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Anti-depressants Do Not Increase the Overall Risk of Most Birth Defects

...e risk of certain rare birth defects but they are different birth defects. The studies show how important post-market surveillance is in assessing the safety of medications in pregnancy. During pre-approval, drugs are tested on relatively few subjects and only side effects with a large frequency are detecte...

People With Higher IQs are More Patient in Financial Matters

...cognitive abilities of the participants, using two different methods. The result was that intelligent people prefer to wait for a higher return, rather than going for the money now. This is the first time that this relationship between intelligence and patience in financial matters has been shown. Furthermo...

Diabetics Risking Health by Using Alternative Medications Without Consultation

...lence of use varied from 17 to 72 per cent between different countries, the review suggested that nearly half of diabetics supplemented their conventional medicines with some form of alternative therapy. Elderly women who had been living with diabetes for longer, and people interested in self management of ...

Genetic Mutation That Makes Common Cancers Resistant to Drugs Identified

...o determine the prevalence of the AKT1 mutation in different populations and, hopefully, use the information gained to stratify patients going into clinical trials for AKT inhibitors," he added. The researchers say that their findings may help in the advancement of cancer treatment and drug development, if t...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

...tives, Nancy Pelosi, has pulled together a raft of different measures, being considered by 11 different congressional committees, under the banner of "energy independence". Many of the measures - which ...

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

...am set out to explore whether neural stem cells in different locations of the subventricular zone are all the s...f early neonatal and adult neural stem cells in 15 different regions of the subventricular zone. These cells typically produce young neurons that migrate to the ...

New Clues About Multiple Sclerosis

...y distributed between ethnic groups to account for different susceptibility to some diseases, said Rinker. In MS, recent genetic studies have begun to identify certain genes which may explain why African Americans experience more disability, but the products of these genes and the mechanism of their effects...

New "second-line" AIDS Drug Shows Promise in Trials

...on, all receive two standard anti-HIV drugs from a different treatment class, known as protease inhibitors, and also take selected NNRTIs. The benchmark of success for helping patients with resistance problems is a "viral load" -- a count of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which causes AIDS) -- to bel...

EpiCept Accelerates Development of Phase I Clinical Study for Cancer

...hibits growth of established tumors of a number of different cancer types more effectively than the other VDAs tested and was synergistic when used in combination with anticancer agents, such as Cisplatin. The combination of EPC2407 with other anticancer agents in a Phase 1b trial is planned to follow the curr...

Scientists Find Single Circuit Channeling Depression in Rats

...here are many treatments that act in fundamentally different ways -- how do we make sense of all that complexity?"...

SKorean Online Dogmeat Retailer Closes Site Amid Uproar

... Proponents say it is a traditional cuisine and no different morally from consuming beef or pork. Opponents say eating dogmeat is an animal rights issue and harms the nation's reputation. Keum Seon-Ran, chief of the Korea Animal Protection Society, told Chosun Ilbo newspaper: "According to food sanitation la...

New Asthma Gene Identified

...nited Kingdom. Its prevalence differs widely among different geographic areas. To account for the environmental factors associated with the disease, researchers structured their investigation to ensure that cases of childhood asthma were matched to children without disease from the same geographical areas. ...

Australian Research Reveals AIDS, Cancer Link

...sts a link between a depleted immune system and 20 different types of cancer and could be a breakthrough in the understanding of the causes of the malignancies. Lead researcher at Sydney's University of New South Wales, Professor Andrew Grulich said the research looked at two groups -- those infected with HI...

Fibrinogen may Inhibit Spinal Cord Regeneration

...blood-clotting mechanism depends on binding with a different receptor....

Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now

...D). Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis are two different types of inflammatory bowel diseases that affect the digestive system. Symptoms include diarrhea, sometimes severe enough to require frequent trips to the bathroom (up to 20 or more times a day); significant abdominal pain, bloody stool, blocked bo...

Mira Nair Launches AIDS Awareness Project

...ing-edge, commercial, populist film directors from different regions of India, who would each use iconic movie stars who are recognized in our country, who would each make a dramatic tale of 15 minutes in length," Contactmusic quoted Nair, as saying. Each director in the project was given 'the freedom to do ...

Watch 'Live Earth' Concerts Simultaneously on the Net

...overseas markets to cater to the language needs of different areas. Since some countries have more than one market with a specific language, altogether 39 markets will have simultaneous feeds available. A team of about 80 technicians will help bring live feeds of the event on LiveEarth.MSN.com. "You can ac...

Irish Outsourcing of Smear Test may Result in Cervical Cancer Being Undetected

...results, said Ms Begas. Effectively, US labs use a different language and our doctors are being forced to translate from one system to another, without enough guidance. "This compromises doctors and patients and could result in a potential abnormal result slipping through the net," she said. Previously,...

Inaccuracies in Cardiac PET-CT Scanning

...oven to have comparable false positive results for different reasons. Pure PET or PET-CT done properly are the best non-invasive tests for early coronary heart disease or for assessing its severity but have to be done correctly with attention to technical details. For more information on the study, visit ...

Functional Food What is That, Ask First

...eat a wide range of foods, because each one offers different characteristics and a particular function....

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