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Fertility Treatment Offered During Summer Has Better Chances For Success

...the sperm quality in men revealed that there was a comparative decline in the sperm quality and sperm concentrations of the samples given during winter. This finding could serve to explain the effect of Vitamin D (a potential anti-oxidant, derived from sunlight) in enhancing the sperm quality. The phenomenon i...

A Saviour For Alzheimer’s Disease: Folate

... of folates, vitamin E and vitamin B6 shared lower comparative rates of the disease. And when the three vitamins were analyzed together, only folates were associated with a significantly decreased risk. In turn, no association was found between vitamin C, carotenoids (such as beta-carotene) or vitamin B-12 int...

Madras High Court Disapproves of Comparative Advertisements

...dras High Court in India has called for curtailing comparative advertisements, after reviewing applications from ... and accurate information to the consumers. Such comparative advertisements among multi-nationals in India are on the rise, wherein a negative impression is soug...

Diarrhea Vaccine Trials Promises Prevention of Rotavirus Infection

...y monitored for the presence of adverse effects. A comparative revealed that there was no increased risk of side effects in the vaccine group. Rotarix, an oral vaccine has been developed by GlaxoSmithKline and clinical trials were conducted to analyze the safety and efficacy of the formulation in over 63,000 ...

Breaks In The HIV Treatment Resulted In Devastating Results.

...itute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. It did a comparative study between two sets of patients one who were on the antiretroviral therapy, with those who were asked to discontinue after they regained the standard white blood cell count and told them to resume the therapy once the count declined to a lower th...

Brain Is More Active While Hiding The Truth, Reveals fMRI Imaging

...ctivity and rate of perspiration were studied. A comparative analysis of both the groups revealed that the fMRI produced reliable results in a majority of the cases (92% accuracy). Specific regions of the brain were repeatedly activated during deception to mask or conceal the areas associated with truth tellin...

Human Complexity Can Be Attributed To Regulatory Sequence

...called as CarGome. Researchers also make use of comparative genomics to study the relationships between the DNA of different species. CArG boxes identified by the computer screen were then tested to see if they interacted with SRF and changed the behavior of genes as predicted. The study disclosed 60 CArG box...

Lip Service : Indiscriminate Kissing Spells Doom

...emia, which is most often fatal. Scientists did a comparative study between the lifestyles of older teenagers in hospital who were suffering disease and a healthy group. The scientists have expressed their opinion in the British Medical Journal, which says "We identified a pattern of risk and protection from me...

Constant Exposure to Noise May Enhance Risk of Heart Attack

...t have a history of heart attack, was used for the comparative study. It was observed that, considering all heart risk factors - smoking, obesity and family history of heart attack, those who were exposed to greater noise levels, certainly had a high heart attack risk. It is still unclear if the use of protect...

Rates of HIV infection shows a sharp decline in south India

...rends between the years 2000 and 2004, to enable a comparative study. HIV rise among 58,790 men attending sexually transmitted infection clinics during the same period was also monitored. The outcome of the study showed that HIV-1 prevalence among women aged 15-24 years in the south dropped from 1.7% to 1.1% fr...

Is Cancer, A Foregone Conclusion, To Afflict Cell Phone Users? FDA does A Reality Check.

...ational Institute for Working Life who conducted a comparative study between statistics from 2,200 cancer patients and a same number of healthy patients. The study revealed that those who used cell phone rather regularly had a risk which was as high as 240% of a malignant tumor on the side of the head closer t...

Males Lifespan Shortened By Elevated Levels Of Testosterone

...l of the hormone. According to foodconsumer.org, comparative studies have studied testosterone levels and related them to mating systems and aggression, but very few studies have attempted to relate testosterone to fitness, that is, the combination of lifetime reproductive success and survival, in the wild or ...

Global Stroke Survey Launched

...een countries will also be investigated to build a comparative picture of standards in stroke care across the globe. Dr. Tomas Odergren, Vice President, Global Product Director, Development at AstraZeneca, commented: ‘Stroke is a medical emergency with potentially devastating consequences if treatment is not s...

A booster for immune systems: unhygienic environs?

A recent comparative study into the lives of wild and laboratory rodents seems to throw light on the aspect of building stronger immune systems when exposed //to germs in the environment, rather than protecting against it. A team of researchers from Duke University an...

Schizophrenia Complicates With Altered Receptor Activity

...ll shift our postmortem methodologies from limited comparative studies to a more experimental approach,’ explains Arnold. ‘This will allow us to tease apart the molecular complexities that contribute to mental illnesses such as schizophrenia.’ (Source: Erekalert)...

CE Sonography Score Over Others in Blunt Abdominal Trauma Assessment

A comparative study of three diagnostic methods used in assessing blunt abdominal trauma revealed that contrast-enhanced sonography proved to have a high //diagnostic value than the other two methods. In a study, the department of emergency, internal medicine, a...

Effective Anti - Psychotic Drugs Pack Health Risk

...ntion Effectiveness investigation to determine the comparative effectiveness of several drugs. In one major study, the investigators compared clozapine to new antipsychotic drugs in a group of patients that had not improved with the new drugs. In April, the investigators reported that clozapine was significant...

External Catheters Linked with decreased UTI Risk in Men

A comparative study, which involved hospitalized men volunteers have found that external ‘condom’ catheter showed lesser urinary tract //infectious risk than the usual 'indwelling' catheters. An 80 per cent reduction in urinary tract infections were found among ...

FDA Approval For Lucentis

...lth, has received an outside proposal to conduct a comparative study on Avastin and Lucentis in treating AMD. The anticipated cost of Lucentis may limit its usage, while Avastin is far cheaper. Neither drug is a complete cure for age-related macular degeneration. The most commonly reported side- effects of...

Physical Activity benefited Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) patients

According to a comparative study, physically active peripheral artery disease (PAD) patients have showed lesser death rates than PAD patients who are physically inactive//. Researchers have also indicated that less physically active PAD patients had an increased risk for hea...

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