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Longer Term Breast-feeding Reduces the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Women

...in the future. Furthermore, it adds to the growing body of evidence in favour of breast feeding and its positive health implications this time demonstrating its protective benefits for the mother, Dr Keshavarz added. The study found that breast-feeding for 13 or more months was associated with a reduce...

UK Suggestion for Restricted Use of Anti-AMD Drugs Draws Flak

...ected, yet Nice appear to have ignored this robust body of evidence." Macugen is manufactured by Pfizer. The company's medical director David Gillen said: "Pfizer is very disappointed with this preliminary decision. Macugen has been shown to maintain vision in patients with all types of wet AMD and has...

Experts Warn Against Side Effects of the New Weight Loss Drug

...lli blocks enzymes that digest fat, preventing the body from absorbing about a quarter of the fat eaten. T... Gradually, she begins to lose weight, because her body isn't absorbing all of the fat she eats. Eventually, she achieves her goal and stops taking the drug...

Drink and Drugs 'fuel British Sexual Health Crisis'

...l health crisis" in Britain, a government advisory body report said Friday . Sexual health among the young has deteriorated seriously in the last 12 years, and media coverage of celebrities' hard-partying lifestyles may make the problem worse, the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV said...

Genome Annotation by Mutation

...ded for cells to produce the proteins used to make body parts and carry out most functions in living organisms. Genes typically have 50,000 base pairs but can range in size from a few thousand to 300,000 base pairs, Capecchi says. The genes include only about 2.5 percent to 3 percent of human DNA. In be...

Alzheimers Disease Enzyme may Interfere With Brain Function

...ls consist of an alpha subunit, which makes up the body of the channel, and one or two beta subunits that help to regulate the channels activity. Previous studies from Kovacs team and others showed that the BACE and gamma-secretase enzymes that release amyloid-beta from APP also act on the beta2 subunit...

Risk of Water Intoxication in Endurance Athletes

...organ to function. There is much more fluid in the body than the kidney can excrete. Once a rare occurrenc...most people dont really need that much. When the body is inundated with water, hyponatremia (abnormally low sodium) can result, and in extreme cases, the ...

World Epilepsy Week - 2007

...s. Alice also in her adventures feels that her own body or the objects around her are either shrinking or growing and this is another seizure symptom. Tennyson's seizures involved mystic visions and he wrote: "All at once, out of the intensity of the consciousness of individuality, the individuality it...

Breast-feeding Protects Mothers from Rheumatoid Arthritis

...versity, Sweden. "It further adds to the growing body of evidence in favour of breast feeding and its positive health implications this time demonstrating its protective benefits for the mother," he added. Studies in the past have shown that breast milk is perfectly suited to nourish infants and prote...

Volunteers Remove Garbage from Kashmir's Dal Lake

...al Lakes and Waterways Authority, the governmental body entrusted with the preservation and maintenance of all water bodies in the Kashmir Valley, for the present condition of the lake. "When we see drains and garbage pouring into the lake we wonder where all the funds meant for the lake's preservation ...

Memory T Cells Protect the Body from Viruses

...chers helps explain how memory T cells protect the body from viral diseases. The research shows lymph nod...curs. After becoming sick from many viruses, the body becomes immune (protected) from recurrence of the same disease. This is why before vaccines were dev...

Animal Research Uncovers Another Mechanism of Cholesterol Lowering Drug

..., most of biliary cholesterol is secreted from the body in the feces. However, when the bile contains too much cholesterol, gallstones can result. These hardened pieces of cholesterol can block the passageway from the gallbladder to the intestine, resulting in severe abdominal pain, liver damage and nutri...

Moon, Venus Pair Up, Play Hide-and-seek

...aid: 'A lunar occultation happens when a celestial body appears to have moved behind the moon. Such events happen often but in most cases the star being occulted may be very faint. When bright stars or planets like Venus are occulted by the moon the event can be seen with the naked eyes.' The event was ...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

...hter, weakened her immune system and prevented her body from clearing the measles virus after she was immunized for the disease at age 15 months. Today, Michelle suffers from a long list of health problems, including severe autism, inflammatory bowel disease, glaucoma and epilepsy. The 12-year-old girls...

Scientists Establish Link Between Foie Gras and Disease

...ans of diagnosis and treatment designed to rid the body of harmful amyloid deposits or preventing them from occurring or progressing," he added....

Body's Defence Mechanism Against Viral Disease Discovered

...nce mechanism whereby "memory" T cells protect the body from viral diseases. Published in the online editi...ereby memory T cells prevent viral diseases. The body becomes "immune" from recurrence of the same disease when the immune system produces cells called ly...

Frostbite can Be Treated by Bloodclot Drug

...derwent 14 "proximal amputations" -- closer to the body than fingers and toes -- including five below the knee, the legs and arms of the six other patients were saved, they said. "The preservation of limbs, which maximizes patient functional outcome, is perhaps the greatest benefit conferred by use of t...

Special Backpacks Provide Much Needed Relief for Cancer Patients

...s rehydration fluids, which feed straight into his body through a vein in his arm. Nick says this has given him a new lease of freedom. "I spend a week at the Rosenheim Wing, part of University College Hospital, London, and then I can go for four or five days to the nearby Grafton Hotel, for rest and recu...

Obesity is Linked to Enlarged Heart

...rizona Sarver Heart Center helps explain excessive body weight increases the risk for heart disease. Excessive body weight is associated with a thickening of the heart muscle in the left ventricle, the hearts pumping...

Bone Health Protection by Dietary Calcium

...n can help maintain bone density by preventing the body from stealing the calcium it needs from the bones. The researchers' conclusions about calcium intake, published in the May issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, came from a study of 183 postmenopausal women. The researchers asked the...

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