medical treatment. The current research is one step towards this path. Emmanuel Baetge of CyThera Inc., in San Diego, and colleagues report...

Safest painkiller Ibuprofen found to cause severe GI bleeding

...ed that these findings will bring attention to the reality of the amount of painkillers potentially being used by patients at home....

AIDS Numbers Continue To Rise : WHO

...ed a key part in bringing down infections. But the reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip global and national efforts to contain it,' said UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot. 'It is clear that a rapid increase in the scale and scope of HIV prevention programmes is urgently needed. We mu...

Beauty contest with a difference

...a cover up operation with the object of hiding the reality in the country from the rest of the world. <br...

Experiment Creates Illusion Of Weight Loss

...eople believe that they were losing weight when in reality they were not. This was done by fitting them with gadgets which gave the illusion that their hands were moving inward. The scientists were studying the effect the brain has in creating a new body image. The stimulators used in the experiment were a...

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