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Mentally Demanding Jobs Found To Reduce The Risk Of Alzheimer’

...e had jobs with more physical demands. However, no differences were seen in social and motor demands of the jobs held by the two groups. Researchers say they are not clear what the link is between mentally demanding occupations and Alzheimer’s disease, however they have several theories. Researchers say the di...

Environment and Diet Found To Precipitate Asthma

...tables. Thus researchers conclude saying that the differences in asthma prevalence are likely due to different environmental exposures since the study participants had the same genetic background....

Relief For Women Suffering From Fibromyalgia

...changes. Researchers say the reasons for the sex differences is unclear , however they say that the male subgroup was small, reflecting the much higher prevalence of fibromyalgia in women and they say that the results of the study may not be generalizable to all men with fibromyalgia. In conclusion researche...

Hormone therapy may affect heart attack severity in women

...t the amount of muscle damage, and what caused the differences in muscle damage. They suspect that it is related to the amount of inflammation that occurs after a heart attack. The group, wants to see how soy, which has anti-inflammatory properties, would affect muscle damage. Other researchers were Irma Supart...

The Safety Of Prenatal Ultrasounds Questioned

... 1 and older. The study also showed no significant differences in speech ability, language, behavior, and neurological development. In conclusion researchers say exposure to multiple prenatal ultrasound examinations from 18 weeks-gestation onwards might be associated with a small effect on fetal growth but is f...

Diabetes A Common Problem In The Elderly

...abetics. Thus form the study it was found that the differences in mean glucose values between survivors and nonsu...betic patients than among diabetic patients. These differences occurred at significantly lower mean glucose values among the nondiabetic patients than among the di...

Drug Reviparin Found To Reduce Death Rate After Heart Attack

...of additional heart attacks however no significant differences were observed for strokes. In conclusion researchers say Reviparin is considerably less expensive than other antithrombotic agents, and Its use is relatively straightforward and can be used in both developed and developing countries hence researche...

Early diagnosis for autism from blood tests may be possible

...en and normal healthy children and tested them for differences in the number and types of immune cells, proteins, peptides and metabolites in the blood drawn from them. The data generated were huge in amount and it may take more time to fully assimilate them. However the initial findings of the tests suggest tha...

Education in women brings sounder sleep

A research team from Taiwan had found out that sex differences in sleep patterns do exist, with //insomnia affecting women more than men. The researchers had carried out a national survey of 39,588 people of the age group pf 15 years and older in the city of Taiwan. The researchers considered several factors ot...

Gender difference in Pain Experience - Women feel More Pain than men

...t was controversial to suggest that there were any differences between males and females in the perception and ex...greater frequency. Unfortunately all too often the differences between males and females are not considered in pain research or practice, and instead are either ig...

New Race –Specific drug

...ous heart attacks. The issue of whether biological differences can bedetermined by one's ethnic origins is a long-standing one, and it raises a number of legal and ethical questions. There is a powerful lobby which is in favour of racial profiling when it comes to drug development, backed by evidence that sugges...

Cooking with unflued stove can cause cataract

...s of the findings after taking into considerations differences in age, educational status, type of housing, type of lighting and the occupation showed that use of an unflued solid-fuel stove was a risk factor for the development of cataract. Also the adjusted odds ratio (OR) for using a flued solid-fuel stove wa...

Three Tropical Parasites Genetic Code Unravelled

...g projects is that these parasites – despite major differences in how they are spread and how they cause disease – nevertheless have a core of 6,200 genes in common,” said Martin John Rogers, of NIAID’s Parasitology and International Programs Branch. Sanjeev Krishna, of St George’s Hospital in London who was on...

Hypertension Drug of Choice for African Americans

...d”. The study found no statistically significant differences in the incidence of adverse events between the nebivolol and placebo groups. The most commonly reported adverse events were: headache (5.6% vs 4.1%, respectively); dizziness (3.6% vs 0%, respectively); arthralgia (3.6% vs 2.0%, respectively); diarrhe...

Proteinomics Research holds Key to Stomach Cancer

... mechanistic link is a world-first. Also, the gene differences identified in human stomach cancers are similar to those we would predict if the same thing, Stat3 hyperactivity shutting down TGF, happens in humans. So this is also the first time a connection between stomach cancer and this signaling pathway has b...

Stop Watching TV: Toddler Development Affected

...e impact is similar to the adverse effect of large differences in maternal IQ or education.Zimmerman's previous research showed that television viewing by young children can make them more likely to exhibit bullying behavior. So if right TV habits are inculcated in children as soon as possible, the better it wi...

Research Shows Carbon Monoxide Prevents Inflammations

...pes from one type of mouse into the other, genetic differences between the two strains of mice triggered transplant rejection, inflammation and significant narrowing of the airway in the transplant recipients. But the scientists discovered they could rescue the mice by having them inhale CO-enriched air (100 p...

Stroke In The Right-Brain Can Remain Undiagnosed

.... The researcher states that their study suggests differences in medical attention and subsequent management between patients with right and left hemispheric stroke. Difficulties in recognition of symptoms due to right hemisphere stroke pose specific challenges for the effort to further optimize stroke manageme...

Choice Of Treatment Increases Risk Of Death In Kidney Disease

...percent and 24 percent, respectively. When these differences were taken into account, the researchers discovered that while healthy patients did well on either form of dialysis, hemodialysis was of greater benefit for those patients with coexisting illnesses, such as cardiovascular disease. The risk of death a...

Scientists Identify Cancer Pathway

... model system, the researchers discovered critical differences between cancer cells and normal cells regarding a mechanism called endocytosis -- which cells employ to let materials enter through the cell membrane, the report said. They used a protein called v-Src derived from an oncogenic virus, which has the ab...

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