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Irregular Periods Linked to Diabetes

...t-year follow-up, the risk was twice as high, even after we adjusted for body mass and other factors," says Dr. Caren G. Solomon, an associate physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The study is the first to specifically link menstrual cycles and Type II diabetes. The study uses data from t...

Deprived sleep leads to ageing

... The important thing was to feel thoroughly rested after waking up.In many cases the quality of sleep was more important that the quantity, he said. He said persistently high levels of glucose increased the risk of developing diabetes, heart disease and strokes...

First Artificial Heart patient has Major setback

...iving more than 30 days without it. Tools improved after the implant and had even been able to dine out at ...week. Similar bleeding during the first two months after the heart implant kept doctors from giving Tools blood-thinning anticoagulants that reduce the risk ...

A Chinese herb kills cancer cells

...ron and then introduced artemisinin and found that after 10 hours all the cells were dead. With leukaemia cells, which can concentrate up to 1020 times more iron than healthy cells, the results were even more dramatic - death within just eight hours. What is basically needed now is some rigorous animal stu...

Pioneering artificial heart patient dies

...ial heart, died at a hospital in Louisville, Ken., after suffering a series of setbacks. TOOLS, 59, died of complications after severe abdominal bleeding. He began bleeding and his organs began failing later, said Drs. Laman Gra...

Research of Ritalin

...the dose used to treat children with ADD and ADHD, after taking into account differences in metabolism between mice and humans. The researchers found Ritalin increased the activity of a gene called c-fos in the striatum, a part of the brain involved in movement and motivation. "These data do suggest that ...

Hormones Linked To Migraines

...ormally, melatonin levels are highest 6 to 8 hours after sunset but levels were found to peak after 3 AM in people with chronic migraines. Levels of prolactin, a hormone that rises during pregnancy to...

Safe for people with asthma

According to a new study even after getting a shot of influenza vaccine, there is no d...n a different pattern.// Every day for two weeks after each injection, the patients were monitored for peak expiratory flow, asthma symptoms and time off s...

Simvastatin Plus Niacin May Lower Heart Risks

...nation plus antioxidants had more artery narrowing after 3 years and their HDL increases were not as strong compared with patients on simvastatin-niacin alone. Their risk of cardiac complications was lower, but not as low as that of patients on the combination alone. Treatment with antioxidants alone actua...

Cut down on fries

...ut women who consumed their hot drinks immediately after making them were three times more likely to develop the disease as those who waited a while for their drinks to cool down.Dr Sharp said: "It's interesting that the risk seems to be higher with tea than with coffee, but perhaps people drink their tea ...

MSI puts on hold plans for operations in Chennai

... operates. Informed sources claim that the company after its wait and watch policy to gauge whether competition in Chennai would wither away has arrived at a conclusion that it would better wait for some more time before the competition melts down. The competition in Chennai among corporate outlets is by w...

Music in link with epilepsy

...ds to process rhythm and pitch and the right looks after timbre and melody. Andrew Potter, chair of the PRS, said: "There has always been anecdotal evidence of other benefits deriving from music and here is a study which brings that evidence together from its original authoritative sources to help music ...

Night borns' risk

...shift. The second one, around 9am, was immediately after day shift staff were taking over responsibilities....

Armpit odour enhances mood

...pled smells taken at random, filling in before and after questionnaires designed to test their mood. People who had inhaled the samples taken from the armpits of old ladies responded significantly more positively. But results showed the smell of young men had a noticeably "depressive effect", an outcome ...

Cirrhosis on the rise

..., cirrhosis deaths are increasing sharply in women after having increased in men for some time//, Professor Liam Donaldson says in his annual report.He adds that females are showing signs of permanent liver damage at an earlier age. Cirrhosis - the permanent scarring and damage of the liver - is irrevers...

Warm yourself to sleep

...d off. In every case, they fell asleep immediately after a shift in blood flow to hands and feet. The phenomenon is closely related to the release of hormones such as melatonin, which regulate sleepiness and wakefulness. The researchers say that a hot water bottle at the feet may not directly act on the c...

Drooping eyelids more common in men

...e between the ages of 12 and 88. They found that after the age of 35, the lower eyelid started to sag, the effect of which was twice as great in men as women. Sagging is caused by the increased laxity of eyelid tissues with age. It may also be related to a loss of fat around the eye socket. Researcher ...

Genetic disorder related with sleep patterns

...sity of Utah say people who cannot stay awake much after 8.30pm and who wake up around 5.30am may be suffering from a disorder called "familial advanced sleep-phase syndrome". This means the person's body clock is three to four hours faster than normal. Writing in Nature Medicine, the scientists, led by ...

Strokes increased during squatting

...pressure avoid squatting; and that doctors looking after people with hypertension measure their blood pressure during a squat as well as when they're sitting or lying....

Cure for Hepatitis B

...to be put on the Indian market by early next year, after which it will move to pharmaceutical counters around the world....

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