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Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

...and older. The decrease found in women in the same age range was not large enough to be statistically significant. Pell suspects this was probably due to the smaller number of procedures performed on women. "The main improvement has been in cardiac surgery, with the increased use of arterial grafts, pa...

Choose your mate

...as carried out on fruit flies of a wide variety of age groups. The scientists measured offspring in terms of their viability, their wing size, asymmetry of features and the number of tooths on their sex combs which are used to purport females. The main difference between offspring was that those whose m...

Science of swooning

...rried out on 23 men and one woman, with an average age of 28, who stretch out in a metal cylinder while a vacuum was applied to it to lower the pressure on their bodies. This assumed the gravitational stress of standing up. Blood flow in their forearms was measured at four different gravitational levels ...

To get the better of

... Ohio University, studied 65 women with an average age of 32. //The women were asked to go to a clinic within a few hours after their sexual encounter for a post-coital test to measure how much sperm had been viable in the cervical mucus.They were also asked about whether their sexual encounter had been ...

Women's strong sense of smell

...A US study shows that women who are of procreative age are far better in sensing the fragrance than men d...s in olfactory superiority are not found in middle age and beyond (50-87 years), personality and semantic memory were found to be better predictors of odou...

Why skin sags

... or she is a smoker, the actuality is that smokers age faster than non smokers.A study by dermatologists, published in The Lancet, shows that smoking actuates the genes responsible for a skin enzyme that breaks down collagen in the skin.// Collagen is the main structural protein of the skin and maintain...

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

...ions that the effects of those medications in that age group aren't well understood. Under the 1993 Natio...e now eligible to take the drugs fall outside that age range. The new guidelines also force a significant shift in the proportion of men and women who'll p...

New therapy for bone cancer

...tested on 21 patients with bone cancer, ranging in age from 15 to 50. All had failed to benefit from other treatments and had multiple bone cancer sites. Most had a good or excellent response to the samarium - with two going into complete remission. Samarium targets bone cancer cells only, so it is freer...

Depression elevates heart failure risk

...articipants - 1000 men and 1500 women - of average age 70. Just over five per cent of the men and nine per cent of the women were classed as depressed at the start of the study. Over a 14 year follow-up, 300 participants developed heart failure. This meant that 20 per cent of depressed women developed he...

Senior drug card saves little

...ch provides health insurance to all Americans over age 65, does not cover prescription drugs used outside the hospital. Last year, Democrats and Republicans, including President Bush, campaigned for office with promises to add drug coverage to Medicare. So far no plan has made it even out of a congressio...

WBC linked with periodontitis

...ontitis.The scientists showed that at six weeks of age the// genetically engineered mice had lost 27 percent of their alveolar bone whereas the normal mice had no bone loss. The loss of alveolar bone, which anchors teeth in place, is an indication of periodontitis. The scientists also supplied evidence...

Mutation connected to Osteoporosis

...most elderly women and many elderly men. Up until age 30 healthy people have the ability to grow new bone but after that time the bone building cells, called osteoblasts die off and with those cells goes the ability to make bone. As the mineral content of bone decreases, the bones become fragile and eas...

Toxins linked with pregnancy loss

...actors need to be addressed, including gestational age at the time of exposure, the duration of exposure, the impact of other factors or agents to which the mother, and the physiological status of the mother. In addition, in a given population, the interrelationship between frequency of exposures, freque...

Depression hurts the heart

...gist, and colleagues followed 2847 people over the age of 55//- both with and without heart disease- for four years to trace the effects of depression. They then found that people with major depression were at least three times as likelyto die of heart disease as were patients who weren't depressed.Even...

Smoking during pregnancy increases risk of cleft palate

...ch day, even after factors like the mother's race, age and educational level are considered. The finding, based on the largest-ever examination of cleft lip and palate incidence nationwide, suggests that the deformity should be added to the list of potential harmful effects from smoking during pregnancy....

Reducing Lung Cancer Risk

People who stop smoking before they reach middle age can shun most of the dangers of developing lung ca...r. There are now twice as many Britishers over the age of 50 who are former smokers compared with those who continue to smoke.// Over the past four decades...

Prescription Drug Use Varies Widely Between States

Until now, your age and gender were among the best indicators of how you might use prescription drugs. With today's release of the first comprehensive state-by-state study of prescription drug use, where you live also can say a lot about which and how many medications y...

Tongue piercing leads to bacterial infection

...and complication rates are representative for this age group, these morbid events comprise a considerable demand on and cost to the heath care system,"Dr. Mayer added....

Toxin connected to 'Flesh-eating' Pneumonia in Kids

...e PVL-negative patients were far older, ranging in age from 60 to 70, and typically had underlying conditions such as diabetes and lung disease that put them at higher risk of pneumonia. In contrast, the PVL-positive cases occurred in children, teens and adults in their 20s, none of whom had serious unde...

Obesity in children a risk factor for diabetes

...t. The researchers found that even in the 11 to 18 age group, 21% had signs of insulin resistance. Five...iabetes. "And, if they develop diabetes before the age of 20, they face a lifetime of being at very high risk for complications." Diabetic complications ...

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