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New Flu Vaccine Can Give Lifetime Protection

...an consider vaccination: it will give you 80% less chance of getting the flu next winter. For further information contact: Karine Clauwaertkarine.clauwaert@vib.be32-9-244-6611VIB, Flanders Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology (News Source: http://i-newswire.com/pr40686.html) Medindia on Influenz...

Integrin helps healing process in cells

...ll Biology. This breakthrough gives us the chance of unraveling the unknown truths of wound healing....

Lost Teeth Could Signal Heart Problems

... Patients who lost the most teeth had the greatest chance of developing plaque buildup. Among those missing zero to nine teeth, 45 percent had plaque buildup in their artery vessels. Sixty percent of those missing 10 or more teeth had buildup in their arteries. Researchers say the participants with gum dis...

Solarium use is associated with an increased risk of skin cancer

...ning salons once or more per month increased their chance of developing melanoma by 55 percent.The risk was highest for young adults. Compared with women who never used a solarium, women who reported using artificial tanning systems once or more per month when they were between the ages of 20 and 29 increas...

Naturally Occurring Hormone Can Lead To Miscarriage

...s had an increased rate of miscarriage or a higher chance of having an underdeveloped child if they carried their baby to term. Thus researchers say their data shows, for the first time in humans, that high levels of thyroid hormone can exert a direct toxic effect on fetal development. Researchers say they...

Decreasing Multiple Births By Single Embryo Transfers

...fer during in vitro fertilization can decrease the chance of multiple births without substantially lowering live births, // according to a new study. Researchers studied 661 women younger than 36 and compared the two approaches of in vitro fertilization. They also evaluated pregnancy rates resulting in at ...

Vitamins Found To Influence Birth Weight

... than 2.4kg or 5.5lbs) and they have a 50 per cent chance of having a severely disabling condition// as a result of being too light. Healthy birth weights are also generally a marker for good health in infancy and later life. Gynecologists say that many women are missing the critical first few weeks of g...

Myth Of Childhood Vaccinations Linked To Increased Hospitalization Busted

...was within the limits of what would be expected by chance alone and the effect was not temporal or dose-response. Conversely, the 15 observed protective associations suggest that vaccination may have non-targeted protective effects. When considering aggregated vaccine exposure, the researchers found no ad...

First-Born Children Are Not At Increased Risk From Multiple Sclerosis

... says that the fact that first-borns have a higher chance of having multiple sclerosis is nothing but a myth. Birth order of the children does not increase their risk of having the disease, nor does their family size // have any affect on the incidence of multiple sclerosis. Studies suggest that both envir...

New Infertility test to be offered by Reliance

...had miscarriages. “We tell such patients that heir chance s of pregnancy are very low and miscarriages very high. It is up to them then to go ahead with the IVF treatment, “said patki. The test is a very simple test called FISH (Fluorescent in situ hybridization) technique and involves sophisticated equip...

New Strategies For Effective Treatment Of Malaria

...t deadly form of malaria, artesunate increased the chance of survival by a third. The researchers feel that novel approaches is required for treatment of malaria, by using combinations of anti-malarial drugs, the same approach which is used in the treatment of AIDS and TB is required for combating malaria....

Test For Mad Cow Disease Is Here

...ot transmit vCJD, and give researchers their first chance to figure out how many people may be incubating the disease. Researchers had applied a method they call protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) to blood samples taken from 18 prion-infected hamsters that had developed clinical symptoms of pri...

Genes responsible for cancer in women associated with increased cancer risk in men

...of cancer among their family members who had a 50% chance of being a carrier - this amounted to 1,811 people. Out of 441 people tested for BRCA2, just over two thirds (69%) carried the mutation. In total the researchers found 158 cancers among the 303 carriers of the genetic mutation. This compared to ju...

Aromatase Inhibitors drug Femara after Tamoxifen therapy protects from breast cancer recurrence

...urrence occurs in some cancer patients, though the chance of metastasis is very less as only 1 in 10000 cells has the capacity to reach the blood stream and cause cancer in a new organ. Recurrence mostly occurs due to pitfalls or not properly taking therapy or tablets, even tamoxifen resistance developed ...

Polycystic Ovary In Women May Raise Liver Disease

...r from polycystic ovary syndrome have a heightened chance of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Two out of three women with Polycystic// Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), according to a new study that described this relationship for the first time. Experts...

Combined modality approach for effective treatment and enhanced survival in bile duct cancer

...al operation. A new approach that offers greater chance of survival by involving a combination of liver tr...ients with bile duct cancer now have a much better chance to live longer and enjoy a good quality of life," says Charles Rosen, surgeon and co-author of the s...

Novel antibiotic dressing developed for improved wound healing

...he wound, which can slow healing and increases the chance germs will develop resistance. The antibiotic substance has to be efficiently mass-produced in such a way it can be permanently made adherent to wound dressings or perhaps it could even be applied to ready-to-wear clothing. However, large-scale indu...

Soy protein not only for women’s health but for men’s to.

...y protein-containing foods have a 30 percent lower chance of developing prostate cancer. The researchers looked at eight studies examining the relationship between the consumption of soy protein foods and prostate cancer. The meta-analysis is supported by a cross-national review of mortality rates and nutr...

Soy Protein Not Only For Women’s Health But For Men’s To

...y protein-containing foods have a 30 percent lower chance of developing prostate cancer. The researchers looked at eight studies examining the relationship between the consumption of soy protein foods and prostate cancer. The meta-analysis is supported by a cross-national review of mortality rates and nutr...

Flu Vaccine Can Be Used To Treat Lung Cancer

...ned that the human immune system usually stands no chance against cancer, as it cannot distinguish between healthy and cancerous cells. But now they had succeeded in altering an existing influenza vaccine so that it acted on the immune system like a sparkplug, giving it a kick-start. Then the system becom...

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