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Is low birth weight related to psychological distress in adulthood?

...ation various factors likes father’s social class, adult marital status and maternal age. Until recently it...ip between bodyweight at gestational age and later adult psychological distress in which also the cognitive impairment in childhood was taken in to account. ...

Single drug for bipolar disorder

...essive illness that affects 3 to 4 5 of the global adult population. This is a chronic condition and most of the sufferers have multiple occurrences of the condition for most of their lives. Researchers from University Hospitals of Cleveland and others have reported that antipsychotic medications are eff...

Drinking Calcium Water Can Reduce Osteoporosis.

...iter bottle of Sanfaustino containsover 45% of the adult RDA for calcium -- without the fat and calories of othercalcium sources. Sanfaustino is sodium free and has been enjoyed by Italians since 1894. News Source: PRNewswire ...

Link between Faith, Health and Healing

...llest. They are encouraged to love life again. The adult programme focuses on inculcating healthy eating ha...ther directly or through healthcare providers. Its adult programs, services and materials are available through more than 300 cancer treatment centres throug...

Sitting in office for long hours can cause overweight and obesity

...e Body Mass Index from a sample of 1579 Australian adult men and women who were working full time. The result of the analysis showed that mean occupational sitting time was more than 3 hours a day. This sitting time was significantly more in males than females. Another interesting finding from the study wa...

The Indian Government has given the nod to conduct Human volunteer trials inorder to develop preventive AIDS vaccines

...n February, researchers began trials on 34 healthy adult volunteers for tgAAC09 vaccine that targets HIV subtype C, widely prevalent in India, South Africa and China. The trials for the second vaccine -- called the Modified Vaccinia Ankara (MVA) -- will be carried out at the Tuberculosis Research Centre in...

Mutations in NOTCH1 cause an early developmental defect in the aortic valve

...isease is a common heart birth defect which causes adult heart disease. The study was done in five generations of a Dallas family; the researchers studied the DNA mutations in all the 11 members of the family who were affected by aortic heart disease. The patients had severe calcium buildup on their hear...

Scientist discover secrets of ageing

...g is more emphatic in some critical cells that are adult stem cells and hence are required for replacing the dying cells. This may lead to impairment of the regeneration process of the bone marrow, intestines and the hair follicles. Reference: Science, July 2005...

Gene-Nanoparticle Gene Transfer Is Better Than Viral Vector Transfer System

.... The scientists used this technique to activate adult brain stem/progenitor cells in vivo, demonstrating that it may be possible to "turn on" these otherwise idle cells as effective replacements for those destroyed by neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's. "Until now, no non-viral technique ...

Scientists Warn Against Food Borne Illnesses

...involved in having food borne illnesses. A healthy adult is less likely to contract a food borne illness than a young child or an aging grandparent. And a pregnant woman, her fetus, and people battling disease are especially sensitive to illnesses that can be transmitted by food. Scientists refer to the p...

Stem Cell Therapy For Treating Heart Attacks

... which is designed to test the safety of injecting adult stem cells at varying doses in patients who have r...stem cell in an early stage of development, called adult mesenchymal stem cells, to avoid potential problems with immunosuppression, in which every human’s i...

More News That Circumcision Could Reduce risk of HIV infection

...gh the trial shows promising protective effects of adult male circumcision in reducing HIV acquisition, UNA...ulled back; and by 15 years almost 90% have normal adult pattern. http://www.medindia.net/patients/ paediatrics/Phimosis.asp...

Healthy At 50: Possible?

...of the variation in insulin resistance. However, adult lifestyle and body fat explained 22 percent of insulin resistance in men and 34 percent in women. This is a breakthrough in epidemiological investigations in diabetes and will help our population from falling prey to this often called “disease of the...

Vitamin B12 Deficiency In Vegans And Elderly

...y products consume, on average, less than half the adult Recommended Dietary Allowance of 2.4 mcg of B12. Some older people are also at high risk for developing B12 deficiency. Up to 30% of people ages 50 and over suffer from atrophic gastritis, a thinning of the stomach lining. This condition reduces th...

Dissecting Diabetes - Is protein AKT2 the cause of type 2 diabetes?

...n the identification of the missing protein in the adult onset Type II Diabetes mellitus. They have discovered that mice lacking a gene that produces the enzyme called Akt2 or Protein Kinase B are born without diabetes but develop symptoms of glucose intolerance after two months, roughly the same ag...

Fat Cell Protein Hits Type-2 Diabetes

...the development of future treatments for type-2 or adult onset diabetes. According to Dr. Lucino Roseveltte, professor of medicine at 0the Hopkins College of Medicine in New York , there are molecules produced by the fat cells, the adipose tissue//, circulating throughout the body and affecting the functio...

Growing tissues

...o stage but efforts are now being made to turn the adult cells into tissues such as muscle, cartilage and b... differentiate into." The cells, named multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs), are said to have the same potential as embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Some ...

New Stem Cells lines will be required

...ral sources, such as placenta, umbilical cords and adult cells, but scientists say those originated from human embryos are most useful for therapeutic and research applications. Stem cells, if implanted in a patient, could multiply cells afresh, offering cures for intractable diseases like Parkinson's di...

Breakthrough in Type II Diabetes

...n the identification of the missing protein in the adult onset Type II Diabetes mellitus. They have discovered that mice lacking a gene that produces the enzyme called Akt2 or //Protein Kinase B are born without diabetes but develop symptoms of glucose intolerance after two months, roughly the same ...

Brain Cell Repair Loss disclosed

...e discovered the point of no return stage at which adult brain cells lose the ability to repair themselves. The investigators said their work should help find new opportunities to reverse this regeneration loss and speed nerve cell growth. Researcher Ben Barres, a Stanford neurobiologist, felt that they ...

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