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Weight Gain After Post-menopause Could Increase Cancer Risk

...rogen hormones, which are linked to breast cancer, cutting the risk of the disease. (Source: IANS)...

Increasing Numbers Of Dehydrated New Born Babies Needing Emergency hospital care

... also reported that at least 1 in 3 hospitals were cutting down on their maternity care budget and more than half the trusts are not replacing midwives who leave. It was also mentioned that in many areas less training was being imparted to the midwives and that the new mothers are receiving visits by them at...

Exercise Activities Helps To Avoid Heart Ailment

...ever too late for a person to start exercising for cutting down their risk of heart disease.// The researchers particularly taking into consideration the people who were of the habit of being 'couch potatoes' explained that the exercise need not be of any strenuous nature but rather even simple measures li...

US Senate Approves Embryo-research Plan Despite President's Refusal

...tted that many of the cell lines are contaminated, cutting the useable number to 22. With polls showing most Americans support stem-cell research, opposition Democrats are seeking to capitalise on the issue in campaigning for mid-term Congressional elections in November. But it appears unlikely that the ...

New Preventive Strategy to Fight Childhood Obesity

...lthy eating habits, such as limiting portion size, cutting soft drink consumption and adding fruits and vegetables to the children's diet Cutting back on time watching TV Improving parent-child communication to reinforce behaviors that cut back on obesity. Canavera, a 24-year-old native of Brandenburg, Ky., ...

Google-Like Model Used To Diagnose Suspicious Breast Masses Quickly

...ed a sample image to the top 600 most informative, cutting down their CAD system's processing time by one-fourth, to less than 3 seconds per query. The researchers expect to launch a larger study in a year to evaluate the clinical impact of this new approach. Source: Eurekalert...

Horticultural Therapy Offers Measurable Physical, Mental Benefits

...vels,” he said. “It can be as simple as taking a cutting from a plant, rooting it in soil, giving it to someone as a gift and seeing them smile, but horticultural therapy teaches people skills they can use to help make themselves and others happy,” Airhart continued. At its greatest expression, horticult...

Lebanon Fears of Epidemics as the Crisis Deepens

...is continued. Hospitals across Beirut were already cutting power intake in order to save fuel, and patients are being kept with no air conditioning. "We are really trying to save on power, as we fear that in one week we might close," said a doctor at the Lebanese governmental hospital. "Our problem will be...

Exercise Important in Reducing Size of Abdominal Fat Cells

...r for diabetes and heart disease – takes more than cutting calories// , according to new research from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Early results from a five-year study show that exercise should be added to the equation. “The message is very clear,” said Tongjian You, Ph.D., instructor in ...

Men Take to Unhealthy Practices to be More Muscular

... to bulk up. They are not eating healthy, they are cutting out major food groups like carbohydrates and eating massive amounts of protein.” While men in American society are feeling increasing pressures to achieve the perfect body, Tylka said women still get a disproportionate share of the pressure. “Wo...

Keep Australia's GP Workforce Numbers Healthy, AMA Urges

...r young doctors," Dr Haikerwal said. "That means cutting the paperwork burden on family doctors, allowing them to spend more time with their patients, ensuring indemnity premiums are not disproportionately high for part-time doctors, keeping general practice financially competitive with other specialisatio...

Conference on developing new treatments for Tourette Syndrome

...lts. "Clearly, it is time for recent findings from cutting edge neuroscience to inform new treatments for TS," Scahill said. (Source: Eurekalert)...

What does High-fiber Foods Really do?

.... McNeil says, "Dr. Miyake developed a very potent cutting edge technology involving the two photon laser that allowed us to blast small holes in cells, mimicking what happens in the living animal. It also allowed us to assess in those living cells whether they could reseal, repair the damage and how they mi...

Cooling Temperatures Help Crucian Carp

...m, preventing diffusion of oxygen from the air and cutting off aquatic plants from the light needed for photosynthesis, Paajanen said. The ponds in Finland gradually lose oxygen following the summer, and from February to April the ponds have virtually no oxygen. Members of the carp family are known for thei...

Scientists In UK Issue A Caution Over Untested Stem Cell Treatments

..., and further adding, “We worry that those who are cutting corners risk discrediting the field as well as betraying patients.” Stem cells are immature cells, which have the ability to become different kinds of tissue. The cells extracted from early embryos less than 14 days old can potentially be focussed ...

'Mix and match' of proteins may have a significant role in immunity

...er in Seattle, Washington, and his colleagues that cutting and modification took place at protein level in some normal cells. They have reported in this week’s Science that proteins can undergo chopping and alteration to produce a variety of structures from the original protein. Peptides, a group of short ...

Survival rates improve with better treatment options for medulloblastoma

... intensity of radiation to individual patients and cutting short the length of intensive chemotherapy improves outcome for those// suffering medulloblastoma. A team of investigators led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has announced that improved treatment measures for childhood brain cancer medul...

New System Monitors Tiny 'Earthquakes' in Bones to Prevent Fractures

...'s really hard to measure stresses in bone without cutting open the bone to study it," Akkus said. "And there is very little warning because you don't have horrible pain. You might have some discomfort, but you can keep exercising or whatever activity you are doing." From 1 percent to 20 percent of U.S. ba...

Potential Diagnostic Marker Indicates Effectiveness of Anti-Angiogenic Drugs

...ndothelial cells lining tumor blood vessels and/or cutting off the supply of endothelial cells from bone marrow. These drugs are typically paired with chemotherapy agents. Unlike anti-angiogenic drugs, chemotherapy agents directly assault tumor cells, and a reliable therapeutic biomarker for evaluating these...

Surveys Find Outright Hunger among Latino Immigrants in North Carolina

...actions as relying on just a few kinds of food and cutting meal size for children and adults. Quandt and her colleagues found that “food insecurity” ranged from 35.6 percent to 41.8 percent in the four surveys, compared to 13.3 percent in the United States. Besides Forsyth County, the other surveys inclu...

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