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Genetic susceptibility in viral encephalitis

...lity// to herpes simplex virus. This suggestion is contradictory to the current scientific theory of how genes function in vulnerability to infections. These findings may be relevant in other infectious diseases also. In the study, scientists focused on blood cells from two French children with a deficiency for...

More Kidney Cancer Is Detected and Treated Early, Yet Death Rate Rises

...000 people in the United States. These seemingly contradictory findings can be explained, in part, through the rising incidence of larger, more lethal tumors, says lead author John M. Hollingsworth, M.D., fifth-year surgery resident with the Department of Urology at the U-M Medical School. “While more and more s...

Sleeping Problems Often Overcome with Alternative medicine

...increased again among those 85 and older which was contradictory to past research which suggested that insomnia is most common among the elderly. The researchers conclude, "Taken together, our data justify further research on the efficacy of these complementary and alternative medicine therapies to treat sleepin...

Simi Valley Nuclear Meltdown Effects Greater than Suspected

... released by an independent advisory panel and are contradictory to years of assertions by the federal government stating that no radioactive material was released during the meltdown, thereby causing no public health threat to the surrounding community. These radiations could have possibly caused some 260 cancer...

Donate Kidney And Get Released From Jail Soon

...ssed in 1984 on organ transplant is reported to be contradictory to the present recommendation on organ donation. But Senator Anderson is very optimistic and feels that this legislation will be passed. According to him, this legislation if passed has the potential to improve the health care services in the country...

Health Trusts Hit Hard by Dental Contract

...ound the country in a climate of endless and often contradictory reform. Yet the Government is introducing yet more volatility into the system. "This is a shocking example of an ill-thought out reform wreaking financial havoc on the health service." The dental contracts were introduced in England and Wales las...

Alcoholism Develops Cognitive Problems in Women

...tion of stimuli and name colors when compared with contradictory information. And here it was the women drinkers who fared the worst. Alcohol dependence (AD) is more common among partners of alcoholicsThan among partners of non-alcoholics. A new examination of spousalSimilarity for alcohol consumption and AD ris...

Jury Still Out on Cardiovascular Risk of Using HRT

...HD, the Womens Health Initiative (WHI) study found contradictory results. Now a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) takes a second look at the results from the WHI study, asking whether the cardiovascular risks of HRT differ with age and time after onset of menopause. The fi...

Appetite-regulating Peptides Influence Alcohol Cravings

... "However, these former investigations have shown contradictory results which may have been due to their use of samples of alcoholics without specifying subgroups. This raised the idea of investigating these peptides in specific subtypes of alcohol dependence." he added. The researchers analysed data gathered ...

Late Clamping of Umbilical Cord may Reduce Anemia in Children

...ortance of when clamping should be done have shown contradictory results. A doctoral thesis carried out at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Granada by Catalina de Paco Matallana shows that the clamping of the umbilical cord of newborns from full-term pregnancies (that is, infants ...

Soy Products a Double-edged Sword for Breast Cancer

... estrogens in breast cancer have yielded seemingly contradictory findings. Some found that feeding genistein to female rats prior to puberty reduced the number of chemically induced mammary tumors. Other studies showed that estradiol, a primary human estrogen, spurs the growth of existing estrogen-dependent breast...

Sex Advice to Teens by Parents Focuses More on the Negative Aspects

... questions, namely: How do young men discuss these contradictory opinions? What messages win? What might make men listen to their parents advice and not the sexual advice of their peers and the media? The authors added that the most important question for future research is which types of messages from which...

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