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Visual Impairment Linked to Greater Mortality Risk

...gnificantly associated with all-cause mortality in all ages. mAmong persons younger than 75 years, howeve...higher all-cause mortality." Among participants of all ages, having cataract also was associated with a higher risk of death from any cause," they added. ...

Parkinson's Targets Two Distinct Brain Networks, Finds Study

...ned them on to get brain scans at different points all through the study. Some were on medicines and some were not. The first networks to be identified were the basal ganglia, thalamus and brain stem that regulate movement. The scans they used measured glucose metabolism - the brain's fuel - and identifi...

Now, 'virtual' Mouse Brains Available on the Net

... growing library of 3-D mouse brain data, and make all the data available on the web http: tinyurl.com/3c...n genes and brain structure. Investigators from all over the world are sending their models to Duke, where the 3-D images are acquired in a standardized...

Medical Science Strides-No Guarantee For Pre-Mature Babies

...re more likely to be girls than boys, and they are all born small for gestational age, often because their mothers had pregnancy-associated high blood pressure. A normal-size fetus at just 20 weeks' gestation weighs 11 ounces, at which point the organs would be too immature for survival outside the wom...

Macca Calls for Veggie World to Prevent Global Warming

...ror quoted the 65-year-old as saying. "And it's all done in the name of something that benefits humans, when in fact it's the opposite. It's all about attitudes, no one thinks they're the one who has to change," he added. McCartney also recall...

No Sex Education, Say Uttar Pradesh Teachers

Uttar Pradesh is all set to introduce sex education in its schools from.... The association proposes to issue a circular to all its members to oppose the entry of the books and teaching material in their own educational institut...

Singapore Dengue Fever Cases Hit Year's Peak

...unities to breed in minute pools of stagnant water all over the island," they said. Three people have died from dengue and there have been 4,029 cases of the disease in the first 27 weeks of the year, a figure which is up sharply from 1,679 in the same period last year. Singapore experienced its wors...

Teens Seems to Be Smoking Less

...out 15.1 percent of boys and 17 percent of girls - all between the ages of 13 and 15 - said they were regular smokers. The corresponding result for 2005 was 4.9 percent of the boys and 5 percent of the girls. The studies are done every five years. Declines in smoking rates fell as states began cutting ...

Hormone Inhibitor in Prostate Cancer Treatment

...r cells to grow, so the first treatment option for all men with prostate cancer that has spread, is to use chemical suppressants or surgery to inhibit testicular synthesis of male hormones. However, this treatment does not block the production of male hormones elsewhere in the body. Abiraterone, a drug...

Reduction in Drug Costs

...ion. The different classes of antihypertensive are all effective but their costs vary widely. Thiazides, for example, are a tenth of the price of many non-thiazide drugs. In Norway, as in many other developed countries, guidelines were introduced to encourage doctors to use thiazides but the level of t...

Americas Best Hospital Reduced Heart Attack Rates

...lude. However, our study also revealed that not all ranked hospitals had outstanding performance and t...rmance on outcomes, they fall short of identifying all the top hospitals with respect to 30-day survival after admission for acute myocardial infarction an...

MEN as Partners to MEND Maternal Health A World Population Day Initiative

...unplanned pregnancies, contraception is a must and all women must have access to it. For expectant women,...men. The envisaged initiatives will include men of all ages and will also take into account the cultural, social, and economic background which influences ...

Apple a Day Keeps Asthma Away

...ntain healthy diets and lifestyles for children of all ages....

Eco-architecture Takes Root in Thailand, but Growth is Slow

...enforce legislation and mandatory requirements for all new buildings to incorporate and adopt 'green building' concepts," he adds. Bangkok's Governor Apirak Kosayodhin in May announced an environmental plan for the capital, which included promoting energy-efficient buildings. But as yet, no incentives ...

Britains Free Fruit -And -Vegetable -Scheme Falls Flat

...among young children could have been in vain after all . Professor Janet Cade and colleagues of Leeds...etable message also needs to be carried forward at all meal times and throughout a child's education. Says Cade: "To provide an effective intervention to...

Milk and Dairy Products Protect Against metabolic Syndrome

...ntative sample of 2375 men aged between 45 and 59, all of whom were part of a long term study on health, known as the Caerphilly Prospective Study. Two or more out of high blood glucose, insulin, blood fats, body fat, and blood pressure defined the presence of the metabolic syndrome in the men studied....

Dotted All Over? - Count Yourself Lucky

...es can occasionally turn cancerous. Nearly half of all malignant melanomas begin in moles so one that loo... bundles of DNA found at the end of chromosomes in all cells. As cells divide, the telomeres shorten until a point where the chromosomes become unstable. T...

Contamination of the Environment by Antibiotics Fed to Livestock

...rinary antibiotic. This antibiotic was taken up by all three crops. Concentrations of antibiotics were found in the plant leaves. Concentrations in plant tissue also increased as the amount of antibiotics present in the manure increased. It also diffused into potato tubers, which suggests that root crops...

Stem Cells Research in Parkinsons Disease

...ell. Dr. Sanberg said the study has relevance to all audiences. This was one of the first studies to look at stem cells in primates with Parkinsons disease. Its the first step in translating that research, he said. We hear about new sources of stem cells monthly, but how we take those cells and treat...

Gallstone Gene Discovered by Research Team

...ur very frequently, affecting 15 to 20 per cent of all Germans, usually without noticeable symptoms. But ... covering 178 women and men from 84 families. They all suffer from gallstones. In 21.4 per cent of cases the subjects were found to be carrying a particula...

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