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Toxic effects common with AIDS treatments

.... The researchers identified specific associations between different compounds, including lipodystrophy and high creatine phosphokinase concentrations with stavudine, thrombocytopaenia with saquinavir, mood disorders with lamivudine and hyperlactataemia with didanosine and stavudine. However, the reported ef...

The mouth-heart connection

...ene for heart disease. A new study uncovers a link between the mouth and the heart - C - reactive protein (CRP). Researchers at the University of Buffalo find that people with gum disease have higher than normal CRP levels. // It may be that oral bacteria enter the circulation via the gums, and then trigge...

Depression disturbs heart rate

...in heart disease.Mounting evidence suggests a link between depression and heart attacks. Researchers at Washi...of heart attack patients admitted to coronary care between 1996 to 2000.// Of the group, 300 patients had been diagnosed with depression and their electrocar...

New gene for hairloss

...he new work, there is no evidence of a direct link between the hairless gene and typical baldness. In fact, this new study does not explain why the gene causes the rare hair-loss disorders when it malfunctions. Accoeding to researchers, many types of hair loss probably share a similar biological mechanism, ...

Pollution- hazardous for diabetics

...llinois for 1988 to 1994 and have uncovered a link between PM10 exposure and heart problems in people with diabetes.// PM10s increase the risk of heart rate variability , thrombosis, and inflammation. The data show that the risk is doubled when you have diabetes. It's possible that pollution exposure and d...

Animal Fat Enhances Risk Of Stomach

... the past 30 years. To investigate potential links between these and two other types of stomach and esophageal cancers and dietary factors, Dr. Susan T. Mayne from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues interviewed more than 1,000 patients and nearly 700 healthy people in three states.// ...

Short stature -a problem

...logists."// A sample of 345 short children, aged between five and 16, were tested for intelligence, academic achievement, social skills and behaviour problems before starting growth hormone therapy. They were examined again over a three-year period after starting treatment. Scientists initially found the...

Fructose cause digestive problems

...niversity of Iowa have been investigating the link between fructose intolerance and the symptoms of irritable...rance. More research is needed to confirm the link between fructose and gastrointestinal problem - but, in the meantime, a low fructose diet may provide relief...

Photographs for Diagnosis

... computer program to measure and compare the ratio between the size of arterial blood vessels, taking blood to the eye, and venuolar blood vessels, taking it back to the heart....

Drugs to stop burgeon of HIV

... out of the cell."We had to make a conceptual leap between ion channels and the budding process" said Professor Gage who works in the Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Australian National University. "We had an idea this would affect it but we didn't know how." "The same part of Vpu is i...

Contraceptives have dual effects

...ates for women who had taken an oral contraceptive between the mid-1970s and 1980s.Lead researcher Dr Carline , from the Institute of Pharmacological Research in Milan, Italy, said: "For a while now we have suspected oestrogen in the Pill could protect against bowel cancer and our research has gone some way ...

The phenomenon of sexual attraction

...er differences in perceptions about attractiveness between the men when they were under the influence of the ..."This is part of what we call the chemical warfare between the sexes, in which one tries to exploit the other." Professor Grammer presented the University of...

Is there a link between bones and memory?

...y people, researchers have uncovered a strong link between thin bones and poor verbal memory. To investigate, Zhang and colleagues analyzed the relationship between bone mineral density (BMD) and verbal memory impairment among more than 4,300 elderly people include...

Detection of Cancer

...ncer and therefore give us a way of distinguishing between them," said Professor Pat.Preliminary studies on both animals and humans using C-Test1 have provided promising results, and studies are underway to develop C-Test2, he said....

Drugs For Anthrax May Interfere With Oral Contraceptives

...ills should be mindful of the possible interaction between oral contraceptives and the medications recommended by the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to treat anthrax. The CDC recently recommended that antibiotic and anti-infective medications, such as Cipro, doxycycline, and penicil...

Slightly High BP Poses Health Risk

... represents the pressure when the heart is at rest between beats. // In the study, the team of researchers monitored blood pressure levels of 6,859 men and women. They then compared heart disease related illness in people with high-normal blood pressure to people with high blood pressure. Overall, women wi...

Asthma linked to obesity

...e researchers add. Seven thousand children, aged between four and 17, took part in the US National Health a...th Sciences at King's College, London say the link between obesity and asthma is recent....

Older men 'father' schizophrenics

...lness compared to men of 27 or under. And men aged between 45 and 49 are twice as likely to have a child with...ecords of almost 56,000 people// born in Jerusalem between 1966 and 1986, and compared them to data from the Israel Psychiatric Register, which is part of the ...

Miscarriage linked to late embryos

...nt thereafter.The researchers found no association between late implantation and clinical miscarriages that occurred later in pregnancy....

Quit coffee and help your heart

...blood samples from 222 non-smoking coffee drinkers between the ages of 25 and 70. The otherwise healthy volun...roups. One group consumed no coffee, another drank between 1 and 3 cups of coffee per day and the third group drank more than 4 cups of coffee each day.The stu...

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