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Breast Cancer Outcomes in the Family

...ast cancer are to some extent inherited,if a woman succumbs to breast cancer her daughters or sisters are over 60 percent more likely to die within five years if they develop the disease. The chances of developing breast cancer are to some extent inherited, but important new findings suggest survival also ru...

Spit Test Kit on the Cards to Ascertain Pre-eclampsia Risk

...the United Kingdom. It is estimated that one woman succumbs every six minutes due to this condition. Researchers at St Richards Hospital in Chichester are conducting a trial to gauge the efficacy and reliability of this new test, by seeking the participation of 1000 women in the trial. This new test, a br...

Dystonia Awareness Week: 4 -11 June, 2007

...r hand, not everyone who inherits an affected gene succumbs to the disease. Dystonia can also occur in individuals because of spontaneous mutations. Experts suspect that a problem in the basal ganglion (a part in the brain that controls movement) predisposes an individual to dystonia. Secondary or acquir...

Whet your appetite with “Mindless Eating”: A gourmet's deligh!

...njoys every kind of food, he admits that he easily succumbs to the temptations offered to him on a silver platter. But unlike the general crowd that slips into this category, his years of research has helped him not to fall into the trap of binging and ending up looking like a shapeless bag of potatoes. Unli...

Second Human Case of ‘Mad cow’ Disease In Netherlans

...ors have explained that a person with vCJD usually succumbs to the disease within 18 months of acquiring it. Mad cow disease had first appeared in Britain in the 1980s that had forced the slaughtering of millions of cattle. The Netherlands is one of the world's biggest exporters of meat and dairy products a...

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