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Virus killer

...an antigen-antibody reaction, that can be detected during tests.They also added that the formation on the viral genome could also be used to create drugs for the disease....

Maternal alcohol consumption linked to behavioral problems in children

...en who drank the equivalent of one cocktail a week during pregnancy were three times more likely to have a c...o answer questions about their alcohol consumption during their pregnancy.These women were contacted again when their children were between 6 and 7 years of a...

Pregnancy Blues

... women report higher levels of depression symptoms during pregnancy than after having a baby. A team h...and 8.1 per cent after eight months. "Depression during pregnancy has been relatively neglected," wrote the researchers, who published their results in this...

Headache decreases appetite

...dache stimuli lead to an acute fall in food intake during the first four hours after they are applied.This shows that there is an intimate link between the brain regions and the pain and appetite....

Heart Attacks during Menstruation!

...e angina is more likely to be suffered in the week during or immediately after the period. The research sho...c arrhythmia.The early follicular phase - the week during or immediately after a period-produced the worst exercise performance and the quickest time to angin...

Iron supplements proves helpful in dry cough .

... of 256 mg ferrous sulfate or placebo for 4 weeks, during which time monitoring of cough severity was continued. At the end of 4 weeks, iron levels in the blood were measured again. It was found that supplementation of iron clearly showed a beneficial effect in most of these subjects.The mechanism of ACE ...

Prevention of cataracts

...itamin supplements and were given eye examinations during the study.// Researchers specifically looked for the development of cataracts. A cataract is a condition in which the lens loses its clearness and often occurs late in life. Researchers found the prevalence of cataracts was significantly lower in th...

Emotional trigger to smoke

...ocation, activity and mood states every 20 minutes during waking hours over two 24 hour periods. The results showed striking gender differences.// Both men and women were more likely to smoke when they were angry. But the effect was stronger in men, who said cigarettes had a powerful calming effect and th...

Early puberty linked to nutrition

...ly translate into an immediate health but protects during all of the reproductive life. ...

Waking during surgery

Waking up during surgery causes psychological problems in the long run. Around half of all patients who wake during surgery experience long-lasting psychological trauma.Thankfully, it is rare to wake up when under an...

Dentist's note for vegetarians

...n vitamin D are rare, because the body produces it during sun exposure, but a diet lacking in calcium hampers its production. Dr Leibsohn recommended consuming fish, dairy products and green leafy vegetables, or taking cod liver oil, yeast tablets or multi-vitamins daily to prevent problems. "The potentia...

Starving leads to obesity

...at a group of 741 men and women who were conceived during the Dutch famine of 1944-1945 which followed the Nazi occupation.// They found that the rate of obesity among the women, who were aged 50 when the study took place, was higher than in the general population. Many of these women had increased amount...

Voice may be improved by surgery

...noea - a disorder where breathing stops many times during the night - is to remodel the nasal and throat cavity through surgery. Often the problem is that the uvula - a flap of tissue at the top of the throat obstructs night-time breathing.// If the uvula is trimmed - in an operation called uvulopalatopha...

Birth weight key factor in heart diseases

...57 developed heart disease as adults. Poor growth during the first year appeared to increase a boy's risk of heart disease in adulthood, regardless of whether he was born heavy or light. According to Barker, if all the boys had been the right birth weight and acheived average size by the time they were a y...

Sleep apnoea increases post-operative risks

...ople - the muscles of the back of the throat relax during sleep and so obstruct the airways. The person stops breathing, momentarily, many times during the night and levels of oxygen in the blood fall.// Researchers have studied 80 patients with slee...

Way to monitor blood pressure

Blood pressure measured during exercise is a better indicator of heart disease ri...e coronary arteries. The higher the pulse pressure during exercise, the less able the artery was to expand to the demand for increased blood flow. This strain...

Mushroom and muscle loss

... and measuring creatine kinase, an enzyme produced during muscle breakdown, in the blood.// The study "raises as many questions as answers, at least in my mind," said Dr. Denis Benjamin, chair of the North American Mycological Association's toxicology committee.There are other mushrooms which have delayed...

Sleep, snoring....stroke

... than eight hours a night, snoring or being drowsy during the day can damage your health. Experts say this m...more than eight hours, the tendency to fall asleep during the day and the tendency to snore - influence the likelihood of having a stroke. Professor Qureshi...

Antidepressant helps obesity

... 70 per cent was fat. The benefits were maintained during two years of follow-up. It is not known how bupropion works in weight loss, although it's known to alter brain chemistry and may affect the appetite centres or circuits involved in getting pleasurable feelings from eating....

Osteoporosis Drugs: right time to take-off

...cent chance of developing an osteoporotic fracture during her remaining lifetime. Drugs, which are used to treat osteoporosis, can be grouped into two classes. The first category comprises agents, which limit the rate of bone loss and are referred to as ‘‘anti-resorption drugs’’. The second group of drugs p...

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