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Less sleep increases mortality rates

...long sleep is risky - in the meantime, you can get away with six or seven hours knowing you're doing no damage to your long-term health....

Mothers with periodontitis may deliver premature babies

...by. Women who are already pregnant should not shy away from dental care. "I advise periodontists to perform scaling and root planing, along with any supportive therapy, in the second trimester for pregnant patients with periodontal disease," said Dr. Jeffcoat....

Early Warning System For Breast Cancer

...st to detect the protein is still more than a year away from clinical trials. But promising early results show that RhoC can serve as a marker for breast tumors. RhoC, whose full name is RhoC-GTPase, is an enzyme involved in changing the internal skeleton of a cell - changes that allow a cell to polariz...

Filtration treatment assigns more live kidney donation

...etter option all round as the organs work straight away and last twice as long as cadaver kidneys. The new filtration procedure could increase the number of living donor kidney transplants by up to a half, say the researchers....

Breakthrough in eye treatment

...sing different sets of glasses to see and read far away or close up. Till now, the only alternative to gla...that you look through for quality vision. So right away it’s a safety issue that you are not touching the part that you are most using,” Asbell said. br...

A promising treatment for wart removal

...are caused by a viral infection. Sometimes they go away by themselves without treatment but they may be extremely persistent. Standard treatments, by freezing, cutting and corrosive chemicals, are painful, tedious and not very successful. The immunotherapy involves injecting skin antigens - molecules whic...

Gestational Diabetes linked to Chromosomal defici

...ormone insulin. For most women, the condition goes away after giving birth. However, Moore's team points out, for some women gestational diabetes signals an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. For others, it may be precursor to type 1 diabetes, a form of the disease caused by an abnormal immune...

Men happy to take contraception

...re the end of the year. But women shouldn't throw away their pill prescriptions just yet. Pharmaceutical companies are not rushing to put a product on the market, and it is unlikely to appear in the next year or so, said Dr Weston. However, he hopes the survey will disprove the perception that there is ...

Glaucoma may be delayed by eye drops

...ves the eyeball all the time - it's when it drains away too slowly that pressure increases. A team of researchers at University of Texas found that this is the first to assess the long-term effect of eye drops that lower the eyeball (intraocular) pressure on those at risk of glaucoma. They examined 1,50...

Hormone Therapy applicable for Prostate Cancer

... said. The reason it is used cautiously is "taking away the male hormone actually affects the marker we use" to detect cancer levels, Koeneman explained. That marker is called prostate-specific antigen or PSA, which is hormone-dependent. Hormone suppression may lower PSA levels suggesting the prostate can...

A new herbal therapy to quit smoking

... Date, a 24-hour period, when the person will keep away from smoking and resume. This is done to reduce the stress of quitting, according to therapists at Newtrition. The Ultimate Quitting Date is then fixed, five days before which the smoker will begin sessions of hypno-therapy, which includes counsell...

Naltrexone effective for drinking problems

...at drug addiction, which acts on the brain to take away the pleasure of drinking. Spanish researchers looked at a group of 150 alcohol-dependent patients with the Mediterranean drinking pattern. Half were given naltrexone and half a placebo for 13 weeks. After this time, only 8% in the naltrexone group re...

Reasons why men die earlier

...llocate important resources, such as taking energy away from the immune system and using it for other purposes. Another explanation for the increased risk for parasitic infections among males, however, may simply be that men are bigger than women and thus provide a larger target for parasites. Owens note...

Heart attack kills one in every 10 Indians

It is a slow killer that ticks away in one out of every 10 Indians. It strikes fatally every 30 seconds. These were among the facts and figures trotted out on Sunday at an event to spread awareness// on World Heart Day. Gathered in front of the Victoria Statue, Cubbon Park, were offici...

Allergies: A major health problem

... it results in hives. Indoor allergies can be kept away by preventing dust mites, animal dander and other such substances coming into contact with our body. Dr. Mary Worstell, an eminent authority attached to American Asthma and Allergy Foundation observes: Your bedroom is where you spend most of your tim...

Cholesterol lowering drugs aid people after heart transplant

...d for those who did not go on simvastatin straight away the rate was 60.5 per cent. The researchers think the difference is due to the effect of statins on the arteries - reducing the thickening that tends to occur after a heart transplant....

Stress triggers acne

...d cleanser, day and night, is essential in keeping away pimples. However, skin must not be scrubbed or washed too often, since this may trigger irritation or excessive oil secretion. An over-the-counter benzoyl peroxide preparation can help clear up acne above and below the surface of the skin. If pimp...

Artificial discs available as replacements for damaged discs

... and half years) and the patients are mobile right away contrary to those undergoing fusion surgery, who have their motion restricted for up to a year. The other major benefit that the artificial disc appears to offer is that motion remains at the disc, which does not put additional stress on adjacent dis...

Cancer gene mystery to be cracked!

...ey would precisely find out what needs to be taken away from cancerous cells to make it normal again. Sir Paul Nurse, Chief Executive of Cancer Research, UK, on the other hand, added that the next challenge for scientists was to unravel the mystery of each human gene and find out what each gene was doing....

Ways to whiter teeth!

...and berries. These stains can initially be brushed away with toothpaste, but over time, they penetrate the enamel, and a toothbrush cannot get at the deep stains. More recently however, dentists have been developing peroxide-containing gels which can tackle the stains that penetrate the tooth enamel. The ...

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