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Immune System Protein Could Be the Key Infertility

... MIF into lab dishes filled with healthy sperm, it decreased the count and impaired their motility. Those who had no problems conceiving had levels that were just right. If MIF has a role in infertility, Dr. Al-Abed and his colleagues are wondering whether it might just work as a form of male contraceptio...

Depression Therapy Reduces Suicide Attempts

...er paper showing that the risk of suicide attempts decreased in the weeks after patients started taking antidepressant medication. His new study strengthens his earlier conclusion that for populations of people, even teens and young adults, suicide attempts tend to be rarer right after starting antidepressant ...

Gulf War Veterans Exhibit Memory Impairment

...chemicals and other harmful substances, there is a decreased volume of two brain regions that are closely linked to learning and memory. Roberta White, chair of the department of environmental health at the Boston University School of Public Health, revealed, at the American Academy of Neurology's 59th Annua...

Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

...tal and in their first six months after going home decreased significantly. So did the risk that patients would develop heart failure, have pulmonary edema, or suffer a stroke in their first six months after hospitalization. "These findings are exciting because they provide good evidence that improved use o...

FDA Advisory Against Anti-depressants to Be Expanded to Cover Young Adults too

... adults 65 and older taking antidepressants have a decreased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior. The expanded warnings would emphasize that depression and certain other serious psychiatric disorders are themselves the most important causes of suicide. "Antidepressant medications benefit many patients, ...

New, Less Painful Wound Treatment for Pediatric Patients

...percent of the children given the treatment showed decreased wound volume, and the average amount of wound closure was 80 percent. This is very good news for children with large and complex wounds, such as abdominal wall defects or disrupted surgical wounds, says Dr. Olutoye. Not only is the therapy very effec...

Drinking Heavy Amounts of Alcohol Shrinks Your Brain

...ple who didn't drink. In other words, brain volume decreased .25 percent on average for every increase in drinking category (i.e. non-drinkers, former drinkers, low drinkers, moderate drinkers, or high drinkers). In addition, Paul reported the inverse relationship between drinking and brain volume was slight...

New Therapies may Help to Avoid Transplant in Some Heart Failure Patients

...s collagen and levels of the protein TNF-alpha all decreased significantly between pump implant and heart transplant signs of reduced heart damage. "We now have a much more reliable description of the natural history of the changes in heart function during LVAD support," Maybaum said. "That makes us optimi...

Study to Investigate Gene's Effect on Bone Loss in Breast Cancer Patients

...ns of CYP19 that can result in either increased or decreased aromatase activity. This in turn influences how aromatase inhibitors affect estrogen levels. The Washington University study will analyze the sequence of the CYP19 gene in volunteers to see which variation they possess. "Our hypothesis is that the...

Number of Syphilis Cases Rising Among MSM in U.S.

... said, adding, "Among these men, there seems to be decreased condom use, perhaps related to an attitude of 'I already have HIV, so why bother?' or because HIV is seen as a chronic disease that can be managed well with medications." According to Ginsberg, many MSM in this subset are HIV-positive or learn their ...

First Ever Patch Drug To Treat Parkinsons Symptoms Approved

...Other side effects also include hallucinations and decreased blood pressure when standing up. An estimated 1 million people in the U.S. have Parkinson's, with an additional 60,000 cases diagnosed each year....

Biotechnology Will Dominate The 21st Century

...logy has the potential for ensuring food security, decreased pressure on land use, increased crop yields and reduced use of water and agrochemicals in agriculture. Genetic engineering offers benefits for agriculture, medical treatments, new industrial products, improved fibers and fuels, Shri Mahaveer Bhagora,...

A Stroll Along Countryside Could Reduce Depression and Raise Self-esteem

...dy. While 71 per cent of the participants showed decreased depression levels after the country walk, 90 per c...nt also felt more tensed, and 44 per cent reported decreased self-esteem after window-shopping at the centre. In another study of 108 people with various menta...

Now a Green Agenda for Mental Health

...he results are startling: * 71 per cent reported decreased levels of depression after the green walk * 22 pe...country walk * 44 per cent said their self-esteem decreased after window shopping in the shopping centre. It also showed the views of people who regularly part...

Like Regular Cigarettes, Low Nicotine Ones also Not Good for Heart

...er in smokers than their non-smoking counterparts, decreased further after fagging, again irrespective of the cigarette type. While CFVR fell from 2.68 to 2.05 in the low tar smokers and from 2.65 to 2.18 in the regular tar smokers, it was 3.11 in the non-smokers. The study authors claim that their results...

Talking With Families may Help Prevent Childhood Obesity

...cipants who received motivational interviewing had decreased by 2.6 points on the body mass index scale. There was a decrease of 0.6 points in the control group and 1.9 points in the minimal intervention group. Based on the small size of the study, these results were not statistically significant, which means ...

Saliva Helps to Identify Child Victims of Chronic Bullying

...an normal cortisol reactions that are related to a decreased sensitivity to stress. For their study, the researchers tested the saliva of 94 sixth grade students between 9 to 14 years of age, and sought from them the information about their experience on being bullied or watching someone being bullied, and ...

Quality Improvement Effort Pays Off in Diabetes Care

...for the major complications from diabetes would be decreased if these improvements were maintained. Better care, they concluded, should reduce the lifetime incidence of blindness from 17 percent of patients down to 15 percent, of kidney failure from 18 down to 15 percent and of coronary artery disease from 28 ...

Risk of Bladder Cancer Reduced by Broccoli and Cauliflower

...radish, turnip and watercress is associated with a decreased risk of bladder cancer....

Common Pain Killer may Reduce the Risk of Brain Damage in Premature Babies

...oduction of cells used to build blood vessels, and decreased levels of angiopoietin-2 and VEGF, the two molecules very active in building new blood vessels. Results were spectacular in female rabbits that were given the drugs for two days before delivering their offspring prematurely. The team showed that ce...

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