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Weight Gain in Pregnancy Linked to Overweight in Kids

...ws that excessive weight gain during pregnancy was directly associated with having an overweight child," says Oken. "Just like adults, children who are overweight are at higher risk for a number of health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol." The likelihood of having a ba...

Flying Returns from Long-haul Flights – Jet Lag and Health Ris

...lated by the clock mechanism in the brain which is directly linked to the body's core temperature. This is why during waking hours, the body temperature increases, while during sleep, the body temperature dips. Scientists are of the opinion that long haul flights across three time zones or less is still ok...

Cryoablation: A New Treatment Option for Some Kidney Tumor Patients

...ion uses needles to penetrate the skin and deliver directly to the tumor either high-intensity, tissue-destroy... more hollow needles are inserted through the skin directly into a tumor. Doctors can observe and guide the insertion by combined use of ultrasound and CT. The ...

Patient Pays For The Callousness Of Hospital Administration

... World Health Organisation (WHO), hospitals cannot directly inform patients that they are HIV positive. Instead the person is asked to meet a doctor face to face who would explain the disease. Apparently Jyothi’s family had then been told to collect the blood test report from a doctor, but they failed to. For...

Follow Screening Regimen for Early Cancer Detection

...ple were diagnosed with lung cancer, all but three directly based on screening results, rather than interim symptom-prompted diagnoses. A high proportion of the 124 patients (89 percent in the baseline and 85 percent in the repeat rounds of screening) had no evidence of metastases when recommended for biopsy,...

Fruit Crop Fungicide Induces Permanent Changes in Mating Behavior

...cells (for example, sperm). The fungicide does not directly alter DNA, but instead causes changes in elements that regulate genes. This is known as an epigenetic change. In the rats studied by Crews and Gore, the early onset of disease caused by initial exposure to vinclozolin was passed down generation to ...

Flesh-eating Bugs Surface in Singapore

...t get M.ulcerans from other humans or animals, but directly from the environment, possibly through a break in the skin or from an insect bite. M.ulcerans cases seem to occur near still waters or wetlands. Doctors have said a good, effective and safe vaccine against this little known disease is urgently cal...

Atherothrombosis Associated With High Rates of Cardiovascular Events

...h established disease. These event rates increased directly with the number of symptomatic arterial disease locations, from 5.31 percent for patients with risk factors only, to 12.58 percent for patients with one, 21.14 percent for patients with two and 26.27 percent for patients with three symptomatic arteri...

Interactive Digital Television to Monitor Health

...ystem, they are working on the use of sensors that directly transfer data to the system, intervention by the user hardly being required. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Artery Stiffness Reversed By Smoking Termination

.... In ex-smokers, duration of smoking cessation was directly related to improvement in arterial stiffness. They found some improvement after one to 10 years, but arterial stiffness parameters only reached normal levels after more than a decade of smoking cessation. "Our study reinforces the message that smok...

For ADHD Children, Mother’s Depression, Predict Conduct Problem

... researchers say their study is the first to focus directly on the role of parent mental health and early parenting in the development of conduct problems among children with ADHD. Moreover, they point to previous research that shows the development of conduct problems to be quite common in children with ADHD...

Reason Behind Dyscalculia Revealed

... TMS or sham stimulation. This novel approach of directly comparing healthy participants with TMS-induced virtual dyscalculia to participants suffering from developmental dyscalculia enabled the researchers to propose a direct causal relationship between malfunctions along the right intraparietal sulcus and...

Atherothrombosis Patients at High Risk for CV Events

...h established disease. These event rates increased directly with the number of symptomatic arterial disease locations, from 5.31 percent for patients with risk factors only, to 12.58 percent for patients with one, 21.14 percent for patients with two and 26.27 percent for patients with three symptomatic arteri...

$1.5 Million Grant to Yale for Narcolepsy-Neurotransmitter Study

...owever, on another target, NPY neurons, hypocretin directly excited the cells, byt dynorphin had little direct effect. Rather, dynorphin contributed to increased nerve cell activity by reducing the release of inhibitory neurotransmitters onto the NPY cells. In this case, the transmitters act synergistically t...

New Pediatric Continuous Glucose Monitors Approved

...-preset values. Values are not intended to be used directly for making therapy adjustments, but rather to provide an indication of when a meter blood glucose measurement may be required. All therapy adjustments should be based on measurements obtained using a home glucose meter and not on Medtronic REAL-Time ...

SMS Help-line to Provide Answers for HIV/AIDS Queries

...or may have some kind of a mental block to talking directly to a counsellor on information on HIV/AIDS," said Heroes Project executive director Kanika Singh. "People seeking information need a reliable source, particularly for first-level information. And this tech-friendly help-line is a welcome entrant in...

Stroke Patients With High BMI Less Likely to Be Discharged After Hospitalization

... index (BMI) tend are less likely to be discharged directly home after hospitalization for an ischemic stroke/...ry were significantly less likely to be discharged directly home (compared with transfer to inpatient rehabilitation setting, general medicine service or skille...

Gene Study Offers Hope of Potent Anti-cancer Drugs

... idea about how many mutations in these genes were directly involved in triggering cancer. The latest study ... was to try to assess whether these mutations were directly involved in "driving" cancer development, or whether they were harmless "passenger" mutations, which...

Rare Brain Condition Linked to Obesity Surgery

...the first part of the small intestine and connects directly to the lower portions. Other types include surgery to "band" the stomach and gastric partitioning that divides the stomach into two parts. Singh now urges those who have undergone weight loss surgery to take their prescribed vitamin supplements ...

Stem Cells Hold Promise for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases

...tors from human embryonic stem cells - or isolated directly from the nervous system (called "adult" stem cells to distinguish them from embryonic stem cells even though they are taken from developing brain tissue). Both types of human stem cells were actually somewhat more effective than the mouse neural stem...

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