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The issue of urinary incontinence

...ve banged upon a synthetic polymer. The technology came from the disposable nappy now in very widespread use. But doctors were slow to accept that adults could or should wear nappies -instead, they resorted to indwelling catheters, which compounded the problem because they raise the risk of urinary tract ...

Suicide might be inherited

...y investigators, who did not know which group they came from, for various factors that could lead to suicidal behavior, including mood disorders, suicide attempt history, impulsive aggression, and exposure to family stress. Results showed children of the suicide attempters had a six-fold higher risk of s...

Benign eye tumors being treated

...r two weeks. In the second case, a 40 year old man came to the clinic complaining of flickering lights and decreased visual acuity in his left eye. The third subject was a 65 year old man who had been initially diagnosed in 1995 and followed for the next 5 years, during which time he began to experience s...

Importance of type of sex in organ transplantation

...ey were 12 per cent more likely to reject it if it came from another woman. Female donated hearts were mor...ct the organ than their male counterparts. When it came to liver transplantation, results were less clear - female-donated livers were more likely to be rej...

Myth of 'female impotence' created to boost sales

...cademics who were working on this long before they came to us to ask us for support."...

The Happiness Formula....

... Life coach Pete Cohen who co-wrote the study and came up with the equation says that many people wrongly assume that happiness lies in having lots of money or a big car or a big house and tend to focus on the negative things in life while we should be focusing on what we want and getting it. He believes...

Diabetics & Foot infections

...a result of doctors discovering that many patients came to the Centre with advanced neuropathy and often had to undergo amputation to save their lives. They decided that a little change in lifestyle and proper foot care would help avoid these problems. The study examined 1,660 patients in the ‘high risk’...

New standards for Human Research Safety

...y of clinical tests// in humans. This announcement came close on the heels of U.S. officials moving to suspend gene therapy studies pending an investigation of side effects in a French study, which found a cure for "bubble boy disease". Bubble boy disease - an immune disorder formally called severe combin...

Heart problems detected better with a Cardiac MRI

... heart attack. The study involved 161 patients who came to the ER after experiencing 30 minutes of chest pain, but had ECG results that didn't suggest a heart attack. These patients were later (within 12 hours) administered a cardiac MRI. They found that MRI significantly improved the diagnosis of ACS as ...

Proof that Vitamin C may be effective in combating colds

... in the period immediately after the two weeks and came back to normal after about two weeks. This proved that the effect of vitamin C is short-lived. The researchers also added that contrary to the belief that several grams of vitamin C in a day has toxic effects, they found no toxic side-effects in thei...

Old theory of adaptation confirmed by new study

The adaptation theory that came up in 1971 argued that people react to good and bad events in their life, but they eventually return to a stable level of well-being. Researchers from Michigan State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, France and England confirmed...

Smoking habit affects your baby's health

...hold for the sake of the child? A statistics that came out of a recent meeting of the Baxter County Tobacco Control Committee was that// Baxter County has the highest rate of pregnant women who smoke. Maybe these women soothe their consciences by telling themselves that smoking is really not all that bad...

Less exercise cause obesity in teens

...t on data from three organizations. Data on weight came from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and data on physical activity was from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, both maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data on caloric intake was from the Nationwide Food C...

Abortion may cause mental illness

... than women who delivered. But a strong opposition came from a professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, who said psychiatric problems cause women who become pregnant to feel less capable of raising a child and to terminate their pregnancy, but the reverse may not be true....

Hormone Therapy Linked to Dementia

...involved in the Women’s Health Initiative. The WHI came to an early end last year because of increased health risks in women receiving the combined hormone therapy.// In a small portion of that study regarding memory -- called the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS) -- researchers compared cogn...

Russia Reports First SARS Case

...e Amur river, which forms the frontier with China, came as Chinese President Hu Jintao tried to persuade the world his country could contain the disease.Hu told students in Moscow, at the start of a four-nation tour, that China had introduced strict measures to stop the spread of the deadly virus and that...

Eating Fish Helps the Heart

...rst study that showed the benefits of omega-3 oils came from a 1989 study of 2,033 men with heart disease who were given dietary advice on fat, fiber or fish. After two years, the men who ate fish at least twice a week had a 29-percent reduction in death. There was no benefit in either the fiber or fat gr...

Protection from Dementia

...k for dementia but not cognitive decline, a second came out with the opposite finding, and a third showed a beneficial effect but included only a small number of dementia cases. These researchers conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial involving around 6,100 people with prior strok...

Longer Lung Cancer Survival

...you just long for something." Those words of hope came when she met Oncologist Karen Kelly, M.D., who introduced her to a promising drug called ZD-1839. ZD-1839, specifically targets a specific protein on a cancer cell,Says Dr. Kelly, of University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. Dr. Kelly...

Study supports vegetable diet

...fication centre at St. Michael's Hospital. Funding came from the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Loblaw Brands Ltd., the Almond Board of California and Unilever Canada. The findings on a test of 46 people, with 16 using the new Jenkins diet, appeared in yesterday's J...

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