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Sunlight good for the mood as well as health: so Bask in it!

...ls with SAD may experience emotional depression, a drop in physical energy, increased appetite, and increased need for sleep. This can be attributed to the complex inter relation between melatonin and serotonin. Our mood is influenced by a complex web of relationships among sunlight, melatonin (the sl...

Sunlight Good For The Mood As Well As Health: So Bask In It!

...ls with SAD may experience emotional depression, a drop in physical energy, increased appetite, and increased need for sleep. This can be attributed to the complex inter relation between melatonin and serotonin. Our mood is influenced by a complex web of relationships among sunlight, melatonin (the sl...

Ambiguous Efficacy Of Opioid Drugs In Chronic Inflammatory Joint Pain Relief

... activity -- and presumably any related pain -- to drop off by approximately 75% in both normal rats and those with acute arthritis of the knee. However, when injected one or three weeks after the onset of arthritis, endomorphin had no effect on nerve activity. Subsequent autopsies further revealed that b...

Viagra May Be Useful For Serious Lung Disease

...he Viagra doses were associated with a significant drop in lung blood pressure and with an improvement in functional ability. Consistent with previous reports, side effects, such as flushing and diarrhea, were more common with Viagra than with placebo, the findings indicate. "This study demonstrates the...

Cervical Cancer Recurrence Risk Even After Removal Of Pre-Cancerous Cells

...es for cervical cancer, incidence rates and deaths drop significantly. The study looked at the long-term risks of cervical and other cancers for women after treatment to remove pre-cancerous lesions, a procedure called cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). The treatment removes abnormal cells that, i...

Alzheimer's a new type of diabetes: Study

...archers demonstrate that insulin and its receptors drop significantly in the brain during the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, and that levels decline progressively as the disease becomes more severe, leading to further evidence that Alzheimer's is a new type of diabetes. Previous studies have shown ...

Early Intervention Required For The Hearing Impaired

...e in 10 deaf children go to school and 50% of them drop out at the age of 13. Cochlear implants represent a successful human attempt at restoring one of the five senses. First perfected in its present form by Graeme Clarke of Australia, they are a set of electrodes implanted surgically into the inner ear...

Oil Depot Fire Pollutes Air

...moke. Concentration levels of the people will also drop as the brain is also affected by the acidic smoke. The health care centers across the region are expected to receive more visits from the affected people. London’s Poisons and Toxicology Unit is rendering advice to doctors in the area with regard to ...

Prostate Cancer Test Is Influenced By Age and Nutrition Factors

...e highlighted the fact that there has been a sharp drop in prostate cancer mortality since 1992. Researchers attribute this fall to an increase in screening for the cancer using the PSA test. However, many of the researchers maintain that this test alone leads to dodgy results and necessitates undergoing ...

Christmas turkey? Anyone?

...of Europe's largest poultry industry, registered a drop of up to 25 percent in retail sales after the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu arrived in Eastern Europe in October. However, in Britain and Germany, the initial impact of H5N1 was muted and sales quickly returned to normal. At best, bird flu had m...

a New Pill Can eliminate menstruation

...ve pills is in fact triggered simply by the sudden drop in hormones. However, in the case of the new pill, there is no trigger for this process as there is no break and the lining remains without causing any problem to the woman. Wyeth hopes to make the pill available for sale in the US next year and ...

Infectious Diseases Reduced in China

...le to treatment and malnutrition. China has seen a drop in air borne infections caused by Corynebacterium diptheriae (diphtheria), Bortdella pertussis (Whooping cough), Japanese encephalitis (Viral fever), bacteria causing meningitis and has totally eradicated Polio virus (Poliomyelitis). Chinese offi...

Alcohol Is Responsible For 60 Different Diseases

...ing the price of alcohol by 10% would produce a 7% drop in deaths from cirrhosis of the liver in men and an 8.3% drop in deaths in women. Restricting the availability of alcohol by reducing the hours that pubs and s...

Life of wolves in danger due to dog disease

... from 171 to 118, he said. The largest single-year drop before that was 11 from 1998-99, when parvo virus also was suspected, he said....

Mental health largely affected by shift in eating patterns.

...of the most important findings of the report was a drop in intake by most people of omega-3 fatty acids – ...decline in vegetable consumption and a 59 per cent drop in fish intake in the last 60 years. Only 13 per cent of men and 15 per cent of women eat at least f...

Leptin, The Next Generation Antidepressant?

...ned further for 30 minutes resulted in the further drop of Leptin levels. When these rats are injected with Leptin they have increased appetites for sucrose solution while the normal rats did no do so. This study analyzed two sets of CUS rats one was administered Leptin (1mg/kg) other set was given Norp...

Children Of Alcoholics Tend to Become Drug Abusers In Adulthood

...ldren of non-alcoholics. Furthermore COA's did not drop the habit by their 30s as is the general trend. Original Article: Changes in Drug Use During Young Adulthood: The Effect of Parent Alcoholism and Transition Into Marriage. David Flora, Ph.D., York University; Laurie Chassin, Ph.D., Arizona State Un...

Spread Of AIDS Is Reduced Greatly In Zimbabwe Due To Change In Behavior

...15-24 the prevalence of AIDS dropped by 49%. A 23% drop was witnessed among men in the age group of 17-29. Hence the researcher, Dr. Simon Gregson of Imperial College London, concluded that behavior is a major factor playing an important role in the spread of the disease. The findings were reported in t...

Prescription For Cancer Drugs Cost Dearer Than Life

...t cancer care is impressing upon the government to drop the prescription charges, just like how exemptions have been given for medical conditions like diabetes, where the prescription does not attract any charge. A survey conducted by the charity breast cancer care has revealed that yearly prescription c...

Pain in the back? Try Acupressure

...ssure’s success with statistics – a remarkable 89% drop in disability, as compared to physical therapy with the effect lasting up to 6 months. 129 patients with chronic lower back pain were treated with six sessions of acupressure, and after the completion of treatment, recorded a definite lower disabili...

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