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Obesity a risk for pancreatic cancer

... in 20 can expect to live for more than five years after pancreatic cancer has been diagnosed and little has been known about how to prevent it (although smoking is a risk factor). So it's encouraging to learn that you can do something to lower your risk of this highly lethal disease.Researchers at Harva...

Prevention of cataracts

...e, carotene and lutein/zeaxanthin. Researchers say after they adjusted for other nutrients, only vitamin C intake remained associated with prevalence of cataracts. Researchers found the incidence of cataracts was significantly lower for women who used a vitamin C supplement for 10 or more years compared to...

Minor mutations in HIV virus

... one person, and that it retains this ability even after it is transmitted to the next person according to researchers. When this happens, the immune sustem is forced to use a second-line attack strategy that was less effective in cintaining the virus in the patients studied. These studies, which were per...

A treatment for blindness

...ed eye or did not receive any treatment. Results after 10 years showed that total retinal detachments continued to occur in untreated eyes throughout the follow-up period, increasing from 38.6 percent when the children were 5.5 years old to 41.4 percent by the time they were 10 years old. Treated eyes re...

Estrogen lowers cancer risk

...d hormone replacement therapy. Regular screening after age 50, regular exercise and maintaining a healthy weight are considered the best ways to reduce the chances of developing colorectal cancer, the author said....

Waking during surgery

...ed ,become emotionally detached. Their heart rates after the operation are low, rather than elevated. It is very essential to treat PTSD at an early stage, tahn to delay and miss out on vital treatment....

Stay young the Chinese way

...nd be digested by the human body within 20 minutes after application, according to the professor....

Ecstasy shrinks brain!!-researchers unveil the secrets of MDMA.

... at Brookhaven National Laboratory, in Upton, N.Y. after a course of studies found that there is dramatic blood flow changes in parts of their brains and persistent damage due to the drug's effect on the serotonin uptake system.This study was done by comparing the blood flow in the brain using magnetic res...

Acupuncture for conception

... with each menstrual cycle and those that are left after 35 years are more fragile, making fertilization and normal conception more difficult.// Because the body rejects embryos that aren't developing properly, the rate of miscarriages among women over 40 is high, about 52 percent. Older women also have ...

Recouping blood flow after a stroke

The brain can grow new blood vessels after a minor stroke, which helps to restore blood flow ...n the damaged area. The brain tries to heal itself after a stroke. We know that people gradually recover lost functions - like speech and movement in many ca...

Acupuncture provides relief

...y, not with the "sham" acupuncture group. However, after three months follow-up, there were no significant differences in mobility and pain between the groups. A related commentary in the journal points out that laser acupuncture was a good choice of control when the trial was designed because the patien...

Wishes of unspoken patients

...in a questionnaire about their concerns before and after a physician visit. And 30 physicians were asked to rate the visit itself. Nine per cent of patients reported there were requests they wanted to make of the doctor, but had not. These included asking for a referral to a specialist, asking for a spec...

The right is responsible

...ly recognise themselves in the morphed images. But after numbing of right hemisphere four out of five patients only remembered seeing the famous person. In a follow-up experiment, 10 people in the neurology department were shown a morphed image of their face with the face of a famous person and a second i...

Birth weight key factor in heart diseases

... If a low birth weight baby put on weight rapidly after his first birthday, the risk of adult heart diseas...ightweight baby will have a tendency to put on fat after birth and develop a body type prone to heart disease.Barker says this highlights the fact that it's ...

Sleep apnoea increases post-operative risks

...breath) experience a greater risk of complications after elective knee or hip replacement. In sleep apnoea ...at 20% in the sleep apnoea group had complications after the operation, compared to nine per cent in the control group.he anaesthetics, sedatives and painkil...

Mushroom and muscle loss

...e hospitalized for severe weakness and muscle loss after eating the mushrooms, and three of them died, wrote Dr. Regis Bedry of the poison center of University Hospital Pellegrin in Bordeaux, France.Bedry said he confirmed the mushroom's toxicity by feeding extracts to mice and measuring creatine kinase, a...

Sleep, snoring....stroke

...% of those who remained alert during the day, even after classic risk factors which could lead to stroke were ruled out.The Stroke Association said they had found the study "fascinating" and called for more research....

Antidepressant helps obesity

... lost weight. They continued for another 16 weeks, after which time those on bupropion lost nearly 10 per cent of their body weight, on average, of which 70 per cent was fat. The benefits were maintained during two years of follow-up. It is not known how bupropion works in weight loss, although it's known ...

Drug abuse leads to long standing changes in the brain

...he damaging effects of methamphetamine. However, after controlling for this overall increase in metabolism in the methamphetamine abusers, the investigators showed that metabolism was significantly reduced in two brain regions?the thalamus and striatum. These regions are involved in dopamine signaling, b...

Is Obesity a risk factor?

...s weight may even be helpful. At one and two years after the start of the study, the overweight and obese patients had a higher survival rate. But at five years, there was no significant difference in survival based on body weight.// The reason why overweight seems to be protective in heart failure needs...

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