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Breathing Cancer Causing Compounds During Pregnancy Found To Affect Offspring

...early all childhood cancers can probably be traced back to a mother’s inhalation of noxious substances. The study compared a chemical emissions map with all children age 15 and younger who died from leukemia and other cancers between 1968 and 1980. Results showed kids who were born within a one-kilometer...

The Link Between Weight Loss and Heart Failure

...lure patients lose weight or how to put the pounds back on. The study focused on elevated levels of angiotensin II, a substance in the blood that causes vessels to contract and blood pressure to rise . A study conducted in mice that showed administration of the substance led to significant weight loss an...

Is Surgery The Only Solution To Backache?

...gton, D.C. recently, // researchers have said that back pain may be the result of several problems other t...d that patients who had other health troubles than back pain had benefited much less from the surgery. The study participants were requested to fill out ...

Understanding The Mystery Behind Sleepless Nights

...estful but they also say its never too late to get back on the right path. Researchers suggest the best ting to do is to cut out caffeine after noon and to skip naps. According to researchers taking a nap is probably a bad idea because one gets only so much sleep in a 24-hour period. Avoiding Internet s...

More Errors From Computerized Prescriptions

...als each year. One way hospitals are trying to cut back on that number is with computerized physician-order entry systems. But according to a new study, use of computerized systems may actually be leading to more mistakes. There are a few reasons to think computerized order entry systems would be better ...

Gene Therapy To Treat Deafness

...may be able to cause clinically deaf people to get back some part of their hearing sensations. Tested on guinea pigs with a positive result, the procedure shows enough promise to be tested on human beings. This is probably the first time it may be possible to do cellular and functional damage repair of ...

Terri Schiavo is no more, but the question of Mercy killing is unresolved…

...y from the state courts to the supreme court., and back again, several times. The death of Terri Schiavo has given rise to a National debate over whether she should have been reconnected to the food tube that provided her with nourishment and hydration. “Today, millions of Americans are saddened by t...

Lidoderm for pain removal in Osteoarthritis

...n the front of the knee and one third patch on the back of the affected knee. The study result showed that after six weeks of treatment majority of the group of people who underwent the treatment reported about 30% pain relief or more. To the other group the treatment was done with Celebrex(R) for knee pa...

Chronic back pain may be relieved by special physiotherapy

... and shortened by stress and overuse and cause the back pain. For most of the patients suffering from lower back pain or neck pain, treatment is often in the form of physiotherapy, oral and intramuscular/intraveno...

Hormone Replacement Therapy increases the risk of endometrial cancer

...procedure for postmenopausal women who want to get back to a normal life. Currently HRT had been under a lot of flak// as time and again it has been associated to heath risks. The newest health risk of the treatment is the risk of endometrial cancer. Endomertial cancer is the cancer that forms in the end...

Infection in pregnancy can lead to congenital eye defects

...mall eyes or having no eyes //at all may be traced back to the maternal infections. Infections like Rubella in pregnancy are known to cause such birth defects. Now studies have shown that infections such as from Parvovirus and Coxsackie virus may also be responsible for birth defects in newborns. The re...

Exercising for long term relief from lower back pain

... say that exercising may bring relief from chronic back pain to long-term sufferers// After review of li...al abilities of people who suffer from chronic low back pain. They have summarized data collected from 61 trials that had compared exercise therapy with pla...

Strong emotions can cause heart problems

...s and can deliver electric shocks to get the heart back into the right rhythm. The patients were to record the emotions they felt and how strongly, in a scale of 1 to 5, immediately before they felt an electric shock from the implanted device. Out of the 56 shocks recorded during the study, the arrhythmi...

Antibodies to fight HIV infection.

...art of the body’s immunity system can and do fight back against the virus. The new research, which has come out in the journal Nature Medicine reveals, a small amount of body’s antibodies are successful in fighting and stalling the progress of HIV, although to a small extent. Till date the treatment of...

Scientists reveal the secrets of sarcasm

...e in understanding sarcasm. This are includes that back part of prefrontal cortex, and the cortex on top of the eyes and the inside of the frontal lobes. The results are quite in consistence with what is known of brain function, like prefrontal cortex being the seat of language and social cognition. The ...

Surgery of spine for back pain may not be cost effective

People who have been suffering from chronic lower back pain for more than a year are often considered// f...apy. The rehabilitation program slowly brings them back to their life by helping them in getting settled to a new way of life that will not cause any more s...

Diabetic retinopathy in pre-diabetes conditions

...on begins with changes in the blood vessels at the back of the eye leading to loss of vision. Early diagnosis of the condition can lead to treatment with the help of laser photocoagulation that can prevent the onset of blindness in patients. Reference: National Institutes of Health, Press release, June 2...

Restless leg syndrome may remain under-diagnosed in many

...ere diagnosed with poor circulation, arthritis and back problems. The incidences of the condition were twice as high for women as is for men. Reference: Archives of Internal Medicine, June 2005...

Developmental Origins of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

...ng foetal development; we may need to look further back up the generations and look at more factors than previously considered; and finally, adverse events for one generation may have reproductive implications for the next....

It is possible to have stem cell based treatment for eye problems now

... can be used to regenerate the cells need to bring back vision to the eyes. Reference: Science, June 2005...

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